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Star Trek: Discovery: Life, Itself (2024)
Worst ending in all of Star Trek's history!
- Burnham forgets she has a personal transporter, she doesn't need to play jumping games...
- Burnham pleads with Moll to stop fighting one another. But Burnham was the one who started that fight when she kicked Moll.
- Burnham could've materialized a phaser and stunned Moll instead of placing the fate of the entire universe in a fist fight!
- Book took a shuttle to stabilize the portal but the radiation will kill him if he stays too long. A much better option would've been to just remotely pilot a shuttle. This way he's not exposed to radiation and there's no time limit on waiting for Michael's return.
- The SFX team went overboard and put all their remaining flamethrowers on the bridge. They must have been told to use them all because there won't be a next season. They also explicitly hired a drunk cameraman to shoot the fight scenes.
- The last scientist to fail the Progenitor's puzzle died. But somehow Moll isn't dead after failing the same test...
- While Moll is electrically shocked Michael touches her. This is something she should know to never do because she'll also get electrocuted!
- Vance complains that "I cannot in good conscience allow my officer to fly up to a dreadnought with photon torpedoes disabled". As an admiral he should know that a shuttle can't really defend itself against a fleet of dreadnoughts even if it has photon torpedoes. And by the way, where are the quantum torpedoes or something more modern alternative if we are in in fact in the 32nd century?
- The Breen scout vessel is cloaked but somehow Saru's ship can still track it. This should not be possible. 32nd century cloaking devices were undetectable in every previous episode.
- Culbert and Book's shuttle has only 5% shields remaining before they need to leave the portal or they'll die of the radiation exposure. But that final five percent lasted a really long time...
- Moll escaped the last time she was held in a sick bay and then there were two guards. Starfleet didn't learn anything because now it's just one person guarding her...
- At the wedding Vance calls Saru admiral. When did he get promoted and why? Saru changed careers and became a politician not too long ago...
- Discovery copied the new shuttle design from Orville.
- Kovich being Daniel is controversial. If it were true then he would have known about Discovery's existence and its arrival in the 32nd century in season 3. Temporal agents were aware of all major historical changes and time travelers.
- Discovery tried to tie the season's finale to Calypso, but failed miserably. Michael tells Zora that her new mission is to wait for Craft. But in Calypso she doesn't recognize that name when she hears it.
- Discovery had all its future upgrades stripped out and restored to its 23 century form, and then jumped away WITHOUT a human navigator. This should be impossible!
- Just like the previous two seasons, this season's ending is controversial too and doesn't make sense. The scientists hid the tech for 800 years and left a trail of clues so it would be found by a worthy person who would destroy it? Seems like they could have saved a lot of trouble. Michael at least could've restored Book's world and the other planets that got destroyed in the previous season...
- The Progenitor tech was nothing more than a big Genesis Device, which should be technologically possible in the 32nd century. We saw a Genesis Device in Picard, this suggests they continued working on improving it.
- Another example of bad writing is that in season 2 the Sphere Data was so important that if an A. I. got its hands on it and it could conquer the whole galaxy. Zora absorbed the Sphere Data but was totally useless in the last three seasons. She contributed ZERO to the story. It's like the writers forgot about her...
I'm glad Discovery is finally over. It was a terrible show written by people who value emotions over logic and coherent plot lines.
Future shows will have a hard time fixing the problems Discovery created. Or they can just simply act like I do and pretend this show never existed in the first place!
Star Trek: Discovery: Lagrange Point (2024)
Even Johanthan Frakes couldn't save this writer's mess!
- Discovery finds the Progenitors tech, but instead of beaming it aboard they just stare at it until the bad guys show up and take it away...
- Discovery's crew infiltrates a completely foreign xenophobic culture they know nothing about, they act like humans, and still don't get found out. This is extremely hard to believe! We saw in the first episode of the season that personal cloaks exist and they work very well. It would have been a more believable infiltration than the 'How do you do, fellow Breen?' we got from the writers...
- Raynar during the meeting says "We'd be destroyed before we got anywhere close to the shuttle bay". The writers kinda forgot because nevertheless Discovery still flies into the shuttle bay half an hour later...
- Discovery got a 32nd century programmable matter upgrade. Last episode the ship took external damage, yet this episode we see crew members welding in a hallway...
- Michael does couples therapy in the middle of an away mission where speed is critical. She always finds time for emotions when the universe is at stakes(again)...
- Saru has to intercept the Breen armada, but instead of departing immediately as he was ordered he goes away to talk about his wedding for minutes with his bride. This completely kills the sense of urgency!
- Michael and Book are surrounded by guards when they get captured, but all the guards disappear from the hangar bay except for two when they try to escape.
- The ship is going into combat and the chief medic is in engineering pestering Stamets. That's not very professional...
- Rhys has a weapon and cover but chooses to melee engage the two guards heading his way.
- Saru: "Surely you know I would never allow personal considerations to interfere with my professional responsibilities" He kinda forgot about that time when he disobeyed his captain's orders during the Ba'ul conflict...
- How does the universal translator know which sentences to translate and which not to? The infiltration group is constantly cross talking to each other while being questioned by Breen guards.
- Moll worries that La'ak's body's going to decompose. But the Breen are in refrigeration suits...
- "Drinks are on me" The writers kinda forgot the Federation doesn't use money...
- Multiple times this season it was mentioned that the bad guys intercepted Starfleet communications, that's how they know secrets. During this episode Discovery is in constant communication with Starfleet and the away team, but the Breen don't notice the incoming and outgoing transmissions from a cloaked vessel parking right next to them.
This whole show is a huge letdown!
The last scene of the season should be Riker saying "Computer, end program" and he proceeds to delete all five seasons of this Michael 'Savior' Burham fan fiction.
Star Trek: Discovery: Labyrinths (2024)
Burnham overcomes another challenge simply just by crying...
I still remember the old days when navigating labyrinths and solving puzzles required skill, and they were real, not just a therapy session...
Plot holes:
- There was no need for Discovery to go to the library for the next clue. The Breen don't have any of the clues and they don't know where the next one is. All they can do is follow Discovery. The Progenitor tech is safe if Discovery does nothing! Starfleet could send another ship or just simply wait for the Breen Dreadnought to be far away and then go to the library.
