Eh, I didn’t think it was that terrible, actually. Pretty standard Star Trek plot—planet in danger, coming up with a last-minute solution that saves everyone and somehow hadn’t occurred to anybody else in the hundred years before.
But it seems like they’re trying to make Michael Burnham relatively less annoying by making others more so—I mean, Georgiou’s whole ‘I am angry and badass and don’t need your help’-shtick is almost aggressively boring, and Stamets’ fawning over Lesley Crusher seems both incredibly out of left field and as if the writers are just doubling down on the idea that the best way to establish how great a character is is by having everyone constantly talking about how great they are.
I agree with Georgiou complaint - I get it ‘in char’ for her, but I really don’t care - I was expecting them to figure out that this Georgiou was not the real one (replaced with a hologram thingy).
The ‘find the source, find a starship at the middle of it’ was interesting - kinda curious where it goes, but if its like the prior 2 seasons, the resolution to that will be shocklingly bad.
I’ve been a bit of an apologist for this show, but that was without a doubt the worst yet. There was literally nothing about that episode that was a positive. Nothing.
Note that in Enterprise, when the Archer-era Enterprise crew found the Kirk-Era Defiant (a much smaller time gap), Sato was able to use the Defiant to conquer the entire Terran empire.
We are well past the point of any in-show capacity to continue to explain why the New Federation puts up with Discovery’s crew of assholes (still not wearing proper uniforms, I see.) Now Saru is openly disobeying orders. There is just no way that Starfeet wouldn’t start busting heads. It’s ridiculous now, and suggests the laziest of writing.
Georgiou can get thrown out an airlock any time now. Why does anyone in the ship even want her around? What is her purpose?
All you guys who are hating on Discovery obviously did not watch ST Voyager. Compared to the latter this is Macbeth.
Senior officer becoming lizards.
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It was so bad they couldn’t even get the eye candy right, she ended up being the best most intelligent character. ( ).
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Yeah, Voyager had some cringey episodes - as did TNG, and the original one, and DS9 - but it also had some excellent ones. The great majority of the episodes were well structured, well paced, and made internal sense, even if their idea was a bad one.
Agreed! As a rule, I don’t mind Discovery. It’s had its ups and downs but I’ve stuck with it because the former generally outweigh the latter, but this episode sucked! The explanation for Georgiou’s illness was ridiculous. The Terrans are just boringly, cartoonishly evil. And don’t even get me started on the old man in the bowler hat. I’m not a screenwriter, but if I were, the only reason I’d ever include an enigmatic sage-like character who talks in riddles would be for the main character to kill him immediately. Hopefully the next part will be better.
Well, thats 42 minutes I’ll never get back - and apparently there is another 42minutes next week of this same dreck?
I give these shows and series wide latitude - as long as they keep me reasonably entertained and the stories are interesting - I’ve defended season 1 and there was a lot of good in season 2 - but this is just… boring.
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