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The first Trek novel series not based on a television series, New Frontier began as a series of four short, interconnected novellas, then became full-length novels, and eventually expanded into other areas of Trek merchandise and literature.

  • 2.1 Tie-ins
  • 3 Characters
  • 4.1 USS Excalibur
  • 4.2 USS Excalibur -A
  • 4.3 USS Trident
  • 5 Background information
  • 6 External links

Premise [ ]

In Sector 221-G, the former Thallonian empire has recently collapsed in a popular uprising. The USS Excalibur under the command of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is dispatched to fly the flag and offer aid to the inhabitants. The crew – a mixture of characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Next Generation Starfleet Academy books , with some original characters thrown in – must learn to work as a team, creating friendships and relationships, as they confront a number of deadly foes.

  • House of Cards (Book 1 of 4)
  • Into the Void (Book 2 of 4)
  • The Two-Front War (Book 3 of 4)
  • Omnibus (reprints #1-4)
  • Fire on High
  • The Quiet Place
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  • #1: Worf's First Adventure
  • #2: Line of Fire
  • #3: Survival
  • Triangle: Imzadi II
  • #5 Once Burned (takes place between #6 and #7)
  • " Pain Management "
  • Double Time (graphic novel)
  • #55 Double or Nothing (takes place after Once Burned )
  • #6 Cold Wars (takes place between #11 and #12)
  • #7 What Lay Beyond (conclusion "Death After Life")
  • " Stone Cold Truths "
  • " Cutting Ties "
  • " Homecoming "
  • Turnaround ( IDW Comics miniseries; takes place between #16 and #17)

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Uss excalibur [ ].

The USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) was an Ambassador -class Federation starship . In 2373 , the Excalibur was involved in the Borg incursion, fighting in the Battle of Sector 001 . The ship took heavy damage in the battle, and its captain, Morgan Korsmo, an old Academy classmate of Captain Picard, was killed in the attack, his final actions securing the safety of the ship and crew. Following the destruction of the Borg cube , the ship was taken to dry dock for repair and refit.

USS Excalibur -A [ ]

The USS Excalibur (NCC-26517-A) was a Galaxy -class Federation starship, commissioned in 2376 , following the destruction of the former vessel to carry the name. The vessel was originally assigned to Captain Elizabeth Shelby , but was given to Mackenzie Calhoun upon his return to active duty.

Excalibur -A was a late model Galaxy design, described as a "hot rod" in terms of speed and armament (at the expense of some of the earlier Galaxy starships' civilian arrangements). Some new features built into this vessel included holographic communications and a primary hull (saucer) warp drive .

USS Trident [ ]

The USS Trident (NCC-31347) was another Galaxy -class starship, assigned in 2376 as Captain Shelby's second command following her tenure aboard the USS Exeter . When Shelby was promoted to Admiral , first officer Kat Mueller was given command and promoted to the rank of captain . Andorian Commander Desma then served as first officer.

Background information [ ]

  • John Ordover commented: " One of the major problems with the novels at the time, because you have to remember this was way before the DS9 Relaunch and stuff like that, was you couldn't put any inherent continuity into them and you couldn't make any significant changes, so characters couldn't die. Bottom line is, as much as I love DS9, as much as I dislike Voyager , the problems, rating wise, with DS9 and Voyager is that they changed the concept. It's sort of like saying, CSI: The Forest Rangers. You know its not ST because the core of ST is a ship going from place to place having missions. The argument I made was to compare NYPD Blue to Hill Street Blues . New Frontier was an attempt to go back to the original concept but change the tone. And the tone was goofy and over the top and I like that. With more humor, with very flawed characters, and a lot more sex ". ( Voyages of Imagination [ page number? • edit ] )

External links [ ]

  • Star Trek: New Frontier at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
  • Curt Danhauser's Guide to New Frontier
  • 3 Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

1989, Sci-fi, 1h 46m

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Filled with dull action sequences and an underdeveloped storyline, this fifth Trek movie is probably the worst of the series. Read critic reviews

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A renegade Vulcan makes Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and the Enterprise go to a planet at the center of the galaxy.

Genre: Sci-fi

Original Language: English

Director: William Shatner

Producer: Harve Bennett

Writer: William Shatner , Harve Bennett , David Loughery , David Loughery

Release Date (Theaters): Jun 9, 1989  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Dec 16, 2009

Box Office (Gross USA): $52.1M

Runtime: 1h 46m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount Pictures

Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Cast & Crew

William Shatner

Captain James T. Kirk

Leonard Nimoy

Captain Spock

DeForest Kelley

Commander Leonard H. McCoy, M.D.

James Doohan

Captain Montgomery Scott

Walter Koenig

Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov

Nichelle Nichols

Commander Nyota Uhura

George Takei

Commander Hikaru Sulu

David Warner

St. John Talbot

Laurence Luckinbill

Charles Cooper

General Korrd

Cynthia Gouw

Caithlin Dar

Todd Bryant

Captain Klaa

Spice Williams-Crosby

George Murdock

Cynthia Blaise

Young Amanda Grayson

David McCoy

Harve Bennett

David Loughery

Screenwriter

Brooke Breton

Associate Producer

Co-Producer

Ralph Winter

Executive Producer

Jerry Goldsmith

Original Music

Andrew Laszlo

Cinematographer

Peter Berger

Film Editing

Bill Shepard

Herman F. Zimmerman

Production Design

Nilo Rodis-Jamero

Art Director

John M. Dwyer

Set Decoration

Costume Design

Unit Production Manager

Douglas E. Wise

First Assistant Director

Alexander Courage

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Interesting blend of religion and science fiction. The crew of the Enterprise meets a Vulcan known as Sybock who claims he knows where Heaven is and plays more of the role of a religious cult leader. The performance by DeForest Kelley is one of his best and even William Shatner has a few moments where talent strongly peeks through but still doesn't save this film.

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Yes, "What does god need with a Starship?" is a real line that came from this absurd mess of a film. I understand the theme of Star Trek has always been to boldly go where no man has gone before, but 'The Final Frontier' attempts to take the franchise in places it has no business going. William Shatner took the reins of directing after Leonard Nimoy helmed two enjoyable entries in the series in 'Search for Spock' and 'The Voyage Home'. While it's not entirely Shatner's fault that there were heavy production issues with a writers strike and the CGI becoming far too expensive, his direction doesn't do anything to enhance what was already on the page. Apparently according to the producers, this film nearly killed the entire franchise with poor effects, a rehashed and ridiculous plot, and a largely inconsistent tone. This time around, the crew of the enterprise were on leave and enjoying life when they are asked to investigate a hostage situation on Nimbus III. Of course, the hostages just happened to be held by Spock's half-brother, Sybok. Framing Spock as the key to getting through to his brother would have been a nice way for him to finally regain his existence and memory as the Enterprise's second in command, but it never really plays out that way. Sybok manipulates anyone in his path to discover the god in the center of the galaxy and forces the Enterprise crew to take him there. As if the film didn't already struggle to grab my attention, the scenes with 'god' are almost unbearable. The very idea that a Star Trek film would center its plot around a villain taking over the Enterprise with his goons in order to get what he wants has been done so many times before, but throw God in the mix as well? Come on. Luckily, the bond between Spock, Kirk, and Bones is still present to get you through some rough dialogue, as is Jerry Goldsmith's classic score, but 'The Final Frontier' ends up making you wish they would never make another Trek film again. Fortunately, they do get better, but I can't help but sit here in wonderment thinking about just how much the reach of this film far outweighs its grasp. Yikes. +Goldsmith's score +Bond between characters is always there -Lazy script -Absurd villain -God? 4.4/10

The Final Frontier is a decent film, one that leaves a lot to be desired for Trek fans, and here I felt that the film's script was just stitched together too quickly in order to create a follow up to The Voyage Home. Now this isn't an awful film, but it could have been improved upon. I find this entry to be not that bad, but it definitely could have been reworked to make the film standout a bit more. Compared to the previous outings in the series, The Final Frontier will surely divide fans. One reason is for the fact that the story is not that interesting, and the performances are a bit flat. The story itself is sketchy and quite frankly ridiculous, and it makes you question what they were thinking when they green lit the project. There were effective ideas here, but they never really take off, and the film's potential is squandered on a poorly written script, and the end result is one of the weakest films in the franchise. Like I said, I thought it was decent, but it also lacked the sense of wonder, excitement, and adventure than the other films possessed. Fans of the series will surely be disappointed in this fifth film, and you'll want more out of the film by the time the credits roll. If the film's plot would have been improved upon, and the cast would have put a bit more effort into their performances, then The Final Frontier would have been a much better outing than what it turned out to be. I expected much more out of this film, and it's a shame that on-screen result is a decent affair that makes you expect more. The film's flaws are simply due to the fact that the filmmakers simply didn't care about how the film turned out, and they really should have put much more effort into crafting a better story.

This movie was on the cusp of something brilliant, however it only ends up stumbling over its own ambition. It raises excellent questions and sparks superb themes, but the execution of it all is a real let down. Generally considered the weakest Star Trek film in the franchise, the Final Frontier is directed by William Shatner, who's inexperience in such a large director's chair is on full display. There are some good shots and production design, but for the most part, it's mishandled. Shatner does, however, still give an excellent performance as Captain Kirk. The rest of the cast is still great as well, as is the typical Trek fun and humor that the series is known for. The film actually is, believe it or not, not that horrible or unwatchable up until the climax on Sha Ka Ree. There's some good banter between Kirk, McCoy, and Spock, an intriguing sequence on the "Mad Max"-like planet Nimbus III, and the story moves along quite well and holds your attention. Once Kirk and co. get past the Great Barrier, however, everything breaks apart. The visuals grow weak, the story that's been developing the whole movie gets a hugely disappointing resolution, Sybok goes from strong in his beliefs to "oops, I was wrong", and the action gets boring. The big reveal of the film is when Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and villain Sybok get on Sha Ka Ree and encounter who they believe to be God. Kirk gets annoying, questions God, and they find out that it's just some alien posing as God. How'd it get there? How did it communicate with Sybok to make him come here? The movie never explains, and just goes "Oh, it's not God, Sybok dies, Kirk is saved, movie over." Disappointing is not a strong enough word to describe it all. They had potential with this story, and it was playing out decently until you get to what is supposed to be the most exciting point of the film. Shatner drops the ball as director, visuals are subpar, and when it's over, you feel little more than "that's it?" It is not the train wreck that everyone will lead you to believe, but it definitely is a lot weaker than most Star Trek films you can find and is quite an underwhelming experience.

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The most derided of all the Star Trek films - but is William Shatner's movie deserving of a bit more love?

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With Leonard Nimoy’s Trek films being both critical and commercial successes, The Final Frontier was William Shatner’s turn in the directorial chair, and it almost killed the franchise.

Starting on the mysterious world of Nimbus III, we meet a Vulcan with a crazy laugh, and the ability to take away peoples pain. Back on Earth Kirk, Spock and McCoy enjoying a holiday at the Yosemite National Park, Scotty is busy trying to get the new Enterprise in working order, while Chekov and Sulu are enjoying a hiking holiday.

The crazy Vulcan, Sybok has a strong faith, and a desire to leave Nimbus III (I’m not quite sure how or why he ended up there) and captures a trio of delegates representing Earth, the Klingons and the Romulans. The crew’s holidays are soon interrupted however, when, as usual, Kirk is the only Captain who can save the day.

On the other side of the galaxy, a bored Klingon commander, Klaa, is tired of shooting down old NASA space probes and after hearing the Kirk and the Enterprise are en route to Nimbus, he decides to test himself against Kirk.

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With the new ship’s transporters playing up, a shuttle is dispatched, leading a rescue party to the surface of the planet. Kirk soon has the hostages in hand, only to realise it was an elaborate ploy on Sybok’s part to capture the Federation starship.

Returning to the ship, them pesky Klingons have got in the way again and the shuttle craft has to do an emergency landing. Kirk has a brief throw-down with Sybok. Spock has the chance to shoot Sybok, but refuses, revealing to Kirk they are, in fact, half-brothers and the trio are taken to brig.

Working his mojo on the rest of the crew, the laughing Vulcan soon has the ship at his disposal and sets course for the Galactic barrier, where, apparently, god lives.

Mr Scott succeeds in busting them out of the brig and they set about trying to retake the ship. They succeed only in telling the Klingons where the ship is headed, before Sybok catches up with them, asking for the chance to heal their pain. We get a nice insight into McCoy’s back story, but Sybok’s attempt with his brother is less successful. Spock, it seems, has found his place in the universe and is content with that.

Our good Captain refuses Sybok, and reminds us that pain is important, that it teaches us a lesson, and makes us who we are.

With the sort of timing only found in Hollywood, the Enterprise then arrives at God’s planet. Sybok, Kirk, Spock and McCoy head down for a tête-à-tête with the Almighty. What they find on the planet though, isn’t the big man upstairs, but, in fact, an alien being looking for a ride, and wanting to join with the ship.

Incurring the wrath of said God-thing, Kirk asks what God needs with a starship. Attacking Kirk and Spock, the being is revealed as a prisoner of the planet and Sybok realises his mistakes and takes on the creature, seeking to heal its pain.

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Scotty finally gets the transporters working, beaming Spock and McCoy to safety, leaving Kirk alone to face the increasingly miffed God-thing. The Klingon Bird of Prey suddenly appears, firing at the monster and beaming Kirk to safety. Back aboard the Enterprise, Klaa apologises for his unwarranted aggression and the two ships go their separate ways allowing the Captain and crew to finish their holidays back on Earth.

The Final Frontier is widely regarded amongst fans as the worst of the series, but I don’t think it’s as bad as that. There was certainly worse to come from the franchise. As with all good Trek , its stand out moments are character led. The camp-fire scene at the start is great, and McCoy’s disdain for Kirk’s mountain climbing is yet another great moment from DeForest Kelley. Also worth mentioning is his scene with his father, the anguish of his father’s death with a cure so close to hand is a great glimpse into his character’s background, away from Starfleet.

The film really falls down with its special effects. Simply put, they’re dreadful. There’s no other word for them. Robbed of ILM’s assistance, (they were busy working on an Indy movie and Ghostbusters II ) Shatner was forced to shop around for the cheapest option possible and it hurts his film.

It puzzles me why Paramount chose to cut so many corners with this film, from cheap special effects to simply cutting large chunks of storyline (Den Of Geek has already covered the cut Rockman sequence ) that could have lifted the film; it shows little faith in Shatner, his story and his direction.

There are problems with the story, though. It’s muddled, to say the least. How does Sybok know about the god monster? How is the Enterprise able to travel across the galaxy so quickly? It also rankles me that, despite Sybok’s powers, the crew are so quick to betray Kirk. The humorous elements feel slightly forced, as if it was shoehorned in to appease those that, after The Voyage Home , were happy to see a Star Trek film.

