And developing story is not filler. Tilly sees dead people, something that we have seen all the way back in short treks, so that is something that we already knew - Tyler/Voq is having L'Rell issues, again no big spoiler there as that has been going on since season one - Spock is... what? We don't even know what he's doing so can't say much there.
Three (four) interweaving storylines dance around our 7 magic Red Angel signals. I feel that this break in the Red Angel dialogue was a welcome respite, it shows a more alarming backdrop. Things are not normal.
The Red Angel itself is one thing to Spock, another to Michael. Part of that story is told here, maybe the very beginning of it.
But on Qonos, Tyler stumbles onto a secret that could cause L'Rell a lot of problems... especially if an enemy house hears about it.
And Tilly's Invible friend, her persistent, annoying ghost, is not what "she" appears to be.
These vignettes are explanatory sections of a larger picture, far more than mere filler material. I don't understand the massive negative reaction to this episode, it's as if they are not really commenting on a Trek episode, but on the very values Trek is based upon, something which has never changed through all of the various shows and films. I really didn't reveal anything about this episode that gives anything away, other than the "vignette" framework so I am switching it back to no spoilers.
I just realized that the title of this Ep refers back to a Next Generation Episode, the one where Kahless appears. In that, they refer to a planet in orbit around a "Point of Light" that Kahless randomly pointed at, which was "Boreth". The end of this episode refers to that planet, and it comes up later in this season. Turns out they do much more on Boreth than pump out Clones of Kahless... it's a rather important planet, in this series as well as for Worf in TNG.
What I find amazing about Mia Kirshner's "Amanda" is that she looks a lot like what a younger Jane Wyatt would have looked like. The only difference is the voice, Jane had that Hollywood voice used by most actresses from the 30's, an almost British accent, but not quite. Mia does not do this.
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