TL;DR – After a season we start getting answers while things fall apart
⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Disclosure – I paid for the Netflix subscription that viewed this series.
Su’Kal Review –
There have been several on-going questions through this season of Star Trek Discovery, and at the core of them is what caused The Burn. Today, after a season of questions, we finally get some answers, before things start falling apart.
So to set the scene, we start this week’s episode right where last week’s Terra Firma Part 2 finished with a memorial service. While this is happening Stamets (Anthony Rapp) gets a notification from the ship that they are watching that there is a life form on board, which given it has been 125 years, and the amount of radiation seems unlikely, but here we are. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – Home, well not quite home, at least not quite yet.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
Disclosure – I paid for the Netflix subscription that viewed this series.
Die Trying Review –
For the past four episodes, one of the core questions that has been left has been if the Federation and Starfleet even still exist in the 3100s? Well, this is the episode where we get things confirmed, but also where more questions get asked than answered.
So to set the scene, at the end of Forget Me Not when Adira (Blu del Barrio) finally connected with her Trill Symbiont Tal, we finally discovered the location of Starfleet headquarters. It was not on a planet but hidden out in space. When we start this week’s episode, the USS Discovery is on the cusp of making contact. As it approaches, they discover it is hidden behind a disruption field, the ship breaches it and finds multiple Starfleet vessels around a central starbase, even some floating habitats. However, the only thing they were not expecting was a frosty reception. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.
TL;DR – With the new season starting in a few weeks we catch you up on everything you need to know about Season 3 of Star Trek Discovery (Timeline, plot points, and outstanding questions oh my)
Star Trek Discovery: Season 3 Primer –
It is not long until the next season of Star Trek Discovery comes out, and with its big jump and all the new Star Trek and Sci-Fi, we are getting you might need a catch up as to where we are and where we are going. In this primer, we will sum up the critical story posts that led to where we are, give an overview of where all this fits in the timeline, and look at the outstanding questions coming into Season Three.
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 – This week we delve
into a very classical episode of Trek,
with an emotional punch that left me in tears.
Score – 4.5 out of 5 stars
When
you watch a TV show there are many things that can draw your attention. There
could be some cool effects, some nifty action, some big emotional moment, or
something witty that makes you laugh. For me personally, I find myself focusing
on the things that show off someone’s or
in the case of a show, everyone’s talent. That can be that beautiful starscape
that awes me to the core, or it can be an emotional moment where the actors
with the help of the director, script and the whole crew bring words to life and
make them their own. In tonight’s episode of Star Trek Discovery, we get
several moments like this including one that ripped out my heart and made me
weep.
So to set the scene, after last week’s episode Point
of Light there was some more focus for the USS Discovery as they had captured the mycelium creature hitching a
ride on Tilly (Mary Wiseman). At this start of this week, we get some more focus as Number Two (Rebecca Romijn) comes
on-board for burgers and to let Captain Pike (Anson Mount) know that she has
found the direction Spock took after fleeing the care facility and allegedly
murdering three people. With this information in hand, they warp off to intercept him before someone less savoury finds
him. All is fine, well bar Saru (Doug Jones) having a cold, which Linus (David
Benjamin Tomlinson) can sympathise with, however just as they get near the warp
trail the Discovery is ripped out of
warp by an ancient being and held in place as all hell breaks loose. Now from
here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [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.
TL;DR – When it is working in
on the relationship between the two characters
it shines, but it does present some interesting implications that I am not so
sure about.
Score – 3.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
We continue our dive into the world of the Star Trek Discovery Short Treks by looking at the episode that is to date is the furthest we have been on the official timeline (depending maybe on that one Voyager episode).
So to set the scene, The USS Discovery has been sitting in a nebula for 1000 years when a surprise escape pod comes across it in the dark. When Craft (Aldis Hodge) awakes he find no one on board bar just a voice called Zora (Annabelle Wallis) who explains where he is and he lets her know that the world has dramatically changed.
TL;DR – We started with a group of people on a ship in space, and over the season, as adversity after adversity piled up, we ended with a crew. I mean I just wrote 1000 words just on the cast, the show is that good.
Score – 4.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
This year has been a strong year for Sci-Fi on TV we have Lost in Space, Altered Carbon, The Rain, as well as more Westworld, 3%, and The Expanse. In the middle of all this was a release, which for me was probably anticipated more than anything else, a new Star Trek series. Now the fact that I really like the Star Trek franchise should come as no surprise, indeed a wrote an article all about my love for Star Trek Deep Space Nine. However, there was also a lot of trepidation going in, since DS9 we had Voyager that had some great individual episodes but nothing really came together as a series, and Enterprise that took three seasons to find out what type of show it wanted to be and when it got there decided to end on just about the most insulting note that it could (yes I know it was not meant to be a series finale but still). However, I went into this thinking that I can at least give it a season, and boy what a season it was. So in the first season of Star Trek Discovery the broke it up into different chapters, we took a look at Chapter One here, and today we are going to take a look at Chapter Two which was the back half of the season but also some of the themes that transcend all of the season, you can also see all of our reviews for the individual episodes here. With this in mind, just a warning that we will be looking at the season as a whole, and as such there will be some major [SPOILERS] discussed in this review. So caution is advised if you have yet to finished Season One of Star Trek Discovery, and we would recommend you giving the first season a watch.
TL;DR – In the end, we started with a group of people on a ship in space, and over the season, as adversity after adversity piled up, we ended with a crew.
Score – 5 out of 5 stars
Review –
Oh wow, we have reached the end of Season One and what a season it was, there were jumps in time and space, war with the Klingons, even a sojourn in the Mirror Universe. Now all of this was like a freight train barrelling towards tonight’s finale and here we are. So today we are going to take some time to look at how the episode worked on its own, before looking at how the whole season worked as a while in an article a bit later this week.
TL;DR – Tonight’s episode takes the twist from last week and ploughs forward at 100km an hour
Score – 4.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
So right out of the gate, I have to say that last week’s episode Vaulting Ambition (see review) completely caught me off guard. Lorca’s (Jason Isaacs) reveal was such a masterful stroke on the part of the writers, it was a surprise but it was also hiding in plain sight all the time. That is such a difficult thing to nail, especially when you were setting it up all the way back in Context is for Kings (see review). So it is in the afterglow of that reveal that we start this week’s episode, the continuation of our now four episode Mirror Universe arc, where we discover a number of things, including that I was completely wrong last week and that reactor is totally not Romulan.
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