Star Trek: Discovery 3.10 Review: Ups And Downs From Terra Firma, Part 2

8. Captain's Killy's Pride (UP)

While the episode opens directly on from last week's reveal and capture of the traitorous Burnham, the first up of the episode goes to Captain Killy. Mary Wiseman clearly revels in her role as the evil counterpart here, grinning with an evil glee when Georgiou enlists her to help break Michael.

The voice over that Michelle Yeoh delivers over these scenes suggests the pain that she's feeling from the, as she sees it, necessary breaking of Michael. This is a universe where the language is pain, and only pain will break through the walls that Burnham has employed.

She is locked in the agonizer, left in for weeks and weeks, all while Killy laughs and dials the intensity up to the max. It is both brutal and sadistic, and Wiseman sells the hell out of it. We are in the Mirror Universe now and we are reminded why exactly its so fearsome.