![]() The fourth season premiere picks up with Captain Burnham sharing this bounty as a peace offering to a former Federation world. Discovery not only solved that mystery, assuaging fears that such an event might happen again, but also found a massive new cache of dilithium with which to get society back on its feet. ![]() ![]() Last season, the crew of the USS Discovery investigated the cause of the Burn, a massive energy burst that spontaneously destroyed most of the galaxy’s dilithium (the primary fuel source for space-faring civilizations) and led to a new dark age of space. So far as the premiere “Kobayashi Maru” is concerned, Discovery ’s fourth season is off to a great start, offering action, character drama, and the series’ familiar brand of sentimentality. Sonequa Martin-Green remains a magnetic and sympathetic lead, though it seems as if this season is already treading familiar ground for her character. Discovery ’s direction (led by producer/director Olutunde Osunsamne), production design and visual effects continue to impress to the extent that it makes Paramount’s plans for more feature films seem redundant. Abrams-produced reboot films with the unabashedly dorky “I fucking love science” appeal of The Next Generation era. Discovery has become a strong synthesis of the elements that attracted multiple generations to Star Trek, combining the high emotion and visual flair of the Kurtzman- and J.J. Having seen the four new episodes provided to critics, I can report that Season Four feels like a natural continuation from the year prior, indicating that showrunners Michelle Paradise and Alex Kurtzman (who share writing credit for the season premiere with Jenny Lumet) may finally be content with the direction of the show.Īnd for the most part, so am I. ![]() Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is now tasked with helping to restore the once-mighty United Federation of Planets to its former standing as the galaxy’s most respected government, conducting diplomatic negotiations and rescue missions in the classic Starfleet idiom. The show has been reshaped and retooled over three seasons, shedding its original tone and setting in favor of a far-flung, optimistic future centuries beyond the rest of the Star Trek franchise. When Star Trek: Discovery debuted in 2017, it was a dark, violent prequel series with a serious case of Game of Thrones envy. ![]()
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