Star Trek: Discovery

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Season 2
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. triadne
    Mar 15, 2023
    0
    This is a joke. They just seem to have no respect for the franchise and no consistency. I had to pause and rewind a number of times when they showed the turbo lift from the outside... And it looked like coruscant. If the inside of discovery has such massive voids in it then I don't know where the hell they fit crew quarters or corridors or sick bay or engineering etc. Then there is theThis is a joke. They just seem to have no respect for the franchise and no consistency. I had to pause and rewind a number of times when they showed the turbo lift from the outside... And it looked like coruscant. If the inside of discovery has such massive voids in it then I don't know where the hell they fit crew quarters or corridors or sick bay or engineering etc. Then there is the object the size of a manhole cover that transformed into a dark matter stasis device the size of a damn truck. At this point I wondered if I was watching bloody Harry Potter! The whole thing was an utter shambles. There was some contrived space flying sequence that went on for so long and yet was so utterly pointless and boring that I skipped through the whole thing and felt like I missed nothing. Then we have the engineer who is suddenly the most amazing doctor star Fleet has ever seen because as she said "I know how to read books". Excuse me?? I can't repeat enough what an absolute mess this is. I don't know what the hell they are playing at, season 1 was okay, I was hoping they might consider making some improvements. Alas no.
    do not waste your time on this trash. Go watch the orville instead.    … Expand
  2. ajewo
    May 25, 2021
    1
    The mystery plot around the red angel ends in a ridiculously stupid finale. It's also fascinating that a series about the Discovery doesn't end its season with the Discovery in the final scene (they're trying to set up more spin-offs). Some episodes are so packed with "stuff" and contradictions that I didn't even care to follow the plot in a logical sense anymore. At least this seasonThe mystery plot around the red angel ends in a ridiculously stupid finale. It's also fascinating that a series about the Discovery doesn't end its season with the Discovery in the final scene (they're trying to set up more spin-offs). Some episodes are so packed with "stuff" and contradictions that I didn't even care to follow the plot in a logical sense anymore. At least this season tries to fix some continuity issues that were introduced with Star Trek: Discovery.
    Michael Burnham is still supposed to be the hero of the series, but since she's not the captain of the Discovery, she's not in a position to make the big decisions, yet she has all the answers and rebels without consequence (because she's always right in the end). I don't remember most of the other shallow crew members. The bridge crew is more or less cardboard displays and the plot revolves mostly around Michael Burnham who I do not like as a character. Captain Pike is the only bright spot in this season.
    As for the production, the series is well done. There are annoyingly overused light glares, but the costumes, masks, and visuals are very good at movie level. The Star Trek easter eggs (props) are neat. All in all, I wish they had invested the budget in better scripts, stories, and dialogues.    … Expand
  3. Mighty_moose416
    Oct 25, 2020
    1
    Even worse than the first season. The overall storyline is nonsensical and threads are picked up and dropped making the whole thing a jumbled mess. You can really tell that they changed their minds half way through.
  4. Wsg1138
    Mar 2, 2020
    3
    After a truly underrated first season, Discovery mostly lives down to its haters ire in its second. Filled with distracting callbacks and wildly uneven characterization and plotting, what starts as an ambitious yet very clunky story of mystery and exploration ultimately devolves into a dunderheaded Terminator knockoff.
  5. Styke
    Feb 8, 2020
    1
    The ending of the second season is possibly the most baffling thing I've ever seen. And I've watched some pretty bizarre things on netflix and youtube, but this takes the cake. I have a hard time believing this actors managed to say these words without cracking up. Like, I'm more interested in obtaining a script from the final two episodes than actually re-watching the show. In twentyThe ending of the second season is possibly the most baffling thing I've ever seen. And I've watched some pretty bizarre things on netflix and youtube, but this takes the cake. I have a hard time believing this actors managed to say these words without cracking up. Like, I'm more interested in obtaining a script from the final two episodes than actually re-watching the show. In twenty years people will be re-watching DS9 and TNG but not a single soul will be watching Discovery.… Expand
  6. Commanderfox
    Jul 24, 2019
    2
    I rather watch Enterprise, which I thought wasn’t the greatest series but didn’t think Star Trek could get any worse......and than you create discovery.
  7. manarak
    May 24, 2019
    0
    wow this was so bad.
    I can't get the 9 previous reviews. Are people paid to review positive?
    Nowadays, TV shows building on renowned franchises seem to massively dumb down the original and fill it with explosions, nonsense situations, nonsense decisions and illogical sentimental bla bla. I quit watching the new Magnum after episode 2 (loved the original), and ST:D doesn't fare much    wow this was so bad.
    I can't get the 9 previous reviews. Are people paid to review positive?

