Anyone else get a sense that the show was kind of spinning its wheels? We end with Dr. Burnham, being flung back into the future, Control having the data and not a whole lot of plot progress.
The big revelation is the wonderfully done work with Dr. Burnham being pulled back into the future. They did a fantastic job with the log entries offering exposition and a opening with a great flashback.
This show has had some great guests and Sonja Sohn does not disappoint. You get the pain she has to work through and a great Bechdel Test pass with her daughter. She's more than just the main characters mother.
Some great moments here and there, but now that they brought back Culber, they don't seem to know what to do with him.
One of the critical problems most shows have is that there's too much filler. Season one did a much better job of pacing even if they had to split it into two arcs. A fourteen episode count helps with that. You can have some filler here and there, but it's getting to be a bit much, though still very watchable.
Maelwys wrote:Spectre9 wrote:The biggest problem with this show is that they're essentially rewriting the way the technology of the Federation progressed.
With the current storyline being about how powerful (and evil) computer AIs are, the series (or maybe even this season) will end with the federation being forced into a technological dark age, purging their ships and bases of the super-powerful computers that run everything, and all of the high-tech yields that those computers helped them to discover.
Didn't we already burn that bridge with Enterprise?
What about a Delta Flier situation where the guys at UP just like the retro look?
Or what about Roddenberry himself who says that this was just a dramatization of the events. He said that the Klingons always had ridges and TMP was the first time they were able to show them.
New places for old(er) keywords:
Continuing Mission
Cardassians and Federation posturing it out:
Showdown: Four Lights