- 32nd century retrofitted Discovery takes too much damage from plasma storms in the Badlands in just a few short minutes. In the 24th century the Maquis were living in the Badlands with much smaller, weaker ships.
- Discovery could've just simply scanned the library for the clue. They know its exact size, shape, and material composite. Scanners are really advanced in the 32nd century, the show demonstrates this multiple times. (The library scans Discovery and identifies Booker as a Kwejian. On the ISS Enterprise they find the clue immediately thanks to the ship's scanners.)
- The Primarch switches to standard language. This is unnecessary because Moll speaks Breen.
- When a Breen weapon shoots the Primarch who's in armor, he dies. When a Breen weapon shoots Booker he just gets a little wound.
- The Breen are a Xenophobic race with a desire for destruction. They are considered one of the most warlike species known to the Federation, and the Dominion wars showed this. They would never side with a human over their Primarch.
- Space is very big! But somehow Starfleet HQ, Library in the Badlands, Progenitor Tech Hiding Place are just 5-6 hours away from each other. The writers are doing this to keep the bad guys in the race...
- Michael knew the Breen were on their way to the library. The smart thing would've been to just leave after finding the book they were looking for. They could solve the puzzle in a safe place.
- The librarian lady leaves to "prepare their defenses". But all they did was just raise shields and nothing more.
- Discovery should've just immediately gone to warp the moment they got the clue. The Breen would've followed them out of the Badlands instead of wasting time destroying the library.
- Venting plasma won't trick a 32nd century ship's sensors, there's not enough debris left to indicate Discovery was destroyed. It just got Discovery seriously damaged and archived nothing more. It was a foolish move from a fool captain!
Star Trek: Discovery: Erigah (2024)
If the characters weren't dumb the plot wouldn't move forward...
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.
Star Trek: Discovery: Whistlespeak (2024)
Burnedham saves another planet...
Another episode with another therapy session as the B plot. Half the episode is Culbert complaining to everyone that he feels good. It's so rare that somebody feels joy on Discovery that they immediately schedule a brain scan for him because this is not normal around those parts!
I still remember when Starfleet did not allow cry babies as senior staff aboard a starship!
Plot holes this episode:
- They could've used a cloaked shuttle or jet packs to infiltrate the summit. No need to go among the locals and play their games when the mission to gather all the clues is time sensitive...
- Discovery's logic: Michael is in top shape and Tilly is an engineer who's overweight. So let's have Michael fix the weather control meanwhile Tilly tries to run a marathon...
- Oxygen is running out in the room, so they don't put out the fires and candles to gain more time to be rescued...
- Culbert asks a non medical person to run a brain scan on him. That's not very professional of him! Once again Discovery is about emotions and not logic...
- "Because the moss is different color here the control panel has to be close by" is really-reeaaally far fetched. Michael doesn't know how many variants of moss the planet has. And why would a broken control panel be leaking radiation? Isolinear chips aren't radioactive...
- Eye tricorders and Universal Translators can't read numbers in the 32nd century for some reason...
- In the past there are multiple instances where Burnham learns how important it is to not break the Prime Directive(New Eden), and to sacrifice someone for the greater good(Book in S4). But those character developments are thrown out the window in this episode.
- The Prime Directive doesn't really apply anymore because the Denobulans already broke it by installing the weather control towers when the ecosystem was collapsing.
- If they really wanted to uphold the Prime Directive they could've mind wiped the two locals in sickbay, and schedule regular maintenance on the planet by a 32nd century USS Cerritos.
- There are more broken weather towers on the planet and they finally know how to fix them. So they just leave without quickly fixing them. They even showed Book who was totally bored and available. He could've fixed them while Tilly was asleep. I guess the lives of the locals were only important till Discovery found what they were looking for on the planet...
The writers are doing their best to keep the bad guys in the race:
- It is mentioned that Discovery's objective is to find the clues, not to chase after the bad guys. But Discovery still gets called upon when L'ak and Moll are found so that they get another chance to steal the clues from Discovery.
Lowest point of the season, so far...
Star Trek: Discovery: Mirrors (2024)
Michael: The power of friendship is all I need on an away mission
The episode starts with Rayner suggesting to take an armed squad to capture L'ak and Moll. He's the voice of logic and reason, and he still remembers what happened in episode 1 when a 3 member squad failed.
But does Michael listen to him? Of course not! She sets out for the fourth time to capture the bad guys armed with only his ex boyfriend and the power of friendship. Because who needs a tactical assault squad when you have talk-no-jutsu!
- Last episode Michael saw the future, she knows very well that her actions lead to the bad guys getting their hands on the Progenitor tech which leads to the destruction of the Federation. But she still insists on not changing anything about how she does things...
- Culbert and Tilly do nothing this episode, but the writers still managed to sneak in a scene where they were talking about how hard their day was. Culbert rants about dying four seasons ago and they start talking about life, soul, 42. Either they cut out their important part of the episode, or simply everyone's a therapist on this ship all day all night...
- They made a huge deal about Rhys loving Constitution class ships. But when one finally shows up he's totally ignored. He should've been the one assigned to take it back to Starfleet Museum!
- Where's all the future tech this episode? The bad guys had personal clocking devices and weapons that could vaporize the floor in episode 1. Michael could've teleported behind them in med bay or use a stun grenade. Instead we got a holo projector placed in an obvious spot so the good guys can easily shoot it out. This doesn't feel very 32nd centurishy...
- In season 3 Starfleet had the technology to take control over older starships. The writers forgot that they introduced this tech and instead we get 'MacGyver together 2 wires to bypass a firewall' solution.
- The writers are reusing a lot of elements from previous seasons. Last season Book was sympathetic to the bad guy, Tarka's cause and switched sides. This season? Book again is sympathetic to the bad guys.
- The writers are reusing a lot of elements from previous seasons. The bag guy in season 3 was a misunderstood Kelpian child. In season 4 a misunderstood species. In this season the bad guys are misunderstood lovers.
- The writers are reusing elements from previous seasons. We are once again aboard the Enterprise despite the ship playing absolutely no role in this episode's story whatsoever. They had a golden opportunity to introduce something new.
- The writers are reusing story elements through the season: This is the second ship that's simply just left out there in space for nearly a thousand years. With lights and power still on. Debris didn't destroy the ship and no one else got there before Discovery.
