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Halo – Emergence

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  • Title: Halo – Emergence
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The third episode of Halo is primarily focused on introducing the new character of Cortana (Jen Taylor), the artificial intelligence that is implanted inside Master Chief‘s (Pablo Schreiber) mind. Rightfully freaked out, and consistently annoyed by the AI’s attempts to help, eventually the Master Chief does some find some use for the program which helps him experience human emotion for the first time since he was a child, unlock more memories from the artifact, and find the world the needs to return to in order to find more answers and a second artifact he connected to as a child.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria
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“Ghosts of Illyria” offers a couple of classic Star Trek themes with members of the away mission trapped on the planet and a mysterious illness sweeping through the starship after members of the ship visit the abandoned colony on Hetemit IX. With Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) trapped on the planet during a storm, command of the ship falls to the capable Number One (Rebecca Romijn) who is revealed to be a genetically-altered Illyrian like those who once lived on the colony. Because of her advanced physiology, she is able to burn through the infection quickly but the rest of the crew isn’t nearly as lucky.

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Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer

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  • Title: Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer
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Despite his enjoyment in the stars last season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has returned home to his vineyard and awkward relationships. But not to fret, a new menace (which just coincidentally involves several of the characters from last season) has happened deep in space and Starfleet pulls the admiral back into action once more. “The Star Gazer” is mostly set-up, focusing on Picard’s life back on Earth and teasing just what the threat may be. The reveal turns out to be something as a red herring as the characters aren’t going to fight what come through the hole in space but instead the new lives in which they find themselves trapped in an alternate timeline far different than they remember.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part II

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  • Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part II
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In a twist from the Jedi looking after one twin to instead go save the other, “Part II” begins Obi-Wan‘s (Ewan McGregor) mission to save young Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) from her kidnappers. The second episode of the series hits some highs and lows before settling on the big reveal where Obi-Wan discovers his former apprentice is still alive. Before that we’ll get some random alien market backdrop, Kumail Nanjiani having some fun as a fake Jedi (yes, he’s fun, but can we agree he would been killed in three-seconds or less by any competent Inquisitor?), and several supposedly smart characters continuing to make bonehead decisions against their own self-interest. Oh, and we get the dumbest smart kid ever introduced to the Star Wars universe who continues to make her rescue far more difficult than it needs to be. I know they are working from a basic formula at this point, but not every Star Wars property needs a cute kid.

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Halo – Unbound

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  • Title: Halo – Unbound
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Master Chief’s (Pablo Schreiber) life on the run comes to a quick end. In “Unbound,” Master Chief takes Kwan (Yerin Ha) to an old friend (Bokeem Woodbine) who escaped from the UNSC to live in an asteroid field. Leaving Kwan their at the end of the episode and returning to Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) with only minimal more information about the artifact, Chief ends up back where he started except now he’s a prisoner who the UNSC cannot trust. Ending the character’s self discovery without much self discovery feels like a wasted opportunity leaving his future in doubt and abandoning Kwan’s story altogether.

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