6 Ups & 3 Downs From Star Trek: Discovery 5.10 — Life, Itself

This final week, if each one of those windows in the portal structure were a cetacean observation, we'd be in for quite a long walk. Seán is also a far better tour guide than I, but allow me, nonetheless, to show you through a few before our spaghettification in the black hole.

Peeking through the side of just one of those frames opens up an entire world of objects in Kovich/Daniels' office — not the least of which was a baseball and a visor. My personal favourite of them all was a certain microscope, shelved just behind Kovich to the (our) left. By and after all comparisons, we can safely say that this is the same microscope that Captain Janeway kept in her ready room aboard Voyager — a 600-year-old (at the time) gift from her grandfather as she told the overly inquisitive Kashyk in Counterpoint.

If you also stared especially hard at that bottle of Château Picard, you'll have noticed the vintage — 2249. That was the year of Michael Burnham's graduation from the Vulcan Science Academy and the start of her service aboard the Shenzhou. In fact, this might very well be the same bottle that Captain Georgiou had on display in her ready room.

Like all the good things in life itself, wine is meant to be enjoyed. I say we open that bottle, raise a glass of it to Star Trek: Discovery, and play a few games of Ferengi rummy. Aye, (aye), and yes, ma'am! To Discovery!