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Season 8

March 14, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E12 ”Species 10C”

Finally, we are at the hyperfield bubble of Species 10C! The whole season has been leading up to this! Will Michael, President Rillak, et al be able to find a way to communicate with this vastly advanced species and get …

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March 9, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 11 ”Rosetta”

Closer and closer to the object of all this season's fussing about – but not quite there yet. Convinced that they need to do a bit more research before entering the "hyperfield" and trying to establish first contact with species …

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Feb. 28, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 10 ”The Galactic Barrier”

Things are really heating up as the first contact task force heads to the Galactic Barrier. DISCO is the ship that will carry them out to species 10C's weird energy/Dyson sphere and there is no time to waste as the …

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Feb. 21, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 9 ”Rubicon”

Well, it's time for the rubber (or starship nacelles) to meet the road (or hard vacuum). Michael and the crew of DISCO attempt to ambush Book and Ruon Tarka as they are building the explosive isolytic device (using the tracker …

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Feb. 14, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 8 ”All In”

....and we're back at the DISCO! Since Book and Ruon Tarka took matters into their own hands and decided to steal the next generation spore drive and go build their own isolytic bomb and take a punch at species 10C …

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Jan. 3, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E7 ”...But to connect”

It's the mid-season finale of Star Trek Discovery. What it's all be leading up to (before, you know, the rest of the season). The Federation has called together an assembly of all the major worlds and races, Federation and otherwise, …

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Dec. 27, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 6 ”Stormy Weather”

DISCO has been ordered to go into the subspace rift made by the DMA to gather any readings or information they can about the anomaly. Things are going nominally at first, but when the ship gets inside, there is nothing …

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Dec. 20, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 5 ”The Examples”

A fairly straightforward day on the DISCOVERY. The ship is sent as part of a rescue mission to a string of asteroids that are about to get his by the crazy dark matter anomaly in that is tearing through the …

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Dec. 13, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 4 ”All Is Possible”

What is happening?! Michael and Saru get called down to the surface of Ni'var to help President Rillak close the deal with Ni'Var joining the Federation. Tilly goes to Starfleet academy, with Adira in tow, to run some critical team …

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Dec. 6, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 3 ”Choose To Live”

When a rogue Qowat Milat sister goes, well, rogue and starts knocking over Starfleet ships delivering dilithium to planets in need (and, incidentally, kills a Starfleet officer in the process), Ni'Var, the Federation, and the Qowat Milat have to team …

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Nov. 29, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 2 ”Anomaly”

So. There's a space anomaly about five light-years in diameter that is chewing up solar systems like a swarm of piranha. No worries! Discover jumps in to take some measurements and can't get close enough to get good readings. Pas …

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Nov. 22, 2021

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 1 ”Kobayashi Maru”

It's a beautiful day in the galactic neighborhood of the 32nd century. The Federation is back, Starfleet no longer needs to hide behind a cloak, and there's *plenty* of dilithium to go around. Michael and the crew of Discovery are …

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