Every week it's the same thing. Let's talk about our feelings. That whole episode was about going down in a shuttle spending 10 min on the surface and talking about our feelings.
70 Reviews
Two more shows to go?
rrtiverton4 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
They had been hyping that this episode was THE season finale, yet it ends with another cliff hanger and two more episodes (according to iMDB).
Lower marks for forcing Burnham to emote hubris throughout the episode. About to leave.for an unknown planet in a foreign galaxy and she's promising people that she WILL find something. Really?
And the Book / Tarka thread is starting to annoy me. At least they had Grudge sitting on Burnham's bed in the opening scene.
It was an annoying episode to watch. 1) STOP THE GOD DAMNED WHISPERING!!!! It's like Soniqua-Greene feels this need to speak softer and softer and softer as dialog goes back and forth. FOR GOT SAKE, STOP IT!!!
2) Way too much pointless dialog in this episode.
3) Please stop trying to make Adira part of the bridge crew. Not impressed with the actor that brings a very flat, one note personality to the character. When does Tilly come back? Please!
This episode felt like the beginning of the season arc plot coming off the rails much like the last half of the prior season. Feels like they are running out of ideas on how to resolve it. I hope it does not dissolve into horribly inappropriate and miscalculated CGI renderings of the ships infrastructure again.
Lower marks for forcing Burnham to emote hubris throughout the episode. About to leave.for an unknown planet in a foreign galaxy and she's promising people that she WILL find something. Really?
And the Book / Tarka thread is starting to annoy me. At least they had Grudge sitting on Burnham's bed in the opening scene.
It was an annoying episode to watch. 1) STOP THE GOD DAMNED WHISPERING!!!! It's like Soniqua-Greene feels this need to speak softer and softer and softer as dialog goes back and forth. FOR GOT SAKE, STOP IT!!!
2) Way too much pointless dialog in this episode.
3) Please stop trying to make Adira part of the bridge crew. Not impressed with the actor that brings a very flat, one note personality to the character. When does Tilly come back? Please!
This episode felt like the beginning of the season arc plot coming off the rails much like the last half of the prior season. Feels like they are running out of ideas on how to resolve it. I hope it does not dissolve into horribly inappropriate and miscalculated CGI renderings of the ships infrastructure again.
It's LIKE Star Trek....
teanga3 March 2022
Now They Are Intentionally Messing With Us
sumtim3s00n3 March 2022
Basically the whole season will have two episodes that will actually move the plot forward, all else is just embelished filler consisting mostly of endless melodrama. These must be the most incompetent unimaginative writers on the planet. A tv ad has more essence.
In other shows a season has numerous twists and turns, ups and downs, cliffhangers. While here, the whole season is one dull block within which they're playing ping pong. One that is being stretched out into nothingness of utter boredom and recycling.
F-.
And please fire everyone that has anything to do with content, starting with talentless hacks calling themselves "writers" on this travesty of a show ruining the Star Trek name.
In other shows a season has numerous twists and turns, ups and downs, cliffhangers. While here, the whole season is one dull block within which they're playing ping pong. One that is being stretched out into nothingness of utter boredom and recycling.
F-.
And please fire everyone that has anything to do with content, starting with talentless hacks calling themselves "writers" on this travesty of a show ruining the Star Trek name.
Its to drawn out
wildernessfamily-379223 March 2022
I love Star Trek Discovery and Im so glad we have Star Trek Discovery, but enough already. Its so drawn out on who the TenC really are. Its like CSI. Waiting all season to the very last episode of the season to find out what its all about.
No division of labor in the future
isabellacheng4 March 2022
We were introduced to a "hyperfield" where the alien species "Ten-C" lives, an abandoned Dyson ring nearby, and a destroyed planet.
In this time critical mission, of the three objectives, the main cast decided to go on an away mission to the destroyed planet in Power Rangers costumes, while the rest of Discovery, including her experts and delegates, and its bazillion shuttlecrafts and drones, just sat back and waited in orbit, out of comms range anyway.
Really, it's not people working hard off screen. Rather, it was exposited explicitly that Discovery would literally sit around, doing nothing of use. You see how it is intellectually agonizing to watch this show? I only wish I didn't have the OCD to watch everything with a "Star Trek" label on it.
Edit (with very minor spoiler, not that anyone would be surprised): I wrote the above review before finishing the episode. I thought the other reviews were the usual criticisms about too much focus on "feelings" and "emotions" in Discovery. They were not. They were literal.
