Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series) Erigah (2024) User Reviews

Erigah

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 9 May 2024]

Commander Rayner really hates the Breen. What is the reason for this hatred that the Federation never knew about, even has he made it to Captain of a spaceship.

The Breen conquered his home planet and Rayner managed to keep it a secret all this years!

Moll and L'ak are captured and in custody on Discovery and you can just guess that security is lax. While Dr Culber tries to treat the injured L'ak but he does not know enough about Breen biology.

While the Breen enter Federation space as they want Bonnie & Clyde and are prepared to go to war over them. L'ak is someone important.

So Dr Culber better keep him alive despite his lack of knowledge about the Breen even if they have that all knowing Zora on the ship.

Very much shades of Star Trek 6. I think they borrowed some lines from the movie as well.

At least this was better than the last few episodes but Discovery has set a low bar in its final season.

So far probably the better episode this season

[selleckwarren · 5/10 · 10 May 2024]

I give this episode credit for holding my attention and making me interested in the story. The overall arc of the "bad guys" hasn't allowed me time to become invested before they go away. It's interesting to get more background on the Breen but the Easter eggs are still falling flat. While I dislike most of the characters in this show I do enjoy when Reno comes on screen. I would like to see more Dedmer as well. I think we all know they are building to something and I have a sneaky suspicion that the big reveal will fall flat. Setting that all aside this was a more "Star Trek" episode and one I might rank in the top ten of this series (but not the franchise as a whole).

A bit to predictable

[jad-stormrage · 7/10 · 9 May 2024]

Bet they resolve the puzzle next episode and use the secrets to ressurect L'ak just in time to resolve a big crysis with the Breen.

This series has had the potential for more, while creative and intriguinging in its own way, it feels like it might just fizzle instead of spark a new age for Star Trek series.

The point where the series lost me was when the home plannet of Book was destroyed w/o any real logic just for dramatic effect.

I hope this has a nice ending and I do hope the fans will have enjoyed the series even though very much outside of he normal Star Trek space.

May you live long and prosper.

Erigah

[NerdyRomulanCyberman · 9/10 · 10 May 2024]

This week, we are treated with an episode that continues the story of the Breen. We learn more about their political situation and the importance L'ak holds to their survival. This episode does this very well, providing suspense and great scenes that unite characters and build a strong story. However, it does have a few flaws.

Why not just lock the sickbay doors? That doesn't make L'ak and Moll's escape impossible, but it makes it much less likely. Instead, they post two guards who were taken in just a few seconds by Moll. It isn't the smartest idea...

However, bringing Nhan back was a great move. Now, the purpose was not for ending the series and bringing cohesion, but it works that way in the end. She provides a great supporting character role and a great way to unite the seasons together.

The tag team of Tilly, Reno, and Adira worked really well. I have never been a fan of Adira, but they weren't bad here. The lines showed much improvement compared to last week. I do disagree that they show great skill and possibility, though.

This episode has some minor flaws, but they are vastly covered by a mystifying and excellent story. We are treated to a spectacle of possibilities. Now, we go on to search for the final clue in an archive, which I imagine will have something to do with labyrinths (since the next episode is called such). Whether that be inside the book or the archive, I do not know. But, whatever happens, this episode has rekindled my hope that Discovery will end on a good note. Let's fly.

If the characters weren't dumb the plot wouldn't move forward...

[goggolya · 1/10 · 9 May 2024]

This episode could've been five minutes. The Federation doesn't need those two insufferables anymore. They don't have any of the clues, they don't know where the next clue is. And they can't even prove to the Primarch that the Progenitor tech is real, and not just a fairy tale they made up to save themselves...

There are other major problems with the writing:

• Why can a patient access the medical equipment and overdose himself? Even now we have machines that prevent patients from overdosing. It feels like the writers don't know anything about the real world...

• After escaping L'ak shouldn't have access to any of the ship's systems. Stealing a shuttle shouldn't even be an idea if Starfleet had basic security practices in place.

• Why are only two security guards posted in the room of dangerous criminals who gave a lot of trouble to Starfleet in the past? They know exactly how dangerous those two are!

