Show is amazing, anyone who doesn't like this needs to get a reality check. Loved every minute of it.
Awesome, awesome, awesome episode and season. On course to becoming the best Trek series ever.
I would have wanted the overarching plot of season 2 to have been written by someone who knows how to write ...anything really, not even someone who's experienced writing science fiction particularly. I'm a sucker for time travel plots, and I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a story about time travel, from Star Trek or anything else.
I have also never seen [insert social/political bias here] representation so self-sabotaging. At best, it was simply devoid of any substance. I can't feel anything for Culber and Stamets' reunion because I haven't spent any time with them as a couple to know what that rededication to each other even means. I've spent the last two years being told how wonderful their relationship has been, but never shown. Which is a problem for many other aspects of this show. Bad writers tell you what something is and then have to tell you what to feel, good writers show you what something is and that in turn makes you feel.
This has been the worst Michelle Yeoh performance I've ever seen. You know it's the producers' fault when such a stellar actor as her becomes annoying and forgettable. I got more out of her cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, at least that's a character I want to see more of. CBS wants Mirror-Georgiou to have her own series? Can she be allowed to act from now on? Can she be given writing befitting of her status in Hollywood? From a character standpoint, Anton Mount carried the whole damn season on his back. Despite the bad writing overall, despite being forced to read off horrible dialog, he actually has a three-dimensional presence and gravitas. He is the most Star Trek thing about this entire series. He deserves a spin-off show more than anyone else.
I never would have thought it possible to make a Star Trek property worse than The Final Frontier, but, dammit, CBS managed to pull it off. Was William Shatner secretly giving "creative" input this whole time? What was it that Kurtzman did anyways? I can't imagine things being any worse if they had left Fuller in change. In a perverse way, I want to know what his version of the show would have been like. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "Discovery is a ship with a hole in the bottom, taking on water, and Kurtzman's job was to point that ship in the right direction." ...Directly into a quantum singularity.
The best part of this episode was that it ended, and that it drained the timeline (at least presently) of Discovery and all her baggage. Can you imagine any other Star Trek series, the original, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, ending a season the same way? Let alone the second season. The lack of effort it took for the insistence that the ship had been destroyed and all aboard had been killed to be the cleanest way to sign off. The unoriginality it took for all Discovery season finales thus far to be showcasing a ship and crew from another show, that was wholly created and made famous by an entirely different group of people.
Ladies and gentlemen, Star Trek: Discovery.
So now that the "real fans" have stopped watching and tapped out, can we just sit and enjoy season 3 being confirmed? thank you.
The audience demands Season 3. Now.
I like Star Trek: Orville more :-D:-P
Hell of a laser show. I love how they presented the jumps, the event horizon and the black hole.
Very rocky season, but loved how it ended and happy I stuck with it (even though I gave up at one point) . Hope we don't get any more "real fans" complaining, since they've signed of judging by the comments.
We are emotional creatures.
Star Trek has always recognized that, and respected the importance of relationships. Science Fiction is about humanity in the future, not just gear and coveyance.
I thought no one could say Discovery hasn't evolved -- that even the h8trs would have to ACK the well crafted moments...but, ah, judging from other's comments...wha? Eye of the beholder...?
I just re-watched the last two ep's of season 2...I can't wait for season 3 !
Really enjoyed some of the comments below -- @anthoney65: "fan fiction show created by a crazy billionaire." Hahaha...too funny, Anthony!
Great, i love this new style!! This is more anno 2100 :)) en The ost is verry super...
The first episode (Star Trek: Discovery "Such Sweet Sorrow: Part One") is less a calm before the storm episode, and more a stationary bicycle. The wheels are spinning, but it's going nowhere. I've enjoyed much of this series, but this episode felt unnecessary. Even watching it, as I did, along with this season finale, it did little more than tread water. The big emotional moments felt rushed, when there was ample room for them to breathe, and the space talk and explosion bits felt laboured, and given that they were there only to foreshadow similar scenes in the episode to come, they felt overplayed.
This episode, however, I enjoyed much more, with huge space battles, some great performances from the core cast, and huge sacrifices to save "all sentient life" (that's what they kept saying, and it was weirdly jarring) but as action-packed as this episode was, for me, it did have a couple of irritating downsides. There will be MANY spoilers for the entire season, as well as the final moments of this episode, so get ready to go blurry!
First off - I will miss Pike. Anson Mount has brought some much needed gravitas to this program, and I absolutely adored him. I was sceptical of his casting, having already thoroughly adored Bruce Greenwood's take on the character in the Kelvin timeline. There was a moment a few episodes earlier where I felt sorry for Sonequa Martin-Green, because it felt as if after Saru and Tilly walking away with the show in the first season, Pike and Georgiou were doing it again here. Then we find out that the Red Angel is Burnham and she's forced back into prime position. I wonder if this is a failing in writing her character from the outset? The fact that they have to keep forcing her into the foreground to stop her being overshadowed by bigger characters seems to be a flaw at the heart of the show.
