Star Trek Discovery: The Bryan Fuller TV reboot

somehow appropriate that they made the finale the worst episode of the entire series.

I actually quite enjoyed the first hour - I was expecting a far worse conclusion to the dopey season plot, I thought the visuals were actually pretty cool - the last 30 mins was colossal toss but in its own way this was quite on brand for Discovery

but far out so many fucking hugs ffs

I kind of like the idea that David Cronenberg's entire mission in life is to fix Star Trek canon continuity problems.
Not the character Cronenberg plays. I mean actual David Cronenberg.

well that was pointless.
tng did it in a first season episode where riker becomes a q. i didn't buy it that time either.
if you could prevent children from being murdered, would you really not do it? prevent a little suffering. warm your socks. you don't need to do big things with the technology.

discovery's writers' room spent time on the real issues:

That was an ongoing writers' room debate. According to canon, Klingons have two organs, they have two of everything, right? So we had this debate. When we say two of everything, does that include the penis? I think this was something that (director Akiva Goldsman) really liked the notion of. He just kept joking, 'Klingons have two dicks, Klingons have two dicks.' And then he finally went ahead and showed it on television.

blessed

The episode showing that also had Cliff Howard as an Orion drug slinger when the crew goes undercover, I believe.

just reflecting this morning on the total wrong-headedness of finishing your series with a tiny bit of continuity housekeeping that addresses a short film that nobody has actually seen

(and also to have the Cronenberg reveal be a callback to the least-watched (?) of all trek shows without any explanation for viewers who don't have that context)

Supposedly had they done a season six, it would have used that short as the basis for its plot. Of course when you realize you only have the time and budget to film a 20 minute summation of the series, that may be the time to leave that plot idea behind.

Yeah it was only sheer chance I've been finally watching Enterprise so the reveal was really relevant and an OMG moment for me. I'll be honest, I'm enjoying ENT way more than I thought I would!

I'd usually agree with the sentiment that this kind of ridiculous fussiness is unnecessary but c'mon this is the series whose central premise is the main character is SPOCK'S SISTER ARMIN TAMZARIAN WHOM WE WILL NEVER SPEAK OF AGAIN BECAUSE CONTINUITY -- pointless convoluted callbacks is 90% of the show!

Yeah I did find myself thinking "what has happened to her Vulcanness?". Am I right in recalling she was very stiff and Vulcan in her demenour in S1 cos of how she was brought up? All that just went out the window eventually. I honestly wonder why they even had that storyline - it didnt really add/enhance anything canon.

Vulcan sisterhood was ridic contrived but I was ultimately fine with it as a pretext to bring Spock into the show - the Spock era of Disco is probably my favourite bit

and would cheerfully argue there is quite a difference between referencing Short Treks and referencing universally-recognised Trek icon ACTUAL SPOCK

This season did have some really nice visuals, and I did like Callum Keith Rennie's character, even if they did waste him for several episodes with pointless drama; just put a headstrong, no-nonsense guy on the bridge and let him interact with everyone. And uh... I think I'll leave it at that.

Too bad Detmer and Owo were absent for most of the season. Not that they would have stopped it from sucking in general, of course!

And boy, at least one director on this is really fond of cameras flying around the place and slow motion action sequences, aren't they?