So, the last episode. It was OK. The story was garbage, but some cool stuff happened. And it does reset the status-quo in a way that allows for season two to be much, much better. I wouldn't recommend the first season at all, but I'm going to watch season two.
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| They're disguised as weapon smugglers. |
The main part of the episode was basically just an excuse to show off a bunch of aliens in a seedy part of the Klingon planet. It was cool, but it served absolutely no purpose. The idea was that they needed to find out where these ancient temples were that weer built over the volcanoes that all link up inside the planet - supposedly to send a drone in there but secretly (obviously) to put a bomb in there to blow up the planet. I honestly can't even remember what the dumb fake plan that Michael believed was.
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| Just a couple of Klingons, Klingoning it up. |
The emperor hires a couple of green prostitutes (one male, one female - because bisexuals are evil, obvs) and threatens the information out of them. I'm not sure why they knew or how she knew they knew, but it doesn't matter. The human-in-a-klingon's-body-that-looks-like-a-human's-body freaks Michael out by being all Klingony but that goes nowhere an Tilly takes some drugs and discovers the real plan, just slightly too late to stop it.
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| I hope the next season has better lighting. |
But apparently it takes a long fucking time to carry out, because they have time to call up the admiral and make their case for not blowing up Klingonia and then get down to the temple and stop the emperor. And their new plan for ending the war is to give the detonator to that klingon they had in the brig so she can use it to threaten all the other klingons into obeying her and stopping the war, which some works even though it's the dumbest plan ever.
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| This is either very good or very bad. |
But now the war's over (and that's fantastic because it was shit) and Michael, Saru, fungus-guy and I think Tilly get medals and the rest of the bridge crew get to, I guess, stand there and see them get those medals? Also Michael gets a full pardon and her old rank back and they're heading off to pick up their new (unnamed) captain - which kind of sucks for Saru because it really seemed like he was being set up to be captain full-time - when they run into Captain Pike and the Enterprise, which is broadcasting a distress signal, and the episode ends.
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| There it is, that space ship that you love. |
When I put it like that, this was a shit episode. No, the bit on Klingonia was cool, it just didn't really serve any purpose. The episode was OK to watch, it just capped off a bad season. They've still got the fungus drive though, which I guess they have to to justify keeping fungus-guy on board, but obviously there's going to be some reason at some point for them abandoning it forever. But the shitty war is over and the shitty captain is gone and hopefully next season they might actually start exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations and boldly going where no one has gone before. Maybe?
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| I really don't buy the full pardon and reinstatement as plausible though. |
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