    Nowadays, TV shows building on renowned franchises seem to massively dumb down the original and fill it with explosions, nonsense situations, nonsense decisions and illogical sentimental bla bla.
    I quit watching the new Magnum after episode 2 (loved the original), and ST:D doesn't fare much better. Hawaii-5-O at least showed some landscape eye candy from time to time between a retarded plot twist and a nonsense decision by a totally not credible "task force commander"... sigh.

    Season 1 of ST:D was meh, but I still watched it till the end. The spore drive and then the mirror universe somehow managed to maintain drive, but wouldn't have succeeded without Michelle Yeoh. What a graceful beauty at over 50!!
    Can't say the same about "Michael". The hairdo is absolutely hideous, and the acting, especially in season 2, unbearably emotional - I can't imagine how someone like that could have successfully studied on Vulcan? hello?

    Speaking about emotional, somewhere at about the middle of season 2 I started to fast forward many of the Spock-Michael scenes which add nothing to the plot *yawn*. I was there wishing for Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley to come back and free me from boredom.

    Captain Pike seems totally emasculated, not in control of anything, okaying several decisions that are totally unthinkable for a starship captain.

    I could go on and on about what's not "on trek" with ST:D, but I don't want to spend hours writing.
    But wow, this was so bad.    … Expand
  8. goggomobile
    May 4, 2019
    0
    I've been a long time fan of Star Trek and it breaks my heart to see this abomination, they should not have made this show and I don't relish all the negative reviews on here but they are deserved.
  9. james-cordoban
    May 3, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Season one was already bad, but season two we watched with lots of fast forward and still it was hardly bearable. The story writing is unbelievably cheap - plot motives which have been seen hundreds of times before are condensed together. Emotional kitsch lined up in a never ending row. Effects are nice though, but thats about it. Better watch the Orville.… Expand
  10. pizzapicante27
    Apr 20, 2019
    2
    If STD was only bland that would be one thing, but the series went out of its way this season to completely disrespect Srat Trek, enough is enough, Im out, I've had 50 years of Star Trek stories, all good things must come to an end.
  11. GarethB
    Apr 19, 2019
    1
    Star Trek - Too Dumb, Too Furious..... I didn't think it was possible to be worse than season one, but they did it.... well done! Featuring an AI that wants to become an AI.... Time crystals - laziest sci fi trope they could think of that you would think those dastardly Klingons could have some use for in the future ..... Spock has special needs...... more sonar in space....... section 31Star Trek - Too Dumb, Too Furious..... I didn't think it was possible to be worse than season one, but they did it.... well done! Featuring an AI that wants to become an AI.... Time crystals - laziest sci fi trope they could think of that you would think those dastardly Klingons could have some use for in the future ..... Spock has special needs...... more sonar in space....... section 31 is the public face of starfleet..... awful dialogue....... over the top CGI and shaky cam....... theres so much i could go on forever. Save yourself some hassle and go watch TNG, DS9, Voyager, TOS, The Orville or The Expanse.… Expand
  12. Finnie
    Apr 13, 2019
    3
    A poorly executed show centred around the unbelievable, unlikable character of Michael Burnham. The adage ‘when the centre becomes periphery, the periphery becomes central’ applies here. The central pillars of star trek and sci fi are moved to the periphery to make way for the god like character of Burnham.
    Burnham greedily hogs every scene, every plot line, makes each decision, solves    A poorly executed show centred around the unbelievable, unlikable character of Michael Burnham. The adage ‘when the centre becomes periphery, the periphery becomes central’ applies here. The central pillars of star trek and sci fi are moved to the periphery to make way for the god like character of Burnham.
    Burnham greedily hogs every scene, every plot line, makes each decision, solves each mystery and defeats every enemy with dreary predictably.
    STD’s dialogue is poorly written and never feels genuine. Pseudo emotional monologues alternate between wooden exchanges where characters finish each other’s sentences. Conversations are scripted in a strange way, describing what is happening for the benefit of the viewing audience rather than depicting genuine interactions. Plots are absurd; based around fantasy and magic instead of science fiction. The writing is a politically over-corrected mess, where male characters are given diminished standing and respect. Continuity has been abandoned; plot holes and contradictions litter each poorly written episode.

