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Didn't Sabine herself say it can't be turned against Stormtrooper armor just like that before she just did that ? headscratch

Even if the premiere episodes were a bit conventional and predictable (add to that that I already knew Katan will get the Dark Saber). In the origional trilogy there only was Fett and to be honest he didn't leave any impression at all. He was background noise for me. I have to say I really like Mandalorians now. The live action show helped me on that path even if that Mandalorian seems a bit different. It could turn out to be very exciting when the animated Mandos appear on the live action show.

The worst episode of the season. They could have added a bit more humor to it , playing it straight it was really silly. Also, the idea that not a single person in that base is gay is a bit hard to believe, but it's a episode from 1997 so I get it.

I like how loyal they are with the original cast. They even find a way to work that security chief in with a bit a respect.

It's a bit weird how the show was very slow in terms of storytelling all season, and goes into sprint in the penultimate episode. I'm a bit worried about the finale, there is just so much ground to cover.

A very tense episode but one that delivers some harsh truths:

1) Elizabeth realizes that her plans are failures despite all the work she puts in and having Phillip's help, and that her days are numbered- her daughter will have to take over sooner rather than later,

2) Phillip sees that he's only good at this work- he's a bad businessman but a bad-ass illegal, and

3) Stan's best friend might be his greatest enemy.

Heavy stuff! I cannot wait so see how it all ends.

Maybe I've seen a better and more exciting ending to a TV episode at some point in the past, but I can't begin to think of what it might have been. And then there's pretty much everything else that happened in this one, as well. Just a terrific outing all around. Bob would be proud.

This was an overall disappointing season. Most of what happened I think were only intended as a set up for the final 10 episodes. The season had its moments no doubt, but didn't have an arc of its own that payed off at the finale.

And that last scene was an eye roller. Honestly never thought J&J would drag the most interesting thing in an otherwise boring season for nothing.

This is a slog and a half.

Holy crap that episode was incredible, this is the Star Trek that we've been missing since TNG, Voyager, Deep Space 9 ended all those years ago.
Anson Mount is an amazing Christopher Pike.
And they've gone back to the episodic style as well :D.

And that little nod to April Nocifora at the end was nice too.

Ok, so they mentioned Sisko very briefly in this alternate/mirror/parallel universe, so I'm hoping (but barely because I'm really a cynic) that either he, or Bashir, or Dax ffs will be "The Watcher" when they travel back to 2024.

Look, I'm just desperate for trek universes to converge, and if they're going to touch an already established fixed point (and 2024 IS a cannon fixed point), they had BETTER give Cpt. Sisko/Brooks his rightful due. We've seen/heard all the other primary Federation Captains in recent Trek shows and some of the tertiary ones, even Dukat and Martok have had honorary mention now! Come onnnn man! This is the time and place (pun intended) to put right the wrongs done to our beloved DS9 Captain.

The acting in this show makes it hard to to give it a better rating. Sucks, because there's a lot of cool stuff going on, but the acting is just so off at times that it pulls you out of what's going on.

Fun fact: the first two US flights were sub-orbital so in a way Glenn was the first American who went to actual space.
For the audience it is hard to understand why or how anyone is qualified to go to space based on what this show tells you. Because we haven't seen much of the training.
To be blunt, this show has come to a point where I watch it on the side while doing the laundry. That's about how interesting it is.

Michelle Yeoh really steals this episode. So far, so good with the story and character development.

As always, Saru is the best part of everything he is in. If they ever killed off this character I'd probably give up on this show, he's that good.

Not bad but also not great,hope it gets better!

Had an incredibly good laugh when Gordon woke up without his leg :D

I loved every second of this

I like the dynamic between Lucas and Max.

I love Quark's maniacal laughter!

Chakotay episodes are usually dullsville.

All I can say is, so it begins...

Directed by Amanda Tapping, nice!

Oh gosh, Nina, so sad to see her go like that. That was so so depressing.

Wow what a great episode. The whole season is fantastic. After the lovely last medieval episode we now got a great alien episode. Really loved it except for the slow start. And I‘ll really miss those two (Hemmer and La‘an)

What I don’t understand is why there are so many low ratings for last and this episode. Are there really Trekkies that don’t like it? Or are these „new Trekkies“ that only startet with Discovery and now want that same crap everywhere else?

ahh the way the VIPs speak and act are so strange, at one point I felt like the director wanted it to be like that on purpose and gave the VIPs this over the top, cartoonish pretentiousness just to make the whole situation even more absurd and out of place.

But again, I remember in an interview the director said it's difficult to find good foreign actors in Korea, so could be simply just that.

Still, I did find this episode enjoyable even with the weird VIPs, it almost adds an poetic feeling to it because what they are doing are hardly anything humane, and they sure don't act or speak like real regular people either.

If there is one thing I hate about this episode it's that I have to wait until next week for part two.

Absolutely stellar episode in terms of writing, directing, voice acting and the score was the icing on the cake. Many were speculating that Crosshair was acting on his own and they were right. Still you didn't really know all the time where he stood in the confrontation with Hunter. I'm not sure now but I have a gut feeling he's not going to survive the season as bringing him back into the Batch wouldn't work. Just as having him hunt them again in season two (which luckily got confirmed yesterday) wouldn't make sense.

The destruction of Tipoca City also works as the final reminder that the Empire has taken over. I think in season two we will then learn what happened to the hundreds of thousands of clones that are right now still there.

We're introduced to the galactic enemy. I like the gothic route they went, a polar opposite from anything we've seen in SG1

While it works as far as dramatic presentation, none of it makes sense. Seeing Brannon Braga in the credits was a tip off that it was going to be all drama, but very light on logic or consistency, and, as expected, the time travel aspects, while well structured as a television episode, make no sense either from a theoretical standpoint or from a character standpoint. Braga really just doesn't have any ability to write the science part of "science fiction".

I love the cast. I love the book. I love space exploration. I love Mad Men look and feel.

But boy, this series has been so slow, especially the last 3 episodes.

I get it, some of them are womanizers. They have mountain sized ego. They are not model family men. But you don't have to make the show all about those things.

I want to see more science. More danger. More geopolitical tension. More about "the right stuff" these 7 guys have.

Muddled throughout, so this ending is very on brand. HBO have been doing this thing of the penultimate episode being the best of the season for a while now, and so it proves once again.

Overall the show was worth watching solely for the gorgeously realised period setting, but I highly doubt I will ever give the baffling "story" another thought, much less another watch.