The writers are absolutely doing everything they can to keep the bad guys in the race:
- It's mentioned that the ISS Enterprise's crew left the ship. All the shuttles and escape pods are gone. But the bad guys somehow still manage to find one to escape with. And it's magically one with warp capabilities! How doubly lucky...
- A 23rd century escape pod manages to evade a 32nd century refitted Discovery. They don't beam the two bad guys out, they don't use a tractor beam to catch them, or lasers to disable the engines. This is the 3rd time they just simply fly away from under the nose of Discovery...
- Discovery also has shuttles, but they don't use any to go after the bad guys...
Every episode proves just how incompetent Discovery's crew is! The worst of what Starfleet has to offer...
Star Trek: Discovery: Red Directive (2024)
Discovery is back with more of what it's famous for: bad writing and tons of plot holes!
- The Federation gives up on trying to replicate the Spore drive, but they already had a working prototype last season. The writers are trying their best to keep the crew of Discovery relevant in the 31st century...
- Discovery and the scavengers arrive at the Romulan vessel a few minutes apart. How convenient! It's stated that the planet is a ship graveyard, but for some reason the vessels haven't been boarded and picked clean in the last 800 years???
- There are two life signs aboard the Romulan ship, so Discovery sends down only three people for this extremely important job instead of like 20 just to be sure. They also don't use the tractor beam on the scavenger ship to capture it the moment it de-cloaks...
- The writers forgot that ships can be pulled out of warp by disabling their warp drives. We saw this countless times, even in Discovery. The writers kinda forgot...
- The scavengers left twenty warp signatures and the crew doesn't know which one is the real one. So they're forced to get help from the war criminal Booker, who somehow still isn't serving time in a penal colony. Discovery's crew kinda forgot they have a Spore drive and can check out all twenty warp signatures in under a minute!
- Fred is a Data like android that can read a book in seconds, but isn't fast enough to shoot two people for some reason. Also the one he shoots survives... Talk about plot armor!
- The group tried to outrun an avalanche, instead of just teleporting away...
- A planet with two moons, there's like a million of those but they know at first glance which system to go to...
- Discovery saved the Federation from total annihilation in the last season. Yet they still can't be trusted with the information of what's in the box just to create tension. Yet a little later everyone and their mother knows about the Progenitors...
- The Rolumans sent out that message to the Federation 800 years ago? The writers forgot they were at war at the time so they would never do such a thing!
- Discovery returns to Starfleet HQ after every mission. It's a race against time and they're just chillin at home...
- On the bright side, at least Tilly's room has a bigger door now. She could hardly fit through the old one!
- Kovich said "they created every humanoid species in the Galaxy". Which is false! The Progenitors only created some, not all. This is mentioned in the episode The Chase. Another screw up by the writers...
- Another proof that Michael is the worst captain in the history of Star Trek is that she never considers just simply paying the scavengers for the diary. All they want is money, there's no reason to not pay them! A Ferengi captain would've done a much better job than Burnham.
I'm glad this is the last season of this fake. This is not real Star Trek!
Star Trek: Discovery: Face the Strange (2024)
Feelings save the day, again!
Another episode where it doesn't matter what the question is, the answer will always be 'feelings'.
The story is unoriginal and the main plot didn't move forward. This episode was a copy of Voyager's Shattered.
Plot holes:
- Discovery has a Spore Drive, but somehow the bad guys can still keep up with them! They even have time to order a super rare weapon from a webshop, get it delivered and go pay for it on a random planet. After that they go back to check the previous clue again. Even after that they go to Trill and infiltrate the monks' ceremony. They do all this while Discovery's crew is on Trill. The writers totally forgot just how big space is and travel takes time...
- No matter what time period Michael is in, on the floor in the ready room the Starfleet logo is still the 32nd century version.
- Airiam could've just told Past Michael to stand down. But instead we got a speech & emotions check scene.
- Rayner says he read all the crew profiles, but still didn't know about Stamet's Tardigrade DNA...
- Burnham said "I never gave up". She totally forgot that it was Lorca who gave her a second chance and motivated her because she herself totally gave up...
- Last week Tilly went full Karen on Rayner. This week it was Stamets. In a military organization where chain of command exists you can't just go and bully your superior officer to show more emotions!
- Michael is such a hypocrite. She chooses her new second in command for his skills, experience and personality. But later does everything she can to mold him to be a better fit for ship Therapy. They just can't stand it if someone is different than they are and try to forcefully convert anyone who steps aboard that ship...
- The writers forgot that the transporters filter out every dangerous thing, like weapons. The time bug is a centuries old tech that Starfleet knows about. It should be in their database. The transporters should've caught it. Also Zora should've found it. It was giving out a loud sound while it was navigating the ship, even the crew caught onto it. The A. I. is dumb and useless until the plot requires it not to be...
- In the future when Michael was talking to Zora she could've easily downloaded all the clues and data regarding the Progenitor tech. This would've ensured they get there first! Michael isn't the brightest light bulb in the room...
Star Trek: Discovery: Jinaal (2024)
Well, that was disappointing!
Another episode that shows just how bad discovery's crew really is. The ship gets a new second in command and the crew turns hostile on him because he puts work first, fraternization second. The older crew members already know that they don't have to work on Discovery, Michael does all the heavy lifting. She goes on away missions, fights bad guys, excavates ancient mysteries. Meanwhile the rest of the crew is just vibin in the lounge with a Raktajino...
Speaking of the crew, Starfleet in the future is still a military organization. And between Tilly breaking in for classified information and her berating a senior officer it just feels like they aren't taking Starfleet seriously as an organization!
Every season the story is the same MacGuffin chasing. We previously had Red Angel, Burn, DMA. Now a Progenitor tech that should be obsolete by the 32nd century because we saw a Genesis device in Picard S3, which would suggest they continued working on it.
Stamets also describes it as "technology to design new life forms, accelerate evolutions and create eco systems". Yep, Stamets just described the Genesis device.
The test on Trill was contrived. Jinaal had no way of knowing those creatures would still nest in that exact same spot 800 years in the future!
Now that I think about it, this whole season wouldn't exist if the DMA in the previous season or something else would've destroyed one of the planets with clues on it. Just thinking about how much Earth changed from the 13th century to the 21th would lead me to believe one of the clues should have been destroyed in the past 800 years. For example, Trill could've easily put a city on top of the place Jinaal hid his clue.
