The episode picks up outside the galaxy with Tarka (Shawn Doyle) in control of Book’s ship, preparing to destroy the DMA by taking control of its power source. There are a couple of convenient leaps to accelerate the story that may not have been necessary if the DMA story had been doled out in a more evenly-balanced manner, but overall, the season ended stronger than I hoped (given my frustrations with episodes like “The Galactic Barrier.”) Tarka (Shawn Doyle) prepares to attempt his long-awaited crossing. It’s actually more successful than you might think in juggling all those plot lines - in a gripping hour that largely pays off a lot of these stories in a satisfying way - but I can’t help but feel like the decision to hold so much for the finale ultimately detracted from the overall season, and did not give everything quite the breathing room it could have had to really pop. To make it a “big” finale, the show chose to try and balance way too many story points: stopping Tarka’s mission, making real contact with Species 10-C and convincing them to turn off the DMA, the DMA’s impact on Earth (and Starfleet’s efforts to evacuate the planet), Book coming to terms with the destruction of Kwejian, General Ndoye’s betrayal of Discovery’s efforts, Burnham’s crumbling relationship with Book, Burnham’s evolving dynamic with President Rillak, and Saru’s attraction to President T’Rina. After 13 episodes - with several kind of lifeless entries in the back half of the year - it’s a shame that so many of the really interesting elements of this story were held for the last chapter. “Coming Home” does a lot to make up for the imperfections of the back half of Season 4, though even a full 60-minute runtime is not quite enough to cover everything that was held back for this final episode. Star Trek: Discovery closes out its fourth season with a largely-satisfying finale that rounds out the Species 10-C story, and brings another year of the show to a tidy conclusion.
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