

In "That Hope Is You Part 1," Book tells Burnham all about the historical event called "the Burn," which happened about a century before he was been born. The entire way that people in the Trek future are even thinking about space travel is totally different now. With Discovery Season 3, this spaceship action isn't just cosmetic.

CBS Discovery has changed Trek space travel, probably forever Ships that LAND on planets are becoming more and more common in Star Trek. Like Captain Rios' nimble freighter - the La Sirena -in Star Trek: Picard, the Trek franchise is clearly trying to get in on the world of smaller, spacecraft, rather than the more famous aircraft-carrier-sized starships.

With its cockpit off to the side of the main hull, Book's ship will obviously remind a Star Wars person of the Millennium Falcon, which kind of seems to be the point. The titular USS Discovery doesn't even appear in the new DISCO Season 3 launch, so the spaceship that gets the most screentime is Book's smooth new ride. For the second time in 2020, a new Star Trek series has opted to put some characters on a lean-and-mean civilian-operated spaceship, instead of a huge and majestic Federation starship. In the opening moments of "That Hope Is You, Part 1," we're introduced to the self-employed "courier" Cleveland "Book" Booker (David Ajala) and his slick-as-hell new spaceship. Who's your favorite character in The Mandalorian ? Click here to take the ultimate Mando survey now! Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 1, "That Hope Is You, Part 1." In this way, Burnham and her new partner-in-crime, Book, have more in common with Han Solo and Lando Calrissian than they do with Captain Kirk and Spock. In addition to creating a new future-context for the Trek canon, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 has also done something the franchise has seldom touched. But, by and large, the constant of Star Trek is the ability for its starships to boldly go where no one has gone before.fairly easily. Sure, sometimes Warp engines have malfunctioned, crystals refracted, and Scotty just can't give it any more than what he's got. Since 1966, Trek's future worldbuilding has always made one thing pretty clear: The actual trekking through the stars is a given. In most Star Trek episodes and movies, the title of the franchise tells you that one thing is pretty easy to do in the future: Space Travel.