The writers are really doing their best to keep the bad guys in the race!
- Discovery's crew doesn't destroy or hide the clues they find
- They forget that the enemy ship can cloak itself
- Trill is a big planet, but Moll still somehow finds the crew
- Trill monks don't notice that an imposter has infiltrated their ceremony (Come on now, that's totally unbelievable!)
- Zora, who monitors the ship and crew very closely won't notice the tracking device sending out signals (because an A. I. is only smart when the plot requires it to be...)
Also there's no explanation on
- how does a civilization keep a cloak capable species in check
- how do personal transporters work? People simply just vanish without ever specifying a destination
- how do personal transporters work inside the Trill caves, but not between two boulders
- how does personal shield work? They self activate in space, but not when a bug spits a dart at you.
Star Trek: Discovery: Coming Home (2022)
ST Discovery: Worst Season, So Far
Another train wreck of a season has ended, and it was the same pile of junk just like the last one. The writers didn't learn anything and chose not to listen to the feedback of the viewers from last season. The special effects are the living proof of this. Viewers were complaining for a long time about the ridiculous use of the flamethrowers, and this episode they put them in every room possible on the ship just to show that they don't care what we think. They're adding more of what we don't like just to spite us! Even the cocktails had mini flamethrowers in them...
This season was full of emotions and crying just like the previous one. Book was dead for 5 minutes so Michael could cry in this episode too. Discovery's ethos is fixing Galaxy level threats with speeches and hugs.
The seasons mystery box was the Burn all over again. Start of the season: The 10-C is a powerful and mysterious species, we don't know how to deal with them.
End of the season: The 10-C are just incompetent emotional space whales who didn't know what they were doing. We gave them a lecture and they promised to behave next time. They were just like a Kelpian kid who didn't know they have genocided billions of people by mistake, but we're all good now after a little chit-chat!
The 10-C didn't think species that are building warp capable space ships are sentient??? This has to be one of the dumbest reasons the writers of this train wreck had given us! And the 10-C was just a copy of the leviathans from Mass Effect. They weren't original creations from the writers, just stolen intellectual property.
T'Rina: "Oh, I just remembered I'm a telepath and I can communicate with them." Me: PicardFacePalm. JPG
Episode 11-12: "It's extremely hard to communicate with the 10-C." Episode 13: "We have two telepaths that can now communicate with them and Saru is easily typing every word in real time. Piece of cake." Actually if they would have started with T'Rina using her telepathy when the 10-C was calm the whole season would have been one episode shorter.
Tarka didn't have any real motives. He just wanted to migrate to another universe at the cost of everyone else dying. He simply could have let Discovery finish the diplomatic mission and then ask for the power source to dimension hop instead of rampaging. For a genius, he wasn't too smart...
Book notices the cat collar that's next to him only after an hour, too late to stop Tarka, but not too late to save himself. Talk about deus ex machina!
Also, how were the 10-C powering the hyper field in the last thousand years if they started mining with the DMA just recently? Plot hole that's how!
Another plot hole is that Michael was explaining to the 10-C that Tarka was driven by grief because he lost his friend. But Book was the only one who knew this, and he never got the chance to tell Michael...
We didn't get a straight answer for what was the point of the hyper field. The space whale's system is in the middle of nowhere, what are they trying to protect themself of, space debris and asteroids??? Those don't require much more than basic shields. They have wormhole technology, they can escape anything anytime they want. Why are they wasting so much energy on maintaining a hyper field???
There are no consequences in Discovery. Characters don't die, bad guys apologize and promise that they won't genocide any more. They solve every problem with feelings and talky talk.
Multiple characters made horrible decisions and they got a free pass. Book and Ndoye committed treason, one of the most serious of crimes. Almost the whole galaxy died because of them. Ndoye doesn't even get a demotion. And Book does a little humanitarian work and he's back on Discovery...
This whole show is just a cash grab with ZERO logic. They're milking Trek fans because we have a shortage of sci-fi shows to choose from.
In the end this season was boring and dragged out to 13 episodes that could have been 6 episodes. Or just an email if we get rid of the special effects.
At least we have one good Star Trek show, Picard, which blows Discovery out of the water!
Star Trek: Discovery: Species Ten-C (2022)
USS Therapy meets Emotional Space Whales
Another talky-talk, feely-feel episode where we learn that 10-C communicates via 32nd century emojis.
Instead of wasting a whole episode on trying to figure out how to communicate with them they simply could have brought a telepath on the mission in the first place...
Season 4 in a nutshell:
Earth is destroyed in less than 5 hours, we can't afford to waste time! So lets go to my quarters to talk and yell and hug and play with the cat...
Also the writers stole the episodes idea for communication from SG-1 Torment of Tantalus. They used a small number of basic elements to communicate in that episode. The writers of Discovery simply replaced the elements with emotions.
The ship's chief engineer, one of the most important person on the ship missing for a whole day is so unrealistic. The crew is so blind that when they ask Zora where Reno is, and Zora replies that she's in the same room as they are, they just accept the answer and move on without thinking...
There was a whole episode about how incredible Zora's sensors are. Now in this episode she's so ignorant she doesn't realize Reno's life signs standing in one place in the middle of engineering for 24 hours is a red flag. People on a busy ship during a critical mission don't stay in one place for more than five minutes. Also her combadge was below the floor which is also a red flag. Because the ship has cameras Zora easily could have checked if Reno was even there. Zora is totally useless until the plot requires her to be useful...
Book gets his ass kicked on his own ship. He's ignorant and constantly makes bad choices. He's character has been a disgrace this whole season!
Tarka is a roller coaster. One episode he's dooming the whole galaxy with his actions, the next episode he has a sad back story trying to justify his actions. When this is done three times in a season it gets really boring! Also his character motives don't make any sense. He just wants to emigrate to another universe, at the cost of everyone else dying???
The other ignorant character is Ndoye. Tarka's plan in the past always made things worse. And now that he has a new plan Ndoya trusts him? How can she be a general of a whole planet when she's so dense???
The writers messed up the Kardashev Scale. Starfleet is Type 2, and 10-C should be near Type 3.
The writers played the same cards this season as in the previous. In season 3 we were given the Burn that killed billions of people and was later revealed that the one who caused it was a emotionally unstable Kelpian kid. And the season ended with we can't be mad at a kid for causing a bloody catastrophe.
