TV Season Review - Star Trek Discovery (Season 5)

 

As you may have noticed, I am slowly working on doing less reviews here and more on my YouTube channel. But that's not to say that I won't ever be doing these kinds of reviews anymore. Some will still happen here, but most will be for YouTube going forward. Anyway, last season of the Star Trek show that, I guess you could say, started this current era of shows in the franchise. It also brings an array of firsts to the series which I don't know if it's the writers wanting it to be as woke as Star Wars, Marvel, Disney and even Doctor Who are at the moment (or "fans" claim them to be), but even so, it's good to see them as long as they have meaning to be that and are not just shoehorned in for the sake of it. So let's take a look at this final series of the show that kickstarted this era of the franchise that is all about exploring the great cosmos and boldly going where no one has gone before:

The USS Discovery crew is tasked with a "red directive" mission, in which they must travel to and investigate an 800 year old Romulan science vessel. It soon becomes clear that a great power or item, has been taken by some couriers and this power or item is the key to a much greater puzzle that if solved and fall into the wrong hands, could lead to problems for the galaxy at large, given its status as a power or item that has been well hidden for centuries.

As a final season, it feels like a final season. It ties up loose ends and gives the crew one final voyage which ends the show in a way that feels right, but at the same time, leaving the franchise in a hopeful way forward. Not sure where it will go from here, but it's certainly been a different, but good Star Trek show. One that certainly feels a lot more cinematic in quality than most of the shows in both the OG and NG eras of the franchise (obviously keeping in mind the limited budgets and advances in technology and CGI at the time) and very much in keeping with how the world is in this day and age compared to what was seen previously. 9/10