In this time critical mission, of the three objectives, the main cast decided to go on an away mission to the destroyed planet in Power Rangers costumes, while the rest of Discovery, including her experts and delegates, and its bazillion shuttlecrafts and drones, just sat back and waited in orbit, out of comms range anyway.
Really, it's not people working hard off screen. Rather, it was exposited explicitly that Discovery would literally sit around, doing nothing of use. You see how it is intellectually agonizing to watch this show? I only wish I didn't have the OCD to watch everything with a "Star Trek" label on it.
Edit (with very minor spoiler, not that anyone would be surprised): I wrote the above review before finishing the episode. I thought the other reviews were the usual criticisms about too much focus on "feelings" and "emotions" in Discovery. They were not. They were literal.
After a rough start it's generally enjoyable. But...
KpopSucks3 March 2022
Whichever members of the committee that writes and directs told Sonequa Martin-Green to whisper for dramatic effect needs to be fired. Having to raise and lower the volume constantly is irritating as heck and destroys the continuity for me.
This show is written by someone who needs therapy
nedim-137534 March 2022
There is no other possible explanation. Its all about feelings, small talks etc. Even when mission is time critical they will stop and talk about their feelings and traumas. Its so insanely detached from reality in every sense. The show is written by people who are deep in their echo chamber and have 0 connection to real world.
You guys know you can just stop watching right?
squallsrapture3 March 2022
I feel like all these reviews are being written by the same 4 or 5 chads. You're seriously complaining about filler? That was 20 out of 24 episodes of TOS, TNG, etc.
As far as the episode goes I loved getting more Detner focus. She and Owo are amazing characters and haven't had enough plot time this season. This series really does reinforce that star trek is a soap opera for nerds. I enjoy this crew and I will continue to talk up these episodes. And I'm very excited to meet the 10c.
As far as the episode goes I loved getting more Detner focus. She and Owo are amazing characters and haven't had enough plot time this season. This series really does reinforce that star trek is a soap opera for nerds. I enjoy this crew and I will continue to talk up these episodes. And I'm very excited to meet the 10c.
Drawn out but at least there was some progression
MadValkyrie4 March 2022
This season has been a long drawn out story that could have been resolved in half the time. However this episode stays true to what Discovery has always been about: relating to one another through emotion and finding common ground despite differences. This episode definitely felt a little less like the Michael Burnham show for a change, thankfully.
It's just embarrassing now.
simonasmith31074 March 2022
Imagine if you worked somewhere similar to "NCC Touchy Feely Pep Talk D" and every time you greeted a colleague they immediately looked forelorn, dropped their brow and spontaneously vocalised their innermost feelings, fears, weaknesses and failings. Your head would implode within a weak.
Do the writers not see the pathetic irony that the way this simpering, mumbling, woeful bunch of weak willed, wretched muppets plan to communicate with the DMA is through.... FEELINGS and EMOTIONS.
One truly brilliant scene that sums up what this shambles has become. Micky puts her hand to a receptical and them stares into the eyes of her team and whimpers "It Feels Like.... LOVE". Freaking Brilliant.
Do the writers not see the pathetic irony that the way this simpering, mumbling, woeful bunch of weak willed, wretched muppets plan to communicate with the DMA is through.... FEELINGS and EMOTIONS.
One truly brilliant scene that sums up what this shambles has become. Micky puts her hand to a receptical and them stares into the eyes of her team and whimpers "It Feels Like.... LOVE". Freaking Brilliant.
The 10C, Rosetta Stone mission?!
stevecinwac13 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
"I heard about the Hydro-carbons!"
Phrase, that's central to this episode and also hints at the convoluted writers thought process for the entire series!!
Do viewers need a clue?
All the way back to TOS! Folks., its not obvious yet it has been widely regarded as one of their BEST ToS episodes!
Having sorted out what, the writers /producers highest probability of type of new species 10C actually is by this point, the plot of final episode should be slightly predicted.,
There's a triangle of aspects that are more likely.,
Hints shouldn't be required for fans of regular ToS viewing, so let's make it a bit of a mild-mission for the newest fans?!
There will be a frantic 'Scramble'.,
A character will., replicate multiple 'Hot-Tea' s'.,
Only a DISCO, has a chance of ensuring safety of our galaxy?!
