10 Most Frustrating Star Trek Moments Ever
7. Leland Dies Before Discovery Enters The Wormhole
Star Trek: Discovery’s second-season finale, Such Sweet
Sorrow, sees the ship catapulted into the far future. The data in the ship’s
computer banks, full of the information dumped there by a being hundreds of
thousands of years old, has the power to offer sentience to a computer virus
that is not dissimilar to the Borg.
While there are several issues with the time travel plot in Discovery’s second season, it is the fact that they didn’t really need to go to the future in the end. Leland, who by this stage was the embodiment of Control, is killed by Georgiou. This causes the rest of Control to die.
Control was the only being chasing the Sphere data.
Control is dead.
Discovery goes anyway.
Now, it is explained that sending them into the future negated the risk of there ever being a similar situation like that again, but it, unfortunately, felt more like a desperate attempt to get Discovery into its own time period, something which has absolutely benefitted the show to be fair, rather than a climax that was simply inevitable.
None of this is to say that the episode itself isn’t fun and
thrilling to watch, but that moment with Leland just sticks out too much to be
accepted. This, coupled with the slightly hamfisted explanation that Discovery
must never be mentioned again, for reasons, as a way to explain why Spock never
spoke about Michael Burnham, was simply a little too underwhelming for such a
large storyline.