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- CBS
- Nov 18, 2021
- CBS
- Nov 18, 2021
Summary Before the Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery set out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. The first episode will air on CBS, subsequent episodes will air only on CBS All Access.
Created By: Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman
- CBS
- Nov 18, 2021
- CBS
- Nov 18, 2021
Star Trek: Discovery
Season 4
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Nov 18, 2021
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
2.7
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Summary Before the Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery set out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. The first episode will air on CBS, subsequent episodes will air only on CBS All Access.
Created By: Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman
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With the crew established and the characters beloved, the series is now taking the time to lead boldly not with surprises, but with tremendous amounts of heart.
Star Trek: Discovery” Season 4 has reached that level of eye-tickling worldbuilding and has done so seamlessly. ... But if depth of character — other than Burnham — is still sorely missing from “Discovery,” at least there’s a lot of dazzle to feast on.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
2.7
18% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
10% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
72% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
2.7
18% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
10% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
72% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
Having seen the whole season now I will say this is the best of the Trek shows since 2017. Season 4 is high concept, personal, and has one of the best 3-episode stretches of its 57-year history at the end of the season. Episode 04x11 "Rosetta Stone" is a revelation. One part Stanislaw Lem story, telling you these species aren't relatable, and then connecting them in human ways the crew can understand and relate to which is perfect Star Trek. No cheap nostalgia trips like Picard season 3. This is the real deal.
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SEASON 4
Episode four suggests this new threat might be an allegory for Earth’s response to covid-19, but more concerning for fans will be how the show handles a beloved character’s growth.
Excellent season. I loathe the judgemental Star Trek nerds out there that can't see past their own expectations of what the show 'should be' instead of judging it on it's own merits.
The show continues to get better with every season. Characters evolving, storyline progressing, relationships flourishing. It manages to encapsulate everything that is great about Star Trek.
If you enjoy Star Trek and you have a heart, watch this season. Not to mention the entire series. A worthy addition to the Star Trek family.
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SEASON 4
First and foremost I speak not as one of the early detractors complaining about how this wasnt "Gene's Vision" I have seen the potential in STD since the first season. I have watched it get progressively better each season.
That is until season four.
That said It was predominantly the first half of season four that is the primary problem. Its not so much about exploring space, Or even exploring humanity. The first half was about exploring romantic relationships no one has any reason to care about.
So its first half was pointlessly meandering around psychology and sorrow. Trying to ham fistedly force feed melodrama instead of much of anything science or exploration related.
They managed to B plot a barely serviceable season arc in the first half. The second half did a good job of making it into something that did genuinely feel like Trek. Though its far from the course correction Picard made to make itself the true torch bearer of Trek now.
The problem is for all the good the back half of Season 4 did it cannot undo how absolutely Season 1 of TNG unwatchable the first half is and while you could start to forget how bad that was and think it was getting on the proper heading, The show creators took the final episode of the season and used it to remind everyone just how much STD is not about Trek so much as it is about treking to push a very clear racist sociopolitical agenda.
This is perfectly encapsulated in the final moments when the show shows just how black its cast is and doubles down in one of the final scenes looking at earth and showing this predominantly PC cast that just saved future Earth highlights the face of the globe impossibly shows Earth presenting Africa and exclusively Africa. It was a VERY beat you over the head symbol to show how racist and woke it is. It doesnt matter that you literally cannot show the face of Earth and highlight the African continent without showing corners of Europe, India, the ME, or Antarctica. So it was truly an offensive and racist cap to ensure that there is no doubt that all the woke racism people originally complained about when the show started is definitely at the core of the show and is going to continue going forward
Thankfully ST Picard has done its own course correction and produced a VASTLY superior product with its second season. Avoiding the pitfalls of aggressive sociopolitical grandstanding its racist agenda that STD and its 4th season took such perverse joy in wallowing in.
The people deep behind the scenes understand now what it takes to make Trek. They also understand that this garbage is NOT working. Thats why 4 seasons in you still see a complete disparity between "bought" critic reviews putting the show at 75% while actual fan reviews still consistently keep the show below 30%. The fans being literally the only opinions that matter because without viewers there is no point for the show to exist. So critic reviews and insider opinions are irrelevant.
In the end I have to give the season 4 a 4. It tried. Its second half was arguably the best STD has been so far. There is just no divorcing it from its first half, nor its unacceptably racist woke agenda. Hopefully beating the dead horse of bad reviews will win over them brow beating the audience with its offensively obvious agenda.
Thankfully the second half realized they had to get to the p
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SEASON 4
bad
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not good in any manner or degree.
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SEASON 4
I'd never fast forwarded through any episode of any Star Trek show, but, I just did. Through the entire second half of S04E05. I have S04E06 still to watch, but I can't bring myself to go through that again. A sad end to a promising show, full of characters that I loved, and stories that I cared about. I really don't see season 5 happening without a massive overhaul of the writer's room.
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SEASON 4