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The first half of Star Trek: Discovery‘s debut season ended with a white-knuckle cliffhanger, and last night the show returned with a satisfyingly action-packed episode. “Despite Yourself” revealed where our characters wound up and stoked the fires of a fan theory about Tyler’s identity. It also raised some age-old questions about certain aspects of the Star Trek mythos.

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