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Star Trek Discovery ***Season 3*** [** SPOILERS WITHIN **]
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They missed a trick there. Surely once they reaffirmed their friendship they should have had a good cry.0 -
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I keep watching, stupidly, hoping something gets better.
And dare I say...at the beginning of the season...there was some promise showing. Sure, episode 1 was mildly interesting IF a bit off-colour by inferring the whole thing might have gone from attempting to ape Star Trek to just not even trying anymore, just becoming yet another "scruffy-future-space-people-collecting-space-junk-in-garbage-starships" show, but then the second episode came in - a WHOLE episode about the CREW and without a trace of Burnham in sight? Wow. Unexpected...except, by the end of that episode, it was all about Burnham again.
I'll try to make a long story short, going into positives and negatives. I won't even comment about all of the weirdly forced characterization choices - aka, I don't give a passing p1ss about what Adira and her boyfriend/girlfriend/ghost in the shell are (except yet another Wesley Crusher stand-in, but that's a story for another day!).
THE GOOD
Saru - Glad they went with making him Captain, as it continues his development arc nicely from his initial "useless wimp afraid of everything" portrayal. I wonder if it was always planned, or it's something they came up with as it became clear the show absolutely needed a proper "character evolution" story. He's showing signs of becoming a fine Captain.
Book - He's faded in the background as a minor character, but the "adventurer" vibe, plus the unexplained origin of his species, makes for an interesting character. Also, some potential there - how comes he not only looks 100% human, but even has a PET who looks and behaves, 100%, like an Earth species? Up to the writers, but if they ignore this potential, they're a bunch of overpaid idiots.
Starfleets' reasonable pragmatism - Times are hard and uncertain - some compromises on the lofty ideals of yesteryear are to be made, but up until now, it seems like the general idea is to uphold and reestablish the core Starfleet principles, albeit in an initially more pragmatic way.
Burnham's evolution, part 1 - I know, right? Something positive about Burnham! But yeah, her initial "coming back changed after an year away living off space-scrapping" impression was positive. Not only that, it looks like the actress herself is much more comfortable playing the slightly softer, more well-rounded version of the character, rather than the ridiculous cardboard cutout she was in the first two seasons. It's kinda funny/interesting how the change in the character has been basically heralded "visually" by Burnham looking more feminine.
More "standalone" episodes - The flow has been less serialized than in the past, while still falling underneath a main general premise. Hugely refreshing, and it's funny because it's something series have done forever - like, I don't know, a ship lost in a distant part of the galaxy and trying to get home, or a space station sitting at the entrance of a vital passageway with a huge interplanetary war raging...
THE NEUTRAL/JURY STILL OUT
Georgiou - She's still a frustratingly inconsistent character: sometimes ruthless, somethimes scheming, sometimes weirdly demonstrating attachment to the Discovery crew and even some form of respect for Saru's authority, then she's a scheming con-artist, then the "visions" and whatnot. There's a great potential there for a solid character story, but looks to me like they can't decide what to do with her.
Adira Tal - Walking on the line, perilously verging into Wesley Crusher territory. Yes, I know, 7 lifetimes et all. We'll need to see how she/they evolve.
The whole "burn" storyline - It could be great or it could be ridiculously idiotic. It all depends if they make it once again all about Burnham and whatever the heck she does. If the second scenario turns out to be the real one, even the name of the event is stupendously ridiculous, worthy of Saturday-morning children material.
THE BAD
Burnham's evolution, part 2 - the devolution - Long story short, didn't take long for Burnham to revert into the impulsive, arrogant, insubordinate and untrustworthy a-hole she was in season 1 and 2, once she came back aboard Discovery. One wonders if there might be something wrong with the environmental control in her quarters, pumping something into the air. And once again, she got away with murder - being re-assigned as chief science officer is basically not even a slap on the wrist. Tom Paris had the book thrown at him, multiple times, for much less
Lack of ensemble focus - Once again, the rest of the crew are fading into obscurity in the background. The first couple of episodes showed promise, but now it's been back to "The Burnham show", albeit maybe in a slightly subtler way. Considering logic dictates Lieutenant Nilsson to be named First Officer now, one would hope she'd get a bit more fleshed out as a character, unless we end up with a "cardboard number 1" who basically is a voice repeating the Captain's commands. Or Stamets gets to be First Officer (would be quite nice, although impractical with the fact he also needs to pilot the ship through the mushroom cloud).
The filler - Basically, I noticed how I tend to grow impatient around midway each episode. Feels to me like they start with a premise, develop the plot slightly, then fall into a lull of filler content, pointless conversation that goes nowhere and useless transition scenes, until the big final wrapper.
The galaxy status and lack of exposition/exploration - Seriously, we could use much more exposition about what the heck is going on in the galaxy; The Orions and the Andorians formed a somewhat criminal organization, all right, but how did it come to be? What about the Kilngons and perhaps most interestingly, what happened with the ROMULANS, which DID NOT USE DILITHIUM to power their ships? And what about the Dominion, they didn't take the opportunity to invade the quadrant, now that there's no opposition? And the BORG? Anyone with a functional fleet of warp-capable ships would be able to basically take the quadrant over in a matter of weeks. Of course this can all be brushed under the carpet, but it's a huge missed opportunity.0 -
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silverharp wrote: »needs more to be sure, im not sure about the Romulans, they may use Dilithium but have a different technology, a singularity or some such. Warp is possible without it though or Cochrane's initial flight wouldnt have worked. The Borg technology was different? and the Federation were beaming of people across systems.
Romulan ships, at least the military ones like the D'Deridex class, are supposedly dilithium-free as they were powered by a quantum singularity (read: a minuature black hole running their warp core...maybe not the safest of technologies, but hey, it worked ). Considering Discover has thus far implied very little evolution in terms of power sources (the Federation still using dilithium 900 years later) it makes sense Romulans, whatever form their organization has taken after the Hobus incident, would still have singularity powered ships.
And they can't be the only species coming up with different power sources.
As for the Borg, it was never clearly stated, but implied they basically use a distributed mish-mash of stuff assimilated from other cultures. So there might have been dilithium in there, but also quantum singularities and whatever else the writers can come up with. And the Borg being the Borg, it would make sense for them to quickly overcome the dilithium shortage...
It's the same basic issue that plagued Discovery since the beginning - the writing and production teams either don't know anything about Trek lore, or simply don't care. They consider it baggage that gets in the way of making their "space opera" thing.0 -
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H3llR4iser wrote: »Romulan ships, at least the military ones like the D'Deridex class, are supposedly dilithium-free as they were powered by a quantum singularity (read: a minuature black hole running their warp core...maybe not the safest of technologies, but hey, it worked ).
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Dilithium is not a power source, it just converts energy and can withstand the output from warp cores. So even if Romulan ships use quantum singularities, and presumably are just creaming off the Hawking radiation from it, that still doesn't rule out the use of dilithium. But I'm guessing we find out a lot more in the next episode.0 -
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