Star Trek Discovery S4 E6 & E7 (spoilers)
Jan. 2nd, 2022 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightofdayeSo the downside of PlutoTV and the holidays is I've got to make time at the right moment to see the show rather than seeing it on demand when convenient on the other hand, last Christmas I did fall behind, now I have to keep up.
I watched episode 6 on Christmas Eve but didn't have the energy to review it then and I've just seen episode 7 so MAJOR spoilers to follow under the cut.
In a way, it's good to do these both together because they both feature a prominent B plot with Zora the AI. In the first episode she is overwhelmed and frightened and has to be encouraged to work, in the second she has to be convinced to prioritise the greater good over the well being of the crew, and the crew exemplified by Stamets have to learn to trust her.
The A plot of Stormy weather involves a pretty poorly planned adventure inside an Anomaly (I've already forgotten if it was the DMA itself or a side affect of it.) which nevertheless produces results eventualy.
The A Plot of ...But To Connect involves a meeting of all the Milky Way's powers to decide whether to make peaceful first contact with the DMA's creators or just blow the DMA up with a very side effect heavy banned WMD.
Burnham (of course) wins the argument for the Federation but Book is unconvinced and uses the new version of the spore drive to go off to destroy the DMA in the cliffhanger.
I think they are both perfectly serviceable episodes and are definitely less bogged down with b and c plots, the b plots of each episode merging easily with the main plot but I'm not blown away with them.
The only specific complaint I have is that the delegates at the conference they ran were quite poorly defined. There seemed to be multiple Ni'Var representatives voting for example and Burnham got a vote for no apparent reason. (perhaps because of her role supervising federation/ni'var relations?) Seemed to be. you're in the room, you get a vote.
Still the plot is moving forward, though they didn't reveal anything about the extragalactic DMA creating species or if they are someone we know. Also despite the focus on the Zora AI it all seems massively incompatible with the short Trek episode Calypso and they've yet to attempt to address that.
I watched episode 6 on Christmas Eve but didn't have the energy to review it then and I've just seen episode 7 so MAJOR spoilers to follow under the cut.
In a way, it's good to do these both together because they both feature a prominent B plot with Zora the AI. In the first episode she is overwhelmed and frightened and has to be encouraged to work, in the second she has to be convinced to prioritise the greater good over the well being of the crew, and the crew exemplified by Stamets have to learn to trust her.
The A plot of Stormy weather involves a pretty poorly planned adventure inside an Anomaly (I've already forgotten if it was the DMA itself or a side affect of it.) which nevertheless produces results eventualy.
The A Plot of ...But To Connect involves a meeting of all the Milky Way's powers to decide whether to make peaceful first contact with the DMA's creators or just blow the DMA up with a very side effect heavy banned WMD.
Burnham (of course) wins the argument for the Federation but Book is unconvinced and uses the new version of the spore drive to go off to destroy the DMA in the cliffhanger.
I think they are both perfectly serviceable episodes and are definitely less bogged down with b and c plots, the b plots of each episode merging easily with the main plot but I'm not blown away with them.
The only specific complaint I have is that the delegates at the conference they ran were quite poorly defined. There seemed to be multiple Ni'Var representatives voting for example and Burnham got a vote for no apparent reason. (perhaps because of her role supervising federation/ni'var relations?) Seemed to be. you're in the room, you get a vote.
Still the plot is moving forward, though they didn't reveal anything about the extragalactic DMA creating species or if they are someone we know. Also despite the focus on the Zora AI it all seems massively incompatible with the short Trek episode Calypso and they've yet to attempt to address that.
