18th January, 2019.
Yes … it’s A Friday night …
Yes: I’m unemployed.
And yes … that means not going out, frankly!
What can I tell you?
Apart from the fact I managed to keep myself occupied.
With some good old fashioned TV.
Well …
New fashioned …
OK …
Brother?
Is quite a big opening.
~≈§≈~
Episode 1 — Brother — opens with a quick summary of season one.
And showing us the Discovery’s confrontation with a heavily damaged USS Enterprise …
It seems the Enterprise has been damaged trying To track seven very obscure red tinged signals.
And, whilst Pike’s ship is overhauled? He takes over the Discovery in order to try and find them.
The first, and nearest?
Puts the Discovery splat bang in the middle of an asteroid field … that’s getting ever near a rapidly rotating pulsar.
Every get the feeling it’s getting … tense … ?
~≈§≈~
Now …
Good?
Hell, yes!
As an opening episode, Brother is damn near perfect: reminding us of what happened in the show’s first season, reminding us of who everyone is*, and shoving Michael — Sonequa Martin-Green — into an urgent mission, and a dangerous situation.
Piloting one of Discovery’s small craft through an asteroid field in a way that had me on the edge of my seat.
Top that?
Yes, it did.
It introduced us to Jet Reno, the chief Engineer of the USS Hiawatha: who’s possibly going to be one of the more memorable recurring characters.
And told us about Michael Burnham’s relationship with her adopted brother: the Star Trek franchise’s most iconic alien, Spock.
Can Star Trek Discovery get better?
I hope so.
There’s more episodes to come.
But I’ll tell you what …
This second season of Star Trek Discovery has opened well.
* There’s a scene where Captain Pike (Anson Mount) tells the Discovery he wants to know who’s fighting beside: and gets every one to tell him their name. That’s a nicely done of telling us who everyone is, as wee: it’s been a while, after all.
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