Phrase, that's central to this episode and also hints at the convoluted writers thought process for the entire series!!
Do viewers need a clue?
All the way back to TOS! Folks., its not obvious yet it has been widely regarded as one of their BEST ToS episodes!
Having sorted out what, the writers /producers highest probability of type of new species 10C actually is by this point, the plot of final episode should be slightly predicted.,
There's a triangle of aspects that are more likely.,
Hints shouldn't be required for fans of regular ToS viewing, so let's make it a bit of a mild-mission for the newest fans?!
There will be a frantic 'Scramble'.,
A character will., replicate multiple 'Hot-Tea' s'.,
Only a DISCO, has a chance of ensuring safety of our galaxy?!
Uniform
Geekfreak133 March 2022
I really like the Black pleather uniforms.
We will see slot of these at future Cons.
Episode ok, happy the comic, the kid, and they are not in it.
I need 150 letters.
Here goes.
150 characters in the box, 150 Characters in the box, take one down, move in around. 149 Characters in the box.
We will see slot of these at future Cons.
Episode ok, happy the comic, the kid, and they are not in it.
I need 150 letters.
Here goes.
150 characters in the box, 150 Characters in the box, take one down, move in around. 149 Characters in the box.
Dust that feels like love?
gmerczel3 March 2022
First of all, I have been hate watching this for a couple of seasons now. But, now I'm done with it. This is not Star Trek. It's more like a sci-fi version of a bad 70's Spanish soap opera. "There's nothing more important than the mission" unless it's talking about feelings and emotions for 20 minutes and crying for another, while the danger moves ever closer. Really? 16 different dusts that invoke distinct emotional states? I will not continue watching this bad telenovella beyond this season. Period.
Oh come on....
cttnfzddt21 March 2022
For a highly trained space exploration team on a critical mission the crew of discovery can really be a bunch of big girls blouses. Seriously, if you could stop being so emo for just a minute and get on with saving the galaxy that would be great. Anytime. I'll wait.
Boredom that just won't end.
pjdickinson-278223 March 2022
This has to be a parody. From the opening whisper log and weirdos in slow motion it just gets sillier and sillier. Even the President is whispering and Burnham has somehow had time to get her hair done. Why is there so much pointless talking? I understand there's a war against toxic masculinity and men need to be lectured about tact but is it really that important in a galactic emergency? Apparently, this episode had two directors and both managed to keep the boredom levels at maximum. With only 15 minutes to go the crying starts. Talk, talk, talk and all of it soppy nonsense but the worst part of this garbage is that absolutely nothing happens. Again! This dragged out catastrophe of a show needs to end.
BLANKITA
douglasjordane4 March 2022
IS IT ME...OR WHY DOES EVERYTHING ABOUT BEING EONS INTO THE FUTURE OF AN INFINITESIMAL GALAXY OF STARS AND SPECIES HAVE TO CONVENIENTLY REFER BACK TO PRESENT DAY EARTH AND ITS HISTORY? DOES ANYONE HAVE ENOUGH CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE TO REALIZE THAT THIS DUMB STORY IS UNFOLDING RIGHT BACK INTO FRAAKEN EARTH STORY.
IF YOU'RE FINE WITH THAT, WE'LL JUST LET THIS B-ROLL OF USELESS CONTENT FILLER CONTINUE. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE ONE OUNCE OF DIGNITY, WE SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE PRESUMPTION OF THE INTENDED CONCLUSION TO THIS STORY. THIS PLOT IS SUPPOSED TO BE BLACK OPS BADASS BUT IT TURNS OUT BEING FLINTSTONIAN OR ROSETTIAN. WHAT ABOUT IMAGINING NON-TRADITIONAL STORIES OF DISCOVERY'S TREK WITH OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF THE USUAL EARTH STORY REFERENCES?
AGAIN, MUCH TOO MUCH FRIVOLOUS CHATTER IN A USUAL OUTCOME MAKES DISCO A DULL BOY.
IF YOU'RE FINE WITH THAT, WE'LL JUST LET THIS B-ROLL OF USELESS CONTENT FILLER CONTINUE. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE ONE OUNCE OF DIGNITY, WE SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE PRESUMPTION OF THE INTENDED CONCLUSION TO THIS STORY. THIS PLOT IS SUPPOSED TO BE BLACK OPS BADASS BUT IT TURNS OUT BEING FLINTSTONIAN OR ROSETTIAN. WHAT ABOUT IMAGINING NON-TRADITIONAL STORIES OF DISCOVERY'S TREK WITH OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF THE USUAL EARTH STORY REFERENCES?
