Star Trek: Discovery - Ups And Downs For Season 3 Episode 4 Forget Me Not
3. Burnham The Magic Human (DOWN)
Michael Burnham, as played by Sonequa Martin Green, is a wonderful creation and her growth in this season alone has been great to watch. Martin Green has imbued her with a confidence that was lacking in the first season, and a knowing experience that she developed in the second. There was a slight edge toward cheese in the first two seasons, that has been ironed out in season three.
It is then through no fault of Martin Green's that Burnham ends up here. Once again, Burnham is being shown as the character who can do anything at all at the drop of a hat. Burnham, as a human with no telepathtic ability (thus far displayed) enters the Makara pool to save Adira from drowning.
Why this couldn't have been achieved by one of the Trill who were also there is baffling. Why she is able to commune with the Tal symbiont at the end is confusing at best. While the scene where Adira meets the former hosts is quite a nice end to the episode, it simply stretches the edges of sense a bit far for Burnham to be present as well.
It is almost as though the writers are still slightly afraid of other characters doing something that doesn't heavily involve Burnham. Its ok folks - leave her out of some stories!