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The increasingly pivotal Culber also has a role in the away mission to the anomaly, hooking Stamets up to the hologram that will fill in for him at Book’s side. Yes, the new artificial body is cunningly explained away by referring to the "Soong method" – an 800-year-old technology that, fans of Star Trek: Picard will recall, had a spectacularly restorative effect on a certain former Enterprise captain – but surely the process shouldn’t be quite so easy? The promise of a new form is a joyful moment for Adira and Gray that doesn’t feel earned, especially when you compare it to the long-running sagas of Data and the Doctor’s efforts to become more human on The Next Generation and Voyager. Not only is he fulfilling a role as ship’s counselor for Tilly (the events of recent months have taken their toll on even the ship’s most upbeat officer), he’s about to come good on his promise to give Gray a physical form. Culber has evolved into an oasis of implausible calm and competence, so skilled in everything he does that he’s becoming too good to be true. Though it’s not a particularly surprising development, seeing as most of Discovery’s crew are trending towards sainthood. Is that now just water under the bridge? Or is this the writers’ effort to imitate the Kirk/Spock dynamic of the original Star Trek, with the more impulsive captain receiving advice from their alien BFF/Jiminy Cricket? If the latter is indeed the case, it’s been a convoluted journey to get there. All the hugs and “old friend” exchanges suggest they’ve forgotten how Saru fired Burnham as his own number one in season 3 episode ' Scavengers' for her failure to follow orders. He’s turned down the command of the USS Sojourner (named after Nasa’s late-’90s Mars rover) to return to Discovery as Burnham’s first officer, and the reassignment feels rather contrived. Luckily for her, Saru has left behind his advisory role on Kaminar to dispense fortune-cookie wisdom at her side. Burnham’s responsibilities as a Starfleet captain and as Book’s partner are suddenly in direct opposition. Because Chandler's ridiculous past obsession with Janice (Maggie Wheeler) rears its ugly head once more as he gives Monica a romantic mixtape that was actually made for him by Janice, unaware it includes nasally mid-song interjections that will eventually blow up his spot.Unsurprisingly, he’s desperate to take a lead in the research mission, leaving Michael Burnham with a quandary: yes, Book’s experience makes him the logical candidate to pilot his shapeshifting ship into the gravitational maelstrom, but perhaps his fragile emotional state makes it too dangerous for him to go. Because Joey's ridiculous series-long obsession with twins starts here as he tries - and fails - to convince the scientific world that Carl (Louis Mandylor) is his identical twin.
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Why It's So Funny: Because Ross' ridiculous series-long obsession with "kara-tay" (his snooty pronunciation) basically gets a stand-alone episode as he squares off with Rachel and Phoebe in a series of scares designed to test their Unagi (perhaps a state of total awareness, definitely a type of sushi). The Plot: While Joey is trying to dupe his way into a science experiment for twins, Monica and Chandler have each forgotten to make the other a Valentine's Day gift, and Ross tries to test Rachel and Phoebe's self-defense skills. All of these threads culminate in a hilarious tidal wave of revelations that, to quote Judy, is "a lot of information to get in 30 seconds."īest Quote: "Hurricane Gloria didn’t break the porch swing, Monica did." -Ross And Phoebe is harboring sexual feelings toward Jack following a naughty dream. Meanwhile, as Rachel is making dessert, she accidentally creates half an English trifle and half a shepherd's pie, which Joey and Ross convince everyone to eat so dinner will end and they can leave. Here, Monica is keeping her relationship with Chandler a secret from her parents because they dislike him, and it turns out that their grudge is decades-old as Ross blamed Chandler for the pot smell in his room during sophomore year spring break. Why It's So Funny: While some sitcoms struggle to deliver compelling A- and B- plots, Friends was often able to successfully execute a half-dozen concurrent storylines and this episode is a prime example of the writers' ability to keep all of the plots in the air at once. Ross and Joey want to bail so they can go to a party with supermodels, and Rachel screws up the dessert. The Plot: Monica and Chandler are hosting Thanksgiving, but it turns out that Jack and Judy Geller (Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles) hate Chandler.