Review

With the search for Spock finally over, the story advances a bit. The various plots driving it forward are fairly effective. Some Vulcan family drama that is reasonably compelling. Some Section 31 intrigue that works surprisingly well. A fight with a time traveling giant squid robot straight out of The Matrix. Leland is apparently somehow responsible for the Klingons killing Burnham's parents, a curiosity to be followed up on later. Airiam is infected with a virus that might hopefully lead to the irritating questions about her backstory and capabilities finally getting reconciled with canon. None of this is terribly impressive, nor particularly problematic.

A notably unfortunate oversight in the story is the total lack of epilogue regarding the previous episode's events on Kaminar despite Discovery being ordered to remain in orbit of Kaminar. Apparently Starfleet isn't even remotely concerned about Discovery upending an entire society of two sentient species. They're only sticking around because of the red signals. The planet of Kaminar serves only as a pretty backdrop for dealing with the space anomaly. The writers seem to have forgotten about it so much that when the space anomaly explodes into a "time tsunami" at the end of the episode, Discovery just warps away without the slightest regard for how such a terrifying phenomenon might affect the scores of people on the planet below. Whatever. Screw them. They were last episode's problem.