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Star Trek Discovery S4, Ep 2: What’s Old is New but Worse
In the 700+ hours of Star Trek, probably like half of it involves the crew trying to figure out a space anomaly.
Well, now it’s Discovery’s turn at the trope and in classic Kurtzman Trek fashion they have to utterly ruin it from the start.
You see, loyal fans of the franchise, it’s not just an anomaly, it’s actually a binary black hole. And it’s not just a binary black hole, it discriminates in what it destroys. And it doesn’t just discriminate in what it destroys, we find out at the end of the episode it can change direction by itself! Also, it’s five light-years across. Yes, five.
It’s cool, though, the Discovery is going to go into the anomaly and get ALL THE DATA so they can help…. evacuate planets in its path? Anyway, did I mention it’s five light-years across?
So, that’s all dumb. Moving on.
The episode starts with Burnham upset that Book isn’t showing emotion. Then Capt. Saru volunteers to be her first officer, because he’s not stupid and realizes Burnham is in no way qualified to be in charge and needs someone to tell her what to do? If that’s not the intention, it’s…
