Trekathon 838: All In (DIS)
February 16th, 2022This is, I think, the 28th consecutive weekly episode of Star Trek. Is it possible for there to be too much Trek? Spoilers.
Overall a not great, not terrible episode. It has some nice story components in the weird casino barge, the fight ring, and so on. It feels a little out of place in terms of the urgency of the overall season arc, but that’s struggled to get going forever. The best feature was giving Two a real role – it’s nice to see her gradually becoming a real character, rather than a face on the bridge. But there’s not much advance on Book and Burnham, and for there’s not much setup for the next episode beyond a bit more stakes raising. It feels a bit time killing.
It does make me wish even more that we’d spent an episode or two on Burnham the courier last season. Would have been a really good way of introducing more of this new era, and we could be paying it off now. Instead we get big bad foes who don’t even get a line despite being the major threat.
Quick hits:
Zora is a bit of a suck up it seems.
Burnham’s cover mission is very cleverly done. I wish they’d kept ambiguity on it for more than one scene.
Very familiar voice from the fixer. Noting I could spot on IMDB.
We wear uniforms to the underground casino now? Not even an attempt at a disguise.
Ooh, Changeling – related to the Founders? We’ll never know and the writers don’t seem to care.
They did seem to hustle those fighters, not very Star Fleet.
“Klingons on the disco”. LOL..
It’s a pity they couldn’t find anyone we’d seen before as the other two players in the poker game.
These Emerald Chain goons are pretty dumb if they can’t spot the obvious communication.
Personally I would act a bit quicker on the tracking information rather than save it as the big reveal.
228 million km across would not even allow you to have the Earth’s orbit around a sun, would be just enough for Venus.
838 down. And at least 26 more episodes over 24 consecutive weeks already announced, which will make a full year with Trek every week.