TFF isn’t great. To be honest, you’re not missing much should you chose to skip straight from IV to VI.

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While Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 was originally announced to debut on Paramount+ in the winter of 2023, Paramount+ has nixed those plans — but the show was picked up by Netflix, with new episodes already announced for some point in 2024. (The first season was added to the platform in December 2023.)

Release Date: TBD 2024

Platform: Netflix

Star Trek: Lower Decks, season five

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A fifth season for the animated comedy set in the period between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard was announced in April 2023, but no premiere date is known. Judging by the period between order and broadcast for the fourth season, however, it’s relatively safe to assume that a new season might be ready by the end of 2024, unless the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023 threw everything entirely off schedule.

Release Date: TBD 2024?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season three

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As if the second season cliffhanger wasn't enough of a clue that the popular spin-off of Discovery - which is also a prequel to the original Star Trek series from the 1960s - would return, the show's third season renewal was announced back in April 2023 . But after a second season that included a half-animated crossover episode and a musical, how can they top what they've already achieved? No premiere date for the third season has been announced, but production is expected to run into summer 2024, meaning that we might have to wait until 2025 before seeing new episodes.

Release Date: TBD 2025?

Movies & TV Shows with No Approximate Schedule Yet

Star trek: section 31.

Star Trek: Section 31

Even before the character of Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) left the Discovery narrative, rumors of a Section 31 spinoff starring the Oscar Award-winning actress have swirled. In mid-April 2023, it was officially announced that a Star Trek: Section 31 “special movie event” starring Yeoh had been greenlit by Paramount+ .

Yeoh, who originated the idea for a Section 31 spinoff herself, will serve as executive producer with Alex Kurtzman. Additional details from the announcement include the fact that Section 31 will be written by Craig Sweeny and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi (director of many episodes of Discovery ). However, it remains to be seen what other familiar Trek characters may appear in the show, if any.

Release Date: TBD

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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In late March 2023, it was announced that Starfleet Academy season 1 had been ordered. Very few details have been revealed about the series, including confirmation that it will be live-action. However, the fact that the announcement refers to it being “the first time in over a century” that individuals will be admitted to the Academy implies the series will be set around the same time period as Discovery seasons 3, 4 and 5 : the 31st century.

However, we do know some of those behind the scenes who will be involved with Starfleet Academy. Serving as showrunners and executive producers will be Kurtzman and Noga Landau. Furthermore, in a Tweet sent shortly after the series order was announced, Lower Decks star Tawny Newsome revealed that she has joined the show’s writers room.

Star Trek 4

Star Trek Beyond

In April 2021, a new Star Trek movie was announced for release on June 9, 2023. It was subsequently revealed to be a fourth movie in the Kelvin Timeline. WandaVision alum Matt Shakman was attached to the project before he accepted the directorial role for the upcoming Fantastic Four MCU adaptation; he subsequently left the project, which placed it in turnaround. Long believed to be quietly dead, sources inside Paramount have recently said that it’s still active and in development.

Platform: Theatrical

Untitled Star Trek prequel

Having wowed fans with his work on Lucasfilm’s Andor series, director Toby Haynes is reportedly developing a new Star Trek movie set decades before J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of the franchise , with writer Seth Grahame-Smith onboard to write. Little is known about the project beyond the fact that it would be a prequel set in the Kelvin Timeline, raising the question of just how much Nero’s interruption of the timeline actually impacted things… and whether said interruption went back in time, as well as forward.

Untitled Picard movie

Picard

The open question over what, if anything, Paramount would do to follow up on the success of the third and final season of Picard might have an answer. While Picard showrunner Terry Malalas had teased a new series called Legacy — see below — Patrick Stewart revealed in a recent interview that he’s heard of a movie script written specifically for Picard, although he hadn’t read it and couldn’t give any further details. Will this feature more of the reunited TNG cast, or is it something entirely different? And is it meant as a Paramount+ project a la Section 31, or a theatrical release? Time will tell…

Platform: TBD

Potentially Abandoned Projects

Quentin tarantino’s trek.

At one point, legendary director Quentin Tarantino was talking about directing an R-rated movie set in the Star Trek universe, with another writer working from an idea he had that was reportedly a time travel movie that would take inspiration from the original series episode ‘A Piece of the Action.’ Things progressed to a small degree with writer Mark L. Smith before Tarantino decided that he didn’t want to direct it, but the screenplay exists and Tarantino has said that he’d be willing to offer notes for any new director . We can but hope this oddity one day happens.

Star Trek: Legacy

One unannounced project remains at the forefront of Trekkie agendas everywhere: the proposed Picard semi-sequel, Star Trek: Legacy. The title was revealed by Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas on Twitter in March 2023, while Picard’s wildly popular third season was being released. Matalas stated the proposed series would be set in the 25th century, following up on storylines and characters from “the Last Generation and the Next.”

While the series has yet to be officially commented upon by Paramount or CBS, fans have signed online petitions in support of the idea, and at least one Trek executive seems in favor; In interviews in support of Strange New Worlds season 2, Akiva Goldsman voiced his continued advocacy for a continuation of the vision Matalas has for the Franchise. “Let me put it this way,” Goldsman said during an interview with CinemaBlend. “I signed the petition too.”

It’s unclear whether or not the Picard movie project mentioned above is a variation on the Legacy idea, or an entirely separate project.

While there be a Star Trek 4 with Chris Pine?

A fourth Star Trek movie set in the Kelvin Timeline — the alternate timeline created with J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of the franchise, featuring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban as Kirk, Spock, and Bones, respectively — is in development, although it’s unclear at what stage at time of writing. It’s certainly stalled more than once with announced directors leaving the project, but both the studio and the stars have expressed their continued interest in making it happen, so… we’ll see.

What is the most current Star Trek?

The last new Star Trek to debut was the fourth season of the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks series on Paramount+. The last live-action Star Trek to arrive was the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, also on Paramount+.

What’s the next Star Trek series?

Unless the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy makes a surprise drop on Netflix in the next couple of months, the next anticipated Star Trek series will be the fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery, on Paramount+. The question of what the next Star Trek movie will be is somewhat open; logic would dictate that it would be the Section 31 movie on Paramount+, and we all know that Star Trek fans would rather pay attention to logic than anything else, right…?

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Review: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Moseys Into A New Frontier In “Far From Home”

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| October 22, 2020 | By: Anthony Pascale 177 comments so far

“Far From Home”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 2 – Debuted Thursday, October 22, 2020 Written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW

With a return to more familiar ground, “Far From Home” feels like the Discovery we know, but with some welcome (for the most part) tweaks for the new season.

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A redhead and a Kelpien walk into a bar…

WARNING: Spoilers below!

“We made it”

A part two in all but name, this week’s story is all about the USS Discovery and crew (sans Michael Burnham) thrust into the future. Like last week’s Michael-focused outing, we pick up the action immediately after the chaos of the season two finale, with the Disco sliding out of the wormhole towards a fractured planet and a crew suffering a severe case of the space bends. They survived this wake-up call of an opener only through some creative flying by Detmer, well-coordinated technobabbly teamwork orchestrated by Saru, and spectacular visual effects. The end result is one of the best crash landings of the franchise and a ship barely holding itself together, with a crew that isn’t any better off.

Now stuck in the ice on some (not Terralysium) world with a dubious atmosphere, the crew doesn’t know where—or even when—they are. The two MacGuffins for the week are restoring power and fixing a thingie ( transtator ) to get communications working again. Georgiou, fresh from gleefully dissolving Leland/Control, is being very concerned-mom about contacting Michael, especially for an evil Mirror person. A pleasantly decisive Saru puts Nhan in charge of repairs and picks an extra-flustered (and that’s saying a lot) Tilly to join him on an adventure to this strange frontier world to get the stuff ( rubindium ) they need to make that important phone call.

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Do you see the problem with my standing desk?

“We’re all adrift together”

“Far From Home” benefits from a brief bit of the same Icelandic location shooting as the season opener, presenting us with a very alien world. Tilly is as confused as everyone as to why she gets to go on the critical away mission, but Saru shows what kind of leader he is by assuring her, “We are introducing ourselves to the future. You, Ensign Tilly, are a wonderful first impression.” The two muster their courage and mosey their way into a saloon in a ghost town of a mining settlement and Sylvia proves the acting captain right when she deduces that offering the very skittish locals dilithium will diffuse a gun-totin’ standoff.

The townsfolk may be from Coridan but they have found themselves in a classic western, complete with some ruthless outlaws terrorizing them. Tilly and Saru start to sort out that this future they find themselves in may have cool tech (like programmable matter to fix their transtator), but the Federation and Starfleet are mere legend, leaving places like this unimaginatively named “The Colony” on their own.

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Sylvia is not cool with the future being mansplained

Our heroes try to keep their 23rd-century origins on the down-low, but the villainous Zareh shows up with his space spurs (really!) to figure it all out, killing one of the nicer locals to prove he is still in charge. Jake Weber does his best to infuse this mustache-twirler of a baddie with some menace, but his cliched arrival provides little beyond more exposition on the post-Burn state of the galaxy. After some mundane hostage negotiating with Saru, Georgiou shows up for some Machiavellian undermining of Zareh’s gang, followed up by her martial arts routine, and demonstrating how setting weapons to just inflict pain has little effect on someone from the universe that invented agonizers .

Here’s where the episode and Doug Jones step up and demonstrate leadership with a Star Trek theme. Infused with a new level of confidence, Saru stands up to Georgiou’s casual cruelty and shows the locals that the Federation still lives, if we all just believe in it. There’s a new sheriff in this one-starship town, and he’s a Kelpien. So the miners get their dilithium, the Discovery gets its communications fixed, and Zareh gets put out to pasture in the cold of night.

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Bet this guy didn’t think his day would end being a human shield for a woman from another universe

“Keep at it, Cranky Pants”

Leading the charge to restore power back on Discovery is Lt. Cmdr. Stamets, who starts the episode in even worse shape than the ship after being put in a medical coma by his partner Dr. Culber in the season two finale. Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz fall right back into their perfect chemistry with some fun banter and cellular regenerating in sickbay. Paul jumps into even more fun banter when he is paired up with his onboard bête noire Jett Reno, who is determined to guide his repair work in a Jefferies tube, whether he wants it or not.

The tension gets ramped up with a frosty ticking clock in the form of parasitic ice that is also a fan of the tropes of westerns, determined to take down the Disco for good… by sundown. And like the acerbic blind leading the caustic blind, an in-severe-pain Reno guides a bleeding Stamets to the right EPS junction with a little help from her floating robot drones. Any scene with Rapp and Tig Notaro is comedy gold, and these two deliver the best moments of the episode, and it’s not just played for laughs; as they struggle to save the ship, they give us genuine dramatic tension and even character growth, followed by Jett calling Stamets “bobcat”… due to the drugs, you see.

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Don’t worry, some of this blood isn’t yours

There is also a bit of a third thread through the episode which is mostly setting up an arc for the rest of the season. After the crash, Detmer is ordered to sickbay after getting her bell rung from being tossed over her console. But even after an overworked Doctor Pollard says she is “good to go,” it’s pretty apparent Kayla is far from good, and can barely seem to go. She can be seen walking the corridors like a ghost, and the only person who seems to notice is Dr. Culber. Detmer is headed to be the ship’s poster child for the PTSD coming out of everything this crew has experienced between the Klingon War and visit to the Mirror Universe, the fight with Control, and leaving behind their pasts. This is all conveyed in just a couple of quiet moments, so Emily Coutts showed she can do more than just fly the ship (which she also seems awfully good at).

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Detmer is in no mood to join Nhan in a selfie

“We’re good to go”

The storylines converge as Tilly and Saru are introduced to personal transporters and returned to the ship, now ready to lift off. A distracted Detmer needs prodding to thrust Discovery out of the encroaching parasitic ice, which isn’t letting go without a fight. And if things weren’t bad enough, some “enemy” ship shows up to capture them in a tractor beam.

Saru bravely leads his crew to deal with their fate, but even with the extra ominous music, we all know what’s coming next right? The only big surprise here isn’t that they are actually being saved from the ice by Michael Burnham, but that she suddenly has some impressively-braided long hair. And with this, the unwritten “Part 2” of the season open comes full circle with Michael revealing to the elated crew she has been waiting for them for a year… Time travel, am I right?

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Which one of you said screensavers aren’t cool?

Course adjustments

While risky, last week’s excellent season premiere ended up benefiting with a single regular character, turning the episode into a little standalone sci-fi action/adventure movie. Writers Paradise, Lumet, and Kurtzman left a lot of the literal heavy lifting to this more grounded second part, where we returned to a familiar setting. Catching up with some of our favorite characters was fun, but they all came with their own baggage and that gave this part two a slower pace and cut down severely on the worldbuilding that could be done for this new future. Michael was able to let go of her past and explore this new future, but Saru and the crew had to be more practical and deal with the literally bloody consequences of season two, which should continue to resonate.

Returning to Disco was a great way to set up or reinforce themes for season three, including teamwork. And in both subtle and overt ways, “Far From Home” did some course corrections. Like episode one, the tone was a bit lighter than previous seasons, setting up an expectation that this is a welcome new normal for the show.

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It’s been 20 months since season two, so Owosekun needed a moment to remember which button to push for shields

Our main characters get some season three tweaks. Saru now feels fully in command. Tilly is still a bit frazzled, but it’s more natural and not cartoonish. And when Saru cut off her WTF at the T, the show seems to be telegraphing that they may not be randomly dropping f-bombs in season three. Stamets and Culber are moving to a new and even better dynamic, without Paul losing his edge. Reno is still Reno because that perfectly fine.

Another welcome evolution is the expansion of the bridge crew, with more nice moments for secondary characters like Owo, Linus, and especially Detmer. Nhan also got a bit of a course correction after heading into a dark place towards the end of season two, giving her character a bit more of a reason to be there and a personality of her own, instead of (thankfully) becoming a Mini-Me of Georgiou.

As for Phillipa, like Saru, it’s not clear the writers know what to do with her. She claims to have joined them in the future to avoid becoming a 23rd-century bureaucrat, but really the producers just like working with Michelle Yeoh and until her Section 31 show really gets going, they want to keep her around. Hopefully, this episode isn’t the template for her to essentially act as foil to create conflict on the ship and step in periodically to do the dirty work that everyone else’s Federation ideals won’t allow.

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You still have some Leland on you

We don’t need no stinkin’ Federation

All of the focus on characters in this episode left little time for worldbuilding, something Saru warned us about early in the episode. We learned a bit more about programmable matter—the secret sauce of 32nd-century tech—and how it needs specific recipes (programs) to work, and how couriers like Book can be much more than just delivery drivers, holding sway over territories through monopolizing the essentials.

