Turns out in “What’s Past is Prologue” last episode, Stamets overshot the universe a little bit and spit them out nine months later than when they left. And without the Discovery, the war against the Klingons really imploded. We open “The
Vaulting Ambition Gives Us a Sweet Goodbye “Vaulting Ambition” has an uphill battle in the heart of this guy, to be honest. I don’t really enjoy the visualization of dream sequences in television or film. Stamets’ representation in the mycelial
There’s just an absurd amount of stuff that happens in “The Wolf Inside.” The Emperor of the Terran Empire reveals herself to be Georgiou. Tyler becomes Voq. Stamets meets another Stamets. In any other show, this is about five episodes
Where the “Vaulting Ambition” felt a bit sluggish, “What’s Past is Prologue” is coming right out of the gate with the excitement. Some of that excitement comes in the form of Mirror Commander Landry, who this blog mourned deeply when
Buckle up, friends, because “Despite Yourself” starts us down the path of a Mirror Universe story. To be honest, I think it was a bit of a weird choice to go to this well so early. The Mirror Universe usually
“Into the Forest I Go” is Discovery at its best. Continuing the journey back into the first season of Star Trek Discovery with “Into the Forest I Go” and this episode doesn’t waste a beat of any of that tension
The eighth episode of the season, Si Vi Pacem, Para Bellum, opens with the some of that glorious space action that Star Trek Discovery is becoming synonymous with. Probably not coincidentally, it mirrors the exact situation that Lorca was having
The fastest way for a Star Trek episode to gain entry into my heart is with some beautiful, beautiful time loops. The seventh episode of Star Trek Discovery, Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad, fits the bill perfectly.
To be honest, going into the sixth episode of Star Trek Discovery, Lethe, I felt like the setup was definitely establishing this as one of those one-off episodes. Nothing much meaningful is going to happen, and is a break from
Damn, this series moves fast. We’re only five episodes in with “Choose Your Pain.” And yet? We definitely have enough story lines to fill an entire 26-episode season any previous Star Trek series. This is the episode where the Discovery