Final episode: Riker and Troi in a holodeck discussing how Burnham died 1,000 years in the future after saving the entire known universe from total destruction...
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Yeah, not sure how I feel about this last one. Felt too clean somehow. Enjoyed the ship porn this season though, the shuttlebay stuff was spiffy.
I don't see how the Breen don't just annihilate them though. That's some awfully thick plot armor. Moll would have also just kinda headshot both of them on sight too, she has everything she needs right there in front of her and instead entertains a conversation. She's so far beyond redemption and saving so the hesitation is just dumb, but the story ends without it so here we are.
Low expectations for the finale, we'll see how much of a bow they put on this and tie it back to existing / continuing Trek.
I don't see how the Breen don't just annihilate them though. That's some awfully thick plot armor. Moll would have also just kinda headshot both of them on sight too, she has everything she needs right there in front of her and instead entertains a conversation. She's so far beyond redemption and saving so the hesitation is just dumb, but the story ends without it so here we are.
Low expectations for the finale, we'll see how much of a bow they put on this and tie it back to existing / continuing Trek.
I suspect L'ak the Scion will be resurrected, the Breen will join the Federation, and all will live happily ever after. The only question in my mind is whether Book's planet will also be resurrected, or not.
Watched eps 3 & 4 yesterday afternoon. 3 was sorta "meh", but 4 was a lot of fun.
Why are the time travel episodes always more fun?
Why are the time travel episodes always more fun?
Star Trek , no matter what show, eventually uses time travel ,sometimes multiple times. The other fall back : The Mirror Universe. 
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Next Generation and Voyager avoided the Mirror Universe, but definitely had Time Travel.Star Trek , no matter what show, eventually uses time travel ,sometimes multiple times. The other fall back : The Mirror Universe.
Next Generation dipped their toe in the mirror universe with Thomas Riker (William Thomas Riker's transporter clone).
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That was just because of the Transporter, nothing to do with the mirror ( or any other) universe, also, never determined who was the duplicate.
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William Thomas "Tom" Riker was a result of a transporter accident in 2361 that created two William Thomas Rikers, genetically indistinguishable from each other, with personality and memories identical up to the point of the duplication. One of the duplicates continued to be known as William...
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Yeah, expecting a bittersweet ending for some stories, and a storybook ending for others.
Part of me hopes we get the unconventional (for Trek anyways) 'bad guys win' but that's just not how Star Trek rolls.
Agreed, particularly Discovery. The 'bad guys' won't win...that's just not the flavor of this show.
In that mirror universes are all about "alternate personalities", it sort of fits.
tbh, at one point I was kinda hoping Burnham...
was about to become a Q.
Happy that it was a longer episode to give most of the stories time to breathe, finale largely fit within the mold of your typical Trek finale.
So long, Paramount+.
Boy was I wrong!
Nice spoiler. Unfortunately, the writers are hacks and didn't know how to end the series. They should have hired you.
Yeah. One ponderous last breath.
Fits within the mold? I disagree. This was the worst series finale since STE! (The best in my estimation was STV.)
As far as the progenitor's story arc is concerned... I could sum up the finale in two words: never mind! Why bother with a 5th season at all with a finale like this? 
Man oh man. Did I mention I was really disappointed?
Man oh man. Did I mention I was really disappointed?
In general I liked the ending, but I think that it had some structural issues. Putting aside plot armor, the best thing to do once they found the macguffin would have been to simply blow it up. When they beamed over to the Breen ship, they should have just hit the thing with phaser fire and gotten out.
I think that the amount of time devoted to a really minor tie-in to a "Short Trek" from 2018 was way out of proportion to the amount of time they spent actually resolving the season-long arc.
Yes, I get it, they probably shot the entire episode up to Saru's wedding at one point and then came back. But they could have edited it better.
I think that the amount of time devoted to a really minor tie-in to a "Short Trek" from 2018 was way out of proportion to the amount of time they spent actually resolving the season-long arc.
Yes, I get it, they probably shot the entire episode up to Saru's wedding at one point and then came back. But they could have edited it better.
I was being kind. Just felt like the prototypical sendoff in the end after usual the finale crisis and just struck me as a little too clean and normal-ish.
It's too bad they couldn't give us some lingering questions for Starfleet Academy to answer or something.
I liked a lot about this series, more than most probably. It's not one I'll likely ever watch again though.
Yeah Stuart Sweet, I thought the apparent reshoots were pretty glaring and almost literally bolted onto what was probably an otherwise 90% complete episode.
It's too bad they couldn't give us some lingering questions for Starfleet Academy to answer or something.
I liked a lot about this series, more than most probably. It's not one I'll likely ever watch again though.
Yeah Stuart Sweet, I thought the apparent reshoots were pretty glaring and almost literally bolted onto what was probably an otherwise 90% complete episode.
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Completely agree! My thought after they got two or three of the pieces of the puzzle was, just destroy them so no one could get it. Too powerful of a tool (more like a weapon) to be in anyone's hands (including Starfleet).As far as the progenitor's story arc is concerned... I could sum up the finale in two words: never mind! Why bother with a 5th season at all with a finale like this?
Then there was Tilly with her homespun advice to a former Captain about how to run a ship and interact with the crew! Like she has any experience worth mentioning!
And to end my rant, a lot of the little heart-to-heart talks seemed to be at the weirdest times. Probably the worst was when Burham and Book were on the Breen ship on a very time critical mission, and they begin to stop for a little heart-to-heart, but fortunately get interrupted. Sheesh!
This was going to be a major story arc for season 6, if there had been one. Since they decided to cancel the show I have a feeling that they filmed the spots about older Admiral Michael and Book being together with their son getting promoted to captain in order to wrap it all up.As far as the progenitor's story arc is concerned... I could sum up the finale in two words: never mind! Why bother with a 5th season at all with a finale like this?
They also wrapped up a story line of a Star Trek short film from 2018,where a guy named Craft finds the old Discovery ship a thousand years in the future, where Admiral Michael leaves it at the end of this finale and he meets Zora the A.I. computer and they work together to accomplish something then. So this was a wrap up of that short film. It brought the story back to where it began.
I liked the finale and enjoyed how well Michael turned out. She came a long way both literally and physically in time- like a thousand years. She saved Star Fleet & the Federation almost single handedly - with her crew's assist at times. She helped them solve "the Burn" issues and the problems with dilithium crystles so they could warp again.
Michael was a hero. I love a strong female hero. Like Admiral Katherine Janeway of Voyager - got her crew home from the delta quadrant, by going back in time when she was much older and an Admiral, to help her younger self a Captain, shave years off the trip home. The older Admiral Janeway gave up her life to get her crew and younger self home years sooner than originally and destroyed the Borg - by infecting them with a virus she injected into herself, so when the queen assimilated her , it would destroy all of them. Brilliant!
Finished this last night. I have been underwhelmed the last couple seasons and this was no improvement. Glad this one is done. Wonder what is next besides Strange New Worlds? At least SNW remains enjoyable, except for the musical.
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