CBS All Access has been airing Star Trek Discovery on Sunday nights (first season) and Thursday nights (second season), and on the following morning, my reviews of the episodes have been appearing on Tor.com. Unlike my rewatches of TV shows and movies for the site, these aren’t archived on a single index page, so herewith, a guide to the reviews I’ve done to date (regularly updated).
Discovery Season 1:
“We come in peace” — “The Vulcan Hello” & “Battle at the Binary Stars”
“You helped start a war, don’t you want to help me end it?” — “Context is for Kings”
The Spores Must Flow — “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
“This is so fucking cool!” — “Choose Your Pain”
Good Retcons and Bad B-Plots — “Lethe”
Tough Mudder — “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
If You Want Peace, Prepare for War — “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum“
“Everybody comes home” — “Into the Forest I Go”
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side — “Despite Yourself”
“We are still Starfleet” — “The Wolf Inside”
You Can’t Go Back to the Way Things Were — “Vaulting Ambition”
“We will not accept a no-win scenario” — “What’s Past is Prologue”
Moving Forward — “The War Without, the War Within”
A Waterskiing Dog — “Will You Take My Hand?”
We Come in Pieces — First Season Overview
Short Treks:
“You’re just so clearly over-caffeinated!” — “Runaway”
“What’s a Betty Boop?” — “Calypso”
Looking Up, Looking Down — “The Brightest Star”
Here’s Mudd in Your Eye — “The Escape Artist”
Discovery Season 2:
“Where’s my damn red thing?” — “Brother”
Simple Pleasures Are the Best — “New Eden”
Meanwhile, Back in the Klingon Empire… — “Point of Light”
Space Oddity — “An Obol for Charon”
The Monster at the End of This Episode — “Saints of Imperfection”
“You brought that hope back with you” — “The Sound of Thunder”
Lost and Found — “Light and Shadows”
Old, New, Borrowed, and Red — “If Memory Serves”
Redshirts, Red Angels, and Red Herrings — “Project Daedalus”
Death, Here is Thy Sting — “The Red Angel”
“How long until the universe wins?” — “Perpetual Infinity”
While I Look Around for My Possibility — “Through the Valley of the Shadow”
“Today rocks!” — “Such Sweet Sorrow”
The Director of Your Opponent’s Fate — “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”
Fight for the Future — Second Season Overview
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