Star Trek Discovery Ep.4 Review (Spoilers)

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, today we're going to review Star Trek episode 4 entitled The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry. And guys, uh, you know, as the show progresses, uh, it is starting to get a little bit better in my opinion. You know, I would have to say that the strong points of this show so far has of course, you know, been my early prediction, Jason Isaacs, Captain Lorca. I think he's really holding the show together. He's, to me, he's one of the most intriguing parts of the show. But also just the special effects in the show, you know, have been great. And, you know, like I said in my last review, You know, that alone is, you know, probably enough to at least get me through the season, you know, although I have some, you know, some misgivings about the show, you know, but it's, it's trying to find its legs, I think. And one issue I'm finding with Star Trek Discovery is I just see a lot of scenes, a lot of information that really doesn't have to be there, that kind of drags the show on. Like I had been saying earlier, I think maybe 17 episodes this season are far too many. But maybe as we get going, as it's trying to pick up, I hope it continues to pick up and it gets better. Uh, you know, some things happen in the show, uh, it kind of gives me a little vindication, uh, and that is we get a, uh, scene in this episode where Captain Lorca goes Discovery is a warship. And for those of you who watch the, watch the channel, you probably remember I did a video called Is the Discovery a Battleship? Is it a battlecruiser? And a lot of people, you know, came in and said no, it's a scientific vessel, you know, which of course it was. And, you know, until I guess they had to move into action. But also what was very interesting, you know, when they first— when Commander Burnham first arrives on the Discovery, we get to see these Federation officers with black insignia badges. And a lot of people, you know, have, you know, speculated that it's some type of special ops unit inside Federation Obviously they had weapons. It was some type of militarized group, and some people have speculated it may be Section 31, you know, that we got in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And I found that all very interesting. But what this episode pulls us in immediately is we get to see that there is a what appears to be this colony or Federation outpost that's being attacked by Klingons. And so, you know, the Discovery with its newfound propulsion system, which uses these spores that we got to see that, you know, feed on energy, you know, they're the only way or the quickest way or the only available ship that possibly reach this colony in time in order to try and stop the Klingons. So we get some very interesting scenes there with the Federation using the spores to jump, and I thought that all looked great. One issue I did have though was that when they're dealing with the Klingon battleships, Birds of Prey, We're all getting this pretty much from the viewpoint of the bridge, and I would have liked to have seen a very, you know, more well-detailed Klingon ships engaging in battle. But we did get to see some cool stuff, of course, with the Discovery and trying to use these, uh, the spore navigation system that, uh, it didn't have a navigator really. That's, that's one thing, you know, we learned they couldn't get down, so they when they do do their jump, they're almost about to jump to a star, and I just thought the CGI on that looked great. I just, I love the visuals on that. I, I think they do an excellent job with that, but would have liked to have seen more detail on these Klingon ships. And we got to see some of Captain Lorca's military skill. He's obviously a warrior, you know, he's the warrior captain. And some people have, you know, complained about the mood of the show, Star Trek Discovery. And I've never had a problem or issue with it going this direction, going this route, kind of being this more serious Star Trek situation, because they are engaged more in a war. You know, this this entire series is kind of like just one long episode. So it's all about the war with the Klingons, and so, you know, there's a lot of, uh, that element of the show going on. So it's going to be a lot more dark nature because obviously they're not going to be walking around the ship and having fun while they're constantly in these, in this, you know, in this ongoing war. Um, but I was fine with all that. One issue I am having though is that It seems in some ways confused about what it wants to be like. For instance, I believe if they, if they really want to kind of make this a more dark approach to Star Trek and a more warrior type situation, you know, why not kind of go the Battlestar Galactica route? I felt Battlestar Galactica did that the best, you know, with dealing with a crew in space in a war situation and trying to get us engaged with how the crew would react to that. And I know a lot of people say, well, that's not the nature of Star Trek, that's not what Star Trek is all about. But you know, guys, I, you know, I guess we've already kind of been down that road. This is the route that this particular version of Star Trek wants to take. And so they're doing that, but at certain points they seem like they're trying to be lighthearted. Like, they got this crew member, the cadet, and, uh, you know, the one who's blanking with, uh, Commander Burnham. And, uh, uh, she's not a very memorable character, so I can't remember her, her name. But, you know, she's been kind of annoying to me in the series, but she's basically, uh, uh, kind of like the You know, she's kind of like the, the light-hearted part or crew member. And that's, that's been an ongoing theme with Star Trek. I know a lot of— I hear a lot of people say, oh, she's such an annoying character. But Star Trek has always had these very, uh, young, identifiable, light-hearted characters that kind of, uh, you know, that kind of reflect that kind of innocence naive type nature in a sense. I believe in The Next Generation, you know, I remember the first few seasons they had like Wesley Crusher and he would sit up there and they would— he wasn't even a member of Starfleet, he's just like a genius kid. They let him, you know, of course pilot the Enterprise. And then even if we go back to the— if we go back to the Original series, Chekov. Chekov was actually brought on to appeal to a younger audience. That's why he had the kind of famous bowl-shaped haircut to kind of resemble a younger popular audience at the time, like the Beatles or John Davies from the Monkees. You know, for those of you all who know about— and I'm not that old, I don't— you know, those shows were behind, you know, beyond my point, but I watch a lot of Star Trek. Documentaries. And I remember, I recall, you know, some of, you