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Loving season three. Hope that they are keeping Booker as has great chemistry. Some parts of this episode a bit easy to see coming, but still enjoyable. Cant wait to see where this season is heading. Like the new character with trill, hoping that it is Dax.

Pretty good episode with tensions between Discovery and a new frenemy. But one thing it got me was "long range communications is broken on Titan so they can't ask Earth for help". Just pick up the old radio then??? Get a response back in 3 hours. Not the best but not resorting to masked singer piracy bad.

I really enjoyed the intensity and drama from the conflicts in this episode. More importantly I enjoyed that these conflicts were resolved without some elaborate and extended fight scene. I was happy to see a diplomatic solution. This episode continued the seasons story arch, while also maintaining its own plot and a satisfying conclusion. This is the Formula to stick with for modern Trek. In reality it was already pioneered on DS9, the wheel does not need to be reinvented. This was great work and I hope the season keeps it up. ***Thank you Frakes for his great direction on this one***

I've enthused over and given high ratings for the first two episodes this season, but I'm really not feeling it for episode three. This one's really has quite a lame first half. Giving it six stars though because the second half was good.

So, my issues with the first half:

Too much smiling, giggling, crying for a start. And then there's "The Burn". Suddenly all the dilithium in the galaxy went inert? Suddenly? And that made all ships with an active warp drive explode? How does an inert substance make a starship explode? And now dilithium works again???? Beyond preposterous. All the production values in the world can't fix stupid plots with more holes than Swiss cheese.

Talking of preposterous, I was hoping we had seen the back of the frankly ridiculous "mushroom" drive, as Philippa Georgiou might call it. But no, it's back. Sigh.

Please do better, Discovery, I've been defending you, don't prove the naysayers right!

It hasn't escaped my attention that this episode has scored a higher rating than the previous two. Perhaps others are seeing something I'm not and I'm too focused on the negatives. Perhaps people just really liked the second half enough to overlook the first half. I don't know. Maybe I'll watch again later to try and glean some of that positivity!

As an aside, I'm also hoping that the Trill might be Dax. We'll see....

This could be my favorite episode of Discovery yet! No Star Fleet on Earth!?!?! The episode pace was soothing. My cut on Burnham at this point is that for the first time in her life (a human raised on Vulcan, then a member of Star Fleet, then the mirror stuff, then having to save everything, etc, etc, etc) she was free. Free from the heavy responsibility she has always borne. She's had a year to breathe. I REALLY like this growth in her character. Love her relationship with Book. Love how they aren't a couple (yet). Would she have stepped aside and let Suru assume the Captainship had she not had this year? I'm not sure. It showed a maturity we hadn't seen in her yet. It's perfect that Suru is finally the Captain of Discovery. Loved "Aye Captain" in unison from the bridge crew. He stood his ground in this episode too. I also loved how Stamets interacted with Adira. I'll knock Michael some here going off and operating on her own with Book. But at the same time, I like how Suru stood by her. Of course, very Star Fleet/Federation like bringing folks to the table to work out their differences. (I had an 'Enterprise' Archer/Shran/Soval flashback) Georgiou was exactly what I want to see of her in this episode. She has a lot to bring to the table for Suru. Something is still going on with Detmer. It surprised me when Owosekun put her in her place. Loved seeing Christopher Heyerdahl in this episode! I pretty much love everything he's been in. Lot's of questions about the Solar System... Mars? ... The Moon? ... I'm sure we'll be back to Earth throughout season 3. Lots of cool 32nd-century tech. Discovery's shields might as well have not been there! If I were Saru, I'd ask for some shield/weapon help from Earth before they head off to find Star Fleet. Wonderful scene at the end with that big huge tree. My guess is we're off to Trill!!

What a mess.

I actually like episode 2 better than 1. It had less storylines and gave me a bit of a Star Trek feeling again. Then this came along.

Where do I start? This episode was a bunch of overdramatic short onliners with very fast camera scenes going all over the place. Also stop that lense flaring on the Discovery bridge, it is if looking into a car headlight.

So they go to earth, see it completely covered by shields when they are practically on top of it, meet one woman which they only talk to and introduce a Thrill kid which is too smart (Wesley Crusher 2.0) in a few quick scenes (wow an interface... aaah connects to the bridge! wow short discussion with spinning camera to deduce the kids actions), unite Titan and Earth which have been fighting but never ever communicating and now they suddenly do and thanks to dramatic-face-burnham agree on working together, insert Star Fleet music for the feelz (I was expecting Sam (Van Helsing) to grow some devil horns at the spot).

I had my eyes rolling literally every scene, there was always something wrong, was it the acting, the overly facial expression Burnham, the dramatic music, the rushing of the plot, the weird relation between earth and Titan, the Titan attack on Discovery with small ships going around it like hornets but not doing anything while they could literally beam in, the quantum rockets that hit Discovery but can't go around it, the annoying melodramatic flirting between Book and Michael, etc etc.

In short, an overly dramatic heap of short storylines and character interactions stitched together in the great "facial expression"-Michael Burnham space opera show.

