“Point of Light” is the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “New Eden“.

Note. This article contains spoilers about “Point of Light”.

The investigation by the crew of the USS Discovery shows increasingly complex ramifications after Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner) arrives on the starship. The cosmic signals have been seen by someone among the Klingons as an omen and that adds fuel to the struggle for power.

After two episodes that mixed elements of the new story-arc of the second season with autonomous plots, “Point of light” offers above all a number of developments that could have consequences in the medium to long term. It’s an episode of returns, beginning with those of L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) and Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) in the subplot set in the Klingon Empire.

On board the USS Discovery several subplots are developed because they keep on adding a lot of stuff. The part of the plot connected to Spock gets more and more complicated with twists intertwining between past and present. I really hope that the producers’ and authors’ staff have clear ideas because in the first season one of the problems was that the twists left more questions than answers. The decision to try to explain the problems in Spock’s family and the difficult relationship with his adoptive sister Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) creating a story with various complications is bold but if the producers don’t want to be buried by criticism it should be handled well.

The biggest step forward came from the subplot about Gaius Baltar… ehm, Ensign Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman). 😉 The plot twist seemed rather trivial but this part of the story was interrupted so this subplot could still have developments that will be assessed in the next episodes.

In an episode full of twists and turns, the events related to the struggle for power within the Klingon empire already have various consequences and are also useful to try to give them a look closer to the one the fans were used to before this show but also to introduce one of the upcoming spinoffs that were recently announced. Once again, the Klingons speak a lot about honor but in the end betrayals and various subterfuges are an integral part of their actions. Unlike other subplots, it’s not clear what and how many more developments there can be in the rest of the season as there’s some sort of conclusion.

For all these reasons, “Point of light” more than the previous episodes is a part of the second season’s story-arc. In some ways it’s more similar to the first season’s structure with all the intertwining of subplots with the consequence that watching it seemed interesting but between hopes and fears for what will happen in the next episodes a complete judgement can be done only at the end of each story.