AGAIN, MUCH TOO MUCH FRIVOLOUS CHATTER IN A USUAL OUTCOME MAKES DISCO A DULL BOY.
Star Trek: Emotions
goggolya3 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Another episode centered around what everyone's feeling at the moment. The characters can't even talk about anything else, and it's extremely boring! Last season's bad guy was a crying Kelpian child. And now this season's bad guys are revealed to by emotional space whales. I'm starting to see a pattern here, and I don't like it!
Michael and her crew goes down to a planet and literally touch grass, I mean sand, and they start tripping. And that's it, this is the plot of a 50 minutes long episode. This is how slow and boring Discovery is!
Perfect example how stupid the writing of the show is: They go beyond the Galactic Barrier to an unexplored planet, and the default settings on their space EV suits is to filter out ONLY the known chemicals. After hallucinating for half an hour they remember that they should also filter out the unknown chemicals too. And the writers try to sell us this like an 140 IQ move and their the best crew ever and saviors of the whole galaxy...
There was a whole episode centered around Zora learning to use her sensors perfectly. She knows everything that's happening on the ship. She even knows how much oxygen the crew is consuming. But somehow she doesn't notice Book and Tarka beaming aboard Discovery and running around for hours. Basically two people beamed aboard, started opening doors, they are using oxygen, they are sending messages and sabotaging replicators, spying on the crew. They also kidnapped one member of the crew, and Book's ship is attached to Discovery's hull. And Zora didn't notice any of this............
If the writing was realistic, Discovery's crew would have noticed in less than five minutes that their chief engineer has gone missing...
The episode starts with Michael stating that they can't enter the hyper field. Later in a scene Ndoye is complaining that they're wasting time surveying the planet, and they should have gone directly into the hyper field. She forgot that they can't enter it... Again, bad writing!
Also why are they assuming the species they found on the planet is the same that's in the hyper field? There is no evidence to support this. The species in the hyper field could be the ones who wiped out the ones that were on the planet.
Also they don't bother checking out the Dyson Rings, which could help them understand how 10-C's technology works and how to communicate with them, and enter their hyper field. Instead they choose to only check out the thousand years old archeological dig site...
The story is so predictable! When 10-C was introduced people were guessing that Book's going to redeem himself by communicating with them because he's the only empath in the show. And now we have evidence to support this theory.
The show has budget for so many special effects, it's sad they don't have any budget for good writers.
Michael and her crew goes down to a planet and literally touch grass, I mean sand, and they start tripping. And that's it, this is the plot of a 50 minutes long episode. This is how slow and boring Discovery is!
Perfect example how stupid the writing of the show is: They go beyond the Galactic Barrier to an unexplored planet, and the default settings on their space EV suits is to filter out ONLY the known chemicals. After hallucinating for half an hour they remember that they should also filter out the unknown chemicals too. And the writers try to sell us this like an 140 IQ move and their the best crew ever and saviors of the whole galaxy...
There was a whole episode centered around Zora learning to use her sensors perfectly. She knows everything that's happening on the ship. She even knows how much oxygen the crew is consuming. But somehow she doesn't notice Book and Tarka beaming aboard Discovery and running around for hours. Basically two people beamed aboard, started opening doors, they are using oxygen, they are sending messages and sabotaging replicators, spying on the crew. They also kidnapped one member of the crew, and Book's ship is attached to Discovery's hull. And Zora didn't notice any of this............
If the writing was realistic, Discovery's crew would have noticed in less than five minutes that their chief engineer has gone missing...
The episode starts with Michael stating that they can't enter the hyper field. Later in a scene Ndoye is complaining that they're wasting time surveying the planet, and they should have gone directly into the hyper field. She forgot that they can't enter it... Again, bad writing!
Also why are they assuming the species they found on the planet is the same that's in the hyper field? There is no evidence to support this. The species in the hyper field could be the ones who wiped out the ones that were on the planet.
Also they don't bother checking out the Dyson Rings, which could help them understand how 10-C's technology works and how to communicate with them, and enter their hyper field. Instead they choose to only check out the thousand years old archeological dig site...
