So I fast-forwarded through about 90% of the season finale, and don’t feel that I missed anything meaningful. Talk about padding.
Why don’t they build starships out of whatever that door was made of? HONESTLY. That whole thing was so dumb. Why didn’t they beam her out? Why didn’t they send in one of those repair drones to yank the handle? Why didn’t they tie a piece of rope to the thing and pull it from the other side of the door?
Why was the camera avoiding showing the interrogators face at the end?
Yeah. They build the whole time-suit while under heavy attack in like half an hour (or whatever it was), but can’t jury-rig something that’ll close a door in fifteen minutes?
And I had thought they’d have to go into the past, and change something so it’ll never be the case that Discovery comes into possession of the Sphere-data, which might have gone some way to explain the absence of reference to Spock’s sister, the Spore drive, and all the other oddities from future series. I’m not normally in favor of such a reset-button, but the whole ‘now let’s never talk about any of this ever again’-thing we got instead seemed incredibly hollow.
One thing I can’t recall, how did they ever know it was going to be seven signals in the first place? The episode they came up with the whole concept, it seemed that there just had been seven signals, but for some reason, they could only determine the origin of one; but the other signals had not yet occurred. So why did they know it would be seven?
so - somehow, Burnham knew exactly what /who she would need based on facts she did not know at just the right time to be able to make the jumps needed.
How did she ‘know’ the Kelpians would go her way?
When did she meet Po?
I thought it was her mom that came to her in times of need (astroid)? or just that one time?
A few too many things were way too handwaved.
I enjoyed the season - but you can’t sit and think about it for long.
I have less issue with the “never speak of this again” - atleast that addresses the whole “why we never heard of this before” - but how do you get all of starfleet to forget the mutineer that saved us from the klingon war and her speech?
It also looks like much of the crew of Discovery went to the future - not just the seven that got to send emails (one of which helped save the day)
continued thoughts -
I knew early on it was going to be Burnham as the source and that somehow all the signals were intended to ‘get them things they need’ - but in the end (when she figures out thats what happens) they set up such a paradox.
Would have been better if they left it as ‘Mom’ playing with the timeline leading discovery to the bits instead of Michael.
As for the 7 signals - When they introduced them, Pike said “they had detected 7 signals, but only one lingered long enough” - not quite sure how they managed to detect things that had not happened yet?
It also occurred to me that Burnhan’s ‘red signal’ at the asteroid occurred AFTER the red signal that took them there originally - since she ‘saw her injured self’.
IIRC, the ‘red signal(s)’ generally disappeared directly after (or just prior) to Discovery’s arrival at the location(s).
grrrrrr…
Because he doesn’t matter. He could have been anybody. The focus stayed on the people being interrogated.
Isnt a regulation that mentions the people never to be mentioned sort of self-defeating?? Call it the Streisand Regulation…also (ahem) Hollywood writers…again, thats not what treason means.
I thought the second season was really lackluster compared to the first, but it really went out with a bang. Yes, it’s full of “but why didn’t they just…” but Star Trek usually is.
I quite like hurling them into the future that far. Talk about leaving the door open for all kinds of possibilities. Maybe somehow THEY have the most advanced ship when they arrive.
By the way…was the other 150 or so crew given an opportunity to disembark? You’re asking a lot to tell a crew to they may spend the rest of their lives in the future.
It was only essential personnel and volunteers per Captain Pike’s orders.
I want to take credit for last week’s prediction that Jett Reno was going to die during the unexploded torpedo incident. Thought her being exposed to the time crystal during the power transfer meant something.
One think out the many, many things that bothers me with this show is that they didn’t let us look at the ships. Can someone tell me what the Section 31 ships looked like, behind all those explosions? And why was that Klingon flagship just a big dark blur in space? Come one, people. S1 of Babylon 5 had better starship porn, and they were using an Amiga.
I don’t recall her dieing - Admiral Cornwell did.
All true. Contrast with Spock’s sacrifice in “Wrath of Khan”. (I’m not spoilering that in this thread because come on.) They needed to go back to the drawing board if they were so intent on a “good of the many” narrative.
Also: how did Tyler go from disgraced, “decapitated” traitor to openly operating as L’Rell’s right hand man again? 
Despite those major flaws, I thought this episode was MUCH better than other recent ones.
The ID4 fights had more narrative cohesion…and those were all over the place. Abrams/DISCO have no clue how to do appealing space combat.
Yeah, I’m taking credit for being wrong. I took a joking approach to it.
I didn’t watch the “Star Trek Shorts” until after watching the season finale.
Those seem pretty fun, even the one with Mudd. “Calypso” is a hint, right?
The entire second half of this season was disappointing. Moments where it’s good, but overall the ability to sum it up and tie it together is rather weak.