[CaptainCrunch]

I don't know, I'm not really surprised that the finale was a boring episode with the same baffling illogic bombs that have plagued the writing of this episode.

Spoiler!

It was almost like the writers wanted to end every single storyline and clear the board for next season, and because of that the Klingon war was wrapped up with a whimper instead of a bang.

Basically in the end, all that was accomplished was a teaser towards next year that was almost a cry of "Sorry about this year, here's some cool original series stuff, if you tune in next year, we'll maybe do it better, because we cleared the slate.

I don't think it was a bad episode by any stretch, but I will say that it wasn't a good episode let alone a season finale.

I mean, they had Burnham doing a voice over, and it was almost like the writers were leaning over her shoulder and waggling their eye brows at us while pointing at her as if to say "This is what were trying to get at all along, that as bad as things are we are Star Fleet and we shouldn't compromise our morality".

Here's the problem with this series structurally, they tried to jam so many plots into this season that they couldn't spend enough time building one up over the other. The overlying plot point should have been the Klingon War, but there was no weight to it. I mean they tell us its bad, but we never saw it as bad. DS9 did an incredible job of portraying War as a predator, and we could actually believe that the Federation was going to lose to the Dominion. Instead in Discovery we didn't get to see whole sale slaughters by the Klingons, nor ships exploding and planets being bombarded, so there was absolutely no feeling of jeopardy.

Even the logic of getting rid of Tyler didn't hold much weight because he was such a light weight character. I have to leave, because I'm not human and not klingon so bye. In the end even the logic of blackmailing the Klingons with a super bomb in the middle of the planet, just seemed like a rush ending to the Klingon storyline.

Again, I think that the Writers and producers maybe realizing that this just wasn't a great story telling experience were so desperate to wrap everything up and get rid of anything that might have offended viewers had to rush to what is an unsatisfying ending to everything in season one.

I outright had the laugh of the show, when Michael dared Georgiou to kill her and watch her die again. That's not much of a threat, when only a few episodes ago, Georgiou sentenced her to death and then wanted to do the killing herself, its almost like the writing room and someone stated that they forgot the notes from prior episodes.

I mean even the departure or freedom of Georgiou was so half assedly done that it felt like the directors looked at their watches and said "Ok guys we have two minutes to soften her up and push her out the door". Of course they could be holding her as a villain in years to come. Or it could be that they couldn't figure out a satisfactory way to get rid of the Emperor of the Terran Universe.

I also found the whole Klingon home world to be really unsatisfactory, and I get that this is the Orion sector. But again it was just such a random world where they had to have the over sexed Emperor knocking boots and being praised for her prowness while Tilly gets high. It really did nothing character wise, it was completely random and a bit silly. Its again, almost like Jonathon Frakes was shouting "We need some butts and side boobs"

Basically my complaint here is that they took 2 seasons worth of story lines, jammed it into 1 season, then realized how badly done it was, wrapped it up in 40 minutes, made Burnham explain it verbally and said, look the Enterprise. Then to really add to it, they basically said "Remember when you threw a mutiny, caused the death of your Captain, and started a war that caused the death of millions (I guess, because we don't know at all), well don't worry about that, your now a commander thanks for promoting another mutiny".

Sorry I had to sit down because I got dizzy.

From a effects standpoint, the final 5 minutes was gorgeous, it was almost a labor of love showing the discovery and the over the shoulder shot of the bridge, and even the Enterprise looked good.

But other then that, it wasn't exciting, particularly well written and it failed because they never established a solid basis for the first series.

I think this series needs a strong reboot.

Random thoughts.

So does Tyler have lots of that nasty Klingon sex that causes the Klingons to morph into the ones that we see later in the Prime Universe?

So clearly the spore drive is going to continue to be a thing next year. The one loose end that they didn't tie up.

I did chuckle at Tilly's interactions with Georgiou "Oh we had so much fun slaughtering everyone Killy" was actually kind of charming.

Clint Howard sighting, and the only reason I can think of it so they can say he's been in every star trek series.

First time I've done an episode grade

I wasn't inspired by it and you can see my reasoning above 5/10

Pluses

Effects
Some nice personal moments especially with Tilly

Cons
See above


Season Mark 3/10 - Badly written and overly compressed, this series logic bombed all over itself, and it was almost like the writers were clueless about what they had written. The finale was basically an apology, here's some cool stuff at the end, forget about year one, and we promise we'll do better. On the plus side, the effects were actually fairly decent throughout. There was some nice character growth in terms of Saru and Tilly.