But the thing most fans are probably noticing is the Zareh’s gang using a pidgin version of the common tongue that appears to have grown in this post-Federation frontier. Most importantly they used the term “ V’draysh ” for the Federation. Eagle-eared fans may remember this term being used in the excellent Short Treks episode “Calypso,” and writer Michael Chabon later confirmed it was a term for the Federation.

As we discussed in our “ What Star Trek Future History Could Tie In To ‘Discovery’ Season 3?” analysis last week, “Calypso” was one of three intriguing possible connections, but for now it’s not entirely clear how it fits into the timeline of 3188. We may take a closer look at the possibilities in a follow-up.

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The wait staff at this bar don’t take kindly to bad tippers

Welcome to the future frontier

While maybe not as fun or exciting as the season opener, “Far From Home” ably finishes the job of bringing Discovery into the 32 nd century. Following the frenzy of the opening minutes, the pacing was a bit languid, but perhaps that served this more character-focused episode. Director Olatunde Osunsanmi gives his actors the space to let these moments land, and thankfully is limiting his frenetic camera moves to the action moments that merit them.

The writing trio of Paradise, Lumet, and Kurtzman do an excellent job shaping (and reshaping) our favorite characters and introducing some new ones, notably the sympathetic Coridanite brothers. However, Zareh was far too clichéd, which was surprising after some of the more interesting and colorful adversaries created for the season premiere.

The special effects team has really upped their game for this season, especially with that opening sequence, but even subtler moments like programmable matter, Reno’s drones, and Linus’ blink all add up to making us feel like we really are in the future. As for the production design, it feels like they took the space western motif too far. You don’t need space spurs and swinging saloon doors to give us that frontier feeling.

Now it feels like all the pieces and people are now in place to really begin our far future adventure, with very high anticipation for a new episode coming in just a week directed by Number One himself, Jonathan Frakes.

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Saru just remembered he’s going to have to get out of this comfy sweater and back into that itchy uniform

Random bits

  • USS Discovery is equipped with graviton beams .
  • There is a new set for cellular regeneration, which was used only briefly, so we’ll probably see it again.
  • Pike’s ready room is a mess, someone is going to have to remodel.
  • We have no idea who the chief engineer is or was, but Reno is acting like de facto chief.
  • Georgiou takes interest in Linus’ visual spectrum of 74,000 nanometers, but we never learned why, so maybe for later?
  • Zareh mentioned doing business with a “ Tellarite Exchange” and the Orions .
  • Discovery went into the future with 88 crew, so about 1/3 stayed behind.
  • 16 of the 88 were wounded during the battle and trip.
  • Even in the 32 nd century, future energy weapons make lots of extraneous noises for no apparent reason.
  • It’s not entirely clear what Saru’s quills do. They don’t appear to have a lethal poison as Zareh survived being hit with them, but maybe they immobilize.
  • Even though the guy cleaning the cube revealed his name to be Gene after Reno called “Hazmat,” he was still credited as Ensign Hazmat.
  • Deep cut of the week: Tilly cites Regulation 256.15 (“Officers shall show professional behavior at all times.”) from the TOS novel:  Vulcan’s Forge
  • Line of the week: Tilly to Georgiou: “Um, you have some Leland on your shoes.”

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Mullets will make a comeback in 3189

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First! Some minor impressions:

-Space Hitler behaved like she was in command. -Discovery stranded in the future felt a bit like the pilot of VOY -Programmable matter looks a bit like Leland’s nano-tech. Coincidence? -The location reminded me a bit of that on The Last Jedi and also Interstellar. -The are crashing toward a planet and of course it is class M with breatable atmosphere and the same gravitation. (maybe Strang New Worlds is gonna change that?)

The scenes of Space Hitler interacting with some crew members might have a purpose. Recruting some loyal followers? I smell a subplot is built up which leads to the section31 show. It has been very quiet about the plans and I think that is no coincidence. (Not that I’m interested in a S31 show)

My minor impressions:

  • Space Hitler saved the day. She was also more concerned with Michael than with conquering. So yay to the continuation of the Space Hitler redemption arc!
  • Saru, despite now being a predator himself, seems to lack strong combat capabilities because he didn’t just kick the bad guys of the week’s asses. (After all, he needed to be helpless enough to let Space Hitler do the job.)
  • Stamets and Jett are both stubborn to the point of dying because they don’t want to ask for help? Probably blows to the head affected their judgement. Even though Jett might be that stupid, Stamets is a pragmatist when the situation really calls for it, even if he fusses about it.
  • This took place in the wild west with spur boots because…
  • What is wrong with Detmer? We already did this it seems with Airiam.
  • Space Hitler and Linus? I like Linus. Don’t screw with Linus. Even if he is named Linus.
  • Saru did manage to get Space Hitler to back down so that’s something? It was also nice to have that little moment around there where it felt like Star Trek as Saru and Tilly showed who Starfleet is.

All in all, this felt barely like Star Trek, and now I’m wondering if my restored hope after last week’s episode was restored too easily. Hey, at least I can empathize with the Discovery crew, now there’s another unknown in my life.

A power struggle between Saru and Space Hitler was what I logically expected to see this season, but also what I am kinda worried about… Since her official cover story in Season 2 was that she is her Prime counterpart Captain Georgiou, shouldn’t she technically outrank Saru? On the other hand though, everyone (or at least everyone who counts) on the Discovery knows who she actually is, so this cover story is void. Also, Saru called her Commander in this episode – is this a retcon, or was Saru deliberately trying to make a point regarding the whole outranking stuff??

BTW, “this could easily have been a plot for a Voyager episode” was my thought too! (Some important part of the ship has to be fixed, but since the crew lacks access to the rest of Starfleet, they have to rely on some aliens helping them out. But before that can happen, the crew has to help the aliens solving their major problem, and this preferably in a way that doesn’t betray their Starfleet values…)

Georgiou said that she came along to avoid paperwork, but its pretty obvious that she wanted to make sure that Michael was okay.

Yes, she seemed far more interested in communicating with Michael than taking command of the ship and conquering the galaxy. Funny that.

Yes. Which is really odd. It’s a non-MU characteristic. Makes me think the MU they visited isn’t the MU from TOS at all.

Attachment…

Michael is her anchor in the Prime Universe, and it was Michael who brought her from the MU to save her.

Michael has too many mothers. It’s positively ancient Greek.

She has no reason to be attached to anyone. She doesn’t rise to become the evil emperor of the galaxy by forming attachments. That is if she truly is from the TOS MU.

ML31, you are giving them too much credit by asserting they have any idea about theory of mind or deeper personality motivations. These characters behave so inconsistently and illogically because they don’t!

Human children survive to become adults, even in the MU.

Some narrow, and likely narcissistic attachment by parents seems necessary.

The Mirror Universe Burnham was fostered/adopted by MU Georgiou, so there was a bond, even if MU Burnham exploited that attachment to turn on Georgiou.

That betrayal would have been very damaging to MU Georgiou if there was any genuine attachment, no matter how warped.

Desire to “rewrite the ending” of a failed relationship is a pretty common human motivation. It led to Prime Burnham saving MU Georgiou, and logically for MU Georgiou in relation to Burnham.

Inconsistent. If MU Georgeau did harbor such feelings it would have meant her downfall as evil queen. And if she were to treat PU Burnham like MU Burnham then she is too stupid to have ever become empress in the first place. Further, Burnham showed tremendous stupidity in bringing PU Georgeau back to begin with. But her motivations and actions have often been all over the map and illogical. So I guess that keeps her in character.

Yet that didn’t stop her being willing to execute Michael shortly after meeting her in the MU. It’s not terribly consistent.

Such tediousness that Mirror PG is being kept around in this rebooted reboot, because the producers like Yeoh’s minor star presence. (Then write for her strengths, don’t give her these verbose attempts at wordplay in a language that she struggles with.) Mirror PG just pointed a gun at the acting captain- any serious captain would confine her to the brig or maroon her on Juppalon 9. We don’t need her arbitrarily sticking around to create cheap tension.

If Space Hitler was killed off tomorrow, I’m convinced more would like the show than less.

I think they really do love Yeoh and probably feel she brings a certain level of quality to Star Trek just having her. But when your character is basically a live action cartoon she’s not adding quality to the show as much as they seem to think she is.

I think the reason she was so concernd about Michael is that the writers want to add a little depth to the character, because Mirror Philippa is cartoonish. And doing mirror things is a alone a little bit boring, so it is understandable they want to add some othe traits.

Respectfully, it’s like adding “complexity” to Hitler, and garnering sympathy for him, by focusing on his empathetic relationship with his dog. Never mind those 6 million Jews…

It’s hard to get past that she wiped out entire planets even if the writers and EPs don’t seem to take that as real in-universe.

Unless there is some twist.

Is there any change that MU Georgiou isn’t exactly who we thought she was, but isn’t Prime Georgiou either?

TG47, I can imagine they ultimately go for such narrative gymnastics to “whitewash” the character (and even think they are clever at that!) but I can only say after being on the receiving end of such inane twists several times since Discovery launched, with Tyler, with Lorca, with the entire impossibility of Discovery in the 23rd century, I perceive this as fundamentally dishonest writing.

The bond of trust between writer and audience is broken (for me, since Lorca at the latest, and the eyeballs in Picard) and I dont see why we have to give them any benefit of doubt at this point, or should!

I think the massive drop of comments for just the second episode (not just here) is a good example that others think alike and have already given up on the show. Not everyone can be as masochistic as me! ;)

I ‘m in the same boat. Secret Hideout lost me with the Lorca “twist”. That kind of mistake will be VERY difficult to bounce back from.

Where I sit, the only way out is to try an entirely different group of writers and see what they can salvage. And HOPE the new group is better than the last one.

Of course, ML31, right now they double down on the opposite, which is bringing those writers to the new shows (except LDS). That’s not how a clean slate looks like.

I certainly wouldn’t put it past this group….

So this was the proper Star Trek opening for this season (Space Hitler notwithstanding) after last week’s nauseating “emotions and explosions”. For Discovery’s ever-lowering standards, I consider this a success! And I take Saru’s beautifully understated “There IS life” over St. Michael’s howling and hissing any day!

i kept waiting for the crew of the Serenity to walk in.

Aside from that, I couldn’t help but think that season 3 has inadvertently demonstrated that the show works better when it either focuses solely on Michael or solely only on the crew of Discovery without Michael. The two pieces seem stronger when they’re apart, if that makes sense. Season 3 could easily have focused only on Michael and Book or only on Saru and the crew of Discovery.

I think just re-aligning things so that Michael became part of the ensemble would work.

Orange is The New Black managed that very successfully, initially it centred heavily on Taylor Schilling’s new inmate as the lead but later she is just one of many characters the show switches focus between.

That is the approach I’d like to see Discovery take, though the ending of this episode doesn’t give me hope it’ll go that far. Still, hopefully there will be a bit more balance and time for the supporting cast.

The supporting players were better realized even as far back as season 1. It’s an ensemble that may be limited by the serialized nature of this particular series with the focus places squarely on the lead character.

DSC producers designed Game of Thrones-level unexpected death for the bridge crew that never truly materialized. Lorca is a bad guy – so it wasn’t that surprising. Airam’s life was all foreshadow so it didn’t hit quite hard enough. So are the writers left with too many crew?

In this episode, I loved the shot at 49:00 of Detmer getting at her desk still in pain. The flares made my eye focus on her fingers – which may not be really connected to her mind, and this episode shows how the crew needs her. Does this mean Detmer is going to get it? Wondering about that now feels excellent.

And this was in an episode that did seem to move a very good pace. I hope that can continue.

Interesting point. I did not consider that but now that you mention it… Yes. They don’t seem to work well together. I liked the Discovery crew better when Burnham wasn’t a part of it. In fact, I think it would work better still without Georgeau, as well. Even Tilly was slightly less annoying here.

Yes, yes and yes! You know they would be a half-way competent, normal Star Trek crew like the ones of all previous series, without the over-the-top characters who jumped in from other genres!

IF Michael was rewritten to have the same personality, but given equal screen time and importance, she could work. Space Hitler needs to go.

I liked this episode more than the first one, but one thing that is really starting to bother me is the uneven characterization. How many different people are writing these characters? Georgiou is just all over the place. And Tilly seemed a bit more confident on the Glenn than she was here, even though she’s had a lot more experience between then and now. I expected her to be a bit bolder, but she wasn’t, which was disappointing. Plus, where were Burnham’s over-emotional freak outs here? If any situation called for it, finding your crew and completing the mission after a whole year would be it.

And of course, I was really disappointed by that ending. Can’t we have an entire episode where the rest of the crew shines, and stands on their own, without Burnham saving the day? Sure, Saru and Tilly helped some people out, but having Burnham save the day at the last moment negates all the work they put in to fix the comms and engines. Before people come at me and cite Picard and Kirk supposedly saving the day all the time, they did not. It’s usually a team effort. I really wished they had gotten out on their own and then met up with Burnham in the next episode using the repaired comms.

At least we have Jet Reno still… and I hope she sticks around. She made me laugh out loud a couple times. Thankful for that at least.

I agree, it was predictable, underwhelming, and unfortunate that they spent 54 minutes trying to fix the ship to leave, then couldn’t, only to be saved by St. Michael. An extra minute of filming could have saved the ending. Let Discovery make orbit, then be approached by a potential enemy ship.

I came here to say this. I’m not one of the “Discovery is terrible” crowd, because it isn’t, and while I sometimes feel that the “Burnham saves the universe” stuff is a bit much, I’ve never been one of those to complain about it. But here…the episode was good, I liked it, and then a little while after I was done I went, “Wait…they couldn’t even get the ship off the ground without Burnham? Come on.”

I agree Nachum.

I found Burnham coming in as the cavalry to save the day in this episode worked well, but I hope that the showrunners can avoid force-fitting Burnham as only one capable of resolving any and every complication.

As we teach our children, you don’t need to push everyone down around someone to raise someone up. That’s not who SMG is, or Burnham as a character is, so the writers shouldn’t force fit that.

We have loved hero leads in Trek – Janeway, Sisko, and Picard – without them solving every single problem. Trek isn’t just about found family, it’s about an aspirational model of teamwork.

I don’t think that there has been a top-of-the-call sheet character since Jim Kirk in TOS that had to be the solution to every single dramatic complication.

And that is one of the aspects of TOS that makes it one the series that I rewatch least.

The other is Enterprise. In fact, someone else on this board named the problem with Burnham “Archer Syndrome” and it’s a good fit. Archer in Enterprise didn’t always save the day in every single episode, but he was the one to save civilization, again and again. Making him the great founder of the Federation etc. really was a force fit.

