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Star Trek: Discovery season 4

Okay, the finale is almost over. They are really dragging it out, as if this was a beloved and special ST series.

The progenitor stuff was pretty interesting. Turning Burnham in to Oprah Winfrey at the end was WEIRD.
 
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I don't know if it was a dream or some thought I had while half asleep, but I was thinking other than the doctor there are no good black roles in discovery, there is girl on the bridge noone can remember the name of, and book who wasn't there from the start.

I literally forgot Burnham existed in what iseant to be her show.
 
4.6 - Discovery is trapped in a weird space thing and tries to get out, while the computer becomes sentient. So at least it's got some Star Trek-type stories going on. The living computer is sadly pretty boring and talks in a sad voice that sounds like she's about to start crying at any time, so she fits in. The computer's going to fly the ship out while everyone else hides in the transporter buffer, but for some reason Michael stays on the Bridge and nearly dies, just so they can have a scene where she wakes up and everyone smiles at her in slow motion.

4.7 - The Risan guy (who is from another universe or something?) talks Book into making a speech to the Federation to convince them to blow up the aliens who are eating planets. Michael makes a speech saying we should just ask them not to eat planets and Michael wins when it comes to a vote. There's a TERRIBLE looking Ferengi there. The computer is confirmed alive and its "dreams" are just clips of previous eipsodes which is lame and unimigantive. Stamments is hesistant to trust a ship that's alive, which is potentially some good conflict, but he quickly changes his mind because it's Discovery. The trans Trill robot ghost gets sent off the ship because they don't have any stories for him. Everyone smiles.
 
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4.8 - Book goes to casino planet to buy a weapon. Michael goes to stop him. I'm going to say something positive here: I liked Michael a lot more in this episode than I do a lot of the time. I think she worked better in the more informal setting? I like how her and Book are opposed but they don't instantly hate each other and are more sad than angry. I can't remember anything else about the episode.

4.9 - Some character from a previous season returns to watch over Michael and make sure she'll blow up Book if she has to. I can't really remember anything about her. Book's evil Risan freind keeps doing EVIL stuff and getting Book into trouble. Maybe he should stop hanging out with him? There's a subplot where the President of the Federation wants to fuck Saru.
 
4.10 - We get the backstory of Book's Risan friend. He was held prisoner with a little alien guy and it's quite wholesome. I was expecting a twist where he killed the little guy but it didn't come so points for that. But also we have Discovery trying to break through the "galactic barrier" (a stupid thing from TOS they decided to bring back) and it's dull. Everyone smiles at each other after they get through and why is it that when Strange New Worlds does this earnest stuff I like it but when Disco does it I find it cringey? It's just not as natural feeling to me, I guess? I don't know.

4.11 - There's only 3 episodes left and it's kind of shocking how little story there's been thus far. Things start happening a bit here with Michael and friends learning a bit about the aliens who are about to destroy Earth and Book and Risan kidnapping the sarcastic engineer lady. There's also this Asian Starfleet higher-up guy who keeps making inappropriate snarky jokes and I don't really get him. The President still wants to fuck Saru. Maybe I'll finish this season next month!
 
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4.10 - We get the backstory of Book's Risan friend. He was held prisoner with a little alien guy and it's quite wholesome. I was expecting a twist where he killed the little guy but it didn't come so points for that. But also we have Discovery trying to break through the "galactic barrier" (a stupid thing from TOS they decided to bring back) and it's dull. Everyone smiles at each other after they get through and why is it that when Strange New Worlds does this earnest stuff I like it but when Disco does it I find it cringey? It's just not as natural feeling to me, I guess? I don't know.

