I've been contemplating this for a while and I am not sure it's been talked about in the last few pages but...
Star Trek really just doesn't seem to work in a 10 episode format. It really needs the season length to fill out the characters and give you that feel of people doing a job that has varying levels of stakes over a varying type of issues. With the lack of episodes to fill that feeling out, the episodes with slower pace or less serious tone stand out as so much worse in comparison. Would Hollow Pursuits stand up if it didn't have six or seven episodes on either side of it that kept the tone of the series?
It has been mentioned over the past few pages, but ultimately I agree with you.
Stop spending your budget on the polished marble floors or the swanky bars or Pike's preposterous quarters and spread it out a bit over a few more episodes.
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
Just finished the season and agree with other comments, not the best but still worth watching.
I just can’t handle Ortegas, the character or the actor. Everything she does comes with a little quip, none of which are clever or cute.
Mount playing a Vulcan using a robot voice is some of the worst acting I have ever seen. How could no one tell him how bad that was?
I actually liked the callback to the original series after episode 9. And the writing and acting for Spock is just excellent.
Ya know...with all of the properties, if they stopped canceling them, they could easily have a new Star Trek show running at almost all times.
"Well...SNW is done for this season, roll out another season of Lower Decks, or that proposed 7of9 Picard Spinoff, or a semi-prequel series with Todd Stashwick, or another season of Prodigy, or just 25 hours of Michael Burnham being tortured played on a loop..."
Just cycle them.
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Did you guys hear the narration during credits for the Vulcan episode? It was done in the Vulcan voice.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
lol I missed that.
Yeah...thanks for the heads up. I gotta say, I was actually really excited for that episode and then that excitement just rapidly faded as the episode went along. So I skipped the intro.
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
I found a lot of episodes this season were takes on classic trek story lines, and the finale was like a kitbash of Inner Light with Generations undertones, ST1 mixed in, and maybe some light "the chase" play.
There was profound weakness in explaining how Batel became godlike. The "Good v Evil" since beginning of time crap was insanely dumb. BUT overall, I felt like the notes of the episode hit. It made me extremely happy/ sad that Batel used her powers to give her AND Pike a whole life, one that neither of them will otherwise have.
I disagree that it leaves Pike's fate ambiguous... no, she was giving them both the gift of life because she knows too that he needs to go through with his intended path. But now they've both had that full life.
So, this season we got a doomsday machine with humans, we got Inner light with a twist, we got Darmok with a gorn, we got a holodeck romp, we got iconian gateways and pah-wraiths, we got Q, and we had a few stinker moments wrapped in.
Honestly, I think it was very Trek. Kudos deserved. I think they could branch out and take more risks, but they hit it IMO. It got my wife more interested in trek than she's ever been before. It kept my interest as a super fan.
More episodes per season are definitely needed, no doubt.
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I'm sure complaints can be add about each ranking, as only a Star Trek fan can have.
I laughed at the on the nose nature of the Enterprise crew reflections, but still don't see how they can rank below the crew of Discovery. I couldn't even remember any of their names out side of Michael. Michael and the chubby red head. Michael and the weird crying alien. Michael and mushroom guy. Etc.
The best character was Lorca and they spun him into a dumb mirror universe plot.
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