star trek discovery recaps
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Star Trek: Discovery Earned Its Sound and Fury This Time
Star Trek: Discovery is three seasons in now, and we have a sense of the sort of big stakes and dramatic action it likes to hang its endgame scenarios on. So far, they’ve been an uneven affair, leaning heavily on big, explosive action, gambling on big shocks at the expense of really satisfying the ideas…
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Michelle Yeoh Delivers Star Trek: Discovery a High It Didn’t Quite Earn
Last week’s Star Trek: Discovery laid the groundwork to a question that has lingered in the background since the climax of its first season. This week, it answers: albeit with a response that puts one hell of an onus on Michelle Yeoh more than it does with what Discovery has ever done with her character,…
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Turns Out, Star Trek: Discovery Does Want Michael to Have It Both Ways
Last week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery put Michael Burnham in a hard place. At a crossroads between the potential new life she’d found in the 32nd century and her commitment to her family in Starfleet, our hero faced the consequences for trying to have it all. This week, the show decides that the actual…
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No One’s OK on Star Trek: Discovery, But Thanks for Asking
The opening episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s third season have seen Michael Burnham and the ship’s crew realise that their lives have changed forever. Not only that, but the future they sacrificed those old lives for is not what they expected. This week, in an explosive moment of self-reflection, they’re beginning to reckon with the…