Full of sounds and (predictable) fury, signifying nothing. Star Trek could do better than that.

Which simply indicates it has been a decade since last ST, and VFX has advanced. Any other random ST series could have had the same better VFX, but with an actual story this time.

DIS is inartfully trying to get rid of some of its S1 errors, but in the process doubling down on some other errors. Hard to say whether this or Point of Light was my least favourite of S2... On the one hand this episode has nearly all of the objectionable elements of DIS on the other there are a few redeeming factors.

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This is the best DIS episode yet. Maybe the show will make something of itself (I was pretty pessimistic after the disaster of the previous episode).

If DIS keeps it up, in the future people will refer to such characters as ‘Michael Burnham’.

That TNG could become the ‘Gold Standard’ for many says that TNG showrunners eventually learned from their failures and made the show better than it was at TNG season 1.

Don’t forget her having to remind Saru his vision is better than human vision and that he could use it on the monitor. Obviously, he couldn’t have figured out he could use his own eyes without Michael’s help.

DIS set a very low standard, so don’t be surprised. Just about anything would have been than the nonsense DIS did with L’Rell/Voq/Tyler.

DIS ‘dealt’ with that by providing a completely incoherent plotline, to the point you do NOT want to use it as an example of ‘dealing with PTSD, and sexual assault’. After all, last we see of that character, he goes with L’Rell. So the answer for dealing with sexual assault is staying with the abuser? I prefer to…

The problem isn’t lack of adherence to Star Trek template per se. TNG and DS9 broke templates in their own way (TNG captain not being an action hero, DS9 featuring a station rather than a starship).

“Some other series also had a bad season 1" is hardly a defence of season 1 itself! At best, it’s a suggestion that DIS may do better, which is indeed quite possible. Also, I find TNG 1 to be better despite more than a few clunkers (the episodic format has this advantage where one can just skip bad episodes, while…

An Lt. which is actually an double agent disguised as a human? Where have we seen it before? It looks like also a bit of a dig at Discovery, while being better executed in a single episode than DIS did in a season.

The problem with the disastrous DIS 1 was not employing ‘Trek lore’ per se - it could have done either less or more and be good - but in the places where the writing failed: incomprehensible Klingon plot, Starfleet characters serving on the same ship acting like they never knew each other, putting sci-fi as less…

So the war’s ending is a case of WMD blackmail? Yea, Starfleet/Michael uses a cutout (L’Rell) to do the actual threat, but the only reason L’Rell’s in position to even begin to try is because Starfleet created, gave her the bomb and expected her to be able to use it. The only real moral difference between Michael’s…

Now, now, this episode was indeed very bad (around “Fascination” levels of bad), but that’s no excuse to talk nonsense about <i>Discovery</i>. It’s pretty clear that the Federation evolving into a “luxury space socialist utopia” has nothing to with the Discovery - shunted off elsewhere - or its writers. The “utopia”…

My impression is that the every single member of the crew is decent-to-good at the *narrow* contour of his job, but they are horrid when asked to do anything else. Which isn’t that far from real people.

“It terrific mix of action, science, wonder of exploration, and principled characters”.

With respect, this column strongly understates the responsibility of the West’s ‘liberal’ leaders to the current mess. First, there was no immediate need to take the strongly integrationist and unpopular measures taken. The massive overreach lead directly to the current backlash. Second, there were measures to deal…