TL;DR – A look at a bad day that only gets worse once a mask is revealed
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Review –
We continue our look at the Short Treks with this interesting small almost bottle episode. However, like all good bottle episodes, while it does not venture out of one location for most of its run time, it takes that opportunity to pack an emotional punch.
So to set the scene, Cadet Thira Sidhu (Amrit Kaur) is working in inventory at Starbase 28 when all hell breaks loose. Just as she is trying to work out what happened a security officer (Steve Boyle) arrives with a prisoner hidden behind a mask. The battle has led them cut off from the brig and she has to watch the prisoner until they can return. This is a difficult situation, made all the worse when the mask is taken off and it is revealed that prisoner charged with mutiny is Captain Pike (Anson Mount).
TL;DR – An episode filled
with goodbyes and also beauty
Score – 4.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
It is so close to the end and you can really feel it as each episode ratchets
up the tension and leaves you aghast when the credits role lamenting that you
can’t just watch the next episode then and there. Well, today we are exploring
the penultimate episode of Star Trek
Discovery’s second season, an episode of goodbyes and of also of real
beauty.
So to set the scene, we begin today right where last week’s Through the Valley of Shadows left off. After trying literally everything to
stop Control getting the Sphere data and with Leland/Control’s (Alan van Sprang)
armada closing in there is only one thing left to do, destroy the Discovery. With subspace communications being
blocked, Pike (Anson Mount) puts out a call of someone he knows he can trust and
soon the Enterprise and his Number
One (Rebecca Romijn) have arrived to evacuate all the crew. Only then to
discover that things never quite go to plan. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode
as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – In our darkest
moments we show our true strength or failure, and be glad we had Pike on our
side.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Review –
Things are starting to really hit the fan in Star Trek Discovery as a secret sentient AI is positioning itself
to wipe out all sentient life and it has started using nanites to replicate
real people. That’s a problem, a real problem, a ‘resistance is futile’ kind of problem. But never fear because the
red lights are back and this week brings us revelations of the future and connections
with the past.
So to set the scene, with the knowledge that Control now has 50% of the sphere’s
data and that there is no more Red Angel to help because her time crystal was
destroyed in last week’s Perpetual
Infinity, everyone is a little bit on edge. No one more than Michael (Sonequa
Martin-Green) who watched her mum come back from the dead, be mostly
disinterested in her, and then get sucked back into the future with no hope of
returning all in a space of a day. That is going to be upsetting. But another
of the red bursts has emerged this time over the Klingon planet Boreth, a sore
spot for Ash (Shazad Latif) as it means reconnecting with L’Rell (Mary Chieffo)
now the Mother of the Klingon Empire. As well as this, a Section 31 ship had an
odd transmission and Michael is desperate to find Control and this might be the
way to do it. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so
there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – In today’s episode the shoe finally drops and
it is so much better for it.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Review –
It is starting to get to the pointy half
of the season and for the longest time, Star Trek Discovery has been holding their
cards close to their chest. Which has meant that the last couple of episodes
have been falling a little flat with me.
Well today, not only do they fix that, they give us a hint of what is to come
for the rest of the season, and I can say that I am very intrigued.
So to set the scene, and the end of last week’s Light
and Shadows, we discovered two very important things. The first is that
Spock (Ethan Peck) needs to go to Talos IV to get help and that Airiam (Hannah
Cheesman) had been infected by something from the probe, oh and also that
Section 31 can’t be trusted, but I think we knew that one already. Well as we
start today’s episode the Starfleet admirals give Section 31 some clear orders
in how they should recover Spock after Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) outmaneuvers Leland (Alan van Sprang) showing
just how integrated Section 31 is at this point (well will get to that a bit
later). However, Pike (Anson Mount) is having none of that and knows a ruse
when he sees it. While all of this is happening Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green)
and Spock finally make it to Talos IV only to find it is not quite what they
thought it would be. Now
from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some
[SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – We get to see what Discovery will be exploring for the
first half of the season, and it is an area Star
Trek does not often venture.
Score – 4.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
There are some areas of discourse that Star Trek has not really delved all that much in to in its fifty odd years, and one of those is faith. Now, of course, there are references to it in The Original Series and Enterprise, and we do get more of it in Deep Space Nine, but still, the show has been very hands off. Well, last week in Brotherwe dipped our toes into faith, well today we dive all the way in.
So to set the scene, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is continuing to command the USS Discovery to find out what the deal is with these red lights that appeared with purpose across the galaxy. Today they have found another red light but this is deep into the Beta Quadrant 100s of years away at maximum warp. There is no way any ship could get there, but then no other ship has the Spore Drive. So off to the Beta Quadrant, we go, and nobody was quite expecting to find what they find. Now we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – New faces, old friends,
and a new dilemma, sign me up.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Review –
The first season of Star Trek Discovery was one that started of interesting, took a bit to find its feet, but by the end of the Season a bunch of people had become a crew, and I was there for it. Tonight we dive back in with a bit of trepidation because they ended the season face to face with the most iconic starship in Star Trek history the original USS Enterprise. So where do you take the story from here, well into some very new territory it seems.
So to set the scene, at the end of Will You Take My Hand? the USS Discovery was on its way to Vulcan to both drop of Sarek (James Frain) and also pick up their new captain. Well before they got there, they had to drop out of warp due to an emergency distress beacon coming from the USS Enterprise. In Brother, we start right from where we left off, trying to hail the ship when nothing else worked it was Morse Code that made it through and the Enterprise informed them that Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and two others were coming on board. Well, both Sarek and Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) know who severs on the ship, but Spock is not there. Pike informs everyone that he is taking over command of the ship because of an emergency, you see seven lights just blared into existence across the galaxy, at the same moment, thousands of light years apart. Well since they just got out of a war The Federation is understandably nervous about what this might mean because this is not a natural phenomenon. Well off The Discovery goes, once more unto the breach, which turns out to be literal when they drop out of warp behind a fracturing asteroid. Now we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.
