Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3, Part 4

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's the final part of my Star Trek: Discovery season 3 reviews, covering the last three episodes:

• 3-11 - Su'Kal
  
• 3-12 - There is a Tide…
  
• 3-13 - That Hope is You, Part 2
  

Weirdly all three episodes were known by different titles at first, as we heard that they were going to be called The Citadel, The Good of the People and Outside. I don't know what happened there.

I wrote the first draft of these reviews mere moments after watching the episodes for the first time so you get to see me being authentically unaware of where the story's going to go. You'll also get to see BIG SPOILERS.

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3, Part 3

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm continuing through Discovery's third season. This time I'm covering episodes 8 to 10:

• 3-08 - The Sanctuary
  
• 3-09 - Terra Firma, Part 1
  
• 3-10 - Terra Firma, Part 2
  

Have some more Disco trivia: the season was meant to be released before Lower Decks season one, but COVID-19 screwed up their schedule. They managed to finish filming days before the lockdown, but the post-production and soundtrack had to be completed remotely. That means all the visual effects this year were done from home and every instrument was recorded individually. It's amazing that the quality hasn't suffered at all, but it did take longer to finish.

These reviews were written back when I first watched the episodes so I'm not pretending that I don't know what happens next, I really didn't know at the time. There'll still be GIANT SPOILERS for the story so far though.

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3, Part 2

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm still writing about Discovery's third season. This time I'm covering episodes 5 to 7:

• 3-05 - Die Trying
  
• 3-06 - Scavengers
  
• 3-07 - Unification III
  

Here's some trivia for Discovery's third year: it's the first season of the series to be run by the same showrunner from start to finish, with limited writers' room drama. Season one was started by Bryan Fuller and finished by Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts. They stayed for season two but were fired after episode 5 and replaced by executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who handed the series over to Michelle Paradise this year. This is actually fairly normal for Trek, but the series tend to get much better when someone finally sticks around for a while.

Alright, I already said this before but these reviews are basically from right after I watched the episodes, so I genuinely didn't know where the story was going. Beware of MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3, Part 1

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing some words about the third season of Star Trek: Discovery. And by 'some' I mean 'lots'. In fact I'm going to have to split this up into four articles, with this first part covering the first four episodes:

• 3-01 - That Hope is You, Part 1
  
• 3-02 - Far From Home
  
• 3-03 - People of Earth
  
• 3-04 - Forget Me Not
  

Here's a fun fact about this season: they've changed the logo! Star Trek series do change their openings a bit sometimes, Enterprise even added the words 'Star Trek' to its title sequence a few episodes into the third year, but I can't think of a series ever changing its title font like this before. It's a good change I reckon and it fits the theme of this season being a fresh start, but then I like it when series have a different opening each season so of course I would say that.

This is one of those times where I already wrote these reviews right after watching the episodes, so was genuinely clueless about what was going to happen next, aside from the glimpses in the trailer after each episode. Well okay to be honest I wrote a first draft, these have been rewritten a bit since then, but I'm not exactly editing in correct guesses to make me seem like the best at Star Trek.

There will be HUGE SPOILERS for every episode this season, plus earlier episodes too. I mean I can't even mention the season's premise without spoiling the end of season 2.