Star Trek Discovery Season 3, Episode 1. Because.

Here we go, folks.

Ugh.

Three things I like

The future! Oh look, all of my aesthetic and creative complaints have immediately gone away. Shocking! Who could have possibly guessed that? Oh and it was smart to address the “Temporal Wars.” It was a dumb idea when Enterprise did it and I’m glad that they dialogued it away.

Series Reboot! The end of season 2 was the finale of a failed experiment. I know it, you know it, even that fuckwad Kurtzman knows it. So they correctly rebooted the series — it’s still all about Burnham and it’s still overwrought with unearned melodrama, but now, free from the suffocating constraints they placed on themselves, they can actually maybe make a sci-fi show. Y’know, like a Star Trek.

Sahil! At first I hated the obvious nuBSG ripoff imagery of the lone guy waiting for the story to get to him. But when it did, it worked. I like how being a Federation officer has taken on a quasi-hereditary status like in Subroman Britain. That little detail probably went over the heads of most, but for me it adds a great little piece of world-building and an accessible historical parallel. In what I really hope is a poetic double-meaning, he’s the true hope for the Federation, not Michael Burnham. I know it’s not, and she’s the savior of mankind or whatever, but I…