Now in season 4 millions of people died because of the DMA and was later revealed that the ones who caused it were emotional space whales. And the season ends with we can't be mad at those for causing a bloody catastrophe...
At least we have Picard. The creators of that show listened to the viewers and corrected the mistakes the previous season had. Unlike Discovery...
Star Trek: Picard: The Star Gazer (2022)
This is real modern Star Trek, not Discovery!
I'm amazed just how good this whole episode was.
Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan are amazing actors.
This episode was better than Discovery's Season 3 and 4 combined!
Star Trek: Discovery: Rosetta (2022)
Star Trek: Emotions
Another episode centered around what everyone's feeling at the moment. The characters can't even talk about anything else, and it's extremely boring! Last season's bad guy was a crying Kelpian child. And now this season's bad guys are revealed to by emotional space whales. I'm starting to see a pattern here, and I don't like it!
Michael and her crew goes down to a planet and literally touch grass, I mean sand, and they start tripping. And that's it, this is the plot of a 50 minutes long episode. This is how slow and boring Discovery is!
Perfect example how stupid the writing of the show is:
They go beyond the Galactic Barrier to an unexplored planet, and the default settings on their space EV suits is to filter out ONLY the known chemicals. After hallucinating for half an hour they remember that they should also filter out the unknown chemicals too. And the writers try to sell us this like an 140 IQ move and their the best crew ever and saviors of the whole galaxy...
There was a whole episode centered around Zora learning to use her sensors perfectly. She knows everything that's happening on the ship. She even knows how much oxygen the crew is consuming. But somehow she doesn't notice Book and Tarka beaming aboard Discovery and running around for hours. Basically two people beamed aboard, started opening doors, they are using oxygen, they are sending messages and sabotaging replicators, spying on the crew. They also kidnapped one member of the crew, and Book's ship is attached to Discovery's hull. And Zora didn't notice any of this............
If the writing was realistic, Discovery's crew would have noticed in less than five minutes that their chief engineer has gone missing...
The episode starts with Michael stating that they can't enter the hyper field. Later in a scene Ndoye is complaining that they're wasting time surveying the planet, and they should have gone directly into the hyper field. She forgot that they can't enter it... Again, bad writing!
Also why are they assuming the species they found on the planet is the same that's in the hyper field? There is no evidence to support this. The species in the hyper field could be the ones who wiped out the ones that were on the planet.
Also they don't bother checking out the Dyson Rings, which could help them understand how 10-C's technology works and how to communicate with them, and enter their hyper field. Instead they choose to only check out the thousand years old archeological dig site...
The story is so predictable! When 10-C was introduced people were guessing that Book's going to redeem himself by communicating with them because he's the only empath in the show. And now we have evidence to support this theory.
The show has budget for so many special effects, it's sad they don't have any budget for good writers.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Galactic Barrier (2022)
50 minutes soap opera about feelings and making "connections"
This series has too many love stories, everyone is in a relationship with someone. And every scene is about emotions and loved ones.
Even Saru wants to get laid this season, but T'Rina leaves him on 'read' after his confession for some reason. And now we know that even Tarka had a boyfriend he met in prison. The cat is the only person on the ship who's single...
Tarka's motives are redefined every third episode. First was that he wanted to go home to his universe. The newest is that his boyfriend in prison told him about another universe, he believed him. And now he wants to visit it?
Season 3's Burn was caused by a crying Kelpian child.
Season 4's 10-C is Tarka's prison boyfriend who wants to emigrate to another universe. The stupidity of the writing is getting out of hand!
The Galactic Barrier was hyped up to be an impassable force of nature. But in reality it's just a platformer mobile game in a lava lamp, where you have to time your jumps right from bubble to bubble. Every space ship could do this with enough patience!
The special effect are so inconsistent. The bridge only has sparks now because the flamethrowers were moved to the bar...
The shows inconsistent writing summed up:
Season 1 Stamets: We can spore jump anywhere in the universe.
Season 4 Stamets: The best I can do is only our galaxy.
Another marvel from the writers:
Oros and Tarka spent years trying to build an inter-dimensional transporter to escape from their cell. They can't leave because of the implants in their necks. This is the ONLY WAY to escape Tarka states. Then as soon as they get hold of a gun, they just shoot off the implants...
This whole season is a filler with bad writing, boring episodes, no adventure, juvenile plots, and mediocre acting.
Star Trek: Discovery: Rubicon (2022)
Boredom is the real threat here, not the DMA!
The whole episode is a boring snoozefest about a kids' argument over who's right.
The last two episodes in a nutshell:
- Book: "I'm going to blow up the DMA."
- Michael: "No you're not."
- Book: "Yes I am."
- Michael: "I won't let you."
- Book: "So you're going to stop me?"
- Michael: "No, but I'm still right."
"Book is close to Saru." NOPE! They talked like once. How are they close???
Giving advice to others in this series in a nutshell: Saru: "Gardening doesn't relax me." Calls up T'Rina for help.
T'Rina: "When I'm stressed out, everyday chores help me to relax. Try gardening." Saru: "Wonderful idea! I'll get right on it." Me: CaptainPicardFacepalm. JPG
Tarka monologues about game theory and how he considered every step of his plan for the last five years.
Also Tarka: "I didn't think that the power source for the wormhole would be at the other side." Man, you suck as a scientist! Of course the power source is going to be on the other side! Where else would it be than the side where it was opened from? It's only logical!!!
32nd century tech is rubbish: Discovery's shields are made out of paper. Sensors getting blinded by a space flashbang. Sensors not picking up traps on Booker's ship. Cloaked ships are visible to the naked eye.
Nilsson had one job this episode, to stop Booker's ship from firing the weapon. She failed. But she still was smiling in the end like she didn't doom the whole galaxy to death by failing to prevent a war with an advanced species.
But this whole series is about people failing to do their jobs and still smile in the end for no reason...
Discovery's crew is the worst in the history of Starfleet. They should all be assigned to some off world penal colony cleaning bacta tanks and let a competent crew take over the ship.
It would be the best for the whole galaxy, and the viewers too.
Star Trek: Discovery: All In (2022)
Star Trek: Poker
After the mid season break Star Trek is back with.... Poker? Yeah, that's a really interesting topic to cover in a sci-fi for half an hour....
Great job Discovery, you never fail to fail!