    There are glimpses of genuine star trek and elements of a good show but these only serve to remind ‘what could have been’.    … Expand
  13. Kabindas
    Apr 10, 2019
    1
    It was painful to watch each episode with so much liberal SJW crap propaganda. And by the way the first officer, Michael fits just right in, is annoying overbearing and arrogant like a typical snowflake. Another series destroyed by political agenda.
  14. Larian
    Apr 4, 2019
    0
    This MIGHT have been a decent show if it was not "called" Star Trek ... but since they did... it literally defies the laws of physics... IT both SUCKS and BLOWS at the same time. Do not waste your time.
  15. ComandanteCobra
    Mar 25, 2019
    3
    Get to the point: It's worse than first season and does not feel like Star Trek.
    Christopher Pike is great and believable in the role..but others characters are not likable....they are all similar to each other , have very basic story (like a pre-generated NPC of an pen and paper RPG) and are all forcefully "misfits" to try to appeal audience.
    Michael is ...well... the definition of a    Get to the point: It's worse than first season and does not feel like Star Trek.
    Christopher Pike is great and believable in the role..but others characters are not likable....they are all similar to each other , have very basic story (like a pre-generated NPC of an pen and paper RPG) and are all forcefully "misfits" to try to appeal audience.
    Michael is ...well... the definition of a Mary sue in a Star Trek Fanfiction and. Spock is always angry, agitated and full of emotion.    … Expand
  16. Cloudstone10
    Mar 19, 2019
    0
    Overwhelming: Star Trek gives space to Tilly! What I read about past comments, you miss Gene Roddenberry?!?
    Take it, this is fifty years later, fifty years more experience, disappointments and misadvising of so called experts....
  17. RONSAIDIT
    Mar 18, 2019
    1
    don't like the main character Michael Burnham , the acting is bad the story is bad loads of sjw rubbish the timeline is a mess, Klingons are a mess, and what have they done to Spock , Ensign Sylvia Tilly how annoying is that character, horrible show
  18. Daymo007
    Mar 11, 2019
    0
    absolute terrible show, Political correctness gone mad, this show be avoided at all costs, I would recommend the Orville over this. Goodbye Star Trek thanks for the memories.
  19. mikelondres
    Feb 28, 2019
    3
    I enjoyed season 1, although not as much as any of the seasons of Star Trek Voyager, or Star Trek Enterprise, but this second season is boring.
  20. hitzestau
    Feb 25, 2019
    0
    There is just no end to this... the show takes a turn for the worst in its second season. The endless search for Spock, that is interrupted by pointless problems week after week and outlandish violations of everything Star Trek used to stand for. I finally came to my personal conclusion not to watch this anymore, I have better things to do than watching this complete waste of time.
  21. mi_malosso
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    FEMINISM RUINED STAR TREK (GAVE UP ON WATCHING THE SHOW): its something i hadnt yet noticed in the 1st season, but its totally there. The lead male characters are very disempowered. For instance, Although Ash, Michaels love interest, is a skilled and brave soldier, he is also a rape victim. In this new season he is the right arm of yet another female lead, Lrel, the new Klingon femaleFEMINISM RUINED STAR TREK (GAVE UP ON WATCHING THE SHOW): its something i hadnt yet noticed in the 1st season, but its totally there. The lead male characters are very disempowered. For instance, Although Ash, Michaels love interest, is a skilled and brave soldier, he is also a rape victim. In this new season he is the right arm of yet another female lead, Lrel, the new Klingon female leader and having fathered a child with her, he is now raising the child (=Mom role) and working alongside a very masculine contrasting female lead, Michaels mentor but from the alternate reality. The new captain, a man, reprehends Michael and she reprehends him back, totally castrating him and treating him like a child, assuring he wont be abandoned. There is this one new male pilot that is criticizing Michael and while hes doing so, he is hit by a meteorite and dies lol The other male lead, the alien with precognitive powers, is very feminine and not a good fighter at all. This new season is like a fusion between Greys Anatomy and Star Trek lol the episodes revolve around talking about their feelings and family relations. I miss the old Star Trek format where in each new episode theyd find and explore a different alien civilisation. The production value is very good but the plot is very castrating towards men and almost all strong leads are female.… Expand
  22. QueB
    Feb 24, 2019
    3
    Let me start by saying this. I LOVED season 1. It was like Game of Thrones in space! I'm a lover of all things Star Trek, so I loved the fresh on the series that was for the first time dark, and it kept getting darker. The plot twists were absolutely fantastic and well thought out. This felt like the best series since Star Trek TNG. But low and behold, the Trekkies who want nostalgia hadLet me start by saying this. I LOVED season 1. It was like Game of Thrones in space! I'm a lover of all things Star Trek, so I loved the fresh on the series that was for the first time dark, and it kept getting darker. The plot twists were absolutely fantastic and well thought out. This felt like the best series since Star Trek TNG. But low and behold, the Trekkies who want nostalgia had to ruin it. I knew once they fire the producers of the first season I knew it was going downhill.

