This final episode came as a relief, but also with 25 extra minutes of fluff. Without giving away any "spoilers", in the middle of life-and-death battles with seconds to spare, the writers still find time for characters to talk about their feelings - yeesh! This episode was particularly heavy on social philosophy (which, of course, was evident throughout the series). At the end, there was a time-jump which revealed nothing special. And the finale scene, it looked like Discovery was retrofitted to be full automatic to go park somewhere and wait for something to happen in the future. (So if the ship was fully automated, why did Burnham need to be on-board one last time?)
See? Lot's of bad writing. And the effects would have been cool 25 years ago, before The Matrix. But since we've seen all that, the fight scenes in the portal were average at best.
One important critical point with the whole series is that there was never any real tension - none. No important characters were ever in danger of being killed off. Everyone lives at the end, so where's the dramatic tension? ST:D seemed to go out of its way to make sure everyone was fine.
The only spark of a clue in the finale was that Kovich (David Cronenberg) was not who he appeared. He seems to have been around Starfleet longer than anyone knows, because they tried to tie this in somehow to previous Star Trek shows (such as Enterprise). Is he really a the "temporal agent" Agent Daniels, or maybe an android, or Section 31? None of those questions are even remotely answered.
After watching every episode of every season, I'm not sure ST:D left any kind of legacy. Even in its last few minutes, the final episode ended with Burnham's awful signature line "let's fly". Goodbye and good riddance.
See? Lot's of bad writing. And the effects would have been cool 25 years ago, before The Matrix. But since we've seen all that, the fight scenes in the portal were average at best.
One important critical point with the whole series is that there was never any real tension - none. No important characters were ever in danger of being killed off. Everyone lives at the end, so where's the dramatic tension? ST:D seemed to go out of its way to make sure everyone was fine.
The only spark of a clue in the finale was that Kovich (David Cronenberg) was not who he appeared. He seems to have been around Starfleet longer than anyone knows, because they tried to tie this in somehow to previous Star Trek shows (such as Enterprise). Is he really a the "temporal agent" Agent Daniels, or maybe an android, or Section 31? None of those questions are even remotely answered.
After watching every episode of every season, I'm not sure ST:D left any kind of legacy. Even in its last few minutes, the final episode ended with Burnham's awful signature line "let's fly". Goodbye and good riddance.
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