I personally feel they made brilliantly this first season, much against our expectations and anticipations that were governing most of the discussion before the season aired. We know that they had deep trouble when Brian Fullar left the production. But if I compare him to Mr Musk, then he is pretty much the same as he's using his influence to make things happening. I haven't always been a favour of all his things, so for that, I think CBS made right more by partnering with Netflix and being bold against an army of Trekkies.
Well done. Very well done, in fact. So I raise my hat and give you a standing ovation. ST Discovery is a right move forward as it introduce much larger universe than focusing solely on the Enterprise. I would love to write an episode or two for this series, but as much as I'd like to do this I think they're doing a brilliant job already. We didn't get all that we wanted, but we got more than what there has been for a long time.
Star Trek is still an utopia. But now it's tainted universe. StarFleet isn't a perfect example as it admits things will get wrong and there will be time when you have to do questionable things, like using an ultimate against a galactic Empire. Klingons own so much space in the ST universe that they could be classified as a dominant race in the Alpha Quadrant. It would have been a shame if the Emperor could have carried out her business but as far as what she did, it was a legitimate move. One, which on itself worked out at the end, when L'Rell used it to achieve power in the Klingon Empire.
I would be surprised if in the future contact Klingons wouldn't use that fact to bring up some grudges against the USS Discovery's crew. What I'm more pleased is that Orion's Criminal Network is alive and we are most likely going to see more about that Underworld if the Emperor remains in the plot.
For now all we know is that Captain Pike made a priority one call (an emergency or an urgent need) and on board of the Discovery is standing the Vulcan ambassador. Are we going to see Spock in the next season?
Not for me. I kinda expected that meeting.
The Enterprise!!!!!! When Voq killed Hugh I gasped. When the NCC numbers started to appear on the screen that made me gasp to! Not many shows make me gasp. I did not expect it, but I have mixed feelings about it. I am a little worried that Enterprise will overshadow Discovery in Season 2, depending on how long it's in the show.
People are rumoring that Pike will be Discovery's new Captain. I do not think so, because even though we do not know what happened with much of Pike's career, what would happen to the Captain that they are going to get on Vulcan? Maybe it's MU Lorca?
As to the episode itself, It wasn't nearly as good as some of the others, more of an ending/series finale type episode. I expected twists and turns that never happened. I expected them to have to reset the timeline and to go back in time. In the criminal underworld, I expected them to encounter Mudd, and to bargain with him. I did not expect Brunham to have so much power or why she was the one giving the final speech. I did not expect them to end the war so quickly. Does it match with the Canon? Kirk hates Klingons and I expect most federation does, but that's ten years from now, the war may be over but peace takes centuries.
The series as a whole is my favorite star trek to date. It won me over early on and the multi-verse/spore/MU Lorca story-line was really cool, I think there was a lot more they could have and perhaps will do with that. I don't buy Stamets' idealistic conclusion for the spore drive, that they are never going to find a non-living host to make it work.
The ending leaves us with questions of course:
1. Who exactly is on Enterprise and what is their problem?
2. Who will be Discovery's new captain?
2. What happens to the Emperor?
4. Will Tyler survive on Qo'noS? There is no record of a Human living among the Klingons. So they will have to address this.
5. What about the spore on Tilly's shoulder?
and just for fun:
6. Will Stamets find love again?