Unlike Shatner or even Scott Baluka, SMG is by all accounts not pushing for this herself and is a wonderful chef-de-compagnie that encourages all the actors to feel a part of the ensemble, without hierarchy. That is not how her character is written though.

I very much liked Burnham in season one, and was caught up in her journey. I’m rewatching S1 in the broadcast version now and feel the same way.

I had less empathy for her as S2 went on and she showed herself to be self-absorbed and not taking care of those she served with. This was particularly unbearable as she ignored Nhan in Project Daedulus and refused to let her mother depart in Perpetual Infinity (to what would logically be her mother’s death traveling in a time wormhole outside the suit).

I’m hoping that Burnham is permitted to evolve back into someone who I can respect and connect with. I’m cautiously optimistic, but not yet convinced.

Well said on all counts.

Nice to be back on the ship again. The production values are simply amazing.

It is amazing what special effects can be done on television budget now, and the visual effects for this season were done from home due to quarantine.

In the past, movies’ advantages over film was due to having a bigger budget for effects (like the jump from TOS sets and effects to Star Trek the Motion Picture sets and effects). But modern CGI techniques for tv have basically closed the gap (just compare a Discovery or a Picard episode with, say, a TOS movie). Especially with the hit the movie industry has been taking with the closure of theaters, it’s hard to see how the movie business will adapt with the competition from tv.

You say “television budget”, but keep in mind Disco’s budget is way up there at the high end. Not exactly an “average” TV budget. I could be wrong (and somebody correct me if they have a better grasp of inflation), but the TNG and DS9 budgets were the equivalent of about $3m today

Also keep in mind that there are only 13 episodes here. Most streaming shows only have 10. So they can budget more for production.

But again, the problem with STD was never really the quality of the production. That is pretty much all top notch. The problem was the bad writing and weak characters more than anything else. And to a lesser extent, failure to capture the era they were in.

Don’t forget the inconsistency, above all. This week’s episode and last week’s were so vastly different, they should be from different series – but they were even helmed by the same director!

What worries me is which type of Discovery we will see for the rest of the season, and whether, like last season’s “Eden”, this episode was actually the outlier, the sole bone for the legacy fans, and the rest is more over-the-top, over-emoting soap opera sprinkled with generic but violent action.

Like a lot of you, not to hip on “Space Hitler.” Georgiou deserves better writing. Perhaps just a one-off over her distress of wanting to find Michael. I did notice in the preview, Georgiou had a new cool delta shield that no one else has. Looks like it is circled with stars or a leaf, need to rewatch it. I’m sure someone else here has figured out what it is. Too much cliche Western in space, but GR did call it a wagon train to the starts. Discovery now fits this better then any other show since TOS.

TNG tried it, but by that time, the UFP and Star Fleet had become too burreaucratic and developed with what seemed to be less uncharted territory. Discovery opens this all back up again. Hopefully they do not squander it.

That is the Admirals badge – like Cornwell had last season.

Someone is going to promote Georgiou to Admiral…

You are right that Discovery can now capture that feel better than any other series since TOS, where Kirk often ventured beyond the reach and technological power of the Federation. I consider that a good thing!

Georgiou deserves to have been left in the Mirror Universe and never heard from again.

Nah, why burden them with her? Just drop her into a sun with a cheery wave.

I didn’t mind the western stuff. I wouldn’t like it to be a regular thing, but for a minor one off villain to be an evil space cowboy in a space western setting was kind of fun.

I figured the universe had to have regressed technologically in some sense. It’s really hard to present a future THAT far removed. Usually things set that far forward involve society’s regressing in some say. The main reason for that is to get around imagining life 900 years from now.

I dont mind things having regressed or stagnated given the backstory, but they should be DIFFERENT in almost every regard. In its basics, a chair is still a chair in a thousand years same as a thousand years before but it should NOT look like it just came from the camping section of Walmart! Same for the hip designer brand leather clothing. Discovery may have near unlimited production budget, but still, it often comes across as uninspired and lazy. That’s something no money in the world can buy.

But even in the 23rd and 24th century we saw PLENTY of places that looked pretty down trodden. TOS visited many colonies at the height of Federation power and it was a lot of wood sheds and basic equipment that was supposed to be 300 years into the future. In the TNG era, you saw less of that but they would still travel to planets where they weren’t as technically advanced as the Federation.

So I don’t see this as a big deal because A. we are clearly seeing less developed planets in general and B. I imagine after a century of the Federation gone and not a lot of space travel or trade, then things will just fall apart.

Tiger, I pointed out this is not about places looking down-trodden, but recognizably contemporary despite being set nearly 1200 (!) years from us. And I think comparing this to TOS is unfair given it was produced 50 years ago on a budget that is dwarfed by contemporary fan film productions. Discovery always prides itself with having cutting edge production facilities including 3D printing and real metal sets, and then they come up with THIS, that looks like any other Trek and makes you bring up TOS comparisons. This does not put Discovery production design in a good light.

As always, not the budget but imagination is the limit, and as I expected 1000 years is a tall order for these people, who mostly think of future in technological and political terms. It’s not even about rational “correctness” (of course it’s all a projection) but using producer’s own vernacular, the FEEL of the surroundings should be different from last season, or any other Trek. Ironically, like in last weeks episode, they managed to change the feel as Trek to almost unrecognizable, but not so much the set designs!

And yes, 250 years to TOS IS different compared to 1200 years to this future. 1750 is recognizable to us because it was the beginning of the modern age – age of discovery, age of reason, scientific method, medical revolution, early industrialization with steam engine etc. The 11th century? Everything is different! So they are overshooting where they shouldn’t, such as with Burnham’s soap opera (this has nothing to do with the future) and holding back to established patterns where it isn’t necessary. It’s possible to tell a Trek story in an unrecognizable surrounding, and thats what we can relate to.

When they come to Earth at last, I hope and expect it looks alien to them, the only home left being Discovery. Because after a millennium, it should!

OK, I understand your point on some of it. Yes, if this is what the entire season looks like and every planet we go to (isn’t it crazy though Discovery has managed to go to more NEW planets in the first two episodes of this season than all of season one lol. Not kidding, that is sadly true) was like this, OK, I would agree completely.

I just think what they are doing is letting us know just how bad things have gotten on former Federation worlds (and I don’t know if the first episode made it clear that planet was Federation but assume it was) and that things are dire. I get your point, you just think they are kind of cheapening out or not being as imaginative, or both, but I think it’s just too early to say either way.

And I don’t think it’s unfair to compare TOS because TOS always made it clear that most colonies WEREN’T as advance as Federation worlds, so that was OK. Yes that was probably because they just didn’t have the money or time to show these super advance places but that made it part of canon. We were always suppose to believe Earth itself was this super advanced highly technological and very developed planet, we just never saw it lol. I don’t want to say UTOPIA, but probably as close to it as you could get to it at the time.

And 24th century did the same thing. Yes most colonies looked a little nicer but you still had places like that dreaded episode Up the Long Ladder with the Irish colony that felt it was 19th century and not the 24th lol. Look at the Maquis colonies in the Cardassian territory in TNG and DS9. Did any of those places look like they were in a utopic super advanced 24th century? No, they looked just as basic and primitive in places you can find on Earth today and they were Federation colonies for decades.

Yes, a few centuries is still different from a thousand years but again we have to take into account what has happened plus just being on mostly barren worlds. Now if get to Earth (YAY) and it too look like it regressed then yeah I will call it out too. But so far we haven’t seen much of anything to show what the 32nd century looks like outside a few things.

VS, the thing is, we do have ordinary chairs and stools in common use that still look pretty much like they did in the medieval era.

But we also have things in use that are radically different in design and function and made with new materials that did not exist then.

We also have things that look like things of long ago but are made with completely different materials.

And we’ve seen this kid of mix already in the production design.

Please have a google search for 11th century chairs and you will see they were structurally different (horizontal struts connecting the legs). We also need to make sure we don’t compare apples and oranges – nice chairs of today’s quality were reserved for kings and gentry, and those are the chairs that survived. The working class (peasantry) probably had no chairs at all or so flimsy they did not survive. So it’s always these hugr socioeconomic changes that drive changes in people’s living spaces as well. So if Kurtzman writes up these huge changes for Discovery, they should havr an impact on the rest too. And you know my real gripe is really about the costumes and not the chairs. I know you like their work in seasons 1 and 2 but we really need to judge season 3 on its own given it’s 1000 years, not 250 years, ahead.

Chairs with horizontal struts?

I’ve seen a lot of those in use in my time.

On the costumes, let’s keep in mind that Tilly and Saru would be wearing something they brought with them.

For the others, let’s see what kind of variety we get across this season shall we?

Did you think it was inappropriate that gangster dress was used in “A Piece of the Action” in TOS. (I didn’t like it, but for many it’s a feature not a bug.)

Gersha Phillips has produced very innovative costumes in previous seasons — to the point where people criticized the Klingon dress since it was out of step with previous shows. She can do it, but should she do it every episode.

You must be referring to those chairs with sleigh-like steel bottoms? I have never seen wood chairs like those depicted, with very low but not floor-level struts. As for the costumes, I’m dismayed by the endless contemporary brown and black leather coats that pop up in both Picard and Discovery (not the crew, but the future characters!) It’s like no different fashions and color schemes exist anymore throughout history. Looking at medieval fashion, the difference is more than apparent.

So my larger point is that after 1000 years of upheavals and change, almost everything should be different to make us believe in the enormous time gap, and I don’t think there’s really an argument against that. For prequel Discovery, the knock out test was always “could this design be included in a 24th century show and still be believable” and for future Discovery, it’s the same (if the answer is yes, the creators have failed). I think thats doubly true if, as you have hinted at, this future is largely alien-shaped and the people of Earth have recused themselves from the Federation.

Me? I enjoyed part 2…happy to see Saru in charge and that Michael found them…as for the saloon western vibe? Specter of the Gun came to mind….good TOS memories there. Wow, Some of you people complain about every little nit picky thing. If you dislike the episodes so much why are you watching?

I’ve stuck with it because I do like a lot of it, and I want it to be better. I loved last week’s episode, and watched it twice. This one, eh, not my favorite. Space Hitler needs to be gone. If it hadn’t been for her, I probably would have liked this one a lot better too.

Thanks for saying this Total-Trekkie2.

A good number of us engage on this board because we want the new Trek series to continue to improve. We don’t often say that, but hearing that from posters on this board was one of the things that moved me from lurking to actively participating.

We do see that Kurtzman in particular scans all the boards for fan reaction in addition to what ever metrics they have.

Kurtzman says he pays attention when a point is shared by multiple people posting. And we see that the shows have been evolving in response to fan concerns.

So, constructive if critical points are all part of the process.

For the same reason we watched the first two seasons of TNG and DS9 and ENT. We’re desperately hoping the show will find its space legs. It ain’t there yet, but there are those who will quit watching in disgust, and those who will keep watching and whine. I happen to be one of the latter, but hope springs eternal.

I’ve never been a Michael hater like a subset of fans are, but it was actually quite nice not having her in this episode (sort of her brief appearance at the end). Without her presence it seemed to free up the writers and allowed them to explore some of the side characters (I.e. the woefully underdeveloped bridge crew). Hopefully, now that Michael is back, the writers can do a better job of not constantly making her the center of attention.

I liked this episode. I mean I liked it the first time I saw it, during the opening chapter of Mass Effect: Andromeda.

  • Ships supposed to arrive at the same time but end up with one taking substantially longer than the other.
  • Seeming disruption to someones’ neural implant after arrival.
  • A devastated planet where someone points out that bits of said planet are floating.
  • Comment about atmospheric engineering.
  • Vague sort of western frontier theme to it (saloon, with saloon doors and a villain whose boots might as well have had spurs on them.)

Anyhoodles, I really did enjoy it though. I did wonder if they were going to drag out the separation of Burnham from the rest of the crew for a few episodes more, but apparently not.

Thought the Coridanite makeup was a bit below what I’ve come to expect as the usually high standard from this show, especially around the mouths.

I wonder if a problem with Detmers’ augmentation might be an excuse for them to have her be treated by 32nd century medicine and have it removed, because I can’t imagine wearing a single coloured contact lense for extended periods can be very comfortable or healthy for Emily Coutts?

Don’t forget the bonus feature of Expanse-inspired “pidgin”, Inyalowda.

This episode did a fantastic job giving so many of its characters a clear voice and roll in this new world. We finally get to concentrate and build out the crew which finally feels well rounded. Doug Jones has given Saru the perfect voice and the writers have done a superb job writing these character moments. More importantly there is a refreshing mix of humor and action. Well directed, edited, and acted. The plot is simple and the action doesn’t overwhelm. It really feels like they learned how to focus on the people, finally. By Discovery standards, this is a bottle show. And they used the Iceland location beautifully, it has gone a long way to establish this as a truly strange new alien future, Western tropes not withstanding.

I saw nothing worth getting all het up over. So far, the only thing new about this season is the year. It’s still another episode of “Star Trek: Burnham Saves the Day”. Wow…. what a slap in the face to Saru, Tilly, and the others – 48 minutes worth of work, only to HAVE to be saved by Burnham in the end. Come on, “Discovery” – you need to try harder and do better!

But I suppose I should just shut up – I’ll be back next Thursday to watch the next one, and the next one, and the next one after that. I just feel let down, defeated, and disappointed. Who knows. Maybe Burnham will show up and save the day for me.

Great episode, but I just wish the writers and actors would get a better handle on how they’re characterizing Georgiou and Tilly. This season and last, both characters have been broadly written and acted; they’re inconsistent and all over the place. It’s really the only thing I don’t like about the show, as it’s otherwise excellent. I’d honestly be OK with both being written out, though I know that Georgiou will be around for at least this season and Tilly is in for the long-haul.

Georgiou is getting her own show. I don’t want to see her ever again on Discovery.

I’ll believe it when I see the trailer and never watch the show.

How long is the Episode?

Ten letters.

LOL calm down, it was a joke. A pretty clever one.

And the episode is 53 minutes long.

wow, really????? and I just said it’s 10 letters and one eroteme!, not what you asked but 11 characters.

LOL. OK, calm down, Simpsons Comic Book Guy.

10 letters and one eroteme!

Well, turns out the premier was the better of the two. Go figure. That episode was crafted decently if not filled with bad plotting. This one was just… Ugh.

I’m SO tired of hearing any variation of the “We are Star Fleet” drivel. Tired of hearing about ideals and whatnot. The point can be made without being so overt or ‘in your fact’. Kirk managed to do it. Even Picard managed to do it mainly resorting to it as somewhat of a last ditch attempt to reach someone.

And man… Every scene Georgeau was in brought the episode to a grinding halt. I cannot tell you what a huge mistake this character is. She brings nothing to the table except groans and facepalms.

