Just finished watching the series–er, second season finale of “Star Trek: Discovery”; it was epic, sweeping, emotional and (as usual) a bit overstuffed, but damn, it was gorgeous, too. ****QUANTUM SINGULARITY-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** The Story. Review of Star Trek: Discovery, S2.13; “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1” Part 2 picks up at the very end of…
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Star Trek: Discovery, S2.13; “Such Sweet Sorrow” opens the floodgates…
The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Such Sweet Sorrow,” may be best remembered as the “The Big Goodbye 2.0.” The crew truly coheres as a family, which has been an ongoing struggle with the show. Many characters have been maddeningly underdeveloped, such as the supporting bridge crew, who were little more than faces in…
Star Trek S2.11: “Perpetual Infinity” is a bittersweet convergence…
****CONTROL-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Let’s just spore-jump right into it, shall we? 20 years ago. We see a young Michael Burnham on the colony of Doctari Alpha, under the care of her mother and father, two researchers working on a classified time suit project for the seedy Section 31 (unbeknownst to the tweenage Michael, of course). Young…
Star Trek: Discovery S2.10, “The Red Angel” revealed… *SPOILERS!*
I put *SPOILER* warnings in the headline of this entry as well, because this episode is just one big reveal after another. “The Red Angel” was written by Anthony Maranville and Chris Silvestri, was directed by Hanelle L. Culpepper. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… Story. The story opens with a touching and moving funeral…
Star Trek: Discovery, S2.9: “Project Daedalus” is a conspiracy wrapped in an enigma…
After the retro-fun of returning to Talos IV in “If Memory Serves”, Star Trek: Discovery takes yet another detour into edgy Trek with “Project Daedalus”; an installment that has some nice character moments, yet bumps its head on the ceiling of its own serialized format, leaving an incomplete episode that still delivers some thrilling action…
Star Trek: Discovery, S2.8, “If Memory Serves” recalls classic Trek…
The latest episode of Star Trek manages to pull off the near-impossible; act as a sequel to the original TOS Star Trek pilot, “The Cage”, as well as a ‘logical’ (forgive the pun) continuation of Star Trek: Discovery’s own current “red angel” storyline. It does so with enough style, elegance and nostalgia to make this…
Star Trek: Discovery S2.7, “Light and Shadows” is occasionally less than illuminating…
The latest Star Trek: Discovery episode, “Lights and Shadows,” answers a few questions, but is less a whole story and more of a junction. One of the problems with arc-based series like “Star Trek: Discovery” is that sometimes you have segments that are, for better or worse, mildly interesting connective tissue between two more promising…
Star Trek: Discovery, S2.4; “An Obol For Charon” offers two sides of the coin…
The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “An Obol For Charon” had some very strong character moments that ultimately made it worthwhile for me, but the story was little more than a pastiche of Treks past; particularly, the great misunderstood space thing that was just trying to say ‘hello.’ **** SPACE SPHERE-SIZE SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** Pike’s…
Star Trek: Discovery S2.3; “Point of Light” shines on a few characters from season one…
While overall reviews of Discovery’s freshman season were somewhat mixed, there were some strong characters and storylines that deserved revisiting. Season two’s third episode “Point of Light” does so, but also feels more like a chapter in a telenovela. Granted, that’s one of the inherent risks with such serialized storytelling. On the plus side, “Point…
Star Trek Discovery S2.2: The way to “New Eden”…
****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!**** The latest episode of Discovery’s title, “New Eden”, briefly recalled (for me, anyway) the crazy space-hippies in TOS’ “The Way To Eden.” But this latest episode wasn’t about stealing shuttles and eating acidic apples. The space hippies were seeking a literal Eden, whereas the crew of the Discovery happen upon a planet frozen…
Star Trek: Discovery, S2.1: “Brother” kicks off a soft-reboot of the series…
The first season of “Star Trek: Discovery” offered feature-film production values, some interesting characters, and a Klingon-Federation war, yet it was still a bit wanting overall. The story arc of that first year felt a bit clumsily put together (too many cooks?). The final episode of season one felt as if the series was more than…
Star Trek Discovery S1 finale, “Will You Take My Hand?”
The fifteenth and final episode of this inaugural season of Star Trek Discovery has beamed up. Overall, it was a very satisfying installment that seemed to pull the series out of the darkness, and a bit closer into the optimism of previous Star Treks. ***** GIANT VOLCANO BOMB-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD ***** The Story. The USS…