An amazing dinner scene in Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 4, "Forget Me Not," helped usher in a new and better direction for the show. Discovery underwent a massive shakeup at the beginning of season 3 as Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) led the USS Discovery on a one-way trip into the 32nd century. Burnham arrived in the year 3188, a full year before her starship joined her, and Star Trek: Discovery season 3 dealt with the ramifications of the 23rd century Starfleet Officers voluntarily stranding themselves 930 years from home.
Star Trek: Discovery season 3 created the farthest known point in the franchise's timeline. In the 32nd century, Discovery was unshackled from its previous prequel trappings and was free to be the tip of Star Trek's spear and to blaze new canon. The future Burnham and the Discovery found was a United Federation of Planets broken from the loss of warp travel resulting from a galactic cataclysm called The Burn. Burnham and her starship solved the mystery of The Burn, restoring hope to the Federation, and cementing the USS Discovery as the most important starship of its new era. But on a personal note, every member of the Discovery suffered from their voluntary displacement of time and space, and it all came to a head in Discovery season 3, episode 4.
