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JF rescues Season 3. By far the best episode of season.

A decent story with some great action. However I won't take replicators seriously again ;)

This episode pretty much cements Burnham as the most unlikeable character in Star Trek history. Are the writers so stupid that they think people enjoy watching this arrogant. hypocritical Mary Sue and her impossible plot armor?

The real enemy of this show is Burnham. There would be absolutely no downside in getting rid of her and refocusing the show on other characters. Of course, we all know that won't happen because Burnham can whisper her way out of anything.

I think those who keep saying they don't like STD should just stop watching it. It's set so far in the future they don't need to worry that what's going on is messing with their precious canon, timeline, etc.. So, treating this entirely in its own right, and allowing for many of the usual trek irritations, it's a damn good show. Oh, and thank you, Jonathan, for a damn good episode!

Not sure why all the negative Nancys feel the need to type out their personal hurt at a TV episode, but whatever floats your boat, I guess. Yes, Discovery is different than TNG, VOY, etc., ...you can tell because the title of the series is different.

Osyraa is amazing - manipulative, empathic, vindictive - all signs of a highly intelligent person gone wrong and all the things I admire in a villain - even better she's in a position of power with unclear (though likely severe ulterior) motives. Drama=maximum. Her hair looks great too, btw.

I love how Michael DGAF about other people's feelings in the short-term, knowing what will benefit everyone in the long-term, whether they like it or not. Yes, she cries almost all the time, but she will also stab you and then beam you into space. Wouldn't that upset you too, if you were forced to do the same?

Yes, there's room for improvement and I wish the writers of past episodes had consulted with Jeri Taylor frequently and written more technical Star Trek jargon into the script - we did get some of that in this episode, thankfully. You can also really tell a difference in the episodes Jonathan Frakes directs, they are of notably higher quality.

Seems like the hole season has been multiple sequences of recycled scripts from other Star Trek series. Quite possibly a Kobayashi Maru designed to save the whole series.

...so it would be clear to the audience that the clownish and incompetent behavior of the crew was meant by the writers as comedy. Tilly shes-a mooey mooey bomba bad captain!

Burnham's tilted head and whispering is now a drinking game. The crying is a drinking game, too. Everyone who plays gets to have many drinks :)

Another vapid episode in an unreasonably long string of fails. For me, STD had been demoded to background noise while I multitask. I'll watch to the end of the season with naive hope that it improves, but after that I'm hoping there is a spore drive Burn, and Discovery explodes.

Well after getting my hopes up for this season to improve after last week's interesting and exciting episode, I am back to yawning and daydreaming as I watch this episode. Michael Burnham annoys me more and more. I miss Captain Pike a lot. I am even getting irritated with Tilly, who was a favorite character of mine in Seasons 1 and 2. She's changed and I don't like it. I still plan to watch the rest of this season, but I might stop after that.

Jonathan frakes was supposed to be the director of all the episodes. Quality increases a lot. Excellent episode, balanced, showing several characters, story well done.

It's interesting to see where this story line goes! Star Trek is pure Marxism from the very first series. I'm curious to see see what happens in their world when it meets at Capitalistic Equal!

Again, here come out the trolls who only seek to write negatively. This episode was fairly good. It progresses the story and it isn't a "filler" as many of you guys like to repetitively call every episode of this season. It wasn't the best but again it was fairly entertaining.

The only 2 negatives I have here is the poor acting from the Emerald Chain scientist (I don't know if he's intentionally acting bored) and the wasted potential of what could've been a top class season. By "wasted potential" I mean the fact that they could've explored more with the burn, aswell as the significance of the Emerald Chain. Osyraas evilness was calmed down abit this episode which is something they did abit to early considering we haven't seen much of her and what she's capable of doing.

I am at a loss to find new ways to express how bad this show continues to be. No logic, cheesy CGI, and the infernal crying and whispering from our all around superhero Burnham. They took a season, with a great premise, and squandered it on a slew of episodes better suited to the Lifetime channel. Go back and watch any TNG, Voyager or DS9 to see what real ST IS.