know, some of that being the reason behind, uh, you know, elements of like why Chekov was brought in. But it's always been these, this kind of appeal to the lightheartedness of Star Trek, younger audiences, and various things like that. But speaking of Battlestar Galactica, in comparison to the elements of how a serious nature science fiction Star Trek show, crew in space, crew at war, could, you know, was I think done the best or could go. One of the crew members of the Battlestar Galactica series, Rika Sharma, who played Commander Landry in here, the security officer, you know, we got to see this very interesting scene of her you know, wanting to, uh, experiment on this creature. Because, you know, obviously as we got to see, this creature, uh, was, uh, kind of in a symbiotic relationship with himself and the spores. And he's, you know, that, that give them this, this new propulsion system. But he, uh, had shared on a, on a microscopic level, his organism had shared a symbiotic relationship with these spores, but now he's on a macroscopic level. So he's like a big— and of course they're trying to find out how to weaponize them because the phasers don't hurt him. And that's why he was able to destroy the Klingons and the ship and, you know, kill the crew members. And, uh, you know, Captain Lorca, you know, is using this creature, uh, you know, as a way to fight this war, to try to win this war. And I was wondering what exactly he was trying to do with this creature. I didn't know if he was going to just try to beam it on the ship and let it run loose on Klingons or something. But no, it's his hide, it's his coat, it's what his body is composed of that can't be punctured. Something as a weapon as powerful as a phaser can't cut through them. And so this is something that they believe they can use in the war. So he tasked, as we got to see, Commander Burnham, uh, with Commander Landry working alongside her, working alongside her to try to solve this mystery. And, you know, we got to see Commander Landry, you know, the nature— her nature— impatience, wanting to get stuff done, not liking Commander Burnham's approach to dealing with this creature. She wants to go ahead and try it her way. And of course, we got to see she tried to deal with this creature, and she, to my surprise, ends up getting killed. And I didn't very much like that. I like the character that Commander Landry brought to the show. I really did kind of like her, you know, even though a lot of the people on the show kind of have this very— you don't see a whole lot of camaraderie. Like, I haven't really seen any of these crew members who are real, you know, real comrades with each other and Commander Landry seemed not any different, but I just liked her character. I thought it was interesting. I liked her contrast against the other, you know, characters and views. But anyway, no more Commander Landry. She's killed, you know, as we got to see, you know, in the show. And so, you know, they find out that the creature, of course, is a navigator. It can be a navigator. He can do some you know, we help to navigate them as they need to jump to this planet, and they're able to, you know, fight the Klingons off and, you know, basically save this outpost, you know, from destruction of the Klingons. You know, next we got to see what's happening with the Klingons. I believe his name is Voq, the albino Klingon, or the kind of pale Klingon. And we got to see the— I can't remember this Klingon's name, but he comes to their aid because they need food as they're adrift trying to repair the only Klingon ship that can cloak and be a weapon. But he pretty much just kind of takes over because he sees he has the upper hand. He has food that they need to eat with, and he basically maroons Voq on the Shenzhou. And of course, you know, we got to see he had like a companion there who was kind of under his, you know, command. But she pretty much saves his life, and now they're planning to go back to her tribe and try to find a way to, you know, unite the Klingon houses, you know, once again. And I can only say about the Klingons, I guess the more I see them, the more they're starting to grow on me. I did like the kind of the bodysuit that Voq's wearing when he first arrives, you know, on the ship. They can kind of— they have these interesting armor, you know, that kind of can change and things like that. But I kind of— I do like what they've done with a lot of Klingon designs and armor. Week after week, as I see these Klingons, they're starting to grow on me. I can deal with them a lot better. Wasn't so much opposed to them being more alien-like. I had talked about that earlier, and that sometimes what seems to happen in the Star Trek franchise is aliens will start to look more human and less alien, you know, more humanoid and so I wasn't, you know, so bothered by them changing the Klingons. Just make sure that the Klingons storyline is good and that they do a good compelling story to bring us in. But, you know, basically that's what we got, you know, pretty much, you know, pretty much throughout the course of this particular show. This creature that's their navigation system or navigating. He seems like it's taking its toll on him to navigate. And so he may— so this is going to probably create a problem with the Star Trek Discovery is when it jumps, it's going to need this creature, but he may not be around much longer to, to, to do that. So all in all, guys, I thought it was a pretty fair episode. Uh, you know, uh, again, Star Star Trek Discovery, it's a lot of episodes. I'm getting this feeling like throughout these 17 episodes, they're gonna be a lot of episodes that didn't have to be in here. But the next week's episode looks like finally we're gonna get hairy mud because we got to see in the next upcoming episode that Captain Lorca is gonna be taken prisoner, looks like by Klingons. And Harry Mudd is going to be— it looks like sharing a cell or something with him. And of course, we know Harry Mudd's record and why he would be in there. But anyway, guys, that's all I want to say about Star Trek Discovery episode this week. If you— tell me how you feel about it so far. Is it starting to grow on you if you were kind of on the other side? Are you kind of starting to come over? I am a lot more sympathetic to the, you know, to the core Star Trek fans. I just call them the original fans. You know, in the beginning, like I said, I was kind of like, oh, you guys are just overreacting, give it a chance. But you know, I do now fully see your concerns, and I can just only say the show's been hit and miss with me. It has hasn't met my expectations yet, but it does have potential. Uh, I, I could see a lot of things in the show I do like, and I could just see a bunch of stuff that didn't have to be here. But that's all I want to say about it, guys. Guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.