star trek discovery season 3 episode 1 review

#Star trek discovery season 3 episode 1 review series

The story felt more balanced from start to finish, and the crew’s actions had much clearer motivation, which naturally resulted in emotional arcs that were genuinely compelling, and a narrative arc that had real weight within the greater Star Trek universe. The series’ second season, which both made classic Star Trek characters Spock (Ethan Peck) and Captain Pike (Anson Mount) a part of Discovery’s crew and gave Yeoh’s alt-universe Georgiou a delicious new sandbox to play in, was a vast improvement on every level. (Sure, Jones is a master of his creature-acting craft, but nevertheless the Klingons deserved better.) Given how elegantly plastic Saru’s prosthetics turned out, this felt like an unforced error, and one that made the experience of watching the season actively harder. That latter fact didn’t need to be a dealbreaker, but somehow, despite the series’ aforementioned massive budget, they couldn’t manage to make a prosthetic design for Discovery’s Klingons that didn’t impede all meaningful facial movement, clear speech included.

Characters made choices that made no sense whole plots started and stopped without real justification and there was just so. Unfortunately, while the first season of Discovery was indeed gorgeous to look at, and the acting top notch-Martin-Green, Yeoh and Mary Wiseman are forces of nature, and creature actor Doug Jones absolutely kills as Saru, the Federation’s first and only Kelpien officer-the writing was more miss than hit.

#Star trek discovery season 3 episode 1 review series

A brand new Star Trek story, a diverse cast (Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, Shazad Latif and Oyin Oladejo, among others), a mysterious connection to Spock (Martin-Green’s character turns out to be his estranged adopted sister), and an enormous budget (roughly $8 million per episode, which lands the series nearly in the same league as Westworld)? Yeah. (I say first, as the series has recently re-debuted as part of CBS-proper’s Thursday night primetime line-up.) As the broadcast streamer’s second-ever original series- The Good Fight having kicked things off earlier that same year-it really had no other choice: If people were going to fork over anywhere between $6-$10 each month to access content from a network freely available to anyone with a working set of digital rabbit ears, they had to be sure that what they were going to get would be worth it. Star Trek: Discovery made a real splash when it first debuted behind the CBS All Access paywall back in the fall of 2017.