Season 2 Observations
Summary: Acceptable to pretty good.
Let’s talk time travel.
Dr Burnham, she’s not dead, she’s living in the future. One of the most perfect time travel scenarios- You are projected 950 years into the future in your time travel suit. For whatever reason, you realize that all sentient life has been destroyed, it was a roque AI that caused it, and not only that, you can look back see exactly what happened (by having a time stone?) so you jump in your time suit and fly back to warn Spock, and help your daughter, until the universe is saved, but you for some reason are stuck in the future and can only come back for short periods of time before the time travel wormhole yanks you back. No problem, I guess.
As far as time travel, if your only goal is to see that all sentient life is not destroyed by Control, you could go back and fiddle with the past until you get a good result. This is what Dr. Burnham, Michael’s mother did, almost a perfect time travel scenario.
- But why was she stuck in the future?
Michael Burnham time travel brain twister- I guess that the
time is fluid, explanation is a good enough excuse to explain the following. Seven signals appears around the galaxy simultaneously and disappear. Discovery flies to the one that appears after, and it leads them to a place where they save a person who they later discover is vital to winning the final conflict. Thinkers onboard Discovery decide these signals are sending them to places where they can help, but don’t realize until the end what the big picture is. This happens repeatedly.
And at the end, after the Discovery crew has made their own time suit that only Michael Burnham can use, when Michael reaches a point where it is time to lead the Discovery to the future (because of vital info it contains that they have to keep away from Control, the rogue AI), she can’t get her suit to work, until she makes jumps to the past. Remember those seven signals? She figures out that it was *her* that sent those many signals, but has no clue why,
until at that moment.
- And did she send the seven signals simultaneous before?
Confusing? It’s a time paradox. Just go with the flow... ?
Besides that, I enjoyed Season 2. The advantage of serial story telling is that the show has the time to explore character feelings which in episodic shows there is hardly any free time for such things.
However:
- A little too slick and convenient story elements.
- When did the teleported system function across vast distances? Characters like Burnham’s adopted parents magically appear on Discovery. Tyler disappears and gets to the Klingon empire to bring help.
- Who called the Kelpians, and when did the not too long ago, afraid of their shadow Kelpians learn to fly and get access to space fighters?
- Way too much out of place levity even during life and death situations.
- A blast door on the Enterprise protects the rest of the ship from an unexploded photon torpedo lodged in the saucer section? They are like freaking nukes.
- Why would Control keep the core of it’s intelligence in one human body? Why not a hive mind, or backups such as the Borg? So why would the other ships go dead when Leland is defeated? Btw there is speculation that Control is the start of the Borg.
- They are going to keep Discovery a secret? Yeah, Right.
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I'm so behind. I had recently signed up to CBS All Access for Picard. I have watched all but 2 episodes of season 1.
Although I have no problem with the show, I'm just not a binging type of person. Never watch more tan 2 or 3 episodes at a time.
With these new short seasons you can easily watch 2 episodes at a time and have plenty of leeway to get’r done in a month.
