Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 5 "Choose Your Pain" Review

While on a mission, Lorca is captured by the Klingons and unexpectedly finds himself in the company of prisoner of war Starfleet Lieutenant Ash Tyler and notorious criminal Harry Mudd.

This was a really interesting and entertaining episode that had both a really good main story and side story. I really liked Michael tried to do all she could to protect Ripper because she is so sure that the space jumping is hurting the creature. And it was interesting how Michael and some of the other scientist tried to come up with other ways to make that same connection between the spores and the machine without using the creature but the best solution they can find it to use a human instead because they are just similar enough to Ripper. Then the moments with Saru acting as captain and he is trying to find a way to be the best captain possible but he is struggling to seem powerful and unafraid and because of that he really isn't listening to what others are saying. Then the moments with captain Lorca were really great with him figuring out how things among the prisoners work and what the Klingons want with him. I really loved the whole escape scene and how captain Lorca got away and back save aboard the Discovery. And I can't wait to see how Ash will fit in among the rest of the crew, and I can't wait to see how they might eventually bring Harry back into the mix since Lorca turned on him. Then just overall this was a really entertaining and great episode and I'm curious to know what they are going to do next.   

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 4 "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" Review

With tensions and stakes high as Starfleet continues in their efforts to end the war with Klingons, Burnham begins to settle into her new position aboard the U.S.S. Discovery.

This was a really entertaining and interesting episode that was really interesting to see how everything played out. I enjoyed watching Michael finding her place aboard the Discovery and figuring out her new work position which was to find out more information on the creature that attacked her in the last episode and turn it into a weapon. And I really loved when the truth came out about the creature that she refers to as Ripper and how it is connected to the warp system by it essentially being the navigator. I really hope that in the episodes to come Michael will come up with some kind of device to help the creature to navigate without it causing so much pain, or somehow gain the creature's trust enough that the creature will navigate without needing to be hooked up. Then all the moments with the Klingons were interesting with there continued war between one another about which families should rule in this war environment and which should go away. And I really enjoyed the ending of this episode for the Klingons where one was left behind and he has become determined to get his revenge and prove himself to the rest of the Klingons and win this war for himself. Then the ending where Michael opens the gift from her old captain was really great and I can't wait to see her used the telescope in some way. And just overall this was a really interesting and entertaining episode and I'm really excited to see what will happen next.   

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 3 "Context is for Kings" Review

Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.

This was a really interesting and really great episode that did a good job of bringing everybody aboard the Discovery and really establishing who the main characters are. And I really enjoyed each of the new main people that we meet, where the captain is a big mystery, the head scientist who Michael works under is very angry and aggressive, and Micheal's roommate is very happy and shy, so all them mixed together with Michael was really interesting. And I liked that they had Micheal sort of starting from the bottom of ranks and she doesn't want to be there and she doesn't know why she is there, but she just goes along and uses her intelligence to help fix the problems she comes across. And it was really interesting to see how she figured out some of the secrets that people are hiding from her because no one really trusts her. And it was really cool how they sort of started talking about the creation of warp technology, because I was a little afraid of what they might do because this whole series takes place 10 years before the Enterprise so a lot of the technology that the Enterprise had didn't exist much when the Discovery was around so I was worried what they were going to do and if they were just going to ignore everything and do what they want. But with them talking about the creation of warp technology it shows they are trying to give some effort to stay correct to the timeline of things. Then I loved the scene where Micheal goes on this side mission with some of the other characters and while she is leading the monster away while everyone else escapes Micheal is quoting Alice in Wonderland. And as a big fan of the Alice in Wonderland story that was just so great the lines she was quoting fitting perfectly to the situation she was in, I just loved it so much. And then the ending made it better where Micheal pulls out of her bag an actual book and it is Alice in Wonderland. I have to say that this was a really interesting episode because despite this being the third episode it really felt like a pilot episode where the first two episodes could have easily been told in a back story but instead they decided to show everything. And just overall this was a really great first sort of episode and I'm so excited to see where they will go from here. 

Star Trek Discovery Season 1 Episode 2 "Battle at the Binary Stars" Review

Burnham is confined to the Shenzhou brig for mutiny as the Federation battles the Klingons.

