Star Trek: Discovery 3.06 Scavengers review

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Scavengers
The sixth episode of the third season. Discovery has been refitted with 32nd Century technology, becoming Starfleet's new Rapid Response Vessel. Now it's the Discovery A. (Disco A?) Several plots occur. Burnham goes AWOL on a personal mission with Georgiou to rescue Book, leaving Saru to do damage control with Admiral Vance. While this is happening, Stamets connects with Adira. All of these plots are done very well. But first, it's obvious Tilly isn't a cat person, as she's not very confident around Grudge.
Still was a good aside in the episode. The main story was about Burnham's mission to rescue Book, who had located possible information on the Burn.Whether the Federation could be restored if the cause of the Burn is found is only one of the questions that need to be considered. However, the scenes at the Emerald Chain slave warehouse were done rather well. Not sure why they use slaves rather than dumb AIs (probably just because they can), but that doesn't detract from the escape sequence.
Looks like Multi Vector Assult Mode has been refined down the centuries. There certainly something up with Georgiou. Did the Section 31 guy do something to her? Or is it something else? Stamets and Adira connecting was also a good aspect of the epsiode, especially the part where Stamets mentions when Culbur had passed away temporarily. Of course, he still doesn't know all about how Grey is appearing to her, but at least those Spore Drive Interface implants are gone. (But the follow up conversation with Culbur was unnecessary.)
Detmer's hesitation regarding the necessity of the Programable matter upgrades to the Bridge consoles was a good contrast to Rhys' enthusiasm for them. Admiral Vance calling out Burnham for her behaviour was done well too, as was Saru's decision to demote her from First Officer duties. (Maybe Nilsson is Saru's Number One now?) There were some small quibbles, but over all it's a good episode. 8.5/10.