[CaptainCrunch]

Re Discovery.

They took the easy way out with Book, they'd been dealing with his feelings of loss and failure over the destruction of his planet. Then they completely pulled the hand brake on that when they suddenly made the jump to its a weapon with some amazing leaps of sci fi logic. Then he was back to normal, but angry. They just can't seem to draw things out to a logical conclusion and now he's mad.


I felt like they rushed things to the whole its a weapon, there was no science behind it, they put in the obvious plot device of its moving and they jumped to its a weapon.


Yeah it was nice that they started naming races, and cool that they thought it could be the Q, but you just know that at that point you can pretty much eliminate all their races.


The interactions between Stamets the scientist and Saru was nice, with Reno in a rare appearance doing the Scotty thing with the power. I think they thought they had to do the whole silly mashed potato and Pea thing as a heavy handed Close encounters easter egg. But on a ship with 1000 year in the future holographic projectors they used food. It just felt heavy handed.




The prison thing and the whole we're federation we don't approve of your justice system was a nice distraction because of the acting performance by Felix the depressed prisoner. more then anything else.



Its interesting to see that they have Zora as a fully functional AI with an emotional ability. They hinted at this with the conversation between Zora and Saru last year. But I expect that they won't go anywhere with it, its just there to be another hammer blow to our heads by the writers about how cool they are and thoughtful.


Its pretty clear that they're trying to set up Tarka as maybe a mini villain this year where he will suduce Stamets to his reckless ways, and he does have the scar on the back of his neck from the Emerald Chain slavery thingy, and that's why we got the substory of the doctor and his angst over acting as Ships Councillor and the one on one scene at the end with he and Stamet's talking about their days.


In one laughable minute we've talked about how the bridge crew is furniture that we don't care about. Well at the end of the episodes I noticed that the navigator and helmsmen were not the usual team and Detmer and the navigator what's her face had not been in a episode that probably needed the hot shot team.


Look, it wasn't a bad episode, its just the norm. They pack as much stuff as they can in. Resolves issues like Book's in about 5 minutes, and really do little outside of the main characters, and then hit us in the head with the writing hammer a few times.


On the positive side, the guest stars Chronenburg (sp?) and Felix put in amazing performances. The effects were strong. We got with leaps of logic and 5 minutes work the resolution to what the DMA is so now they can progress to the big bad, which I hope is not Clint Howard reprising his role as Balok from the first Federation who will realize the wrong he's doing with the DMA and invite the crew over for Tranya and cheese.


Like I said it was a solid episode, so lets see if they can build on this.