Predictions for Star Trek Discovery “Chapter 2”

Star Trek Discovery is coming back to paywalled television on January 7th. The last we left our intrepid explorers, they were killing Klingons in orbit of Pandora or something. I dunno, it sucked, either way.

The producers then retroactively declared the first 9 episodes of Season 1 to be “Chapter 1” and that the next 6 would be “Chapter 2.” OK, anyway. Here are my predictions for the remaining 2/5ths of this trainwreck. I mean, “modern storytelling.”

What it looks like to compete with Game of Thrones

1. The Voq Reveal
This one is first because it’s almost too obvious. As soon as Voq disappeared and Tyler appeared in “Choose Your Pain”, it was pretty clear that they were the same person, or character, or whatever. Some think that Voq physically transformed into Tyler, but that’s not correct. L’Rell’s mystical Klingon harem transferred his soul (or whatever Klingons call their katra) and put it into Ash Tyler — a real person. That explains why Tyler has a full backstory, and passes medical scans, as well as why he only started having flashbacks the last couple episodes. And the series of flashbacks Tyler had in the last episode, including him being strapped to a bed, and having sex with L’Rell, were not memories of Tyler’s past, but memories of Voq’s. Voq’s Brain is trying to assert control over Tyler and will probably succeed now that L’Rell is on board and able to coerce him into his…