Choose Your Pain

They said the word f*ck ! This is not star trek, it's some mashed up version of multiple sci-fi series and non sci-fi series, with added gore and bad language. It really is depressing watching the star trek brand being trashed by this alternative trek reality these writers have created.

I have fond memories of Harry Mudd from ST-TOS. Rainn Wilson is probably one of the better choices for the role and I am hard pressed to think of someone that would have been better. He delivers on the cowardly scoundrel as I remember and love

I have seen other reviews that don't like the direction they are going but this isn't the kinder gentler Captain Picard years. This is war and real war isn't pretty or moral, something they often forgot in the previous series.

That being said Star Trek was always meant to be hopeful for the future and this is missing that hope. That may also be why ST Enterprise didn't last as long as the others.

Just put someone in the show that isn't from the US. I can usually suspend belief in a SciFi show where everyone speaks with an American accent eg Killjoy and Dark Matter because the universe they create is far away from Earth in either time or distance but for a show about the Federation of Earth and the member planets in a few hundred years this stupid decision made the show unbelievable.

It MUST have some people from outside the US to make sense.

I've found this series a bit hit and miss so far, however this episode was actually very good, very energetic, past paced and entertaining. I liked the story, it was very well written, and flowed well.

Dazzling special effects once again, they have out together an incredibly well produced show, it looks so good, I'm just wondering if they'll face a foe other than the Klingons?

Has The Captain made an enemy? I do hope so.

I am a little frustrated by the character of Michael, she is becoming an insufferable know it all, and has been right about everything in every episode, they need to address this soon.

Very good, 8/10.

Lorca is captured by the Klingons.

I enjoyed this one for main plot involving the tardigrade, one good cameo and some of the character moments.

I thought the parts of story that takes place on Discovery were great and enjoyed it as I would any episode of Star Trek. It has a pretty positive resolution and some quite selfless character moments, particularly from one character, that fits right into the Trek moral code. It also has a quite traditional Trek moment of a character with a bit of self doubt stepping up to assume command. The Lorca sub-plot was a bit silly at times, but it did feature a strong cameo from a character we first met in the original series which I quite liked.

There were some moments of lazy writing with very exposition heavy dialogue dumped on some scenes. The resolution to the Klingon imprisonment feels way too easy to be plausible. The final scene felt a bit like it was done for no other reason than to show the world that two characters are in a romantic relationship and to make a point of how diverse the franchise has become.

I do agree with other reviewers on the point of the bad language and violence becoming excessive. I know that's what war is all about and it builds fear around the Klingons as an antagonist, but as someone who enjoyed Trek as a child, this now rules out Discovery as something I can watch with my children until they become age appropriate, which is unfortunate. If it's all for the sake of selling the product to a new type of audience, it's a bit of a sellout.

All performances were great, especially Doug Jones, Jason Issacs and Rainn Wilson. Visuals and effects were excellent as always.