{"id":89834,"date":"2020-10-15T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/review-star-trek-discovery-attempts-a-fresh-start-for-season-3\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:37:38","slug":"review-star-trek-discovery-attempts-a-fresh-start-for-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/review-star-trek-discovery-attempts-a-fresh-start-for-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#Review: \u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 attempts a fresh start for season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f76b951122\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f76b951122\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/review-star-trek-discovery-attempts-a-fresh-start-for-season-3\/#Michael_Burnham_and_her_crew_are_now_stranded_900_years_in_the_future\" >Michael Burnham and her crew are now stranded 900 years in the future.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Review: \u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 attempts a fresh start for season 3<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-sub-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Michael_Burnham_and_her_crew_are_now_stranded_900_years_in_the_future\"><\/span>Michael Burnham and her crew are now stranded 900 years in the future.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<p>Stranded 900 years in the future, the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery are officially free from the constraints of classic Star Trek canon. Last season saw them take a one-way <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> forward in time, defeating a malevolent supercomputer that was doomed to kickstart the apocalypse. (Yes, this was pretty close to the same plot as <em>Picard<\/em>.)\u00a0We begin season 3 with a new showrunner (Michelle Paradise) and a wholly new setting, with several fresh crewmembers set to join the cast. The first is Cleveland \u201cBook\u201d Booker, introduced in the Michael Burnham-centric season premiere.<\/p>\n<div class=\"moviereview\">\n<div class=\"moviereviewtitle\">Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3<\/div>\n<div><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/35stars.png\" alt=\"three and a half stars\" width=\"235\" height=\"42\" align=\"left\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/35stars.png\" alt=\"three and a half stars\" width=\"235\" height=\"42\" align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"moviereviewinfotitle\">RELEASE DATE: <\/span><span class=\"moviereviewinfofield\">Oct. 15, 2020<\/span><br \/><span class=\"moviereviewinfotitle\">CREATORS: <\/span><span class=\"moviereviewinfofield\">Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Michelle Paradise<\/span><br \/><span class=\"moviereviewinfotitle\">STREAMING: <\/span><span class=\"moviereviewinfofield\">CBS All Access<\/span><br \/><span class=\"blurb\">Discovery improves on its character-focused storytelling while repeating some of its past mistakes, bringing Michael Burnham and her crew to a dystopian future where the Federation no longer exists. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continuing an upward trajectory from the first two seasons, <em>Star Trek: Discovery <\/em>is getting better and better at showing its main characters having fun, hanging out, and supporting each other emotionally. However, we\u2019re still stuck with a few recurring problems: too much time spent on pointless action scenes, and hints of another tiresome season-wide arc about saving the galaxy. <em>Discovery<\/em> is always more interesting when it focuses on smaller, more personal stakes. The moral messaging is also wildly uneven, as we slalom between inspiring speeches about teamwork and diplomacy\u2026 and scenes where the heroes blast nameless goons into smithereens. <strong><em>Spoiler note: This review includes spoilers for episode 1, and some <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> impressions from the next three episodes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Michael arrives in the future, she\u2019s all alone. Discovery was meant to follow her through the wormhole, but instead Michael finds herself stranded on an alien planet with no way to contact her ship. With no idea of when or where she\u2019s landed, she tracks down the nearest lifesign, which turns out to be our new character Book (David Ajala), a courier. A courier for what, you may ask? Well, that\u2019s all connected to the very different political landscape of the year 3188.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the Federation no longer exists. For another, warp travel is kaput. Just over a century ago, most of the galaxy\u2019s dilithium exploded at once, destroying every ship with an active warp core. This obliterated interstellar travel and eroded long-distance communications, fragmenting the Federation and turning dilithium into an elite currency. Book\u2019s job is to transport possibly-illegal goods on his cool invisible spaceship, working on behalf of an Orion\/Andorian trade syndicate. (The show doesn\u2019t explain what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to civilizations that <em>don\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0rely on dilithium to power their warp drives, like the Romulans. Hopefully they\u2019ll address this soon, because otherwise the whole idea of a dilithium-scarcity apocalypse makes no sense.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=44&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=66&amp;wpsize=fp_100_44 100w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=167&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=250&amp;wpsize=fp_380_167 380w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=350&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=524&amp;wpsize=fp_800_350 800w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=512&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=767&amp;wpsize=large 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=512&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=767&amp;wpsize=large\" alt=\"star trek discovery season 3\" class=\"wp-image-888827\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=44&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=66&amp;wpsize=fp_100_44 100w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=167&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=250&amp;wpsize=fp_380_167 380w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=350&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=524&amp;wpsize=fp_800_350 800w, https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=512&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=767&amp;wpsize=large 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.dailydot.com\/2020\/10\/star-trek-discovery-season-3.jpg?fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=512&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.0&amp;w=767&amp;wpsize=large\" alt=\"star trek discovery season 3\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-888827\"><figcaption class=\"dd-article-img-credit\"><span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/star-trek-discovery\/\">Sta Trek: Discovery\/CBS All Access<\/a><br \/>\n                <\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a devoted Starfleet officer, Michael is devastated to hear the Federation is gone. But she has more urgent problems at hand: finding her ship, and figuring out how to survive. She has no choice but to ask Book for help\u2014an interesting reversal of an iconic scene from \u201cThe City on the Edge of Forever,\u201d where Captain Kirk praises one of the most beautiful phrases in the English language: \u201cLet me help.