TV #25 of 2024: Star Trek: Discovery, season 5 In theory, the impulse to revisit the ancient race of alien progenitors from a memorable episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is a fine one for the modern franchise to explore (if sort of an odd fit for Discovery, which began as a direct TOS …
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TV #9 of 2024: Star Trek: Discovery, season 4 While this latest season of Star Trek: Discovery may not be quite as bad as its dire second year, which burned through an astonishing degree of terrible impulses, it’s decidedly more creatively bereft. We’re still in the future timeline (where it appears the show will be …
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TV #60 of 2023: Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 Discovery’s messy second season ended with the ship jumping far away from the familiar, and this next year quickly confirms that the crew have arrived in the distant future, 900 years after their original era directly preceding TOS. That’s a smart writing choice on a couple …
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TV #51 of 2023: Star Trek: Discovery, season 2 The cast still does a fine job emoting with the material they’re given in this second season of Star Trek: Discovery, but there aren’t enough smaller personal moments to convincingly sell the relationships before they wind up in crisis. It also doesn’t help that I like …
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TV #37 of 2023: Star Trek: Discovery, season 1 This 2017 launch is the first of the ‘new Trek’ shows, bringing the sci-fi franchise back to the small screen for the first time in more than a decade since Enterprise ended. It’s a somewhat mixed result, but largely a rollicking experience, with a very propulsive …
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