On the plus side there were not as many overt plotting errors so at least that. But the first episode was more fun to watch.

And the last comment… This episode had stronger laughs in it than any episode of LDX. Hear that, Mike McMahon? You need to do better!

Yeah this episode was so meh. The premiere was more enjoyable. I don’t always agreed with you but you’re right there.

Lower Decks is really funny!

“This episode had stronger laughs in it than any episode of LDX.”

I noticed that too! The humour flowed naturally from the characters and was mostly situational, not in the face. Well paced and kind of understated like most of the episode. Again, it’s incredible this is the same director as last week’s, and in fact, most episodes that negatively stood out as frenetic action shlock!

So you’ve seen LDs now VS?

Well, it just goes to show that not everyone has the same sense of humour.

Not yet TG47! I’m going by the trailers and so called laugh lines in TM reviews, both of which SHOULD represent the mosf funny parts. But frankly I was more commending Discovery’s understated humour here (as was the whole episode) rather than dissing LDS, I’ll be reserving judgment and I also don’t require it to be that super funny comedy to be a success, especially in light of other series carrying on the proud legacy of TNG right now!

And don’t get me wrong here… LDX didn’t need to be a ‘laugh-a-minute’ riot. If it had a few good chuckles each week that would have garnered an above average review from yours truly. And then that downfall meant all the other things, like the characters and plots were placed under greater scrutiny. It all goes back to the lack of laughs.

I don’t disagree with you too much over the episode, especially with Georgiou. I DO disagree about LDS being less funny, but OK.

I also admit, the ‘we are Starfleet’ stuff does get a bit much sometimes, but I guess the circumstance calls for it. And Saru seems to be the most gung-ho about it, but considering what his life was like before, I can understand.

This show has no idea what it wants to be. Season 1 was gritty and dystopian, season 2 was still kind of grim but they tried desperately to inject some Trek optimism in with Saru’s nauseatingly ham-fisted “We are STARFLEET” speeches. Sad to see the trend continue. The writing’s a mess, and I still don’t care about any of these bland, unlikeable characters.

How would you know this if you haven’t watched the episode like you where saying to NC Trekker further below this thread?

again if your gonna troll at least do it right.

I agree with you, but it’s close. Episode one had its’ flaws.. Why destroy the time suit? It might be useful. It probably had a useful energy source. I know they claimed it would be a one way trip, but supposidely it sent up another signal to let everyone know where she was, so it still had power.

Also, since the plan all a long was for her to send another signal (2 actually) to let Disco and Spock know where she is, why a big surprise Disco isn’t with her? Thinking about that a little deeper, if she sent a signal to spock letting her know she was safe, didn’t she have to go back in time to do that?

I do like the character development in ep.2, but agree Georgiou is over the top, but compare her to the mirror Kira… They need to decide of Georgiou is an angry surburban mom missing her kid who is away at college, or a crazed corporate hack desparate for power. You always knew where Mirror Kira was coming from. In the end, they are going to have to make her the less angry surburban mom to carry her own trek show. If not, they might as well have kept Leland alive as the corporate hack.

Either way, having gooey Leland on your shoes, then having someone from the lower decks (Gene Hazmat) clening up said goo seemed out of place and gratutious. With all that high tech and sensitive equipment, are they really using a shovel from home depot to clean up the mess? Don’t they have something more techy? Once they are done, Gene is still going to need the garden hose to wash down everything!!

Kira was complex and had her issues. It took a little time to dive into them but they were there. MU Georgeau is a one dimensional cartoon on par with Snidely Whiplash. How much depth really is there? None so far. With respect I honestly don’t think Kira is a fair comparison.

I found the focus on Leland’s grey remains fairly gratuitous as well, and it made me wonder if they have taken sufficient care.

This episode is so boring. The plot was terrible and the characters are annoying.

Georgiou is one unnecessary character. She wasn’t doing anything right.

The premiere was more compelling to watch.

You can do better than that!

Wow, I didn’t find it boring at all.

Action is not equal to plot for me.

Is it possible that Michael is Captain next week and we get a flashback to Pike making her captain “if she returns”?

My minor quibble of the week is with both Part 1 and Part 2 for making people/ships come out of wormholes right on top of a planet. Space is mostly empty, that is why it is called “space” after all. It is something like 99.999999999% empty. The odds against not one but two different trajectories/time scales would bring people out right in the gravity well of a planet (and they apparently aren’t anywhere near Terralysium, so this could be absolutely anywhere) are, well, astronomical.

I was about to dismiss this thinking maybe the planetary gravity well might have acted like a magnet pulling the exit point of the wormhole towards it. But then I considered that there are MUCH more massive stellar bodies like black holes and even larger planets or stars that would have pulled it more if that were the case. So yeah, doesn’t really make any sense. The ONLY thing I can think of is that the suit’s computer was actively trying to steer the wormhole towards Terralysium, and perhaps got scrambled so it found a ‘best fit’. Still doesn’t really make sense for Discovery to come out at a different planet than Michael though.

Oh shoot. The season started already? Are they still in the 32nd century?

Good. Keep them there.

Back to my DS9 re-runs.

Lemme know when they fire Kurtzman.

Not in the next 7 years, mate! Until then, it’s presumably more Pew-Pew-Pew and less PewdiePicard ;)

LOL, savage!

Pretty much with you, there.

Warning for trolling

I found it OK, not bad, but nothing special. I did like the scenes on the ship and catching up to where everyone was but outside of Detmer and the back and forth stuff between Hugh, Culber and Reno it was really not much happening. But it is nice to see the bridge crew just being able to be a bit more human and feeling like regular people. I think they will be utilized a lot more this season; especially being a much smaller cast now.

The stuff with Saru and Tilly in the bar was fine but it just felt like filler with Zareth and his merry band of assholes UNLESS we are going to see these guys again. But basically they were there to out the Discovery as time travelers, lots of threats, a small fight and that was it.

And what bothers me about stories like this is when the main characters ask the most bare minimum questions EVER to keep the mystery going. I kind of could understand it when Saru and Tilly were trying to stay undercover, but once the secret was out, how are you just asking what planet you’re on??? You just jump 930 years into the future, one guy hinted the Federation is dead, another is going on about the lack of dilithium, ASK some damn questions!!! “What’s this about the Federation now?” “How come there are no other ships around?” “BTW, can you tell us where we are and can tell us how to get to this other place we’re looking for? We’re sort of new around here.” Instead, take their part and leave as if they just stopped for gas.

Anyway, nothing ‘bad’ abut the episode overall, just felt kind of ‘there’ until the last minute when not surprising Burnham showed up. Next weeks looks REALLY good though.

Personally I thought this one was okay and I loved seeing the crew and the various character dynamics, but the premiere was better in many ways. Also impressed with how quickly the story is moving along. A lot has happened in just 2 episodes. Yeah I just saw the short trailer that was on the CBSAA stream. Without giving away any spoilers for those who choose not to watch the previews, it does look intriguing for sure! One thing I have to admit, for the 2nd week in a row, I can’t wait to see what happens next week.

Yeah as I said, I thought it was fine, but nothing amazing. I can’t tell you why (well I can lol just not everyone will agree) but I LOVED last weeks episode so much. All said and done not a lot happened there story wise but I just like how it set everything up. Booker was great from the get go and made Burnham a bit more fun to be around. It wasn’t perfect but I loved how it set everything up for this era.

This episode kind of did the same, just from the crew’s advantage point. They too fell to some strange planet, met a few of the locals and learned things were not as great as when they left. But it didn’t present anything different from what we saw a week ago either. We saw more shady couriers and another world that has been affected by the Burn but it didn’t really shed light on anything different. And that’s OK of course, I’m not saying every episode you have to get some new crazy twist, etc, that was sort of DIS problem in its first season, it was that all the time. But the story itself just didn’t feel all the riveting I guess.

But I did like seeing a lot of the old characters and clearly they are hinting something is wrong with Detmer. So its nice they may really focus on the bridge crew, FINALLY. I mean they said that last season, but outside of getting a few more lines and scenes they really didn’t focus on them that much. When they finally gave Ariam a back story they killed her off in the same episode. So I’m hoping they are going to really dive into those characters now that there is no more Spock, Sarek, Pike, etc there to focus on.

And I also agree, generally the first two episodes has gotten me excited and next week looks even better! I’m shocked we’re going to Earth so quickly. Honestly I thought they were going to avoid seeing that for awhile, maybe not even get to it at all this season. So it’s really exciting to see what it will be like now so soon.

I think clearly we have different views on what is essential and what is a no-go for a Trek episode ;) Although there is an intersection sometimes, even on Discovery! I recognize this epsiode was nothing amazing and merely decent by Classic Trek standards, but last week in particular violated so many red lines that this week just feels like a breath of fresh air and return to Trek :)

To me Kurtzman Trek in Picard and Discovery are like an abusive relationship – after you regularly get a fist slammed into your face such as with last week’s emotional crapfest or Picardian eyeball gourging, even the strictly average and utterly normal feels like a return to the good old times! Ah, hope at last! :)

And yeah, in this episode there were overall five minutes of screen time of Space Hitler doing her Space Hitler thing and St. Michael saving the day completely unearned that put a wrinkle on it, but that does not invalidate the other 40 minutes to me. Last week, as we discussed, this was the other way round!

As I said, last week wasn’t perfect of course. Yes it did things I didn’t like or agree with either. I didn’t like how Burnham was just mowing down everyone after her, but yes she was defending herself. But I think for a lot of people, the last few minutes of last week just made it feel like we were back in traditional Star Trek territory again. It gave me a lump in my throat.

And as I also said I didn’t hate this episode or anything, it was fine, it was just no moment like that in it. It was basically just meant to catch up to the crew and how they dealt with the initial crash. I certainly liked the character moments with Reno, Stamets, etc but nothing REALLY happened on the ship itself. We saw them trying to repair it obviously but that was basically it. And then they threw in the whole ice being a parasite thing but as shown nothing came of it once Burnham showed up and just pulled them out.

The stuff in the bar was fine, but again just kind of telling us stuff we already knew last episode. I did like when Georgiou showed up and basically saved them although it was odd how Zareh had no problem killing one guy dead but then with Georgiou he just kind of stunned her a few times. That was plot armor in every sense of the word. ;)

To be fair APART from that standout scene not much was happening in last week’s episode either, it was a very generic and similiar “barter what we have for what we need” action plot. What last week didn’t have is all the crew character beats, the humour, and most importantly the central Trekkian dilemma which was not between crew and baddie of the week but Saru and Georgiou : are we going to abandon our principles now that we are in a dark lawless future, or hold on to them? As I mentioned this didnt entirely work part of it being not a fellow ranking officer with a different pov but freaking Space Hitler Saru was sparring with but to me the intention was good. I had actually read the entire plot beforehand and expected not to like this episode based on “not much happening” but for once on screen the sum seemed to be bigger than the parts!

As I said in my response to DeanH, I agree not a lot happened the first episode either, BUT being the first episode we did learn things what the Burn was, state of Starfleet, etc. And was introduced to Booker who I liked a lot. Look, I’ll put it this way, if this episode was the first of the season and “That Hope is You” came out this week, maybe I would feel a bit different about it. I just felt pretty much everything we got or learned in this episode was basically said in the last one and obviously with less detail. I liked the stuff on the ship, it just wasn’t really a lot going on there either outside of Statements really really really wanting to help out.

And for me, what I liked about last week episode is that it was fun and different to just see one character out of their element and completely away from their crew. Even though Star Trek has 8,000 episodes and movies, this was literally the first time, that I can recall anyway, we had just had a main character for completely one episode alone and no one else. I thought that was cool. But yes I KNOW how most people view Burnham around here lol. But as you probably know, I don’t have the same issues with her but yeah she can be improved as a character. But hey I love all of the main characters, even Archer, never had a single issue with him, so that’s my flaw. ;)

But I get your point. You just prefer to see the crew together. I do too, but I knew they were going so up eventually so I was good with it. ;)

There is one TNG episode, Birthright Part 2, where Worf is on his own on a Romulan POW colony moon.

In Birthright Part 1, much of the story takes place with the Enterprise-D at DS9, while Worf goes off on his own mission and ends up on this Romulan moon with Klingon POWs that have been there since the Khitomer attack.

In Part 2, the entire episode focuses on Worf’s encouragement of the young Klingons born and raised in camp to embrace their heritage, while at the same time having complex romantic feelings for a half-Klingon half-Romulan young woman Ba’el who is the daughter of the POW camp commander.

While Worf was able to secretly foster and integrate some of the young Klingons back into Klingon society, at that time there was no society outside that POW camp where Ba’el could be accepted.

If there is a character that Picard should pick-up and explore, she’s definitely one.

Actually TG47, you do see scenes of the Enterprise crew in Birthright Part 2. And there are plenty of episodes in Trek you see a character doing a solo mission or lost. I mean in ‘That Hope is You’ this is the first time in Star Trek where we never see anyone else from the main cast except one character. That’s never been attempted before until now.

And I guess how successful it was depends on your view of Burnham in general. I have had issues with her like others but always generally liked her so I thought it worked well. Others maybe not so much.

I’m caught a few spoilers too, and had the same experience: the episode really worked well, and was more than the sum of its parts.

And I do think we need to really underscore that point — THE SUM WAS MORE THAN iTS PARTS — because that has been a problem in both Discovery’s previous seasons and in Picard.

I hope that this is the mark of a writers room that’s pulling together and knows where they want to take the narrative and the characters. It seems to be a very positive signal of greater coherence to come.

I totally agree with you! A big problem of Discovery, especially in the middle part of season 2 was so many episodes were LESS than the sum of its parts, just a disjointed mess of character scenes and special effects orgies but without an effective narrative structure. I remember many of those were helmed by this director so it seems its primarily a writing problem indeed (I’m also aware TV directors have much less power and control than their movie counterparts so in the end this also falls back on Kurtzman & Co.)!

I think it’s too early yet to say which course season 3 will take and if they have learned their lesson – follow the retreat to action & shallowness in episode 1 or this improved character piece in episode 2. We were much at the same place in season 2 after “Eden” and it turned out that was the only classic episode (safe for the Talos episode, maybe). So I’m keeping my fingers crossed but reserving judgment for now!

I’m itching to discuss that trailer too.

Looking forward to the press stills for the next episode.

I really, really, really hope the whole point of doing the Earth episode next week is to let the crew (and us) fall into the familiarity trap – to lure us with Earth but serve us essentially an alien planet! Unlike in previous seasons, “bait and switch” would make sense and be a strong dramatic narrative device for once! I wonder if that is the point of the tree scene from the previews (the tree being the only familiar element left).

Are we really certain that this is the return to Earth episode?

I’m parsed things differently: in 303, it is revealed that “people of Earth” aren’t generally among those holding up what remains of the Federation; in later episodes Discovery will be visiting Earth and confronted with a regime that doesn’t represent Federation values.

