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Four Things About Star Trek Discovery Episode 4
This show is painful. After every scene I just hit pause and audibly sigh. “Why?” is scribbled all over my notebook. Usually next to “No.”
So I won’t be doing a “four things I liked about STD” because frankly, nothing the show is doing is worth liking. I’m really trying to be polite when I say that. I understand some people enjoy this show, but I haven’t seen their CAT scans, so I can only speculate as to why.
- Voq’s got a valentine!
After six months of twiddling his thumbs and proving to be every bit as incompetent as everyone assumed he’d be, Not The Albino has finally eaten the last of Georgiou’s rotting flesh and is ready to possibly maybe eventually get his followers out of the starship graveyard. The Lady Klingon bats her eyes and tells him one syllable at a time that she believes in him and he’s the true leader of the House of T’Kuvma or whatever. Then she convinces him to steal the dilithium chamber from the Shenzhou (because Starfleet didn’t destroy the ship or salvage its super-fucking-rare dilithium crystals, but somehow the UFPPS got Georgiou’s telescope to the secretly released Burnham on her secret science ship). Voq doesn’t want to because he’s a whiny little tool who I hate, and then Kol of the House of Kor shows up to pull one of the simplest con-jobs every filmed and get control of Voq’s ship —…