• How can a Breen dreadnought walk up to Starfleet HQ and knock on its doors? Long range scanners should've picked it up the moment it departed and Starfleet should've had enough time to mount a defense.

• The Federation with hundreds of planets gets bullied by just one big ship of one country's one little faction??? The Federation should have an armada at HQ within the hour that could easily overpower that dreadnought. This episode felt like a city in Mexico having the power to hold the whole USA hostage.

• The Breen shouldn't be a major power in the 32nd century. They hold only a small territory with limited resources and they're isolationists.

• There's no command structure at Starfleet. We see characters running around doing whatever they feel like doing. We see Tilly deciding between what she should do next. Doesn't she have a superior to get orders from during an emergency?

• The Breen shouldn't even know what a Spore Drive is. So it's not a real threat when Michael mentions it to them.

• Why would a library card from 800 years ago know where the moving library is in the 32nd century?

This episode felt like it was written by a middle schooler.

See, it can work!

[matzucker · 9/10 · 10 May 2024]

Rare though they may be, the great episodes of Star Trek: Discovery exist. The last such one may have aired in Season 2 or so. This however is one of them. For nearly a full hour, the show manages to avoid just about all its usual pitfalls, and that alone is a win. Characters act like professionals, there are no forced and unearned sentiments beats and the plot follows a logical trajectory.

But even besides the faint praise of saying "it didn't suck like it usually does" this is pretty good Star Trek. A tense stand-off with aliens that are becoming more interesting every time they appear recently. Some science, some diplomacy, a bit of mystery - all ingredients of the classic Trek recipe. With the (apparent) demise of a certain character, hopefully the series will now pivot towards a more imposing adversary than a couple of lovebirds and head towards a conclusion that makes good on the promise of this episode. For the first time in a long time with this show I can say I'm cautiously optimistic.

Can one get court martialed for stupidity?

[the-ossi · 3/10 · 9 May 2024]

If so, N'aan and her security detail, as well as the security chief of the Discovery should be put on trial! How stupid can they be you ask? Let me tell: they put TWO resourceful criminals not into the brig, but into sickbay. They secure them with just one single forcefield, which they have to deactivate every few minutes for the Doc to treat Lak. A forcefield that is filled with icy gases. What about a second forcefield around that inner one? Like an airlock? How about - I don't know - locking the friggin sickbay doors, so noone can simply run out?

And when the find Mol, a ruthless murderer that threatens a crew member with a phaser, why the heck does Booker talk her down when N'aan has a clear field of fire?

Why doesn't the Federation know about Reyner's world being subjected by the Breen? Don't they do background checks on their CAPTAINS!?!?

ARGH!!!

Seriously....

[asterblasterth · 1/10 · 10 May 2024]

...where would Star Trek...no....sorry....the world....no scrap that... where would the universe be if it didn't have Michael? I think it would all be over already. So please, take a moment to thank and praise Michael because she is the chosen one.

There is a table at that table there is a president, an admiral, a captain and a former captain turned number one. They are all chatting because the Breen are coming. But alas for the president, admiral and former captain they aren't as smart as Michael because she is the only one who sees through it all and utters the words'something doesn't add up here' and proceeds to explain something a 3 year old could think of. But thankfully a president and an admiral after asking just a simple 'you believe there is another reason...' that gets the most basic answer are all on board. But when her nr 1 suggests to arm themselves because we're dealing with the Breen after all, they are all in shock for suggesting it and he's dismissed by Michael like a little kid.

But wait! There is more, kids! The she proceeds to adress the president and admiral and suggests they talk to Moll and L'ak to get information. But guess who's best qualified to get that information? You're right! Michael is of course! And what is her argument? "I was with them on the ISS' 'I got a sense how they operate'I I I I....and guess what...without any questioning the president and admiral agree.

I mean....how great is she? Is there anything she can't do or isn't qualified to do?

I mean by now I am starting to realize I like torturing myself by watching this show every week.

Overpowered or not?

[sicaine · 3/10 · 10 May 2024]

It feels unclear how any of this can make sense.

The breens could have been interesting but they look ugly (close to ds9, 800-900 years ago) and you learn to little about them.

