With my recent travels and Real World stuff, I have fallen behind on my postings....
So here are the Warp Notes....
Ep.4 - "An Obol of Charon"
--Rebecca Romijin cameos as Number One, and steals her brief scene from the amazing Pike! I vote for her to be the new Disco Captain for season three!!! More retro-cons, Pike orders the holo-systems to be removed from the Enterprise
--Disco bumps into a giant planet sized alien orb artifact, havoc reigns on the ship and Saru suddenly becomes deathly ill (shades of Amok Time, anyone?)... it is clear the producers are attempting to eat their cake too, by trying to create traditional Trek stories (in this instance, an alien first contact puzzle mystery) that are all tied directly to the over arching Red Angel arc... while it works, it all feels typically Disco rushed and never breathes the way I would like.
--a powerfully emotional scene with Burnham and Saru, I love how this friendship has evolved!
--Tilley and her ghost May storyline reveals that the Mycelial Universe is occupied by sentient life, and by travelling through it the Disco is doing unforeseen damage.... thus cementing further why it is not used by Kirk's time?
Ep.5 - "Saints of Imperfection"
--Tyler rejoins the Disco crew, and Pike instantly does not like him
--Mirrorvese Georgiou is back, and the producers are trying very hard to make her likeable... isn't she a mass murdering tyrant?
--Through some very confusing new age technobabble a crew member returns from the dead
--some very cool psychedelic visuals and ticking clock drama
Ep.6 - "The Sounds of Thunder"
--The Red Angels bring the Disco crew to Saru's home world for a sequel of sorts to his Short Treks story... everything is connected!
--The Prime Directive exists solely for it to be broken lol. Seriously, this is very richly layered and complicated story in classic Trek fashion, of how the sins of the past continue to shape our choices. We learn startling secrets about Saru's people and their oppressors and as usual Doug Jones performance rules the screen. He deserves an Emmy nomination.
--The B Story, about our returned beloved crew member asks the questions about what truly defines us an individual
-- I think this is my favourite episode so far this season.
Ep.7 - "Lights and Shadows"
--A time-whimey episode that could be entitled, 'How Pike and Tyler became Buddies"
--Strange production design choice as the probe looks EXACTLY like the Matrix movies Squids???
--More Section 31 non-sense... I really find this plot line unneeded and uninteresting... based on what I have seen so far, I really do NOT want a Section 31 spin-off show.
--We finally meet Spock...sort of... since he is currently a passenger on the Crazy Train to Lunaticville.
--Amanda and Sarek return, their dynamic is very 'fascinating' to watch, do Vulcans have couple counselling?
--hhhmmmm...... I thought in Journey to Babel, Spock has not seen is pappy in like 18 years?
--I loved how the producers had Tilly acknowledging she is trying to not use the F-Bomb anymore lol
--looks like next episode we finally learn something about bridge crew officer Airiam -- what is she? A robot? Cyber augmented life form?
--this episode was juggling way too many balls for me, each story felt under developed... but this seems to be the normal cinematic high speed narrative the show prefers...
--bomb shell cliffhanger.... wait for it..... TELOS IV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!