Star Trek Discovery S4 E8 (spoilers)
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Spoilers under the cut
Not the best episode but it could have been worse. Certainly doing a decent job of melding the episode plot and the season plot together. It was entertaining but it felt like treading water a bit. At the end, Book and Tarka are still poised to do their plan, Burnham and the federation are still opposed to it.
We get some more exposition on what species 10 c are doing and that Burnham is definitely right and Book wrong though.
The combination of Burnham and 'Oh Wow' Owosekun is a good one and unexplored giving the bridge bunnies more screen time is always good though it feels like they have a new skill/interest everytime they are highlighted. No reason they can't have multiple skills of course.
It was never quite clarified for me if Owosekun was taking a dive each time and didn't tell Michael so her reactions were believable or if she really did get her arse kicked twice. Taking a dive seems more likely given the results. It does seem odd for Star Trek to have fight club and cheating at cards as the key to success though.
Stamets and Culber's scenes continue to be nice.
And on a call back note we get a changeling. The effects were very different but his final face looked Odo-ish so maybe a ds9 changeling rather than TUC one?
And in other news apparently Picard Season 2 is coming out in March and Strange New Worlds (The Pike spin off in May, though we don't know if we'll get it in the UK) How much Star Trek is too much Star Trek?
Spoilers under the cut
Not the best episode but it could have been worse. Certainly doing a decent job of melding the episode plot and the season plot together. It was entertaining but it felt like treading water a bit. At the end, Book and Tarka are still poised to do their plan, Burnham and the federation are still opposed to it.
We get some more exposition on what species 10 c are doing and that Burnham is definitely right and Book wrong though.
The combination of Burnham and 'Oh Wow' Owosekun is a good one and unexplored giving the bridge bunnies more screen time is always good though it feels like they have a new skill/interest everytime they are highlighted. No reason they can't have multiple skills of course.
It was never quite clarified for me if Owosekun was taking a dive each time and didn't tell Michael so her reactions were believable or if she really did get her arse kicked twice. Taking a dive seems more likely given the results. It does seem odd for Star Trek to have fight club and cheating at cards as the key to success though.
Stamets and Culber's scenes continue to be nice.
And on a call back note we get a changeling. The effects were very different but his final face looked Odo-ish so maybe a ds9 changeling rather than TUC one?
And in other news apparently Picard Season 2 is coming out in March and Strange New Worlds (The Pike spin off in May, though we don't know if we'll get it in the UK) How much Star Trek is too much Star Trek?
