SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange" has a perfect link to the legendary musician David Bowie. Written by Sean Cochran and directed by Lee Rose, "Face the Strange" forces Captain Michael Burnham and Commander Paul Stamets to reflect on the changes they've experienced across five seasons of Star Trek: Discovery.
Related Burnham Has Now Lived Star Trek: Discovery’s Time Travel Both Ways After Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, Captain Michael Burnham has been on both sides of the USS Discovery's journey to the 32nd century.
There's also an interesting link between David Bowie's autobiographical song about finding one's artistic style, and the trajectory of Star Trek: Discovery. The innovations of Discovery were hampered by its connections to the wider Star Trek timeline in its early days, meaning that bold inventions were drowned out by complaints about canon.