\u201d Well, Book isn\u2019t so enthusiastic about bailing out a total stranger, but they come to an agreement: He\u2019ll take Michael to the nearest courier station in exchange for a percentage of her \u201cantique\u201d Starfleet equipment. It\u2019s a far cry from the post-capitalist world of classic <em>Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 1 does a lot of heavy lifting to establish Book as a new main character, cementing his role as Space Boyfriend Material on par with Channing Tatum in <em>Jupiter Ascending<\/em>. In addition to being handsome and charming, he\u2019s introduced as a morally ambiguous Han Solo type\u2026 and <em>then<\/em> revealed to have a secret soft side, including a psychic link with plants and animals. He also has a pet cat called Grudge; obviously a very important addition to the cast. <\/p>\n<p>Spoilers for later episodes are totally verboten, but as a Star Trek fan who really <em>wants<\/em> to love <em>Discovery<\/em>, I\u2019m stuck with similar mixed feelings to the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discovery<\/em> boasts what may be the best cast in the franchise. Sonequa Martin-Green is a total star. Doug Jones is delightful as Saru, building on last season\u2019s journey of self-discovery. I\u2019m enjoying the hell out of the mean lesbian\/mean gay solidarity between Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Reno (Tig Notaro), and it\u2019s great to see more screentime for recurring officers like Keyla Detmer. However, it\u2019s increasingly weird to see Michelle Yeoh\u2019s Philippa Georgiou onboard, because a) she\u2019s a hugely famous actor in a relatively small role, and b) the character is a sadistic, murderous despot, who is just\u2026 hanging out with no redemption arc. Like, she literally used to <em>eat members of Saru\u2019s species for dinner!<\/em> Georgiou <em>should<\/em> be a melodramatic cameo villain like the Master in <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, or Q in <em>The Next Generation<\/em>. I fear that <em>Discovery<\/em>\u2018s creative team wrote themselves into a corner by making her join the crew.<\/p>\n<p>As for the new setting, I can only hope we\u2019re not in for another epic drama about Discovery undoing an apocalypse. Episode 1 offers a rather bizarre view of the now-defunct Federation, with Michael meeting a lone officer who has been manning a single Starfleet outpost for years. I think we\u2019re meant to sympathize, but he really just seems like a sad fanatic, displaying a cargo cult attitude to the concept of Starfleet. The Federation was a diplomatic infrastructure of planetary alliances, supported by a quasi-military, quasi-scientific fleet. It wasn\u2019t a religion. And it certainly isn\u2019t something that Michael Burnham can resurrect in its original form.<\/p>\n<p>Starfleet officers are meant to follow a certain moral credo, but there\u2019s also a long history of trigger-happy Starfleet admirals, corrupt bureaucrats, and evil spies. Every <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> has portrayed the Federation as a flawed utopia, with <em>Discovery<\/em>, <em>Deep Space 9<\/em> and <em>Picard <\/em>leaning heavily toward the \u201cflawed\u201d end of the scale. It makes sense <em>emotionally<\/em>\u00a0for Discovery\u2019s crew to miss the good old days, seeking any sign of home in a strange land. But this desire clashes with their own policy of non-interference in other cultures. If they try to rebuild the Federation 900 years in the future, it will be like someone showing up in medieval Britain and attempting to reinstate the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>As with <em>Picard<\/em>, this idea suggests a rather confused political message. Both shows portray their heroes as an optimistic light in a grimdark setting. But those settings are dominated by one-note political issues, represented either as a mystery to be solved, or an enemy to be defeated. The actual worldbuilding is very simplistic. For instance, our first glimpse of 32nd century culture is meant to seem eye-catchingly dystopian, but it\u2019s a totally generic cyberpunk city with neon holograms and black leather costumes. We can easily accept that life was better under the Federation, but surely more would\u2019ve changed in 900 years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite traveling centuries into the future, it feels like <em>Discovery<\/em> is still stuck looking back to the past. I can only hope that over the coming episodes, the crew will realize the best way they can uphold Starfleet\u2019s legacy is by doing so on their own terms. Not by trying to bring back what they lost, but by helping people themselves, like a kind of vigilante humanitarian vessel. A bold interpretation of the franchise\u2019s original premise\u2014and perhaps a more politically relevant one too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: Discovery season 3 premieres on CBS All Access on Oct. 15.<\/em>\n                    <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\">\n<p>                                                                                                <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/star-trek-discovery\/\">Sta Trek: Discovery\/CBS All Access<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/star-trek-discovery\/\">Sta Trek: Discovery\/CBS All Access<\/a><br \/>\n                <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/upstream\/shows\/star-trek-discovery-season-3-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Review: \u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 attempts a fresh start for season 3 &#8221; Michael Burnham and her crew are now stranded 900 years in the future. 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