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| The Magic red Angel |
Is this the last we'll see of Airiam? Seeing as how sometimes being dead, in Trek, is no guarantee of finality. Why then, this amazing Homage to a character that we barely knew until the last 3 episodes? Yet, she was on Discovery since "Context is for Kings". And as Spock has said himself: "I've been dead before". It would not surprise me to see Airiam return- now that we like the character. And the subject is not limited to Spock and Airiam, but includes Ash Tyler (to some degree) and Dr Culber- Through Voq, who is also among those who are gone, but not gone.
But what of the future? There is the possibility that Spock, when shown the future by the Magic Red Angel, was also shown not just Spock Prime's destiny, but Kelvin Spock's as well. Which brings us back to those images of Shattered Planets at the end of the Kelvin movies.
I never really accepted the Kelvin timeline as canon, only as canon within itself. In the "Star Trek: Countdown" comic book series, a definitive connection was made between "Unification I and II", "Nemesis", the the first Kelvin Trek film, and that could be considered canon, up to a point.
Now we have to catch a huge magic Red Angel. It did appear that the being that Spock met- on a distant planet that may have well been "Delta Vega" - not the Delta Vega from "Where No Man has gone Before", but that Delta Vega where Spock Prime meets younger Kirk, that being met with Spock on that very Planet. And our Season 2 Discovery escapades did in fact bring Spock through the Mutara sector. I would imagine, there was still a nebula there, at the "time".
But it's not just about Spock's personal future- it appears it's about Michael's as well. And, the Red Angel they want to entrap- is it really the Red Angel they think it is?
Finally, we get to Section 31- whose misadventures are not irrelevant, even though they were merely a peripheral part of Bashir's fantasies in Deep Space 9- because Bashir wanted to play "spy" in the Holosuite, and he got to actually be one, thanks to "Director Sloan" (William Sadler) in that show. In Discovery, they have been given new life, a history, an identity and finally, a role to play for good or ill. They have not fared well so far in season 2. Except for Georgiou.
Leland only has eyes for you
As we saw previously, nothing has been what it seemed: other than the fact that The Red Angel has been pointing Discovery to planets where catastrophes were imminent, and sometimes even directly helping to prevent them.
But, now, will the real Magic Red Angel stand up?
3-21-2019
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