What a long road its been forStar Trek: Discovery, getting from there to here.
We have had endings since Discovery kicked off this era, of courseandmore will come.
What does Star Trek: Discovery have left to say?
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What is it about?
What is the point that this all led up to?
Its both a lot and also not a lot.
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as if she had not started the fight.
What does it mean to offer that power to someone?
Can Michael Burnham be the person to do that?
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But its also one made for a drama, and that drama is driven by social and personal conflict.
These ideals are still challenged and debated and fought over.
It doesnt just exist and the jobs done.
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Nothing is that perfect.
And no one person is that perfect, either, as Michael argues to the Progenitor.
They might never be.
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Its messily set up, but it is the aspect of Life, Itself that really, really works.
However, this thematic climax is achieved at the hour mark of an hour-and-a-half long episode.
But even this is not the end, arguably as much as it should be.
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On the one hand, thematically its a lovely note.
But its also insane!
More time than it spent wrapping up the central plot of its entire last season!
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More time than it spent effectively giving most of its characters time to even say farewell!
Star Trek: Discoveryis available to stream now on Paramount+.
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