The story is so predictable! When 10-C was introduced people were guessing that Book's going to redeem himself by communicating with them because he's the only empath in the show. And now we have evidence to support this theory.
The show has budget for so many special effects, it's sad they don't have any budget for good writers.
Brilliant!
MrDavidCJohnson11 March 2022
Innovative script direction, unpredictable, and smart. Finally, making some headway in the SPIRIT OF STAR TREK! I FEEL EXCITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME. KEEP GOING IN THIS DIRECTION ,... TELLING THE STORY! EXCELLENT 👍
Good but boring
sigelm10 March 2022
A decent quality episode, but every now and then it would get boring because of too much dialogue that felt like we had heard it before. It felt a bit as if the production was trying to save up money needed for special effects by creating prolonged, repetitive dialogues that are more affordable.
Whisper whisper, feelings feelings, boredom
confidential-678973 March 2022
My God, who exactly are they writing these shows for. I used to love watching TNG, DS9
And Voyager, and would happily watch episodes again when I catch them on TV. But discovery is just a travesty, I honestly believe they are trying and succeeding to make a show that is universally despised by all Star Trek fans.
One of the classics of all time
astralwerks-431267 April 2023
What a fantastic episode of Trek this is. Star Trek isn't nostalgia trips, and 100 easter eggs per episode, it's about the unknown and how it relates to the characters, this episode has both in spades. It's an amazing script that manages to bring understanding to the crew about this exotic species through relatable similarities in seemingly disparate cultures that also resonate with the individual crewmates. The result is really touching and leads to one of the best 3-episode stretches of the franchise's 57-year history.
On top of all this, the production design, VFX is absolutely perfect.
Trivia: This is the first time we ever see a Dyson ring in any Star Trek episode. Something used by the super-advanced 10c at a PREVIOUS period in their development.
On top of all this, the production design, VFX is absolutely perfect.
Trivia: This is the first time we ever see a Dyson ring in any Star Trek episode. Something used by the super-advanced 10c at a PREVIOUS period in their development.
Feeling dust
jasplund-555013 March 2022
In season 3 the universe was nearly destroyed by what turned out to be the out of control feelings of an overgrown child, now in s5 feelings are the only thing that can save it. Feelings. And more feelings. Next up: Starfleet will solve the warp drive problem by developing an engine that runs purely on... you guessed it: the pure, unrestrained feelings of the crew. "Activate the feeling drive, take us to love factor 10!"
Star Trek - Dr Phil Edition
info-354-5495594 March 2022
The actors on this show are actually decent I feel sorry for them they could of actually probably put in a good show for us but the writers decided to royally screw them with dialogue and events that are some of the most boring on television.
I just watched an episode of raised by wolves, more happens in a single episode than an entire season of discovery. Watching it makes me realize there is no excuse for these filler episodes where nothing happens, this is all about writing. The writers here need to be immediately canned, you turned a great cast and decent budget into something I now watch on a 3rd monitor while doing my taxes, and honestly my taxes are about as interesting.
I just watched an episode of raised by wolves, more happens in a single episode than an entire season of discovery. Watching it makes me realize there is no excuse for these filler episodes where nothing happens, this is all about writing. The writers here need to be immediately canned, you turned a great cast and decent budget into something I now watch on a 3rd monitor while doing my taxes, and honestly my taxes are about as interesting.
Space Jesus will save everybody!!
markstenroos4 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Wow! If you thought Michael Burnham was Space Jesus before, you ain't seen nothing.
The intro to the episode is insufferable, as Space Jesus Falls into her "I, I, I" routine. She will lead the away team, she will find a solution, she promises to find an answer, she will do it all. Why? Because she's Space Jesus! And sure enough, when they get down to the planet, it's Space Jesus who comes up with all of the ideas that lead them forward to find the solution that of course she is the first one to find! Somehow she can even intuit what the dust on the planet is doing to them.
Every new episode is worse than the one that preceded it. How do they do it?
The intro to the episode is insufferable, as Space Jesus Falls into her "I, I, I" routine. She will lead the away team, she will find a solution, she promises to find an answer, she will do it all. Why? Because she's Space Jesus! And sure enough, when they get down to the planet, it's Space Jesus who comes up with all of the ideas that lead them forward to find the solution that of course she is the first one to find! Somehow she can even intuit what the dust on the planet is doing to them.
Every new episode is worse than the one that preceded it. How do they do it?
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