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Star Trek: Discovery season 4

I started watching season 4.

4.1 - The episode is titled 'Kobayashi Maru' (because Discovery has to constantly reference things.) The President of the Federation comes on the Discovery for some reason and they just happen to be called to a "no win situation" type mission. I genuinely thought it was going to turn out that the whole thing was a holodeck simulation, with an unaware Michael being tested by the President to see how she'd react to a Kobayahsi Maru situation. But no, it was all real! That's all I remember.

4.2 - What's with all the fucking rocks flying out of the consoles when the ships are taking damage? Why are there rocks in there? What is this, the Enterprise-C? And the fucking FLAMES shooting out in the background of the Bridge! It makes it seem like the ships are much much less safe to serve on than 600 years earlier or whenever TOS was.

"Your robot body is ready!"
"Oh, wow, great! Hey, does this mean you've cured death? Anyone who dies can just be moved into a robot body?"
"No, for some reason only the consciousnesses of some guy named Picard and this one specific Trill ghost can be moved to robot bodies. NOBODY ELSE."
"That's strange..."
"Also your robot body will age and die."
"Wait, what..."
"Just consider yourself lucky we're doing this at all when the whole point of joined Trills is that the host lives on in the symbiont after death."
"Oh yeah, and won't the new host of the symbiont miss having my part of the personality to access?"
"You're such a traitor to your culture!"
 
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4.3 - I totally forgot that Michael's mom is a time-traveller who was taken in by those fucking Romulan warrior nuns from Picard. Because why would I want to retain that memory. One of her friends pointlessly kills a Starflett officer and one of her fellow nuns because it's against their religion to explain situations or some shit. Michael and Tilly have decent friendship chemistry and I think Michael is better in scenes with her than whe she's being all Michael (I'm tying to be positive!)

4.4 - The backdoor pilot for the Starflett Academy show nobody wants. Tilly and some cadets run around an ice planet shooting bad CGI monsters after Tilly tells the cadets not to be racist. Nobody else in the galaxy is qualifed to do this so she gets a job offer. There's some boring politics shit with the Romulan nuns that I zoned out on and can't remember how it ended.
 
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I actually forgot to watch the last two episodes. I will try to get caught up SOON.
 
I said I'd check back in for the penultimate episode after tapping out episode 1.

I'm really not looking forward to it.

At least I've spared myself several weeks of shouting "get on with it!" at the TV.
 
StarMan™ said:
I said I'd check back in for the penultimate episode after tapping out episode 1.

I'm really not looking forward to it.

At least I've spared myself several weeks of shouting "get on with it!" at the TV.
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Ya know what? I'll probably watch the final two episodes as well after skipping the rest of the season, but that will only be out of morbid curiosity. Plus I need some hugs and tears.

Also, to amend what I said above, at least pancreatic cancer tends to put one out of their own misery quickly instead of dragging on for 7 years like this show has.
 
I just watched episode 6, and even though it was still kinda bad, it was less bad than the previous 5 episodes. I liked the mythology of the planet, and how they found the clue, etc.

I think what is bothering me this season is that instead of showing Star Trek people of the future just trying to be better, they find ways of telling us that they are doing current year social justice. Like they ran the script past the DEI office.
 
StarMan's log, Stardate 50893.5. The moment I have dreaded for seven weeks has finally arrived. Discovery - the final season - is airing its penultimate episode. And this time, I have to watch.

The recap did not cover everything I hoped it would. Still, I managed to follow along easily enough, having gleaned a few bits and bobs from comments / reviews.

I haven't got the rest of the season to compare it to. I didn't hate it, but it was nowhere in the ballpark of what qualifies as 'good' in my books. It was as 'Discovery' as I would expect.

Just a big ol' nothingburger. These characters simply don't make a dent. I was more invested in Shogun's mix of characters after two episodes (up to episode 4 presently). At the very least, watching this episode vindicated my decision to skip the season.

One character of note however is Rayner, who I quite liked. Damn, it really is a ship of the Valkyries on the bridge, save for the Asian fellow whose been on the show since the beginning that I can't remember the name of.

...

Next week, the final finale ever of Star Trek Discovery.

I think I can watch it.

I CAN watch it.. ?

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Finally watched episode 7. Not a terrible episode, but not that great either. The Breen dreadnought was pretty cool.
 
I thought I would have gotten through season quicker but umm I'm watching anything else basically. Might never finish it!

4.5 - Michael frees some prisoners on a planet that's about to be eaten but one of them doesn't want to be freed and gets a really long speech talking about how he murdered someone and deserves to die while everyone looks sad. Some guy from Risa teaches Staments to have fun or something? I'm not getting much from this.
 
episode 8

Another not great but also not horrible episode. The Breen stuff could be interesting if they had better writers.
 
Ep 9 was actually pretty exciting. Of course there was silly shit mixed in, like working out their personal relationships while on the Breen ship, but the action was great.
 
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