Ahhhhh I see! That would be even more radical and painful, indeed (and explain the emergence of a Pidgin generally not compromised of or descended from English). Where did they write about these two important clues? I seem to have missed those spoilers.

Personally I’m fine with them going full Andromeda now that they can’t mess up our beloved 23rd and 24th centuries and existing canon anymore. They are basically in the same place as the Kelvin movies now with their own, separate part of Trek reality, only I didnt care about most of the choices in those movies, least of all the destruction of Vulcan! So it still comes down to the basic question, will what they write appeal to Trek fans, or not.

A few clues that I picked up:

– humans are not automatically associated with the Federation in either 301 or 302, and others are generally hostile to them;

– we’ve seen both Andorians and humans joining in the Orion Syndicate’s network of couriers;

– logically, 303 is when the crew gets to reunite and catch up with Burnham, mixing in a trip to Earth seems premature as its always a special case in Star Trek;

– Discovery may stand out not only as a super antique but also as a Federation ship that is largely crewed by humans.

We’ve been told in panels that we can’t assume that the founding species/planets are part of the Federation anymore.

The most radical way to turn humanocentric Federation expectations on their head would be to have Earth be one of the planets that has retreated into itself. If that’s the case, I would find it a very compelling story.

This reminds me of some of the Remembrance Day (VE-day) memorials of my childhood where we were strongly reminded that each generation had its responsibility to uphold values and resist tyranny.

I hope other fans can get onboard with this.

Haha, Kurtzman really does think the Federation is akin to the Jedi. They’re a political entity, Alex, not the Justice League.

Thanks for the great review, Mr. Pascale; you made me laugh out loud several times. :-)

I thought this episode was beautifully done; I loved seeing Saru behaving like a real captain.

I did wonder, though, why they had Saru pause for a very long moment when the new ship showed up. There was never any chance that Saru was going to shoot without trying to talk first, so why did he seem like he didn’t know what to do? I suppose maybe the writers and/or the director thought a long pause would be dramatic, but to me, it seemed as if it undermined how wonderfully decisive and in control Saru had been during the rest of the episode.

When Georgiou showed up and saved Saru and Tilly from the bad guys, I thought, “They really need somebody who has Georgiou’s ability to confuse the enemy with her words and to take the enemy down with her fists and feet when the words don’t work, but who is guided by Saru’s morality. And then I slapped myself in the head and said, “Duh, you’ve just described Jim Kirk!” :-)

I didn’t like that long pause. It was obviously done for dramatic purposes. But the fact is when they said they were being hailed and he paused, my first thought was “Answer the damn hail! It’s Burnham!”

It should’ve been Riker. ;D

Freakin’ Timetravellin’ Riker with a fuzzy beard from Parallels!

… just appearing for serving them his famous Pizza! Riker-Pizza-Express delivers anywhere and anytime including time travel!

…. time travelling through a special Star Gate. Let’s call it the Pizza Gate (cough)!

He’s a well-traveled guy. :-)

No, I didn’t like it, either. Someone on the Trek Core site said he thought the pause was to remind us that Federation values are a choice we make, not something automatic. I’m a big believer in the morality play aspect of Star Trek, but I still didn’t like the pause, because I thought it undermined the character of Saru.

I thought Sonequa Martin-Green was very different in that last shot than she’d ever been before, and I’m not talking about the hair. :-) She seemed so much warmer and more personable; I hope that’s the Burnham we’ll get from now on…

For me the pause undercut Saru’s authority. Like he didn’t know what he should do when it was obvious what he should have done.

Let’s just say that as a dramatic beat, it didn’t work at all.

Good episode. Where are the seatbelts? Did that many people volunteer to leave everything behind and go to the future? Even the hazmat guy? Stamets made the major repair using the ribbon cable from my 1994 IBM-clone PC. Saru is inexperienced but is turning into a good leader. Love the conflict between Saru and Georgio (the invincible). I kind of missed Burnham.

I thought that Stamets and Reno’s attitude to the hazmat guy was fairly unforgivable for officers, regardless of their lack of social skills and self-absorbed states of physical pain.

The guy has come a millennium into the future and is cleaning up hunks of Control, and they blow him off when he tells them he has a name.

I hope he continues to snark right back at them.

But it was funny.

“I already forgot.”

Better than anything on Lower Decks, too.

Yeah I didn’t like that either. It made Reno look like an insensitive jerk . They all gave up everything and everyone they know for this brave new era and they are all that they have now. So this is the time you should make everyone feel like they are a team and part of the family, not disregard them because you outrank them.

We know they just wanted to give Reno a funny moment, but it didn’t come off well given everything.

I’m with ML31 on this one.It was supposed to be a joke! For moral “insensitivities”, theres much worse in here, like releasing the torture-murdering baddie just like this. This is NOT the Starfleet way! Being called names is not as bad as, you know, being dead ;)

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one. It just came off nasty to me.

It’s alright. We all have different red lines and perceptions of nastiness. For me its the gratious lethal violence and how careless it’s now assigned even to our supposed heroes (that goes for both Discovery and Picard).

That is true. The ship couldn’t operate for long without crew members doing the “dirty” work. No need for Stamets and Reno to act so dismissive. I had the impression at the end of season 2 that only a skeleton crew volunteered to go to the future out of love/respect for Burnham. Or just enough to fly the ship. But it seems like 2/3 of the crew came according to the review. I’m hoping they explore that a little. Not everyone is going to be happy in the future, some might go rogue when they find out about the burn etc.

BTW, what is Hazmat guy Gene’s last name?

Yes… My impression was that only a handful of crew stayed with the ship. I was a little surprised to see what looked like a full complement remained.

I’ve not seen the episode, was the hazmat guy a rarely-spotted straight white male? If so, that explains why the characters/writers were rude to him *rolls eyes* #CBSTrek.

where you not replying to a comment going on about how the writing in this episode was still a mess Steve?

How would you not know unless you watched 42 minutes within the 2 minutes you posted this comment.

If your gonna troll at least do it right.

Good spotting Ultimateworf!

Steve, if you’re going to drop into troll, do remember what you’ve already posted LOL.

Now that Steve has weighed in about his displeasure about the hazmat guy being insulted, I take back what I said. I now find it hilarious as hell and hope it’s a recurring joke between him and Reno…weekly!

I adore Michelle Yeoh. Ever since I saw Tomorrow Never Dies and Supercop, I ate up everything she’s done. She’s an incredible action star, but also a subtle, reassuring, strong and gentle screen presence, and a wonderful actress through it all. Never did I imagine she would be feature in a big budget Star Trek series.

But I have so many problems with Mirror Georgiou. She is not being thoughtfully written. She’s just there for one-liners and an excuse to behave badly or kick some butts. There’s no discernible arc to her. She is not thawing out to see the advantages of being compassionate and empathetic. She’s not conflicted with any guilt for living a life where she terrorized and murdered. Her only empathy is in her connection to Burnham, and even that is not fleshed out very well.

We’ve seen a character come in hot with no remorse or regard for rules, who participated in murder and ruffled feathers: Seven of Nine. But she had a steady and compelling arc where she embraced and learned to understand the great things humanity is capable of. It was a little preachy and obvious sometimes, but very successful, and so very Star Trek. It’s a shame Yeoh is being wasted in a listless role that didn’t need to be so.

Very thoughtful comment. The difference between Space Hitler and Seven of Nine: the former acted individually with full intention and free will as far as biology allows, while the latter was forced into participation as part of a collective – very different. The writers backed themselves into a corner with Georgiou and there’s no way out that safe for a redemption death (which is what would happen in a Hollywood movie).

But I noticed time and again the writers of this show are incapable of such moral nuance, as this week’s ending shows : the guy who just murdered the miner’s own brother in the most gruesome fashion since the Varon-T disruptor gets just let go by that very miner, even with a ration pack! Is that believable and JUST? No trial, no punishment, no redemption? I know Saru was making a point to Georgiou but it all comes off as very inconsistent and even hypocritical when at other times (such as last week) phasers are set to “blow to pieces” with people who havent done half as wrong as Mr. Gunslinger.

Space Hitler is the one big stain on this show. I like Yeoh too. She was literally the first person we heard announced for this show and I was super excited hearing the news. Like you I seen a few of her Hong Kong movies and of course the bigger mainstream stuff like Tomorrow Never Dies and Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger. And she was great as Prime Georgiou, the two episodes we got of her anyway.

But the former fascist emperor turned PU Section 31 operative just feels so forced. All of this was done to give Yeoh her own show but even now, no one seems all that excited about it and we had an entire season of MU Georgiou to get use to. And I don’t think she changed many minds. In fact I think it went the opposite way. No wonder her Section 31 show now feels much more on the back burner because clearly they know fans are not eating up the idea and clearly Strange New Worlds took its place in the production line up.

All that said, I’m still willing to see if a S31 show happens, what they will do with it. I’m watching no matter what so yeah lol. But if they decided to just cancel it, I doubt many will lose any sleep over it.

The problem is that they killed off Capt. Georgiou in the series premiere. As with Kirk in Generations, if they wanted to keep Michelle Yeoh involved in Star Trek, they shouldn’t have done that. (Indeed, for a while, I thought they were keeping Georgiou’s story ambiguous, since they didn’t actually show her corpse.) Regardless, as with Cumberbatch playing Khan in STID, the character simply doesn’t work, regardless of the quality of the actor.

This. Yes. If they really were super thrilled with have Yeoh it made no sense to kill her off unless it was just a rouse. Which it didn’t end up being. Quite frankly, having Prime Georgeau show up at the end of Season 1 would have been a much better “twist” than Lorca being MU. Still disappointed at the tremendous waste of a potentially deep character. (eyeroll)

Another problem I’m having with Georgiou is that I’m losing track of who knows about her true nature and who doesn’t, especially because they tried pretending she was Prime Georgiou for like, an episode. So when I see her and Nhan getting along I’m left thinking, ‘does she know she’s a genocidal monster, or does she just think she’s a tough badass bitch?’ Usually when things like this are done, it’s a lot more clear-cut. Here it just feels like careless writing.

excluding the popular Pike portrayal by Anson Mount (that made him worthy of getting his own series) this was probably my favourite episode of Discovery. High praise for a number of reasons. This fit more to a format of Star Trek that I’ve been waiting for. The bridge crew got well deserved screen time instead of being the Michael Burnham show. No disrespect to Sonequa the actress, but I hate the Burnham character though I’ll admit the last episode on her own wasn’t nearly as bad as I found her in S1 & S2.. I Cant stand that fake Vulcan wannabe and hate that the show is written as though she’s the saviour and single handedly does everything so change that up and they’re golden. If they continue this new ensemble route the show may become watchable without constant moaning and eye rolling. Stand out moments from tonight’s episode are from lots of the crew including the fierce Georgiou, Saru, Jett Reno (I love her!) Detmar, and Tilly. If this is what we can expect going forward, then Discovery may have finally grown the Beard.

Is it just me, or was Voyager’s crash landing on an ice planet after it’s botched Quantum Slipstream attempt more visually impressive than Disco’s crash sequence!? And this was 22 years ago people!!

Seemed like the opening credits changed slightly from last week

Do you mean the Star Trek Discovery logo? I’ve read elsewhere that they have actually gone back and changed it in the first episode as well. So if you rewatch the season opener on All Access or Netflix now you get the new logo. Apparently, the logo used in episode 1 was a mix between the old logo from previous seasons and the new logo used in recent marketing materials. Episode 2 finishes that transition to the new logo.

Yeah “discovery” was in the new text and “star trek” was in the old font last week

Time travel is banned, but most people that Burnham and Discovery bump into know it’s possible.

For Discovery and Burnham it’s the great secret. For 32nd century people, it’s dangerous, criminal behaviour that’s only excused by the naivety of past generations. It also doesn’t seem super rare to have people come forward in time, but Discovery may have come for exceptionally far.

I think that this is the great irony of the season, and I love how the writers are getting the humour out of this.

Some of the things that point to this:

– There is an active market in ancient tech and antiques, and not just ones that have been stashed somewhere.

– Temporal anomaly detection seems like a standard navigational feature

– Couriers infer that a ship not in the database must be a time traveler

– the guys in the bar basically test out Tilly and Saru’s knowledge of contemporary tech by their reactions, and don’t reveal the personal transporter until the crisis has past.

The other question is who enforces the temporal ban and who intervenes when ill-intentioned people come forward?

Given Georgiou’s comment about liking traversing universes, I suspect we now now what S31 will have as its primary mandate in the late 32nd century.

TG47, your interpretations are always so much richer than what the writers put on screen, and I do hope you are correct we are seeing in fact a paradigm shift regarding time travel, and other things. This is what I want to see to make the distance to TOS/TNG (which is far greater than TOS/TNG to us) poignant, and not just a number. I do hope right now like the characters, we are only seeing a vaguely familiar surface which in fact turns more and more alien (in both senses) as the season progresses and we find out more about this new world!

in that light, I like the idea of this whole new language (apparently an amalgam of various alien languages) that is often taking the place of Federation Standard/English now that the Federation has lost its primacy, and maybe this is actually the more clever route than introducing fictional changes to English. They could even credibly claim Federation Standard is a dead language now and as such has not changed anymore, same as literary Latin after the Fall of the Roman Empire (which does not explain the lack of change in the 800 years before the Burn, but, oh well…)

Good thoughts about linguistics VS.

It could be that the pidgin was developing for a long time, in fact it would need to have been well established before the Burn interrupted travel.

Perhaps before the temporal ban the Federation enforced some kind of stability in the common language in order to avoid greater intertemporal culture contamination.

It’s a reminder it’s not just about the Burn and the post-Burn universe, there’s more than 600 years of Trek history BEFORE that still waiting to be filled out. The only clue we got is “Temporal Wars” which at least jives with Voyager and Enterprise in that respect. But really anything could have happened, including a World War 4. We will see the effect of six centuries of history on Earth (since Picard) next week, I presume, and I hope they make it count!

Doesn’t make sense to me that Discovery ended up a year in the future after the wormhole had closed a year prior…and in a different region of space. Did the wormhole have multiple exits in time and space? That really wasn’t communicated well by the writers. That’s one of the things I find very frustrating about current Trek, the science is not thought out well at all.

Can we wait at least a week before making that kind of judgment?

Burnham’s surprising arrival to save Discovery and brief interaction was all we got.

Explanations and exposition of the science didn’t belong in that scene. Let’s see if it’s addressed when Burnham comes to Discovery.

Well, we kind of HAVE to wait a week. haha Given past experiences, I’m not exactly full of confidence that the writers will have an explanation grounded in science but until next week, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

They literally covered this in episode 1, due to temporal mechanics they could arrive tomorrow, or a thousand years from now… time travel in Trek is an exercise in suspension of disbelief at all times, it always has been. Just roll with it.

