I just have to say right up front, this season looks like it's going to be better than last season. I want to make that clear because I don't have much nice to say about this episode because there just wasn't much to it. The specific plot of the episode is mostly filler and what's left is setting things up for the rest of the season. It was already more fun than last season though, and I like Pike so far.
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| It was pretty weird that this guy sneezed in someone's face and no one really reacted. |
So we saw at the end of the last season that Pike was going to be the new captain, and he comes over in this episode with a couple of his friends. Not Spock though. Make no mistake, Spock is going to be in this show and whenever he's not on screen all the other characters will be asking "Where's Spock?", but he's not physically present in this episode.
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| "Why isn't Spock here?" "Where's Spock?" "Is Spock coming soon?" "Have you seen Spock?" |
There are these seven signals that appeared all at once and disappeared, except for one which is still there so they're going to go investigate it. They find an asteroid with some weird technobabble going on, and there's a crashed Starfleet ship there. They don't find out what the signal was about, but they do stick around to rescue any surviving crew from the crashed ship.
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| I like the colour coded space suits. |
There's a stupidly long and boring action sequence where they pretend that Michael and Pike are in actual danger even though we know they're obviously not, and they pick up a fun new crew member who will hopefully be sticking around but wasn't mentioned again after they brought her back to the Discovery so she might be gone for good. Also Michael saw some weird winged alien thing but it might have been a hallucination and she didn't mention it to anyone.
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| She's one of those abrasive geniuses that work on TV but would be absolutely awful in real life. |
And there were a bunch of flashbacks to Michael's childhood where we learned, well, nothing really. We already knew that she had a strained relationship with her Vulcan family (and they with each other as well). And then we find out that Spock's taken some time off and no one knows where he is, so Michael goes into his room and touches all his stuff and reads his diary. And apparently she's allowed to do that? No one stops her. I'm pretty sure there would be rules about not letting people go through other people's personal property, even if they are siblings.
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| Just because there's no password doesn't mean you're allowed to open it, Michael. |
I'm really hoping that Spock doesn't turn out to be as central to everything as it looks like he's going to be at this point, because I'm already sick of him and he hasn't even appeared on screen yet. But aside from that it does look like the show's moving in the right direction. Maybe this show will end up like TNG - mostly pretty good as long as you ignore season one.
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| "I'm the captain, I have to sit like this." |
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