Project Daedalus

Easily the most powerful episode of DISCO and one of the top 5 episodes of "Star Trek," in any incarnation. Mr. Frakes needs to direct more features, immediately.

In all ways it's a great episode with an emotional finale.

But there is one "But". Who is Airiam? Why should I care about her? She was almost non-existent in previous episodes. It takes time to bond with character, but I don't feel anything about her. At least there should be an episode in first season to tell us about main characters. There is also a lot of questions to how she was infected? If she was a computer, it's OK, but she was a human before. So how much of a computer is she now? How much of a human?

Direction of that episode is great, but screenwriters do not deserve anything for such poor story of a character.

Finally one episode i can follow and understand without bothering about what happened few episodes before or the main story being interrupted by many sub-plots that i don't care because too many sub-stories to follow like in many previous episodes..

Plus on this episode the story was good WITHOUT MANY sub-sub-sub plots, just a straight episode introducing the cyborg as well, i am sad for the end, but it was well written.

so... it was good!

I hope you will continue this way.

Quite a bit is explained in this episode, where Admiral Cornwell has Pike and his crew journey to the headquarters of Section 31 for a showdown. The viewer is made aware of treachery by one of the crew members, and by the segment's climax, Burnham must save the day with a fatal decision: the destruction of a commander crewmate versus allowing an Artificial Intelligence to obtain a massive transfer of data that could facilitate the end of all sentient life in the galaxy.

Substantial tension is built up in Michelle Paradise's script, and there's plentiful interplay between the major characters, including Spock and Burnham. Also included is a scary battle of the Discovery versus illegal land mines and a considerable raising of the stakes inherent in our intrepid crew fighting for survival.

After one and a half season, I can at last say that this is indeed Star Trek! I don't know if it was the writers or the directors - it was not the actors - but I am feeling that is at last starting to get its footing! Now it only remains to get rid of that ridiculus spore drive and give the rest of the crew the chance to play some part in the story, as they did in this episode, and we are in business!