Crew complement.

Actually, Discovery had 90 crew during the transit, not 88.

Zareh refers to the other 72 crew “back on their ship.”

Tilly responds that it’s 88 actually, as they count those on life support.

So, my accounting is:

There are 91 time travellers from the 22nd century.

– Burnham

– Georgiou

– 73 functioning Discovery crew (72 Zareh mentioned – Georgiou + Tilly & Saru)

– 16 Discovery crew on live support who may or may not recover

I’m recalling how the Voyager writers and producers kept a careful count of the crew who survived the series premiere, and had to track the actors also.

We may see more modest talking parts like Linus, Nihlsson, Gene the hazmat suit guy and others so that we can credibly believe that there was more than 10 people who came forward.

As I commented elsewhere, one of the big differences between Discovery’s complement and Voyager is that every single one of those crewmembers made a monumental personal choice to come forward a millennium with Discovery.

Yes, being in service means being ready to sacrifice one’s life, but this is not the same choice, and they all volunteered. Each and every one who made that transit is a hero, and each is due respect by the writers.

TG47, Voyager’s crew complement wasnt so carefully monitored and one of the aspects of “bad continuity” lamented about at the time (some crazy people have counted we have seen more than 140 different people in 7 seasons, and subgroups like the number of Vulcans seemed to change according to the needs of the plot).

Like Voyager, Discovery writers now face the daunting task to make us believe in this small crew complement AND people not likely transferring on and off the ship that would normally explain why we don’t see the same people every week.

Meaning, if Discovery is to continue in this modus operandi for the next 5 seasons, we will need a much bigger supporting cast than the bridge crew, something not tried since DS9. But here’s another opportunity in this limitation, to build the rich relationships between this unique group of stranded time travellers (as you remarked).

With that, they can also build up further the “accidental” metaphor we now see: the USS Discovery is US, stranded in this new world of 2020 no matter where we come from and what we believe. We don’t have a choice to go back, only ahead, into the future!

I wonder why Rachel Ancheril now gets to be in the opening credits whereas many of the other actors who’ve been on the show longer are still stuck in the end credits? That doesn’t seem fair, especially to Emily Coutts, who the show needs to use more.

Who is Starring and Co-Starring is determined by SAG regs. It’s not like ‘this actor is clearly superior’ or ‘this character is awesome’. It’s regs and negotiations.

Absolutely on the money, mysticaldigital.

And in this case, because it’s all about their SAG rather than ACTRA (Canadian equivalent) status, there are actors like Ronnie Rowe Jr. who has carried a Canadian feature film, who has lower status than Ancheril who was a lead in a Canadian cop show that had US cable distribution.

I have noticed that all the supporting bridge crew are listed as co-stars in the end credits. If you look up the definitions for “regular”, “recurring”, “guest star”, “co-star”, etc. a co-star is described as someone only having very few lines and/or appearing only in a very limited number of scenes. They are usually only contracted for a day of shooting.

So even though the bridge characters have been with the show since the beginning they are contracted as not much more than an extra. That probably also explains why their characters haven’t been developed more. If their roles were expanded they would also have to be upgraded to guest star or even recurring status.

In contrast, Tig Notaro and Jake Weber (the baddie) were listed as guest stars. That means they were contracted to have a bigger role. Guest stars are generally paid better than co-stars.

It looks like Discovery wants to keep their Canadian “regulars” as day players. They like them enough to bring them back again and again but not enough to give them a better contract that would allow for more scenes but also cost more.

Ancheril is Canadian actually.

Having more Canadians higher on the call sheet, as heads of production design, costumes, and directing a portion of the episodes is a factor in the tax credit formulas as I understand it.

Thanks. I only looked at her IMDB page and it doesn’t say where she’s from. A quick Google search could have fixed that ;-) I was wondering if she is more famous than the bridge crew actors to justify that higher billing because I wasn’t familiar with her. Funny thing is I must have seen her on Killjoys since I watched that show but I don’t think I ever recognized her as the same person playing Nhan on Discovery.

My guess is that she’s been on more productions that have had US distribution, particularly as a star in Rookie Blue, which has given Ancheril higher status in SAG as opposed to the relative ACTRA (Canadian Guild) status.

(Interestingly, for directors there are accords between the DGC and DGA so there isn’t quite the same barrier.)

Some of Discovery’s cast have fairly deep resumes in Canada, and continue to work on other series, movies and projects across both American and Canadian productions. They all seem to be doing well.

Ronnie Rowe Jr carried a Canadian feature film, Black Cop that had a festival win. He is the lead for the first of the new Hallmark Christmas movies this year, starring with Julie Gonzales, which is a significant step for representation.

Raven Dauda has a fairly broad and deep resume in both Canadian television and stage. I first noticed her in recurrent (parent) role in the wonderful Emmy-recognized STEM kids series “Annedroids” when our kids were that age. She’s done a lot of guest star roles. She had a modest role on The Expanse season 3. She recently won a significant award for a one-woman show.

Oyin Olajedo is in her first regular role in Discovery, but since she also has a main cast role in a children’s live action sci-fi series called Endlings that will soon be shooting its third season.

Patrick Kwok-Choon seems to just be starting to get more significant roles, and has tweeted that he just completed a movie. He’s also landed being the voice for a significant car manufacturer’s ads.

The following occurs:

– Tilly again casts an annoying shadow on every scene in which she appears. She is the neediest waste of space to ever be introduced to the Star Trek universe. I can’t be the only one wishing for her to be killed off. The hatred she brings out is even more unhealthy than her increasing obesity level.

– Georgiou is toe-curlingly badly written, portrayed (if Michelle Yeoh is the best Malaysia has to offer, then they must have one dire entertainment industry) and she makes a Scooby Doo villain look more layered.

– Reno – at times an entertaining last season – has no decency whatsoever in the disgustingly, humiliating way she spoke to that member of the ship’s cleaning crew.

– Stamets has one, single facial expression for every emotion. Half way between having his member caught in zipper and being told that Santa isn’t real.

The show is back to its substandard drivel, after a promising opener last week.

Pretty much agree with that, except to add that Tilly seems a very poorly developed character… I mean one minute, she’s offering lucid engineering solutions or hypotheses, the next she reverts back to that ridiculous gushy spotty-faced over-eager teenager… I mean, really? I can cope with Georgiou because it’s a one-dimensional arse-kicker in a universe where, when an apparently insurmountable obstacle appears, you just invoke some ridiculous bit of technology to solve it like ‘reconfiguring the deflector array to produce a reverse tachyon pulse’ or some such Voyager twaddle…’programmable matter? well, you’d be at least 800 years beyond the development of Holodecks in the 32nd century, wouldn’t you, so – big deal! – what I haven’t been able to cope with is Burnham, and her over-the-top emotional responses and exaggerated facial expressions when confronted with any family backstory, or childhood trauma.. ugh! dreadful.. I think Tilly and Burnham need to go…. and quick. Reno, yeah started off promising, now just become a liability… You’re right about Stamets, too… permanently constipated, I’d say… Oh well, in the absence of the Expanse Season 5 I’ll keep watching, I guess…..

I never felt Tilly was a good character. Part of me thinks that it might be just what Weisman brings to the table. But make no mistake… It’s not a very good part.

MU Georgeau… Pretty much the consensus. She is a terrible idea and it’s the wrong part for Yeoh. It’s not a good fit.

Reno… Still the best part of the cast. It never occurred to me that she was being “mean”. So what? Suck it up. So she’s a bit a jerk. At least she’s not a black & white character. I love it and want her to keep doing it.

Stammets… Meh. Not impressed. But not unimpressed either. He’s…. Adequate.

It’s actually looking like another problem with Secret Hideout is with casting. They have made a lot of bad calls. And some good ones, too. (Anson Mount, for example). But there are a lot of good actors out there and to have as many people in parts that don’t work for them as this show has would seem to reflect badly on the casting director.

Michelle Yeoh is an acting legend. I don’t like Mirror Georgiou and don’t think the role is a good fit for her talents, but the woman is an international superstar for good reason. Her resume over the last 30 years is so impressive, and all the best directors have clamored to work for her. She has done Malaysia and Hong Kong and China proud.

Star Trek has always had their Characters that felt like misfits and who struggled with anxieties. The way you trash Tilly is borderline bullying imho. Your negativity towards body types added (which is really only a culture / fashion thing – to be slightly overweigth is more healthy than the other way around) I recommend you examine your own life before holding others up to a subjective standard of “perfection“.

To all people who can relate to Tilly (i know i am): it is not about being that fearless, perfect looking human, its about acting despite the fear that makes you strong.

Groan…another Michael Burnham saves the day episode! We spend over 95% of the episode seeing the crew work to save the ship only to have Burnham and her new hairdo show-up to save the day, again. Pathetic.

Mary Sue to the rescue again….who would of thought……

I’m finding this series very strange. Visually rich, yes – but with some incomprehensible directorial decisions, some gaping plot holes, and some VERY bad acting from one or two of the cast. For instance – the combination of short, rapid cut shots during the action sequences gets paired with long drawn out cheesy emotional reaction shots during the attempts to infuse the story with human sensitivities – this is where the bad acting becomes apparent – also the way some of the characters have almost schizoid changes of personality is very disconcerting… I think what’s wrong here is some of the casting – some of the character development, and the uneven narrative pace. Hopefully, it will settle down – Next Gen took until about season three.. There needs to be a more coherent directorial style, a firm pace, and less ‘family backstory’ claptrap….

(sigh). I was hoping beyond hope that new season would mean a reduction in the overheated melodrama. After all, the third season has historically meant a sea change for most ST series. Alas, alas, this is still a violent kiddy show. But, as they know, I, and many people like me, will watch anyway.

Well if you want to compare to other Treks this is really comparable to the beginning of season 2 for the over the air shows.

Discovery is better than Picard. Yes, two different shows. But Discovery is better, at least so far. IMO. These first 2 shows have been well produced and feel very polished. The cast and crew are in a groove. Hopefully Picard catches up in S2.

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Every Star Trek Movie, Ranked by Box Office

S cience fiction has been integral in pushing the boundaries of storytelling forward since the inception of cinema, and the 1950s certainly saw a revival of interest in the genre. However, the debut of Star Trek changed the course of the science fiction genre forever , and continues to influence the way that the genre operates today. Gene Roddenberry ’s classic adventure series included many great episodes centering on the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Commander Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and the rest of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew that would become household names in the subsequent decades.

While the franchise is most often associated with the many television shows in its continuity , the Star Trek film franchise became a blockbuster saga in its own right . With films centered on the original cast, the new characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation , and a rebooted version of the franchise in the “Kelvin Timeline,” the Star Trek film saga is fascinating because of its three unique eras, each of which has both incredible highs and notorious failures. Here is every Star Trek movie, ranked by its global box office gross.

‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ (2002)

Worldwide gross: $67,336,470.

It’s really not all that surprising that Star Trek: Nemesis became the lowest grossing film in the Star Trek series thus far , as enthusiasm for the franchise had dwindled by the time that the fourth film starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation hit theaters. Regarded as a resounding creative failure that failed to give the characters a proper sendoff, Star Trek: Nemesis brought in a measly global box office total of less than $68 million when it hit theaters in December 2002.

While the films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation never reached the popularity of their counterparts in the original series, Star Trek: Nemesis wasn’t even successful in satisfying fans of the show . The baffling decision to include Tom Hardy as Shinzon, the villainous clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), felt like a desperate move by Paramount Pictures to inject some momentum into a franchise that was on its way out.

Star Trek: Nemesis

Release Date December 13, 2002

Director Stuart Baird

Cast LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, michael dorn

Rating PG-13

Runtime 117

Main Genre Action

Genres Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, Adventure

Writers Rick Berman, Gene Roddenberry, John Logan, Brent Spiner

Tagline A generation's final journey begins

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‘Star Trek V: The Final Frontier’ (1989)

Worldwide gross: $70,200,000.

While Leonard Nimoy proved himself to be a terrific filmmaker with his contributions to the Star Trek film franchise, the same could not be said of William Shatner. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was Shatner’s directorial debut, and became the lowest grossing film starring the cast of the original series . With a global box office gross of just over $70 million , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier marked a significant downward spiral for the saga based on the rapturous reception that the previous few installments in the series had received.

While the franchise itself was actually on an upward swing, as Star Trek: The Next Generation had premiered to great success two years prior, the poor box office performance of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is representative of its complete creative failures . Regarded as one of the worst in the series, the film failed to get viewers engaged in seeing it multiple times.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Release Date June 9, 1989

Director William Shatner

Cast Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan

Runtime 107 minutes

Writers Harve Bennett, David Loughery, Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner

Tagline The greatest Enterprise of all is adventure

‘Star Trek III: The Search for Spock’ (1984)

Worldwide gross: $87,000,000.

Although the classic “odd/even” rule among Star Trek fans indicates that the odd-numbered films are the weakest, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is easily one of the most underrated films in the series . Capitalizing on the success of the previous entry, which had ended on a massive cliffhanger revolving around Spock’s fate, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock reached an impressive worldwide box office gross of $87 million .

While the film gave the series one of its best villains in Christopher Lloyd ’s Klingon warrior Kruge, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock may not have appealed to viewers outside the niche fanbase . The film is largely reliant on references to both the previous films and the original series, and may have struggled connecting with viewers that were stepping into the franchise for the first time.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Release Date June 1, 1984

Director Leonard Nimoy

Cast Walter Koenig, William Shatner, George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan

Runtime 105

Writers Harve Bennett, Gene Roddenberry

Tagline A dying planet. A fight for life.

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‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ (1982)

Worldwide gross: $95,800,000.

Often regarded as the best and most emotional installment in the entire saga, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a box office hit that set the franchise up for future success . While its predecessor had ditched the action-adventure tone of the original series for a more artistic approach, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan felt like a return to form for the franchise. Its gross of over $95 million at the global box office is impressive considering that the original Star Trek show had been off the air for over a decade.

While fans of the franchise appreciated the more mature direction the film took, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan may have struggled to connect with younger viewers due to its dark tone . With significantly more violence and several major character deaths, it’s easily the most intense entry in the entire franchise.

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

Release Date June 4, 1982

Director Nicholas Meyer

Runtime 113

Writers Samuel A. Peeples, Jack B. Sowards, Harve Bennett, Gene Roddenberry, Nicholas Meyer

Tagline At the end of the universe lies the beginning of vengeance.

‘Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’ (1991)

Worldwide gross: $96,888,996.

While it failed to reach the financial highs of some of its predecessors, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country served as a perfect sendoff for the cast of the original series . Ostensibly marketed as the “final adventure” for Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the classic U.S.S. Enterprise crew, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country grossed over $96 million at the global box office .

