Whistlespeak

No desire to engage with whatever discourse is happening in the reviews for this episode. To me this was a solid classic Trek episode. Go to planet, meet locals, learn about their culture and tie that together with an overarching plot thread and a moral/philosophical lesson.

Certainly not the best example of this kind of episode in all of Trek, but very solid. We also get some great Michael-Tilly time that we've been sorely missing. I can definitely feel the budget constraints in this and other episodes in the season, but that really can't be helped. I'm sure they're doing their best with what they've got to work with. Doing an extensive location shoot helped to offset it a bit.

In any case I liked it a lot. It's more sincere and heartfelt than many of the episodes this season which focus on rather vapid action and the pretty boring and rather annoying Moll and Lok. Would love to see more of these kinds of episodes, but this is the last season and they have all kinds of plot to wrap up so I'll just take it as it is and enjoy it.

Star Trek: Discovery once more with added feelings. One of the showrunners described this story as a 'classic TOS-style adventure.' I just regarded it as one of the lamer TNG adventures.

Again Burnham leads the away mission to a pre-warp society. First Officer Rayner does not even bother objecting and he probably knows Captain Burnham will break the Prime Directive.

Not only that Burnham takes Tilly to the away mission. The most unfit member of the crew. You guessed it, there will be a race at some point. The kind Book could had done in his sleep. Instead he is on Discovery getting bored.

This society has strong beliefs in religious traditions. Unaware that the disguised alien tech weather tower needs fixing or else their drought will continue to get worse.

If the final season was billed as an Indiana Jones type chase adventure. This was the cure for insomnia sleeper story.

I have been trying to keep an open mind on this season however I'm at the point that I'm just expecting this to end badly. This peculiar episode seemed like a throw away episode. While I don't usually mind them from earlier series they usually had 22 or more episodes a season. In this new age of Star Trek we can't afford these types of episodes. Finally, why is there even a prime directive anymore? What's the point of even mentioning it if there's going to be a Captain ignoring it? I really don't even know if this series is worth continuing. I'll probably see it through as I'm invested in it but I doubt I'll ever bother to rewatch the series and pretend it didn't exist.

If so many of you do not like the show, STOP WATCHING IT! Its nowhere near as bad as you keep making it out to be with all of your 1 star reviews and the incessant vitriol about how bad it is. It's not perfect but my God people...funny how a show with women leads and gay and trans gendered characters gets so much hate..enough already. Times have changed its not the 1960s anymore. I agree sometimes the writing is lacking but many of the characters are actually really good as is the interaction between them. Sadly the negativity and closed mindedness is all too representative of the world we live in...Star Trek has always embraced diversity and inclusion and yet so many of you have lost the plot.

I gave this five stars, but I'm not quite in agreement with the other low reviews. I found this episode to be very uneven. I don't mind the characters, and like most of them. I'm generally fine with the story line, and I think all the actors are capable. The complaint about the acting, I think, is due to the writing. In this episode, the writing of competition setup and scenes seemed of much lower quality than usual, and the production values in the those part... not good at all. Maybe that's due to budget considerations, but it's hard to act well when the script and the direction/production are sub par. Other plot lines and scenes seemed okay, but overall this is not up to the STD standard.