Not even good as a show. They managed to even break the one good character, saru. The writing is horrible, the plot just makes you cry that people are getting money for writing this.

Let me get down some details, micheal burnam is like god for this show and for most the characters in it. First we get a scene with michael giving her blessing for saru being captain.. more like her permission..and then saru follows the plan she laid out..

We get to earth its bad, the ship gets boarded. A child bugs the ship blocking transport to stay more time on it. Some alien bad guys show up we are now in a situation! Anything can happen right?

No. Micheal knows, she basically sees the future. She disobeys orders, abandons her post and takes on her own plan with her boy. Leaves the ship takes ALL THE DILITHIUM. Saru tries to hail her gets shut down by phillipa. Bad saru stupid saru. Micheal has a nice plan that we see while we hear them discussing 10 other amazing "indiana" adventure stories that we never saw and are supposed to feel something. Great writing yeah.

Micheal plan will work but guess what, earth is like no. We can't risk all that dilithium fall in enemy hands.

Earth starts shooting at micheal. Saru is like everyone life on this ship is insignificant. I must save the first officer who just went rogue. You are all bodies for micheals bullets. Bam they get hit. Only the robotic girl was reasonable.(i dont remember names cause i dont care)

Before discovery gets blown up the plan succeds and we get the enemy captain at discovery's bridge. We dont see any of the action.Situation over.

Boriiing! We go back to the spore room where we get stamets explain all about the spore driver, all the secrets, the fact that they are from the past! to the kid who hacked their ship just minutes before!!!! Are these people crazy? The kid gets back to him by revealing he is the admiral that send the message..that was the reason... that brought them here in the first place. Can you guys feel it? Can you feel writing incompetence oozing through?

I am checked out but hold on. Here comes the best. The alien is actually a human with a helmet. Oblivion like. And now a dialogue is opened with earth and the by now enemy alien Wen, leading up to a ceasefire.

Basically what the episode should have focused instead of having boring conversations with tilly or gringing on micheals face while saru takes the captain sit. Or having micheal explaining things we didnt see.

Hey if you like the show sure. I just like my shows to be good. The story is non believable. The status of micheal is just irrational. People act stupid all the time and the one character i had some hope, saru was reduced to a spectator on his first day after micheal appointed him captain.

Also and i am sorry but tilly looks horrible, the makeup they have on her.. i mean it looks like it has depth, you know we got HD screens right? Besides that the look the girl puts out feels borderline psychotic. Someone should pull a counter for the times people cried in this show.

Lockdown review. Stay safe.

Finally reunited, Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery crew journey to Earth, eager to learn what happened to the Federation in their absence.

I see potential if Star Trek Discovery keeps doing that good old 'sit down and talk' situation instead of committing war. The drama here was great. Booker has engaging chemistry with Michael. It will be entertaining to see how his character will develop from now on then.

8/10.

Not bad, but a little too sappy, and goofy with the fake robot head. We still need a long-term story, not just Michael reliving her bad year.

The last couple of minutes killed the entire episode ... you have this out-dated spaceship that cannot stand more than one torpedo from Earth's defence force and you rush back into space without trying to gain further tactical, technological and historical knowledge from your newly gained friends on Earth. The crew's visit to Earth was shorter than a cigarette break and was literally around a tree - one would have expected at least some interest in tracing down the stories of the families they left behind (to connect it with Tilly's speech earlier in the episode). Introducing a simple 'two weeks later' narration jump would have been a more plausible bridge. Three episodes in and we were provided with so little information on the technologies of the future (Michael and Booker did their invisible tricks, used some 'codes' and saved the day). Whilst it was nice to see the positivity, the diplomacy and Federation values, I feel that this card has now been overly played and the proportion of emotional speeches and dramatic acting became a bit too much.

This is an establishing episode for the rest of the season to introduce new information and a new character. So there's not much of a story within the episode (It's more like an incident) with any threats quickly resolved by Georgiou. The writers may have been watching TNG S4 when they wrote this episode as there's a reference to the study tree S4E21 and the host S4E23. They now have the mushroom drive, a database of the universe and someone who's been around long enough to navigate them through it. No need to rely on any new technology that earth could offer. Enjoyed it anyway. Especially Booker and Georgiou.

A lot of things bother me with this show, but what truly is painful about this show is that 85% of the shows content seems to be Discoverys crew talking about their emotions with overly expressive faces and tones. The cast is weak to begin with, I especially find Tilly super annoying, and Saru is probably the worst captain i can imagine for a star trek show, i hope this is temporary. Basicially theres not a shred of testesterone in this tv show, and there's only so much of Michaels souls searching that i can bear. The show also takes itself too serious (except when it comes to Tilly, who is just plain annoying).

I'm not hating on this because its not like the old Star Trek. I simply think that the show focuses on the crews emotions more than anything. This is without a doubt the worst Star trek cast i have ever seen, or possibly worst Scifi cast, but i could bear with it if the show at least focused 90% of the time on the plot and situation and 10% on the characters, instead of having it the other way around.

The easiest thing to improve this show would be to fire whoever wrote the dialogues. Or kill the crew off and start anew.