Culber, the ship's therapist is in need of therapy... Who would have guessed he would burn out by the end of four seasons of Whiners in Space!
At the casino, why was the changeling gambling? They don't have any need for human commodities or money or fun. There's no logic in putting him there. Just that the writers wanted to make cameos and name drops for the fans. But zero logic or explanation or anything as usual...
Owo was standing next to Tarka for an hour. She could have assassinated him in a hundred different ways, instead she didn't do anything. She chose to let the guy go that has the potential to start a war with an advanced species, who could wipe the floor with the whole galaxy with just their mining equipment!
Instead of stopping our mad scientist, Michael's plan was to put a tracker (which has a limited range only) on a ship that has unlimited jump capabilities with its spore drive. As Tony Stark would say: Not a great plan.
Instead of trying to talk Book out of his mission, which failed of course for our brilliant diplomat... It would have been a better option of sabotaging their spaceship. They would be stranded without it, problem solved! Book was surprised to see Michael in the casino, so he wasn't expecting to be caught up to, and he sure didn't change the passwords for his ship! Michael could simply steal it because she has access to it.
There were so many different ways to go about this episode, and the writers chose to go with the most boring one possible: a game of cards...
In the end, weakest episode of the season so far. Boring, slow, didn't anything really happen in it. You could totally skip this episode and wouldn't impact the story in any way.
Star Trek: Discovery: ...But to Connect (2021)
Everyone gets counseling aboard the USS Therapy...
...even the computers!
Oh great, the USS Therapy has officially a new crew member with rank and everything, the now sentient Zora. And she's in need of some serious counseling after living with the crew for over a year. She's even capable of dreaming, and her dreams are all nightmares. No wonder she has a hard time following orders after observing Captain Burnham's actions for so long!
In the last episode of the season they're going to reveal that the DMA is sentient too and has feelings, and it only needs some counseling and all is good, everything is solved and no one will be mad because it destroyed a few planets. Su'kal destroyed half the galaxy last season and no one was mad at him, so the DMA will get a pass too!
Discovery is back with its inconsistent writing! Yeeee...
In the last episode Booker was arguing with his imaginary dad who wanted him to take revenge on the DMA, and he refused. He had a lot of character development which was focused on letting go of his anger and need for revenge. This episode they throw that character development out the nearest airlock! Booker tries to convince the assembly that blowing up the DMA is the best option they have. It's like the writers forgot the last episode even exists!!!
The assembly meeting was painful to watch. The Federation has a thousand years of experience of diplomacy and making first contact with new species, but it didn't show. They're clueless how to approach a new species in this episode! Every member of the assembly was just standing there like a statue, without opinions or questions or thoughts. They looked like it was their first time seeing members of another species and clueless what to do.
Also the Spore Drive was a secret, but they casually mentioned it while discussing how to blow up the DMA. And no one raised their voices why the Federation has such a technology and doesn't share it with the worlds in need.
Also why were the major powers missing from the assembly? We didn't see any Klingons, Tholians, Breen, Dominion, Kazon. They mention that there are representatives from all four quadrants, but only show representatives from two. At least we had butterfly people who are technologically so advanced they couldn't even repair their own satellites in episode 1 of the season... I'm sure they can contribute SO MUCH to solving a galactic level threat...
It's mentioned that the United Earth has joined with Titan, but what about Mars? Is it still on fire? It was in Picard...
Also the voting was rigged, Ni'Varan had 3 representatives voting while other planets had only one.
Also they could have replicated some chairs with their marvelous inflammable Programmable Matter, standing for hours is a pain for poor delegates!
Adira: "I'm afraid of distances." You're sitting in a spaceship that can travel to anywhere in the galaxy in a blink of an eye. The word distance doesn't exist on this ship!
Zora: "It feels marvelous." Stamets: "What does?" Zora: "Being seen." Zora talks like no one noticed her until this episode, when in reality she's a huge star ship. It's hard NOT to see her...
Also the conference about Zora was not original, the writers copy-pasted the idea and whole plot from Measure of a Man.
Tarka wants to go home to his universe, but in the previous season Kovich stated that the universes are so far apart from each other that there hasn't been a crossing in the last 600 years. The writers kinda forgot about this.......
Tarka mentions that there is an universe where the Burn didn't happen and there's no DMA. This is a subtle way of the writers telling us that this series is not canon. This is a beta timeline, their little own sandbox. And because of this they can write anything they want, and they don't care if it goes against everything previous shows stand for.
This whole show is not canon, it's not Star Trek!
Star Trek: Discovery: Stormy Weather (2021)
Now even the computer has PTSD aboard the USS Therapy...
Oh great, even Zora, the sentient A. I. is an emotional wreck who needs constant praise and encouragement just to do basic functions like operate external sensors! In season 6 we're gonna see replicators that only give food if you ask them nicely, the doors will only open if you smile at them, turbo lifts will only stop on the floors they like, phasers won't fire because hurting someone is a bad thing...
Even the computer on this ship needs therapy after living with the crew for a year. They're that bad, like kindergarten crybabies in space.
The inconsistent writing Discovery is well known for is back! Last episode gave us clues that the DMA is created by someone who has a grudge because it only hits former Emerald Chain territories. And Tarkan knows exactly how to create the DMA. Now in this episode they show us proof that the DMA came from beyond the Galactic Barrier and was made by aliens who have nothing to do with this galaxy...
The episode wastes 5 minutes explaining that there's nothing outside the ship in the rift. For an exploration/science vessel, the crew is very slow to understand what nothing means.
To get out of the rift they could use the computer logs. They contain every movement the ship takes and use that and just put the ship in reverse to get out of the rift. It' like a blindfolded man takes 6 steps forward, then 6 steps backwards to arrive at the starting point.
Or do a phaser spread to map the boundary of the subspace void and use that as a reference for navigation.
The crew is incompetent as usual and because of this they figure out the way out of the void too late, the shields won't last that long. The solution the writers present to this predicament is to store the crew in the transporter pattern buffer and shut down the life support to gain more energy for the shields. The problem with this is that the writers forgot that the pattern buffer needed energy to story the crew. It's like DRAM in computers, it needs to be refreshed constantly for the data not to degrade, which requires energy. Ergo they didn't gain energy at the end of the day.
A much better solution would have been to just put the crew on Book's ship that sits in the cargo bay. It has power for the shields and life support and room for everyone, even the cat.
