Erigah is another ep that is 1/10 of a meandering straight-to-DVD Stargate SG-1 movie, here to move the season arc forward another 55 minutes. On its own, it has no dramatic weight, no story to speak of, and most egregiously, nothing that sticks with you once it’s over.
Moll and L’ak as a romance is still kind of working for me. It’s making me realize that whenever Michael and the Discovery crew are not the focus, I’m interested again, and what I’m actually enjoying is the original premise of this show: A Star Trek anthology series with new characters, new locations, new dynamics each episode or season.
Imagine if last season was a Federation ambassador vessel trying to reach and talk to Species 10C, all diplomats and shit. I would’ve eaten that up. Imagine if this season was just Moll and La’k as treasure-hunting scavs trying to get the big score so they can retire to a beach.
The cast and crew of Discovery seem completely superfluous, just happy to be here for this adventure or that, none of it connected, just thwarting end-of-the-galaxy threat after end-of-the-galaxy threat to maintain the status quo.
- Very good T'Rina ep, I loved her in this. Wouldn't have minded the entire story being her's here.
- It is incredibly, unintentionally funny how Booke has absolutely no reason to be here in this season and the show insists on calling attention to this every episode, to the level of having each character say “You have to accept that you don’t have anything to do right now”, having characters struggle to think of a useful task for him, etc etc. It’s my favorite thing this season right now.
- Impossible challenge to give a flying fuck about the Breen now that they’ve been revealed to be exactly the same as the Discovery Klingons. This mysterious race has now been shown to be a warrior race of different houses that has fractured without a single leader, and needs another monarch to unify them again.
- Na’an returning for this episode was some stellar comedy as she does nothing but bungle the security of the entire Federation over and over and over for 55 minutes straight. Stellar stuff.
- Lighting and sets are looking a lot better than they did in season 1. It’s amazing how SNW got something so basic so right, right out the gate.
- Love seeing more Jet Reno, but, being told how cool Jet Reno is is way less entertaining and effective than seeing how cool Jet Reno is. They need to stop trying to impress us and just let her do shit. You have an amazing character, give her something with even a little dramatic weight. Put her on an entire mission! Give her a few episodes!
- Gray’s one and only thing continues to be “they have Impostor Syndrome, they need to learn confidence” and their story in every. Single. Episode is about this. Please god show us something else about this, anything.