This was a really entertaining and great episode that did a good job of picking up where the last one left off and bring that story to a conclusion. Which I'm a little disappointed because I really enjoy what the Star Trek series do where every single episode is its own story but I can kinda understand it for this because it is just the second episode and they're still doing a lot of introducing of everything so I can kinda understand it, but I was a little disappointed. And all the battling between the Federation and the Klingons was so great with how they did all the action and all the planning and who came into play when and how all that played out. But on the Klingon side of things it was a little confusing because at first it made it seem like all the different Klingon families had gotten together and were fighting to reintroduce themselves together but then on the other end so things it really seemed like it was just this one Klingon leader there doing everything himself so that was a little weird and hard to follow. But if it was just the one guy it kind of makes sense because how he seemed to be putting himself out there it seemed like he was trying to prove himself to the rest of the families so that kind of makes sense if that's the way that they were supposed to go but like I said it was kind of hard to follow what they were trying to do. And then all the moments with Michael were really interesting with her being stuck on a part of the ship that was just completely destroyed in the battle and the walls that are holding her and place from not getting sucked into the vacuum of space are starting to fail us the power starting to fail more and more on the ship so she had to come up with the way to try and save herself and how all that works out was really interesting. And then the whole scene where Michael and her old Vulcan teacher are talking to each other was interesting but a little weird because of how it was explained where apparently because they have mine melted with each other in the past they can essentially do it at any time so that was a little weird but I guess it helped to make the scene flow more. Then it was weird how even though Michael did all this Mutiny stuff in the last episode when she showed up and started offering ideas and help they just kind of accepted her back into the group. And as I predicted the captain didn't last very long so that that was a little sad because I really enjoyed her she was a great captain so that's a little disappointing but the rest of my prediction didn't really play out. Because at the end of all this stuff the Mutiny on Michael still held and she was sort of taken out of commission all that stuff. And with that the whole last 3 minutes of this episode was really kind of confusing because it was just showing like all the different stuff that's going to come up for the series and it was weird because it was just sort of thrown in there and it took a bit of time to realize oh hey that's what they're doing so it just felt really kind of weird. But I do have to say overall this was still a really great introduction to the series and I'm really excited to see where they might take everything and how Michael is eventually going to get her position in life for it back.

Star Trek Discovery Season 1 Episode 1 "The Vulcan Hello" Review

While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet.

This was a really entertaining and amazing first episode that just dropped you right into the middle of all this Star Trek lore and didn't do a lot of describing and like setting up the main sort of plots to every Star Trek show which I really enjoyed as someone who has watched several different Star Trek things and is a big fan. Yes, I can understand that can difficult for someone first coming into the Star Trek show fresh but I feel like it is pretty easy to pick up on things and understand how everything works they won't find it that much of a problem. And I really enjoyed what they did with the character of Michael where she isn't Vulcan as far as we know but she was raised in the Vulcan education system and has learned act the way they do so she has like the personality somewhat of the Vulcan but then she still has like the emotional side of a human to more of an extent then Spock did. And I really enjoyed the relationship between Michael and the captain and yes and Star Trek shows in the past always there is a great relationship between the first officer and the captain but this seemed to be a whole other level. And it is really interesting how they're doing the show from making the first officer the main character instead of usually where they have it be the captain so that's really interesting and kind of makes me think that the captain might not last long and Michael has to step up and become the captain or something like that it's probably bound to happen.It was really interesting with what they did with the idea of this artifact being out in space that they had to go and investigate and having that lead to the artifact being related to some Klingons was done really well with how all that was revealed. And then I really liked that they had this Klingon ship just hidden away from all the Radars and away from view until it was revealed to be directly in front of the Shenzhou. And just all that sort of hesitation that the team had afterward was really interesting to see how everyone had their own opinions and own ideas of how to deal with running into a bunch of Klingons that hadn't been seen in a hundred or so years. And with that, I really enjoyed seeing how Michael reacted and what her ideas that she brought to the table based on how the Vulcan have approached this in the past were really interesting and really great. Just overall this was a really entertaining and great first episode and I can't wait to see where they might take this story next.