It’s true, the 10-C still come off more as glowy giant krill than anything else, but the awe with which the Discovery true reacts to their world and their floaty godlike selves is wonderful. From the Federation’s attempt to evacuate as many people from Earth as possible to Tilly’s return (!!!) in the role of a confident leader and finally getting the chance to see the 10-C and their homeworld for ourselves, there’s a lot to like here. But, there are some great emotional beats and cool visuals that feel so incredibly Star Trek, it’s hard not to simply sit back and enjoy them. It’s true, “Coming Home” is not a particularly complex hour, particularly given some of the more in-depth philosophical and political debates we’ve seen this season. Michael and Saru manage to figure out a way to convey some really complex thoughts and emotional bonds using a translation algorithm based on math, the 10-C turn out to be incredibly emotionally empathetic and are suitably shamed into changing their ore-mining ways by an impassioned speech from Book about the destruction of Kweijan and what its loss has meant. Though “Coming Home” threatens our Discovery faves, most of the populations of Earth and Ni’Var, the 10-C themselves, and big chunks of the Milky Way itself with imminent death and/or possible genocide, everything turns out alright in the end. If only to give some of its more obvious twists and contrivances a little more room to breathe.
Looking back on this season as a whole, it seems rather obvious now that the show would have done well to jettison some of the meandering middle episodes where not much happened in favor of making this finale more of a two-parter. This is a fairly impressive feat, given how much ground we needed to cover in this hour to begin with. Star Trek: Discovery wraps up Season 4 with a fairly satisfactory if not necessarily groundbreaking finale that neatly wraps up most of its outstanding plot points in a bow by the end of the episode.
The following contains Star Trek: Discovery spoilers.
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