I am utterly dismayed by the shellacking this show suffers, without merit. This was a very excellent 5th season opener, after the awesome 4th season introduction of the 10-C Aliens, which until that point had never even been concieved of by our planets most creative science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The closest we've ever gotten to the 10-C aliens in other franchises are the race from the "Three-Body" and "3 Body Problem shows", Chinese and American respectively. Which we never actually saw outside of a VR Game, ironically. And, imagine a Microscopic Particle that was fired at the Earth, which became Macro and caused the "Universe to Wink?". But in Discovery, whole stellar systems were gobbled up by The 10-C's "mining operation" - And nobody ever guessed that it was something that seemingly mundane. The 4th season took us from the end of "The Burn" through the "DMA" and we got to see some amazing things, also some very familiar things.
Once again, we saw Morn (or at least a person the same race as Morn) being served by a Ferengi bartender. And a card-counting Changling with a blinking tell in a casino hidden in a Dragon Hologram. And airlock jokes, which started in Deep Space Nine's "The Nagus" when Rom threatened to eject Quark, 20 years later the airlock jokes continue. Especially in the Season 3 finale, where we finally got to see it.
Discovery has taken us from a war with Qonos, then unexpectedly to the Mirror Universe, and then to various points in the alpha and beta quadrants chasing a Red Angel who was being pursued by a forerunner of The Borg, namely Leland aka "Control"... Thanks to the Mycelial Network and Discovery's Displacement Activated Spore Drive, which "never ceases to amaze me".
This season starts as an homage to a Next Generation episode from it's 7th season, we knew this even before the big reveal from a busted Soong-Style android's SSD.
And we are introduced to a very irritating new Captain, Rayner. This opens up more possibilities. I'm glad Callum Kieth Rennie was added to the cast this year, he was previously seen as the Cylon who was infatuated with Starbuck in BSG, and ironically, he was also a victim of the airlock in that show.
I eagerly await where this new conundrum will take Discovery, and us. I have enjoyed every episode. My only actual complaint is the dwindling number of episodes per season.
The closest we've ever gotten to the 10-C aliens in other franchises are the race from the "Three-Body" and "3 Body Problem shows", Chinese and American respectively. Which we never actually saw outside of a VR Game, ironically. And, imagine a Microscopic Particle that was fired at the Earth, which became Macro and caused the "Universe to Wink?". But in Discovery, whole stellar systems were gobbled up by The 10-C's "mining operation" - And nobody ever guessed that it was something that seemingly mundane. The 4th season took us from the end of "The Burn" through the "DMA" and we got to see some amazing things, also some very familiar things.
Once again, we saw Morn (or at least a person the same race as Morn) being served by a Ferengi bartender. And a card-counting Changling with a blinking tell in a casino hidden in a Dragon Hologram. And airlock jokes, which started in Deep Space Nine's "The Nagus" when Rom threatened to eject Quark, 20 years later the airlock jokes continue. Especially in the Season 3 finale, where we finally got to see it.
Discovery has taken us from a war with Qonos, then unexpectedly to the Mirror Universe, and then to various points in the alpha and beta quadrants chasing a Red Angel who was being pursued by a forerunner of The Borg, namely Leland aka "Control"... Thanks to the Mycelial Network and Discovery's Displacement Activated Spore Drive, which "never ceases to amaze me".
This season starts as an homage to a Next Generation episode from it's 7th season, we knew this even before the big reveal from a busted Soong-Style android's SSD.
And we are introduced to a very irritating new Captain, Rayner. This opens up more possibilities. I'm glad Callum Kieth Rennie was added to the cast this year, he was previously seen as the Cylon who was infatuated with Starbuck in BSG, and ironically, he was also a victim of the airlock in that show.
I eagerly await where this new conundrum will take Discovery, and us. I have enjoyed every episode. My only actual complaint is the dwindling number of episodes per season.