Michael knows that the shields won't hold out and the hull will get damaged on the way out. So she chooses to sit in the room with the biggest window on the whole ship...
I'm not impressed with 32nd century technology, it seems less advanced than 24th century tech was. The new upgraded hull of Discovery seems weaker than a traditional hull from previous shows, it breaks every time it gets some kind of damage.
But the special effect team loves the new tech at least:
Programmable matter, the galaxy's most flammable substance. It can burn uncontrollably, even in an airless void! This episode the bridge that has no oxygen is full of fire and sparks because why not, it looks cool...
At the end of the day this is just a trash sci-fi wannabe with crying high school girls. This is not Star Trek!
Star Trek: Discovery: The Examples (2021)
All aboard the USS Therapy!!
You know the situation is bad when the A. I. is giving out condolences and pep talk in the elevator to the captain!
And therapist doctor Culber is ready to throw in the towel as he can't handle any more of the crybabies onboard.
Tilly finally left the ship, Detmer and Owo was silently replaced. They're bringing in a new scientist, Tarka, because the current one, Stamets is considered a cavemen in the 32nd century and can't keep up with the technological progress.
The show runners be like: "We forgot to write proper stories for the bridge crew. But don't fret, we're replacing everyone this season!"
Also you can feel the quality increasing in this episode thanks to Tilly not taking up space on the ship and Adira & Gray being forgotten. Reno's presence is a delight which only comes every fifth episode, I'd like to see her more. But the actor takes every measures possible to stay away from this train wreck in space.
The episode felt like the first half was written by a different person than the last. For example, they're talking about the gravitational anomaly destroying the colony in the first half, later they talk about the sun destroying it.
The show runners are constantly trying to cache on the success of previous shows and are giving ships the names of characters from previous shows.
Every episode when there's a time limit they always escape at the last minute. The problem is that this is so overused I almost yawn at these scenes. This episode Burnham leaves the prison one minute before the transporter windows closes. The experiment is pushed to the last seconds of almost destroying the ship. Which was totally unnecessary, they saw from the beginning what they needed to see. But the writers wanted unnecessary dangers to keep the viewers entertained...
There are so much production errors:
- Like the replicators have a different sound than before.
- The father was on the bottom of the family tree.
- Why didn't the guards take the orb from Felix when he went to prison? Where did he hide something that big on himself????
- Burnham gives her communicator to Felix, but later she somehow still can communicate with Discovery to beam her up.
- Why don't they experiment after the evacuation when they have more power available???
- Charts have misspellings.
- The DMA jumps a thousand light years but the map show an area less than a hundred light years across.
- They assume that the DMA is artificial just because it made a random jump? This is wrong on so many levels! Lighting hits randomly, TNG had a wormhole that opened at random locations...
- Saru: "Natural phenomenons do not disappear and reappear elsewhere." He says this onboard a star ship that's capable of disappearing and reappearing anywhere in the universe in the blink of an eye...
- Hugh: "I came back from the dead, I must be special." No, you're not! Crew members came back from the dead regularly on previous shows...
- The captain who should be on the bridge and acting as a leader goes on again on a dangerous mission with communications blocked off.
You know the future the writers came up with is boring when even the Q Continuum doesn't want to go near it for the last 600 years...
Star Trek: Discovery: All Is Possible (2021)
Another episode, another problem ONLY Michael Burnham can solve....
Slow, boring episode with made up drama spiced with everyone hugging everyone in sight at the end on the USS Therapy.
And of course the solution to all the Federation's problems is Micheal Burnham, because she is just so special.
Every episode seems to be about the characters needing a boost in confidence and praise. In previous Star Trek the crew was highly trained, confident and focused on solving the dilemmas.
It wouldn't be so bad if the emotional scars of the characters would fade over time, but they are constantly the main topic of almost every episode of Discovery. It's so overused that there's no place left for a good story anymore.
Adira was accepted by the crew in season 3, but this episode she's like 'I don't have any friends and I don't know what to do when meeting new people'. The whole progress and experiences she got from season 3 got thrown out the window right at the start of this episode.
The writers are the weakest link in the production chain.
They wanted for the story to take place in the 32nd century, but didn't want to give the technological advances that came with this.
- In the future sensors are trash. They are unable to detect the biggest anomaly in the universe's history including a giant debris field next to a space station. Now they are unable to detect the gamma waves that hit the cadet's shuttle.
- Also shields get shredded by some space rocks. The hull's can't even protect the crew from wild life. Weapons that kill a person in one hit don't even scratch animals.
- The crew has personal transporters but don't use them to escape from dangerous situations. Combadges only work if you go 100 meters higher than the ship's crash site.
Tilly is a joke character. She fails in everything she does in her life.
For example in this episode they are sending a completely unqualified person on a mission to train some cadets. Then a cadet dies on her watch. Of course they promoted her to full time teacher at the end. Sure.
The story is not Star Trek, it's badly written, hidden behind expensive special effects. Please just stop this experiment in social justice, it's fake, it doesn't represent anything or anyone. It's just fanatical delusions.
Star Trek: Discovery: Choose to Live (2021)
Garbage Trek continues...
Slow and boring episode with illogical character motives. They need to somehow drag the story out so they can open the mystery box in episode 8 and hope the viewers don't die of boredom before that.
The whole season could be called Storm Chasers in Space.
This episode is about J'Vini who wants to protect a species by stealing dilithium and killing anyone who stands in her way. Her argument is that she can't reveal anything about the species in need because grave robbers would come after them if they knew that they've latinum in their blood. The problem is that when she found them they were already under attack by grave robbers, they never were safe in the first place. Asking the Federation for help would have been the best choice because the Federation would've kept the species safe(we already saw them doing this multiple times in season 3).
So basically the main characters were needlessly killing each other for the sake of drama.
The Vulcan scientists were useless as usual. They wasted half a day just to tell Stamets that his theory is wrong, but didn't provide anything to the plot or a solution of their own. Every season Stamets has to figure out a solution on his own because a planet full of scientists doesn't contribute anything to solving world ending crises.
Gray and Adira was the most useless addition to any crew in the history of Star Trek. They don't bring anything to the table. If they were erased, nothing would change, no one would miss them. The only thing they do is create confusion because no one knows what pronoun to use, and no one knows why they do have screen time.