4.11 - There's only 3 episodes left and it's kind of shocking how little story there's been thus far. Things start happening a bit here with Michael and friends learning a bit about the aliens who are about to destroy Earth and Book and Risan kidnapping the sarcastic engineer lady. There's also this Asian Starfleet higher-up guy who keeps making inappropriate snarky jokes and I don't really get him. The President still wants to fuck Saru. Maybe I'll finish this season next month!
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4.12 and 4.13 - Okay, confession time: I started watching episode 12 of season 4 in like August or September of 2024. Then I just fucking forgot about it. Like, literally. I was watching other stuff and it just got pushed out of my head. I FINALLY went back and finished the season this week. It's kind of a shame because these two were the best episodes of the season. They actually do a plot where everyone has to work together to communicate with a strange alien and that's the kind of thing I like to see in Star Trek! But did we need 12 episodes to get to that point? It feels like the season could have been a 3-part story at most. The finale has Earth in danger, because of course it does, but again they win the day by talking to the aliens. There's a bit where Book "dies" and it's obivous to the viewer he's going to come back (because it would have been a fucking lame death scene) and it's literally just there to give Michael a reason to cry. It's such a Discovery cliche that it's laughable. Then there's a scene with like 3 different presidents (I don't know who is President of where) meeting and some generals and Michale and they're all women and IF YOU KNOW ME you KNOW I'm not one of those "anti-woke" cunts and I fucking hate anyone who is, but this feels kind of patronising. Like it's just saying "LOOK, WOMEN!" Anyway, as two episodes of tv this is fine! It's competently made and pretty well acted. But I cared about it so little that it took nearly six months to remember to watch it.

Oh there's another season...
 
5.1 - Okay, once again I did that thing where I watch half an episode, forget about it for 3 months, then watch the next half. It felt like they really wanted to make this a big action-packed episode as it had two pretty big action setpieces. I kind of marvel at how Trek used to be so cheap looking and now they have this movie budget level action stuff. And yet, it all felt a bit empty? Weightless? Maybe it's because I'm old now and my brain stopped developing so long ago that I can't feel awed by anything new. There's a bit with Michael in space that ends with a cool oner shot of her ending up back on the Bridge which again I DID think was impressive but did it really make the episode any better? Maybe not! There's a bit with Mihael, Book and Callum Keith Rennie as an asshole with ears on speeder bikes that again felt a bit weightless. But I can't see they didn't spend money on it. The plot for the season is a follow up of TNG's 'The Chase' where two criminal types have stolen a Romulan diary. Why does this plot need to take up ten episodes? Can it possibly be justified? I didn't totally hate this but it didn't move me.

5.2 - Saru is leaving to get married. Didn't he already leave one season then just come back right away? Hopefully that will happen here. He gets an action scene with Michael where he shoots some drones with darts from his ears. It was funny at least. Still not seeing how we're getting ten episodes out of Michael going to a different planet every week to find the next clue but apparently that's what the season is going to be! Book has a sad history with the villain woman because the galaxy is really small.
 
5.3 - Okay, confession again: I started watching this like 7 months ago (based on the last bump of the thread) then forgot to finish it for a long time. I think this is the one where Adira goes to Trill to break up with their boyfriend...and they just smile a lot and don't seem to care. I don't need a big argument or anything but something more than smiling would be something! Michael and Book get involved in yet another subquest to find a thing and it's boring. There's a subplot where Callum Keith Rennie's character is supposed to get to know the crew and he's just rude to them so at least that's funny.

5.4 - This one is actually a lot better! A standalone-ish episode where Michael and CKR (I'll look up his character name eventually) jump to different time periods in Discovery's past (with Staments eventually too.) Yes it's just that Voyager episode where Janeway and Chakotay do the same thing. And in that one I at least remembered what was going on in every time period they went too, whereas this one they arrive in time periods and are like "this is the time Harry The Bastard" attacked the ship! But I don't remember who Harry The Bastard is. And they didn't get Jason Isaacs or Michelle Yeoh back so all we get is the robot girl who got more character development after she died. BUT, I actually thought it was a decent, perfectly watchable episode. It moved around a lot, Michael fought her past self and CKR learned that commanding officers should get to know their crew. It's all pretty simple stuff but that's better than the first 3 of the season that were all one story I didn't care about.
 
5.5 - Back to Michael and Book going off on an action sidequest to find the next clue. But this one involves them finding the Mirror Universe Enterrprise. Okay, cool, that means some Strange New Worlds actors are going to guest star, right? Well, no. There's literally no reason to have the mirror universe Enterprise in this episode. I can only conclude that it's there so they can just use the SNW sets instead of building a new set for a new starship. Anyway, the episode is mostly about Michael and Book trying to convince Lok and Moll (stupid names) to become good guys, but they fail. And we get flashbacks where we find out Lok is a Breen and oh boy does this suck. Remember how the Breen used to be all cool and mysterious? Not anymore! We see what they really look like! We hear them speaking English! They might as well just be some other random species! And perhaps worst of all, having the Breen appear in the final season just reminds me how much better Deep Space 9 was than this show.
 
