star trek discovery season 3 episode 1 review

It’s idealistic in the way Star Trek used to be, and seems to bring this show’s identity more in line with another Trek prequel, Enterprise – only with much more money and a considerably advanced approach to technology. And now it looks like the master plot of this season will revolve around Michael, her crew and their new friends rebuilding the Federation one planet at a time. Because the future finds Starfleet and the Federation not nearly as prominent in the galaxy as they used to be, relegated to the realm of myth after some awful event the Discovery skipped over. I know, I know, Star Trek isn’t Star Wars, but… well, now it kind of is. But they’ve kept a few other characters from the second season, including Tig Notaro’s crabby engineer Jett Reno, and now there’s an entire universe of characters we can meet, including two-fisted star voyager Book (David Ajala), introduced in the third-season opener as the rule-breaking Han Solo to Michael’s straight-arrow Luke Skywalker. The jump to the future means Discovery has to abandon the pre-Kirk Enterprise, meaning no more snappy space fun with Anson Mount’s Captain Pike. And honestly? It really should have figured that out by now. After 29 episodes, Discovery still doesn’t know what kind of show it is, or what it wants to be. Then there’s Starfleet’s scheming dark-ops unit Section 31 – which Tyler joined in the second season and somehow made even less interesting.īut within the first couple of episodes, it becomes clear that the show hasn’t been able to abandon its central flaws.

It’s a great way to reset the narrative board and leave behind a lot of the characters and plotlines that never clicked over the previous seasons, including the squabbling Klingon houses, which also gave us the wet blanket of Shazad Latif’s Ash Tyler. Star Trek: Discovery is back and it’s as frustrating as ever.Īfter a second-season cliffhanger that found our heroes making a one-way trip 930 years into the future to save the present, the former prequel to the original 60s show now has a chance to stand on its own, with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her intrepid crew finally able to chart their own course without having to worry about continuity.

Returns Thursday (October 15) at 9 pm on Bell Sci-Fi and streaming on Crave. STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: SEASON 3 (Michelle Paradise, Alex Kurtzman).

Star trek discovery season 3 episode 1 review