Now that Gray has a golem body maybe he can find the nearest airlock and open it while inside...
It's the 32nd century and they still have to lower their shields to beam something over? They could create a DMZ so the shields don't need to be dropped on the whole ship, only one room or just the cargo, and transport stuff there. We saw in episode 2 that the shields can be extended, it's not a fixed size bubble.
Book episode 2: "I'm the only one who can fly my ship, I'm not giving it to anyone."
Book episode 3: "Sure Michael, you can take my ship on a mission without me, I don't have any problem with that."
Guardian Xi: "I do not sense his presence." You're a hologram, you can't sense anything man!!!
Vance: "They pay me by the letter."No Vance, they don't! There's no money in the Federation, the writers kinda forgot....
How did the thieves not see the tracker on the dilithium? It was huge and not hidden at all.
Tilly is a joke character. Every season she's shown to not fit in and fail at everything she tries out. This episode she's shown to waste food, suck at fighting, do awkward conversations right after someone said she has great diplomatic skills. (No, she doesn't! She couldn't even order food without miserably embarrassing herself and her ancestors ten generations back.) They're only keeping her around to be the ship's jester???
Star Trek: Discovery: Anomaly (2021)
The writing on this show has gone to absolute garbage.
This isn't the same show as s1 and s2 was, started going downhill with s3. I feel so embarrassed for the writers.
I still find it infuriating that 70% of the airtime is forced subpar drama for the sake of drama instead of good stories.
Like arguing about what Book does with his ship. His no Starfleet, he does what he wants, end of discussion.
Georgiou was the only capable crew member, everyone else is just an useless crybaby.
This episode was a copy of the encounter with Sphere Data from season 2.
Planet explodes and Saru asks if there are survivors. Now this is a stupid question right here!!!
The scene in the hallway between these two was so cringe to watch: Tilly: "Have you got taller?" Saru: "Have you got fatter?"
Book: "Detmer doesn't know how to fly my ship." Season 3 says otherwise when she destroyed Osyraa's ship with it...
The artificial gravity keeps failing on the ship and the crew doesn't remember that they have mag boots. Also the consoles are made of programmable matter that could extend and follow its user. And if they replicate chairs with seat belts the loss of gravity wouldn't be a problem. But the crew is useless and can't solve any problems.
Special effects in episode 1: flamethrowers and flying rocks on the bridge. Episode 2: flamethrowers and fireworks on the bridge.
Burnham: "You have to ride the next gravitational wave that comes in the next 2 minutes or you die." Starts a 5 minutes monologue right after this sentence.
This is not Star Trek anymore, but a cheesy space soap opera with mediocre special effects.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Terror Firma (2021)
Terrible episode full of plot holes!
This episode had so many plot holes and inconsistencies it was painful to watch!
This show has zero quality control.
- Why did the crew forget they have phasers to stop the vines from taking their vehicle?
- They have a GPS and need to go to a beacon. But somehow they keep going in circles which should be impossible when they have navigational equipment.
- Why is there a Klingon ship on the planet? And why are the people living in the delta quadrant familiar with species that lives very far away in the beta quadrant?
- Why does Jankom Pog take off his space suit mid episode when he states multiple times that he doesn't feel safe without it? Quote from Game of Thrones writers: "He kinda forgot."
- Why don't they ask the holo Janeway to beam them up to the ship? The bad guys can use the transporter. Why can't the good guys use it? Extremely bad writing!!!
- How does Gwyn know that her father was going to the ship when it was stated in previous episode that everyone has a different hallucination and they can't see each others? Terrible writing again...
- Why does the sensors say "lifeforms detected nearby" when the kids have their com badges on them and the ship can identify them with it?
It's clear as day that this series is written by people who never saw a Star Trek episode in their entire life!
Star Trek: Discovery: Kobayashi Maru (2021)
Another season of USS Incompetence
This tragedy is back with fresh, erm, I mean reused content and cliches.
- We have a butchered diplomatic mission that clearly shows how incompetent the crew is when negotiating with alien butterfly life forms.
- We have a butchered rescue mission because the crew can't repair a station in time and a meteor shower almost kills everyone.
It's funny, because 900 years ago shields were advanced enough not to get obliterated by a few pieces of rocks... But the writers forgot... By the way, rocks. Why are there rocks in every scene when something blows up on the bridge? Why are star ship consoles made out of rocks?
- In the future no one can aim with a weapon. It was the same in season 3 episode 1, Burnham was running while being chased and and no one could hit her. It's like I'm watching Star Wars with clone troopers.
- People are in the wrong places, like Stamets. He's a scientist, not an engineer. The president, leader of the Federation shouldn't be taking part in a rescue mission, she has other responsibilities. And why is the president who's making a list of captains for the new ships when that's the responsibility of Starfleet?
- Season 3: "We can't replicate the spore drive." Season 4: "We can replicate it because the writers told us to do it."
- The writers love drama and illogical speeches, for example. Burnham saves the whole galaxy in season 3. The president in season 4: "You're not ready to even commander a star ship."
And the catch phrase 'let's fly' doesn't work with a star ship. You can only fly in an atmosphere, not in space.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Dream Catcher (2021)
10 ton of plotholes per every episode
Too many fart jokes in a single episode! This is Star Trek, not Cartoon Network.
And why does Gwyn have Jedi powers? Why are they copying Star Wars so obviously?
This episode was painful to watch it had so many plotholes and inconsistencies:
- Why does a star ship have to land on a planet to do a survey? Have the writers forgotten about the transporter? In the history of Star Trek they've never landed on a planet for a routine survey!
- They show us that the phasers are set on stun, but later when used they are set to kill.
- It's mentioned that the tricorders track everyone but later Rok doesn't know who is near her when she uses her tricorder and panics because of this.
- Jankom Pog is wearing a space suit the whole time but still can smell everything on the planet and hallucinates because of the spore. Space suits should be air proof.
- How can spores infect a non biological machine like Zero and cause hallucinations? It was stated that he doesn't have a corporeal body and is only controlling the machine body with his mind.
- How can someone hack a computer and an A. I. with the push of a few buttons when the tech is centuries ahead of what they've got in the Delta Quadrant?
- Do the writers even know what a slime is? There is a scene with a slime getting stuck. But slimes have a gelatin body and can shapeshift into any form. It's impossible for them to get stuck!