While it was hardly one of the biggest blockbusters in the saga, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country helped redeem the series after the disastrous performance by Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . By incorporating a memorable new antagonist in Christopher Plummer ’s General Chang and reflecting on the era, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ushered out the first iteration of the franchise, giving room for the series to evolve in its future installments.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Release Date December 6, 1991

Runtime 109

Writers Denny Martin Flinn, Mark Rosenthal, Gene Roddenberry, Lawrence Konner, Nicholas Meyer, Leonard Nimoy

Tagline The battle for peace has begun.

‘Star Trek: Insurrection’ (1998)

Worldwide gross: $117,800,000.

While the show itself produced countless great episodes , the films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation never occupied the same place with audiences that the original series cast had. While Star Trek: Insurrection performed surprisingly well at the box office considering the highly negative reviews, the film underperformed in comparison to its two direct predecessors, grossing a little over $117 million at the global box office.

The main issue was that the films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation never felt like “events,” as the series itself had only just wrapped up a few years prior. Considering audiences were used to seeing these characters on television, there was less enthusiasm behind seeing them on the big screen for what ostensibly felt like a two-part episode of the series. A lack of action and odd physical comedy certainly didn’t help Star Trek: Insurrection endear itself to fans of the show.

Star Trek: Insurrection

Release Date December 11, 1998

Director Jonathan Frakes

Cast LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Gates McFadden, michael dorn

Runtime 103

Writers Michael Piller, Rick Berman, Gene Roddenberry

Tagline The battle for paradise has begun.

‘Star Trek Generations’ (1994)

Worldwide gross: $120,000,000.

As the first of the films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation to hit theaters, Star Trek Generations generated a lot of enthusiasm based on the popularity of the show. While the original Star Trek series was canceled after three seasons, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a major television hit that earned multiple Primetime Emmy Awards and generated enthusiasm for its memorable cast of characters . While Star Trek Generations generally failed to live up to the hype, it nonetheless succeeded in grossing $120 million at the global box office .

In addition to seeing the beloved characters hit the big screen for the first time, Star Trek Generations got a boost in popularity thanks to an appearance by Captain Kirk . Shatner’s appearance in the film was enough to generate interest from audiences who had seen the character in previous films.

Star Trek: Generations

Release Date November 18, 1994

Director David Carson

Runtime 118

Writers Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Gene Roddenberry, Ronald D. Moore

Tagline Two captains. One destiny.

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‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’ (1986)

Worldwide gross: $133,000,000.

While many franchises begin to run out of creative juice by the time that they reach their fourth installment , Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home outperformed its predecessors by adding more comedy and heart to the series . Although it continued the storyline introduced in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home brought the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to New York City for an adventure that felt like a typical 1980s comedy. With a greater appeal to non- Star Trek fans than previous entries, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home grossed $133 million at the global box office .

While it certainly pleased fans of the franchise with its references to the past, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is best remembered for its important message. The film’s pro-environmentalist themes have given it much more longevity than other entries in the series.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Release Date November 26, 1986

Runtime 119

Main Genre Adventure

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Writers Peter Krikes, Steve Meerson, Harve Bennett, Gene Roddenberry, Nicholas Meyer, Leonard Nimoy

Tagline How on Earth can they save the future?

‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ (1979)

Worldwide gross: $139,000,000.

The science fiction genre was completely re-energized by the success of Star Wars in 1977, inspiring other studios to quickly release new films within the genre by the time that the decade concluded. While it had been over a decade since the original series had been canceled, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office smash hit that revitalized interest in the franchise. Earning a global box office total of $139 million , Star Trek: The Motion Picture became one of 1979’s top grossers.

The success of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is somewhat surprising considering how offbeat and cerebral the film was . Opting for a nuanced approach to sci-fi similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was certainly an interesting first entry in the series due to its vast tonal and aesthetic differences with its sequels.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Release Date December 7, 1979

Director Robert Wise

Cast Majel Barrett, William Shatner, George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan

Runtime 132

Genres Mystery, Sci-Fi, Adventure

Writers Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster, Gene Roddenberry

Tagline The human adventure is just beginning.

‘Star Trek: First Contact’ (1996)

Worldwide gross: $150,000,000.

While Star Trek Generations has been a modest financial hit and earned mixed reviews from hardcore fans of the series, Star Trek: First Contact became the most successful film starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation . With its global box office total of $150 million , the film clearly managed to satisfy both fans of the series and appeal to broader audiences.

While the storyline involving James Cromwell as the scientist Zefram Cochrane spoke of more optimistic elements of the series, Star Trek: First Contact was an action film first and foremost . By pitting Picard and his crew against the villainous Borg aliens, Star Trek: First Contact was easily the most intense entry in the series since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Considering the boom in popularity of action cinema in the 1990s, it's unsurprising that Star Trek: First Contact ’s action-heavy tone yielded it great success.

Star Trek: First Contact

Release Date November 22, 1996

Runtime 111

Tagline Resistance is futile.

‘Star Trek Beyond’ (2016)

Worldwide gross: $335,673,708.

Despite a box office total of over $335 million at the global box office, Star Trek Beyond was a significant financial failure that put the future of the franchise in serious jeopardy. Despite a massive budget of $185 million and a strong marketing campaign, Star Trek Beyond grossed over $100 million less than its predecessor. Star Trek Beyond ’s underperformance is disappointing considering how thoughtful, heartfelt, and entertaining the film is in comparison to more recent iterations of the franchise.

Star Trek Beyond ’s financial underperformance has stalled work on another sequel, as a fourth entry in the “Kelvin timeline” series has been stuck in development hell for nearly a decade. Given how radically the cinematic marketplace has changed in the years since the film’s release, the Star Trek franchise will need a bold reinvention to once again rank among the industry’s most valuable franchises.

Star Trek Beyond

Release Date July 7, 2016

Director Justin Lin

Cast Sofia Boutella, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Idris Elba, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Runtime 120

Genres Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Writers Doug Jung, Roberto Orci, Gene Roddenberry, John D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Simon Pegg

Studio Paramount Pictures

Tagline Fifty year. One legacy

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‘Star Trek’ (2009)

Worldwide gross: $386,839,614.

The Star Trek franchise was considered dead in the early 21st century, as the failure of the film series involving the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise suggested a grim future for the series. However, Paramount Pictures decided to hire Lost innovator J.J. Abrams to retool the series and effectively reboot it. 2009’s Star Trek managed to introduce the franchise to a new generation , earning an impressive global box office total of over $386 million .

While the insertion of more action certainly didn’t hurt, the Star Trek reboot succeeded because of the appeal of its new cast . Chris Pine ’s brilliant reinvention of Captain Kirk managed to endear itself to a younger generation of viewers in the same way that Shatner’s work had for previous generations. It provided a comeback for the series and was a critical hit, earning the franchise its first Academy Award for Best Makeup.

Release Date May 6, 2009

Director J.J. Abrams

Cast Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Chris Pine, Karl Urban

Runtime 126

Writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gene Roddenberry

Tagline The future begins.

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ (2013)

Worldwide gross: $467,381,584.

While the way in which it retooled elements of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan remains divisive among fans of the series, Star Trek Into Darkness was an unprecedented box office juggernaut that easily became the biggest film in the entire series. While the franchise has certainly produced some commercial hits, Star Trek Into Darkness ’ amazing global box office gross of over $467 million placed it as one of the highest grossing films of 2013.

It’s difficult to imagine the Star Trek franchise ever reaching the financial heights of Star Trek Into Darkness ever again, as the saga has stuck to its television roots in recent years. While the announcement of the Michelle Yeoh -led film Star Trek: Section 31 certainly has potential, it will take a significant marketing push to earn the same enthusiasm that Star Trek Into Darkness generated over a decade ago.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Release Date May 5, 2013

Cast Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, John Cho

Runtime 133

Writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Gene Roddenberry

Tagline Earth will Fall.

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When Kevin Costner revealed the trailer for “ Horizon: An American Saga ,” the first of his planned four-part epic about the American West, the two-time Academy Award winner looked positively giddy — at least over Zoom.

“Trailers have always been kind of a favorite part for me, even as a boy going to the movies,” Costner said, grinning as he unveiled the first footage in a virtual conversation with journalists. “You’re obviously there to see the movie you want, but isn’t it kind of cool when you see what’s coming? … And with that in mind, I did my very best to expose what’s going to be a four-part saga.”

“Can they, in a sense, feel themselves in this movie? Because that’s what I want people to feel in the dark, that [it] suddenly just absorbs them,” Costner teased. “We all know what happens when the lights go out — either something good, something average or something great. What I hope is that this is something that stays with them forever.”

The three minute trailer introduces “Horizon’s” ensemble cast — led by Costner’s Hayes Elllison, who rides into the frame with the stunning landscapes of Utah on full display — and tees up the action as the film explores the triumphs and tragedies brought on by the ideology of Manifest Destiny. The clip shares a first look at his co-stars Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tantanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt and Jamie Campbell Bower.

Much of the footage simply teases, rather than directly explains the film’s plot, offering glimpses of the Native American populations that will be featured in the film and possibly a romantic storyline between Costner’s Ellison and Lee’s character.

“Use that much this year?” Bower’s character asks Costner near the end of the clip, as he uses his shotgun to reveal Costner’s holstered pistol.

“Haven’t had much need of it yet,” he replies, as the clip cuts to a scene in which Costner displays his quick draw skills.

“Looks like we’ve got ourselves a bad man right here,” Bower declares, chuckling as Costner walks away.

The official description explains that the film “explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won — and lost — through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.”

In addition to starring in the film, Costner directed from a script he co-wrote with Jon Baird. “Horizon: An American Saga” is Costner’s fourth directorial effort following 2003’s “Open Range,” 1997’s “The Post Man” and 1990’s Oscar best picture-winning “Dances With Wolves.”

“This is by far the biggest struggle,” Costner declared, when asked if ‘Horizon’ or ‘Dances with Wolves’ was more difficult to make. “I’m shocked at what we were able to get. I shot ‘Dances’ for 106 days, I shot the movie you’re just seeing right now in 52. … I did learn a lot and I was able to use every trick in the book to try to bring this movie to ground and to bring it to an audience. And there’s four of them!”

In the conversation, moderated by Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Costner also detailed the origins of the project and explained why he held onto this idea for more than 30 years.

“It’s hard to fall out of love. I don’t do that,” Costner said. “Things that have a classic feel they don’t fall out of touch either. I think they exist in any decade. That’s the opportunity we have in cinema is to make something that lasts past its opening weekend. I’ve never banked on opening weekends; I banked on people wanting to revisit something.”

With “Horizon” specifically, Costner wasn’t deterred when no one wanted to finance the movie; in fact, that gave him the “bright idea to make four,” he quipped, adding that, “There’s a lot of people out there that know I’m a little bit of a hard-head or something.”

In terms of the film’s tone, he wanted to step away from the well-worn Western tropes.

Because he was so passionate about this story, Costner said he eventually realized that he had to make it which mean looking to himself financially to do it.

“Not the smartest thing,” he admitted, alluding to the personal cost of risking his 10-acre Santa Barbara home to fund the movie series. “But I count on people. I count on the movie speaking louder than anything I can say. And so with that in mind, I just shoved West myself and I just left, and I went out to make this movie in Utah.

Costner then explained why he shot the film in the Beehive State. “When you go through Utah, it’s magic. And it wasn’t easy for us to do. There were certain things that weren’t set up that we see in other states. … But I kind of bypassed the smart business decision to go where my money could stretch farther.” Costner noted that the production spent over $100 million in Utah and employed more than 500 people over the course of the shoot. “We had an impact on the state, but the state had an impact on me.”

He also revealed that the movie was originally titled “Sidewinder,” but because he’d had a few movies that inspired copycats, like Robin Hood and Wyatt Earp, he wanted to throw the industry off his scent.

“I just thought, ‘I don’t want anybody stepping into whatever I’m trying to do,’ so I called it ‘Horizon’ and said it was written by my son just to disguise it when it went to the Writers Guild,” Costner said. “But the longer I started to think about it, the more I began to appreciate that dreams, going West, they’re always about ‘Out there.’ When you realize a country is bigger and farther than anyone ever dreamed, it is about the horizon.”

He explained: “Because everybody is looking for something — even today, in the relationships and what’s going on at work. They’re looking for room; they’re looking for fresh air. And our 200 year march across this country was no different.”

Costner also acknowledged the injustices that the film saga will explore, particularly as it explores the Civil War era, which he describes as “a mark on our country, however you choose to look at it — the loss of life, the reason it was fought, the things that we still haven’t solved, we’re still trying to come to terms with as a nation — but it closed the West in a blink of an eye.”

The war had kept the country’s on the east coast, but the minute it ended in 1865, everyone looked west again. “In 25 years, something that had been there for thousands of years, it was over. Our national appetite was to be satisfied at the at the disadvantage to those who had been there and flourished and were living in their own way,” Costner said, referring to the Indigenous populations who were crushed by the movement.

With so much experience in the western or cowboy genre in projects like “Dances With Wolves,” “Open Range,” and most recently as the star of “Yellowstone,” Costner cautioned that he’s not trying to reinvent the wheel with “Horizon.”

“You try not to separate yourself from the rest of the reindeer in terms of [saying] ‘I’m going to be different,’ because I’m not looking to set the record straight or make a history lesson,” he said of the film. “There’s just a way I look at movies: I’m gonna get to the action; I’m gonna get to my gunfight, but I’m gonna get there in maybe a different way. … The West is a real place with real issues.”

At the end of the day, Costner hopes to achieve a couple goals. “I want my little girl to see what her great, great, great-grandmother went through,” he said of his personal investment in the story. But on a broader scale, he hopes the ride is worth moviegoers’ money.

“The oldest profession is telling stories around a fire. We all want to hear a good one and we don’t want somebody to waste our time. And I take my time, I hope I don’t waste your time,” Costner said. “I made four of these. I’d like for us to all take those journeys and try to have a high understanding of this first one. The second one’s already shot. I’m out there, heading west again, pushing a rock uphill trying to make the third one. I know I’m a little bit kind of a joke, or it’s maybe humorous to even watch me, because it’s like, ‘Whoa, I wonder when he’s going to ever stop digging.’ I don’t know.”

At this point, the movie isn’t even his anymore. “Horizons” will now travel the world, as will the questions he’s been dreaming about for decades. Like, if he’d made that trek in the 1800s, would he have made it? He might not know the answer to that question, but he’s feeling pretty accomplished anyway.

“I’m terribly satisfied in my own life that God allowed me to get these first two done,” Costner said, quipping, “I mean, if I’m hit by lightning, who knows what happens? At least I went West.”

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