5.6 - I SHOULD like this episode, becaue it actually has a standalone story in amongst the arc stuff. Michael and Tilly (not Book for once!) beam down to a planet and have to pretend to be aliens and run in a race and everyone coughs and passes out now and again. The problem is just goes on too long. All the running through the trees and coughing isn't really important: the story only starts once the alien dad is going to sacrifice has duaghter to the Gods. Michael breaks the Primer Directive to save her, but It's not like she'll face any consequences. And it turns out their big sacrifice tree was made by the Denobulans, for some reason, so maybe it's okay to tell the aliens about it? There's a subplot with the smiling doctor but I zoned out and don't really know what was going on. It took like four sessions to get through this. Maybe I'm TOO HARSH on the DISCO STANS can correct me but this was boring.

5.7 - La'k and Moll (the villains) are captured, but Starfleet stupidly lets them stay together in sickbay while La'k is being treated for something. There's more Breen stuff and I don't care. L'ak dies and I don't care. Moll (I think) agrees to work with Michael to get the super weapon thing from the Breen so that she can bring La'k back to life with it. There's a bit where Tilly mentions "her cadets" and I thought "they arne't in the spin-off show so we won't see them again!" Where the fuck is Saru, by the way? He's barely been in this season. I assume Doug Jones was busy but it's a shamre because he's sometimes at least a bit entertaining. Anyway, this was bad.
 
This all sounds fucking awful.

I'm glad I didn't waste time on any of it besides season 2.
 
5.8 - Discovery has to go to a big library hidden in the Badlands to find the next clue. I kind of like the setting here, it feels a bit TOS to have a big space library with a kooky librarian (is this the same space library from that one original series episode, in fact? I can't be bothered checking.) Michael enters a "mindscape" or some shit to find the next clue, which basically means she runs around in some books for a while, then has to admit to a Head Book that she is scared, or something. Moll takes over control of the Breen ship all within the space of this one episode. This was okay on the Disco scale.

5.9 - Michael, Book and some others go undercover on the Breen ship, disguised as Breen. The Breen are basically just Klingons now who shout at each other all the time and stuff. Moll and Michael go through a door to the Progenitor dimension at the end. CKR takes command of Discovery and he's nice now. This does not feel like the second last episode ever.

5.10 - Micahel and Moll have a pointless spinny-camera fight. They agree to team up, then Moll betrays her again. The final test from the Progenitors is to arrange some triangles on a little table. Moll is too thick to even do this right. Michael finally meets a progenitor and, considering the WHOLE SEASON has been about this meeting, it's pretty underwhelming. L'ahk can't be healed (haha) and Michael decides that no one is ready for the Progenitor technology yet anyway and throws it all in a blackhole, or something. So that was all pointless then. CKR defeats the Breen by ripping off Ezra from Star Wars: Rebels. Saru is back and has a decent scene where he shouts at a Breen with that woman who said "yum yum" that one time. There's a long epilogue and look, I get people not liking the Stranger Things finale, but watch that then watch this. ST's finale was WAY WAY BETTER. It wrapped things up for all the characters. In this, we just jump forward 35 years or something to show Michael and Book are married with a son. None of the other characters get any resolution so I guess Michael and Book were the only important ones. Then Michael goes back to Discovery for its final mission...she's going to fly it out into the depths of space and leave it there for hundreds (thousands?) of years. Because they have to keep continuity with an episode of Short Treks that nobody remembers. Remember that Discovery's computer is ALIVE so that means the show ends with Michael leaving a sentient being alone in space with no one to talk to for an eternity. THAT'S HOW THE SHOW ENDS.

Oh yeah, the guy with the glasses turned out to be Daniels from Enterprise and he stole Sisko's baseball from the Sisko family, I guess? And has Geordi's VISOR too? I think he's a time travelling pervert or something. It's weird.
 
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