STAR TREK: SECTION 31 - teaser
Not at all what I was expecting: I love a good surprise.
Not at all what I was expecting: I love a good surprise.
(*** / *****): Greatest feat this season managed to pull off was to give me reason to miss the characters (whom I've loved for the entirety of the run – up until this season) like I had hoped to when I learned that this was to be the final season. The first six episodes, with a few exceptions (anytime Callum Keith Rennie's Commander Rayner was onscreen – can't think of a late series addition that added so much) were rough, to say the least – and it was clear that no one knew this was the end (which they didn't, apparently, until after filming was complete). While the Breen were great – when they finally popped up as antagonists – Mol and Lock weren't the most fear-inspiring antagonists, though Eve Harlow was as excellent here as she was in a similar role in THE NIGHT AGENT (just cast her as Harley Quinn, Gunn): for the power to create life, the antagonistic stakes were far too low for 2/3 of the season. Fortunately, the last few episodes did remind me why I liked this crew so much, upped the stakes to appropriate levels and gave each (save the inexplicably vanished Kayla) a moment to shine, especially Adira, the inimitable Tilly, and Action Saru.
Also: anytime Cronenberg or Tig Notaro are onscreen is a win.
As for the post-filming "oh shit this is over, really?" coda: unnecessary but not unenjoyable. Could've ended the show at Saru's wedding, at Michael and Book walking off together, talking about the future. Not quite sure as to why Discovery (the ship, though maybe the show too) had to meet the fate it met though I suppose there are reasons that my exhaustion-addled mind couldn't compute last night. Maybe it'll come to me.
Intrigued to see where the STARFLEET ACADEMY show takes this future Trek-verse. More Cronenberg. More Notaro. More Rennie.
Can’t wait for this to start, don't want it to end. Alas, all good things…
Everyone's been Pelia's student, haven't they? (Welcome, Mr...)
STAR TREK meets ALIEN: we've come a long way since Shatner v. Man in Suit.
Pike's Kobayashi Maru, to be continued (after studios get their shit together and negotiate in good faith)...
While I still hate that it took the show this long to get this good, I'm glad it got there eventually – though it was so very, very close to losing me at multiple points in the first two seasons. Seven and Raffi saved it both times for me.
Which means I'm all there for the next next generation – be it a series or a standalone film.
I'll miss the TNG'ers, but what a sendoff. Glad they finally got the farewell they deserved; as they said once before, “All good things…”
YES
I hope that 3-10, once we're over the utter glee of seeing what we're seeing for the first time since we last saw what we're seeing, all those years ago, explains why – beyond, possibly, a single line in this episode – the status quo at the end of season two seems to have been forgotten.*
WOW
YES
Best episode of the season and of the series. I repeat: why did it wait this long to get this good?
Felt, appropriately, like the start of a goodbye to an era – but also a hello towards a new one.
(Reiterating my desire for a series featuring the crew of the Titan and Jack Crusher.)
Are you going to make it out of this one alive, Will?
Way to call back to the start of the series; that's a hell of a McGuffin.
Sad to see this voyage end - but what a great legacy; one of my favorite Treks: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ To End With Fifth Season In Early 2024 On Paramount+ | Deadline
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🔗 Sad to see this voyage end - but what a great legacy; one of my favorite Treks: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ To End With Fifth Season In Early 2024 On Paramount+ | Deadline