    The first season had its issues, but for the most part, the amazing storyline and plot kept it moving, now without the grimness of war with amazing sci-fi ideas and space exploration mixed in, the series is left with trying to be the old Star Treks which like "Enterprise" it fails MISERABLY short. The captain is a total pushover; there is endless drama with no payoff or consequences and surreal teaching moments every five minutes. It's almost like the writing is done by committee and we are getting a grimacing look at just how undeveloped the characters are. It's almost as if they have lost their focus and now things are just being thrown on the wall.

    So I vehemently disagree with the Trekkies who didn't like the first season. I am not beholden to the past, but what I am beholden too is good watchable sci-fi, and this isn't it.    … Expand
  23. coshovasha
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    What? Discovery spacecraft is moving with mushrooms spores and when it departs it rotates three times upside down ? What a f... is this? Bed cartoons? They managed to ruin the spirit of this great story called Star Trek.
    If very quickly they do not change the scriptwriters they will destroy this title!
    Maybe is better if they go back to original series concept, different story in each    What? Discovery spacecraft is moving with mushrooms spores and when it departs it rotates three times upside down ? What a f... is this? Bed cartoons? They managed to ruin the spirit of this great story called Star Trek.
    If very quickly they do not change the scriptwriters they will destroy this title!
    Maybe is better if they go back to original series concept, different story in each episode,
    I suggest to anyone on this site to see once again episode 25/5. TNG, "Inner Light", (is on Netflix) which is epic ... there is no comparison with this bullsheet!    … Expand
  24. Satanski
    Feb 21, 2019
    0
    Really can't stand Burnham. She is either overconfident and knows everything best, or overemotional and looks like she bears greater burden, then Frodo's one ring. In short, she acts like a teenager.

    Also, plot is soooo boring, and it's getting more and more soap opera like After mostly fast forwarding all available episodes, i came to conclusion that this series is complete,    Really can't stand Burnham. She is either overconfident and knows everything best, or overemotional and looks like she bears greater burden, then Frodo's one ring. In short, she acts like a teenager.

    Also, plot is soooo boring, and it's getting more and more soap opera like

    After mostly fast forwarding all available episodes, i came to conclusion that this series is complete, unwatchable garbage.    … Expand
  25. Bvinla
    Feb 18, 2019
    0
    I’m not sure what I’m watching. It seems like bad jeuvenile fan fiction empowered by a huge production budget. It seems like endless nostalgic Star Trek easter eggs misunderstood and put in place out of context.

    Why is Spock being portrayed as a violent emotional mess??? Why is the discovery crew so unprofessional??? Why are the characters so snarky and unlikeable??? Why is the    I’m not sure what I’m watching. It seems like bad jeuvenile fan fiction empowered by a huge production budget. It seems like endless nostalgic Star Trek easter eggs misunderstood and put in place out of context.

    Why is Spock being portrayed as a violent emotional mess??? Why is the discovery crew so unprofessional??? Why are the characters so snarky and unlikeable??? Why is the pace so ADD frenetic leaving a mess of plot holes in its wake??? Why so much pew pew, space angels, and so little science and intellect???

