I think I've defended this more than anyone but the Vulcan episode was fucking awful.

Regarding eye candy, long haired Burnham, Phillipa and Tilly are fit. Number One was 

I know who Detmer is because they presented a scene with her in the last episode as some kind of big moment of growth, and I have no fucking idea why.

Today's Discovery:

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Today's Discovery:

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I don't... really care... about the Mirror Universe plot... from two years ago. Quite surprised they've decided to stop and do a whole two-parter about a 'what if' time travel scenario from some random stuff from two years ago.

Georgiou telling Burnham to shut it, was the high point of another nothing episode. Watching out of habit right now, such a waste of a decent budget.

I.....dont know what to think anymore about Discovery. Its just all over the place.
I'd just like to remind everyone that there is an ancient sentient AI merged with Discovery. 100s of thousands of years old. And what does it do? Suggests movie night to Saru.
And now convieniently points Georgiou to an apparent Q. Can you imagine the field day Picard and Data would have had with the sentient AI? Here its nothing but a minor footnote.
And the medjai from the mummy simply says "Ah yeah, dont worry about the chain, it'll be fine, run along on your mission to save one person". That federation representative they met on the station at the start of the series, any mention of him? Why is Adira working on a decryption algorithm for a FEDERATION distress beacon? A 100 year old signal at that.
And are we to believe that distress beacon is somehow responsible for that bit of music being everywhere all of a sudden?
Seeing Georgy back in the upside-down, she is showing so much weakness, surely she would have been torn apart by now?
 Sarru was being a dick to Book, for shame. At least in the mirrorverse Poochy's overacting seems to fit in. Bless, evil Tilly lol, its just not right.

I hope its Q........he doesnt have that smug puncahble face Picard's Q had though.

Don't the Q want order (with the exception of Picard's Q who seemed more like Loki) and JoJo is out of time and dimension probably messing up the natural order.

Lower Decks finally has a UK distributor. It's gonna be on Amazon Prime on 22 January.

God this epsiode is go shit. About 20 mins in and so bored. This show has jumped the virtual shark.

So, if the Gourgio timetravel thing really happened, does this mean Jason Isaacs' character lives again?

I've caught up with this season now. I knew it would be dumb and shit. There's no one else to blame but me. It's dumb and shit in all the same ways it's always been dumb and shit. Here are my personal highlights of how dumb and shit it's been. 

A radiowave transmission can travel between Earth and Titan in 90 minutes. A starship can complete a no-dilithium, full impulse trip in 6 hours. Earth has been completely unaware for a period of 100 years that a human colony on Titan suffered a natural disaster and has been suffering ever since. A ship from that colony turned up and Earth blew it up without even asking what they were up to. 

The security chief lady with the mouth braces stayed behind on a ship for no reason at all. She is not qualified to undertake the work on board that ship. Discovery can get someone who is and come back in about 20 seconds. 

They're 900 hundred years into the future. For the sake of argument you can discount the century post-burn and even chuck in some regression from that and the temporal war. So, say, seven centuries of alien civilisations intermingling, expoloring new worlds and breaking the frontiers of science. The following technological advancements have been made:
- detachable nacelles that don't do anything
- personal transporters that don't seem to need programming with an end location. Just press your badge and hey there you are exactly where you wanted to be. 
- gloopy interfaces (gooey GUIs) when they can be bothered to add that special effect (which they seem to have now forgotten about)
- holograms that come out of badges??? (Discovery's own time had free-standing holograms of other people that could be transmitted across sub-space).
- That's it.  
Edit - Oh and Stamet's area of research, microbial wotsits, has been left completely fallow for nine centuries. No one has looked into it, experimented with it, in the whole universe, so only Discovery can jump around space. 

The Book home planet episode was ridiculously bad. Didn't make a lick of sense. "Hey what if we just ask the locus horde not to eat our stuff?" Fuck me. The Federation can't attack green lady's ship. So what if the Federation launched a non-Federation ship from its hangar, piloted by a Federation pilot to fulfil the objectives of the Federation? Fuck me.  

That Admiral is all over the shop. "You do what I say when I say, got it? Oh you went off and did something else? Well, maybe I'd have done the same. Oh you followed my orders Captain Saru? Maybe you should have responded differently when the facts on the ground change. Oh you explicitly disobeyed me and risked a war we're in no position to fight? Let's not even cover that one. Burnham you're out-of-control, act impulsively and have a problem following orders. You're just the sort of person we need for this highly-sensitive diplomatic mission in which you have a personal interest. Saru, chuck her in there and let her get on with it." 

Discovery had quite the conundrum with George-O. She's got a spin off to star in. But now she's made a one-way trip to the future. How can you get her back without opening it up to the rest of the crew that need to be stranded there for the story to carry on. How about, and hear me out here, a magic door. An actual fucking magic door. Genius. Michael can't use it because "she's exactly where she needs to be." Of course.  

*Father Ted gif*
And now we move on to Michael.

This is the main problem. I don't know why they've decided that this show needed every season to be about Michael Burnham saving the universe. And I don't know why they've decided that every episode of each season needs to be about Michael Burnham slowly advancing towards a scene in the last five minutes where she cries about something. But that's where we are. And from that comes a tidal wave of dumb where everything involves her and shows you how brilliant she is, even when she's doing real basic stuff. 

Only Michael Burnham is driven enough to bother investigating this mysterious event that wrecked the Federation. Only her. Only Burnham could have acquired two (two!!!) black boxes so she could triangulate a signal to the source of the burn. Only Burnham can bring logic back to the Vulcans. Humanity to humans. Make the Federation remember it's higher ideals. She's got a special bond with practically everyone on the ship so even stuff that happens to them must also involve her. Every recurring guest character must have a special bond with Michael. It's just tiresome. The rest of the crew might be alright if they weren't so frequently reduced to extras in scenes with Michael. The only time that cyborg lady (who had a decent back story) got an episode was so she could die and make Burnham cry. The only time Mouth Braces got an episode was so she could be inexplicably written out and Michael Burnham could cry. 

Anyway, I'm ranted out. It's watchable shite. Most of the fun is moaning about it.

It's got a lot of good elements. Mainly the cast. Decent special effects. It's not afraid to at least try and shake up Star Trek a bit. The spore drive is a pretty good idea to give the show a unique hook. Having the ship merge with an advanced AI could have been a great move (there's still time for them to do more with that). That could have been the new Spock / Data / 'what does it mean to be human'  character. The ship itself. But, as pointed out upthread, all it's done so far is suggest a movie night. And deus ex machina George-O to a magic spin-off door. And their vision of the far far future is really just a few ideas jotted down on a whiteboard in the writer's room during an afternoon brain-storming session. Wasted potential.

Sad thing is, the actor playing Burnham is very decent. Im now on season 6 of The Walking Dead and she is amazingly restrained in comparison to this show. When she cries there is feeling behind it and even justification for it! Shock!!!
The detached nacelles are a lovely representation of what is wrong with the show. Some dickhead writer thinks they look cool, so jam them in. Does it make sense? Nah, fuck it they look cool dawg. Whats next, some neon underlighting like from The Fast and the Furious? 
But sweet holy moly, there is nothing like watching poor old Tilly trying to be evil in the Terran universe. Hilarious.

Its 100% clear to me that there is nobody on the writing/producing team that has a lick of interest in sci-fi or actual science. Or have any idea how to put together a semi coherent plot.

I've said it before, but I think the detached nacelles are an attempt to extrapolate from the nacelles of the Enterprise-J from Star Trek: Enterprise, where the nacelle struts had been reduced to little more than an umbilical cord.