9 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Discovery 5.8 — Labyrinths

The current — 32nd century — location of the Eternal Gallery and Archive is one of the safest places for it to be (hold that thought as the Primarch Ruhn might have other plans), but it does make it one hell of a job to get to. What's not so great for those in-universe who just want to relax with a good (ancient) book or find an 800-year-old clue as quickly and quietly as possible, is a boon for us, the viewer. The oasis was not only a neat addition in a retro-return, it was also a visual goody at the heart of the Badlands.

To get to the calm of the plasma storms, it appears that the 'Ezri-method' (from Penumbra) is official policy. As the Discovery is battered and bashed around in the currents, voice of Hy'Rell, if a little difficult to make out through all the interference, calmly states, "… cut your engines or it could be catastrophic". Never has the possibility of impending doom been delivered so… brightly. The level of detail on the updated version of the Badlands is just gorgeous, and once the crew has weathered the storm, we are treated to a magnificent blue as the Discovery glides overhead through the clouds towards the Archive.

For all those of us who've been drinking in every last detail on the Breen, Labyrinths also opens on a simply outstanding (extreme) close-up shot of bucket-head green, panning out to reveal lines and lines… and lines of Breen soldiers all banging their high-tech truncheons with exacting simultaneity aboard the dreadnought.