Review: Star Trek: Discovery, "Labyrinths" | Season 5, Episode 8
Burnham looks inside herself to find the way out
In most respects, “Labyrinths” is what we’ve come to expect from this final season of Discovery: yet another clue, yet another test, and yet another chance for Moll and the Breen to get up to shenanigans. Burnham is once again the center of the mystery, and very little here holds up to more than cursory scrutiny, at least where common sense and world-building are concerned. Hell, we even have a sci-fi library led by an overly chipper alien who talks like, uh, pretty much every other main character on the show talks? By which I mean cheerful and quip-adjacent and not behaving appropriately in regards to the situation. I think, in this case, that’s supposed to be weird, but given how much time we’ve spent watching various characters treating life or death situations like rehearsals for potential Twitter material, the contrast doesn’t really snap.
The thing is, I liked “Labyrinths.” Yes, at this point, me “liking” an episode of Discovery comes with a…