whole either but i did like the addition of the quad milan and they did come back and start their discovery season three and at the episode unification three and i liked how they were built out there and i'm just liking the quote kind of being this element of modern star trek lore that is being built out and shared across the different star trek shows and i think that that's honestly really cool to see and i like that element of communication and the building out of lore here of this you know new era of star trek i think that's really really cool and i like the elements of that lore building that we see here with the co-op a lot but the episode follows a quote-melod nun who's kind of gone rogue and doing her own thing and without spoiling how that plot eventually resolves and goes i really felt that a lot of it left me questioning why this was even happening in the first place there just felt like so many things happening just to make conflict occur even to the point where there's a couple scenes in the episode where just action and fighting occurs and it's just there for action and fighting to occur and and i'll talk a little bit more specifically about it but it's just very overt how much they're just like forced conflict to get this storyline to happen and while there are character beats within there around like tilly and burnham that i enjoyed ultimately the logic gaps in it just left me very very frustrated and the forced action and forced like cool stuff on screen happening just kind of left a bad taste in my mouth and reminded me of some of the the worst parts of you know modern star trek sensibilities which is big explosions big fights and things like that where i'm like the past episodes the things that i've loved about the show is while i've enjoyed the action that they felt rooted in character whereas this one felt more like it was just trying to force conflict to happen in order for there to be conflict and not really coming out of the character stuff or the situation going on and so ultimately the a plot of this just left me feeling very frustrated and disappointed with that element of as a whole so looking at the entire episode there are really great moments especially in the bnc plots that i've deeply deeply enjoyed in fact i i think were actually excellent but the a plot just felt really flat to me and kind of makes this a very mixed bag as an episode one that i don't ultimately hate because there's other stuff that's propping it up but if you're coming here for the main storyline of this episode then i would say it's definitely a down but that is everything i can really say spoiler free so if you haven't seen the episode yet this is where you can get off after hopefully watching the ad that's about to play because jesse needs to pay your bills but uh but after the ad we will get into spoilers however before we get much further it's time to quick talk about my sponsor for the rest of my star trek reviews this year the geek fight the geek fight is a non-profit online store that fights for a diverse future and they have two goals number one create an easy way to learn about human rights thanks to their library a digital library with light content over there you can find the stories of people fighting for human rights
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