For those unfamiliar with my opinions of DSC, one may go down that rabbit hole here.
Suffice it to say, DSC S05 isn’t something I lament because it’s the last season, but because it lasted so long. This show is shit, and ENT was better yet didn’t even get a fifth season. Not a single actor in this show could carry Scott Bakula’s left nut, but I digress…
So, The first episode opens with The Queers™ discussing how wtf the drinks are and how they’re totally over this dumb party. Hashtag me too, bitches. FINALLY! Some fucking authentic LGBTQ+ representation in this show! Especially when Rapp— err… Stamets debates whether to leave when his honorific gets downgraded from “Center of the Universe” to merely “Scientific Luminary” because his Very Special Project gets sidelined for being 900 years out-of-date. Boo-hoo, honey. I guess you’ll just have to find something else to be amazing at, which should take you all of an act break.
And then Saru and no-longer-called-Vulcan lady share a nice moment. Then they kinda break up in a flurry of dumb writing. Because Discovery is stupid.
The only other thing worth mentioning from the next 2 episodes is Callum Rennie who’s prolly in his 60s now, but damn is he rocking that hot zaddy energy. And those pointy ears are really doing it for me. Yum.
The show is still shit, tho, and poking at the memberberries with a 24th century Romulan scout ship, a Progenitors treasure hunt, and a Data knock-off isn’t doing the show any favors. It just reminds us all how much better TNG was than this show and how much we’d rather be watching that show than this one.