There was a lot to grumble (or, in some cases, shout in anger) about in season one of CBS All-Access’s Star Trek: Discovery. Looking back at the the ups and downs, it’s hard for me to recommend that someone shell out the money for the All-Access streaming service just to watch the series. While I’m […]
Here’s a lesson for any aspiring television writers out there: Once you have spent thirteen episodes building a world and characters, you don’t need puzzle box plot devices, twists and turns in identity, or jumps between universes and through time. You can just let the characters live and breathe in a story that furthers the […]
They just couldn’t restrain themselves, now could they? After an episode that, on the whole, dealt with the stupid plot twist of last week in a satisfying manner, the writers had to throw a time travel wrench into the proceedings right when they didn’t need to. After all, having the Terran Georgiou on the Discovery […]
Ok. While the last two episodes have had enough good to justify me continuing to see if Star Trek: Discovery can find its way and move forward into the upper echelons of Trek lore, “Vaulting Ambition” was just not great, Bob. We’ve made it through a jump to a Mirror Universe. We’ve survived the really […]
I’m a bit late to the game on the first two episodes of the back half of Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season (“Despite Yourself” and “The Wolf Inside”), and I apologize. Unfortunately, some real world things came up and delayed my ability to watch the episodes. But, here we are, trapped alongside our heroes in […]
The first half of the first season of Star Trek: Discovery concluded with an episode that is a microcosm of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the series as a whole. For those who are reading these reviews in the hopes of my advocating that every Trek fan give the series a look, […]
I’ve been ragging on Star Trek: Discovery a lot over the course of these last seven episodes, so I’m delighted to say that “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” (Latin for “If you want peace, prepare for war”) gets a whole heck of a lot right. From giving Saru a chance to shine (and giving us […]
Now that’s more like it. After six hit or miss episodes, Star Trek: Discovery finally hit on the right balance of character and story with “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” and delivered a really good, fun, and memorable episode. Harvey Mudd returned, this time along with a plot worthy of bringing the […]
I’ll admit that after six episodes, I’m starting to get frustrated with Star Trek: Discovery. Each episode has solid moments, with great character development and crackling plot, making me think the show has turned a corner. Then the bottom drops out late in the episode, almost always when dealing with Captain Lorca’s arc. And that’s […]
This week on Star Trek: Discovery it became clear that there really is a strong Star Trek series lurking under the surface. Unfortunately, that series continues to be mired down in a central arc that doesn’t make all that much sense. It’s not too spoilery to divulge that the major conflict in Discovery is a […]