    Someone has hijacked the Star Trek logo as a brand and is making a bunch of crap.    … Expand
  26. brian250
    Feb 16, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just watched S2 E5 and I really just could not believe the writers think they needed to go into fairy tale land (poison bark and the whole ship slipping into a swamp world). I don't see how they could write and waste a whole hour on nonsense! I could not understand the plot!
    Did you understand it?
    Did you say to yourself "this is crap!"
    Did they need to go that far into it?
    Just how comfortable are with plots with the homosexual content?
    Really?
    Explain it to your child or grandchild maybe. They push it on us!
    I am not comfortable...I can't grasp how this follows anything Gene Roddenberry had envisioned.    … Expand
  27. ProximaCentori
    Feb 15, 2019
    0
    Only Philippa Georgeou Michael Burnham Saru and L'Rell bring some light in the first 5 episodes, so far the script for this series is the worst ever...
  28. GodBeliever
    Feb 15, 2019
    3
    Okay, it is much better than first season, but:
    1. What religion and hallucinations have to do with reallity and science fiction?
    2. Still cannot understand what mission they carry out. 3. Not very interesting plot. 4. Yeah, i agree, it is rather magic than science here. Let is see what will happen in next episodes. At least there is no gay story line, which was ridiculous, because    Okay, it is much better than first season, but:
    1. What religion and hallucinations have to do with reallity and science fiction?
    2. Still cannot understand what mission they carry out.
    3. Not very interesting plot.
    4. Yeah, i agree, it is rather magic than science here.
    Let is see what will happen in next episodes.
    At least there is no gay story line, which was ridiculous, because they can turn a klingon into a human, but cannot change DNA/mend mind to cure all gays. And don`t tell me this is not illness, in distant future it will be.    … Expand
  29. LoveSciFi
    Feb 15, 2019
    0
    This is getting so 'days of our lives' that in one scene the character tried to explain how the other character had gone through all of the different iterations and then reappeared. This was before in the same episode someone who died was re-introduced. This is a really insulting series to Gene Roddenbury's vision. If you called it something else like "Days of Our Lives in Space" thenThis is getting so 'days of our lives' that in one scene the character tried to explain how the other character had gone through all of the different iterations and then reappeared. This was before in the same episode someone who died was re-introduced. This is a really insulting series to Gene Roddenbury's vision. If you called it something else like "Days of Our Lives in Space" then it may be okay. But tying it into the Star Trek franchise and insinuating that it came from previous series is perverse. This is just sensationalist crap, badly and overly dramatic acted, weird circumventive story lines with no real point and an insult to anyone seeking the Star Trek vision of a positive future. It is sad and more Orwellian than we realise that we have taken such a positive focused idea and in 2018-19 turned it into such mass market drivel that doesn't inspire anyone but in fact asks people to accept this pathetic excuse for a series as a vision of a future. I hold to a different vision and ask any true believer to see that future. The future is still ours to go boldy beyond ourselves, our universe, our destiny!… Expand
  30. sanchess
    Feb 13, 2019
    0
    I can see this season to be very polarising. I think its a big F U on the little detail pickers, and they are trying to make an entertaining show now. So what the discovery seems empty inside with the turbo lift scene, it looked cool. You could find polenty of details like that.

    Pros: 1.i love how unapologetic this show had become, After all the critique on season 1 they decided on    I can see this season to be very polarising. I think its a big F U on the little detail pickers, and they are trying to make an entertaining show now. So what the discovery seems empty inside with the turbo lift scene, it looked cool. You could find polenty of details like that.

    Pros:
    1.i love how unapologetic this show had become, After all the critique on season 1 they decided on what this show going to be and is going full force with it.
    2. visuals and action
    3. less serious and more entertaining, which brings me back to the silly episodes on the old star trek series.
    4. More character development and more focus on "deck extras"

    cons
    1. characters feel really stupid and incompetent, if your looking to see calculated decisions its not for you. All decisions made feel more like a last minute gut feeling which turn out to be a lucky shot.
    2. Plot of the whole series (that binds the episodes together) doesnt glue you to the seat, you dont really care about it, season 1 was better in that matter
    3. I think the show tries to make references to something every single scene, im just not that deep in the trekverse to understand it, but im sure they are there.
    4. science feels like magic
    5. it got more of the orville vibe
    6. to many YOLO situations

    I dont believe this is a badly written season. Its written way better then season one. Every plot is connected somehow, nothing ends as a loose end, stories and mini stories feel complete and well thought through. The writing complains I reed are actually about the tone of the show, which got significantly lighter, but technically writing is better and more consistent.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Tristram Fane Saunders
    Jan 3, 2020
    60
    It's comfortingly formulaic, in a way that feels like a return to the Star Trek of yore. Going where no TV show has ever gone before? Hardly. But it's good fun all the same.
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  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    Jan 18, 2019
    80
    It's fun to see the "Discovery" characters, who improved greatly over the course of Season 1, play in the same space as the classic guys. This is a setup the series has proven it can work with: interpersonal relationships (Spock is Burnham's brother, of course) and a multi-episode adventure. And in the season premiere, The new "Discovery" continues to shine, with a more confident atmosphere and even some humor mixed in.
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  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Jan 18, 2019
    60
    [Season 2] strives hard to set a new course for Discovery. There’s a new commanding officer on the bridge: Anson Mount’s Captain Pike. ... It’s not quite a repilot, but it feels like the beginning of a pivot. ... I want to see where this goes, but I’m not quite convinced yet. I just don’t get this weird reboot fascination with Captain Pike.
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