[CaptainCrunch]

Well here we go season 2. I'm just not sure about the writing on this show. I mean they changed over the writing and creative of this show and it changed some direction, but the fundamental problems remain

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If I was going to label this show, it was a lot of action for little result, and little less that made sense. This was the problem with the writing last year was that the pacing was all over the map.



The story basically opens with a young michael meeting her nearly infant aged step brother Spork (I kid it was actually Sybok, wait sorry it was spock). Again this show continues to absolutely mess with continuity of the original series time line. For example the Enterprise misses the war due to the Enterprise being away on a five year mission, which conflicts with the Enterprise going under its first 5 year mission under Kirk years later. Anyways, that and Spock's age is just confusing as hell.


Anyways, baby spock, doesn't like his new sister and slams the door in her face after making a holographic dragon. Then they go forward to the whole Pike taking command of the Enterprise thing, and right into laying the premise of the season, that there are 4 lights, err 7 lights or something like that and the Pikster needs the Discovery because the Enteprise is damaged and needs to go check them out because Spocko dreamed about them.



So they went right into break neck pace again, which killed the series last year pacing wise because they over wrought the audience.


Then they warp off, after Pike asks the bridge crew to introduce themselves, because the shows writers probably realized that they had done nothing with the bridge crew last year and everybody was viewing them as plastic dummies. Anyways they get caught in an asteroid field and then find a star ship and for whatever reason, that they can't use shuttles or the transporter have to have an action sequences where Pike, Burnham and two disposible yeomans have a top gun meets Millenium Falcon (Never tell me the odds mannnn) scene of screaming through the asteroid where Michael saves Pike. There they run into an insane survivor from a Federation Frigate who has been doing frankens surgery on her crew mates to keep them alive.


Oh did I mention that they had a hilarious elevator scene where an alien with a cold sneezed all over a dude. I mean it was a subtle nod to humor or the Oville or something like that.



Even then Michael saves the day, nearly dies and then they decide to vacuum an asteroid into the docking bay for science.


During that Stamets decides to leave the ship for reasons and Tilly and him have these weirdly awkward scenes. Then Tilly has a scene with a weirdly smiling Burham. Then we find out that they spinal tapped Tilly when she joined the Command training program by dialing up her annoying ADD factor to 11.


Dear Star Trek Writers;


I'm sure that there are some good ideas or story in there somewhere, but you pack so much stuff into your episodes that its like impossible to find it.


On the strong side I liked Mount's portrayal of Pike. However the rest of the crew except for Saru were either just plain annoying (Tilly), weird (Stamets) jarringly reminded me of a bipolar serial killer (Burnham).



Oh did I mention that Spock had saved his logs and a map of the spots andnd hilariously only Burnham could figure out that he kept a log. Oh and she also saw a red angel we think.


I'd like to say that I liked it, or that it was improved over last seasons messy writing and uneven plots and acting. But I'm not sure that it is, the only thing they did was jam more stuff in and increase the pace.


Its almost like I could hear George Lucas yelling int he background "Faster with more energy, and throw in more swearing)


Oh and can Tilly get transferred or assimilated by the Borg. Her character isn't cute or funny, she's just outright annoying.


I'll give the episode the benefit of the doubt and give it a solid meh/10.