Everyone fears them but of course Michael can convince them. Even they were allowed at the sick bay.

The whole handling in the sick bay was super bad written. He can get overdosed,.she can escape and the doctor is apparently also really good in fighting while the security officer looks really bad here.

The most annoying thing at this episode: how small the federation looks and how fragile. Apparently they can't communicate securely, everyone knows we're they are and they basically have no defense.

Those few small ships in comparison to the dreednode srsly?

Knocking on Federation headquarters' doors

[tomsly-40015 · 4/10 · 9 May 2024]

Once again, DIS presents us with a completely dysfunctional Federation and a Starfleet that seems more like a friendly neighborhood watch than an interplanetary, multi-species organization that stretches across thousands of planets with trillions of inhabitants. The scene when a Breen ship appears out of thin air and parks in front of the gates of the Federation headquarters somehow reminded me of the film "Red Dawn". Apparently the Federation has neither sensor grids that would detect such a spaceship days in advance, nor interceptors, orbital guns and mines. And there seems to be no need to place a few battle cruisers around the headquarters either - despite Burnham's vision of a possible future in which the Breen have destroyed the headquarters. The fact that the Breen can beam into the meeting room with their weapons and Starfleet security is once again overpowered by a single woman who can also hack into the station's systems is almost a footnote in comparison. With all the incompetence, it's a miracle that the Federation hasn't been overrun by Romulans, Cardassians, Breen, Klingons, Borg, the Dominion, or other factions from the Gamma and Delta quadrants in the last 800 years.

And the future doesn't seem to be looking bleak just because of this apparent breakdown of galactic order. Apparently there are no historians, scribes, or other intellectuals left in the 32nd century. There is NO ONE in all of Federation space who knows anything about "manuscripts" - except engineer Reno (what a coincidence). You'd think there would be thousands of scholars on Betazed who would know something about a Betazoid manuscript. There should be scholars a dime a dozen on Vulcan, too. But the best option is JETT RENO?!? So this is what our future looks like after everyone has been dumbed down by TikTok, Instagram and the internet in general: In the 32nd century, there will be no one left in the entire galaxy who knows anything about books and history. And even artificial intelligence will become useless.

By the way: Since when do memories attach to objects that an empath then can read? And what is the point of an archive space station changing its location every 50 years to protect its treasures when, on the one hand, someone already knew 800 years ago where it would be today and, on the other hand, Tilly was able to calculate and extrapolate the archive's path through the previous locations anyway? And I don't even want to start ranting about Tilly and Adira, who are once again verbally patting each other on the back and complimenting each other on how well the other is doing their job. If all of these "Good job" and "Well done" scenes were cut out of the episodes, the story would have been told by now.

Rayner is silenced once again in this episode because he does not agree with the optimistic evaluation of the situation like the others. In previous Star Trek series, it was good practice to sit down with the senior officers when making important decisions, put all the facts and opinions on the table and discuss them openly. Picard, Janeway and even Kirk encouraged their officers to speak openly and also to express concerns. The goal was always to evaluate different points of view before a decision was made. But not in the Michael Burnham Show. Opinions that do not coincide with Michael Burnham's are not welcome and first officers who violate this rule are reprimanded and thrown out of the room. After all, there's no "we" in Michael, just an "I".

I am still speechless at how extremely friendly Moll and L'ak are treated and how much Book in particular cares for Moll. Not only did the two of them kill a few Breen, in one of the last episodes they also poisoned a guy and watched him die. I don't even want to know how many more lives they wiped out while carrying out their shady courier services. They are serious criminals and murderers, but are portrayed in a romanticized way like two desperate lovers! Furthermore, there was no reason not to hand Moll and L'ak over to the Breen. It would have given the Federation a breather and a head start in the search for the next clue. After all, the Breen were primarily occupied with internal struggles for power in their Empire. In the end, this whole delaying tactic didn't work anyway.

And why is EVERYTHING on the Discovery always so dark? Sickbay should be lit like daylight so that treatments and operations can be carried out there. But Sickbay seems more like a nightclub than a medical facility. There are no nurses anywhere there either.