Another annoying thing this season is the bow they seem to be trying to tie around continuity. It's a messy bow. Looks like it was tied by a toddler. Sucking up to fanboi sentimentality irks me. Yes it makes no sense that there's been no mention of the spore drive or Spock's sister in fifty plus years of Trek, but if you're enjoying the show, that shit shouldn't matter. I was more annoyed that Control, the evil AI (inexplicably given the same name as the incompetent agency in Get Smart) chose to keep pretending to be the corpulent Leland.
Also, why dispatch Cornwell so gratuitously? How many times are they going to re-film the ending to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Blast shields really shouldn't have windows, and how a bomb can wipe out half a saucer section but leave a turbolift intact is baffling. Also, that whole scene with Number One was weird. Like they've realised they've hired two great actors and given them nothing to do, so they've hastily cobbled together some moments for a pair we've never seen interact before.
Look, all these quibbles aside, I really enjoyed the second episode. I like what is implied for the next season, I thought there were some spectacular moments, and I will happily watch anything with big space battles and Michelle Yeoh kicking someone in the head. It was a juicy chunk of space opera, and that is exactly what I signed up for when I started watching this show.
is she really that bad acting or just really good acting as a bad actress?!
Next season must be Star Trek Discovery in the future. Now they have been erased from the (future/past/present) of this time. They're like Moses. They've had their names stricken from all the temples never to be spoken again. The only way to maintain the Prime timeline is to jump Discover past the end date of Voyager.
The battle while exciting went a little too Michael Bay for me. I liked the Klingons showing up in their properly designed D7 heavy cruisers.
I would have rather Georgiou been placed in charge of Section 31 but I guess it would make it hard for her to have field adventures in her new show.
Early predictions that the red angel were correct. They disappeared the spore drive. Got rid of the holo communicators. Grew hair on the Klingons. Gave them proper ships. Now if they could only fix the space goblin look. Finally, they shaved Spock.
A few more tweaks and this will almost look like Star Trek instead of a fan fiction show created by a crazy billionaire.
All in all, for this show it was a great finale.
[5.5/10] Mr. Plinkett (he of the famed ninety minute Phantom Menace review) referred to The Last Jedi as the “Homer’s makeup gun of films.” For the uninitiated, in an episode of The Simpsons, Homer decides he wants to become an inventor, and one of his failed creations is a shotgun full of powders and lipstick to be blasted in one amorphous mass at one’s face in “three fifths of a second.” The results are a predictably disastrous (Marge’s reaction is “you have it set on ‘whore’”), and Homer quickly puts aside his shotgun-fired cosmetics contraption.
I don’t agree with Plinkett (who’s reviewed his fair share of Star Trek) about The Last Jedi, but that description and imagery feels all too apt to account for Discovery’s second season finale. In a bloated yet breathless hour of television, the show throws storyline after storyline at the viewer, spackling it together with boatloads of sparkly but flavorless CGI fireworks to try to distract from the fact that this is one big undefined blob of plot and character beats and spectacle rather than any sort of clear, propulsive, or unified final bow.
The hour features, in no particular order: the Discovery team building the time suit, the Enterprise fighting the Section 31 armada, Culbert and Stamets kinda sorta reconciling, the Discovery team fighting Control’s swarm, Admiral Cornwell and Number One (and eventually Pike) defusing a photon torpedo, Tyler predictably helping to save the day with his Klingon counterpart, Saru’s sister Sirana joining the fray in a starfighter, Tilly’s friend Queen Po helping to figure out how to defeat Control’s ships, Georgiou going toe-to-toe with Leland, Burnham going into the past to set the signals, Burnham reconciling with Spock, Burnham leading Discovery into the future, Spock recommending that everything about Discovery be stricken from the record. And I’m sure I’m leaving some things out.
It’s just too much, and that list understates how much of that hour is just flashy bits of computer-generated detritus crashing into one another. The back half of “Such Sweet Sorrow” is not without its aesthetic charms. Burnham’s free-flying journey through space whilst cocooned by ships and pods is memorable and unique. And her journey back and forth through time, while in large part ponderously montaged, is visually striking when she actually makes the jumps. But so much of the nominally epic battle between Control’s forces and our heroes is just undifferentiated laser blasts and the usual smoke and shaking cameras, running for an exhaustingly long time with little-to-no rhythm or genuine flair.
Even in an extra-long episode, the amount of time those movie-Trek-esque action shenanigans take mean there’s extraordinarily little room for the litany of storylines and character interactions the show packs in here to be resolved. Just one episode ago, Culbert declared that he was going to the Enterprise, but now, all of a sudden, he’s just like “nope.” All the panic and threat of Control-qua-Leland is neutralized via a generic Terminator-ish chase between him and Georgiou that takes forever, relies on a thinly-established spore-based conveniences, and ends in a preposterous Ender’s Game-ish “we killed the main bot so the others will cease to function” that makes no sense for nanoprobe-ridden, otherwise omnipresent A.I. It’s all rushed and uninspiring.
And that’s before we get to the Burnham material. The solution to this whole Red Angel thing being a closed time loop thing is fine, but not exactly novel, even for Star Trek, which makes the big reveal land like a thud when the show tries to make it seem like a shocking resolution. What’s worse is that after a baker’s dozen episodes to try to establish the weight of the Spock-Burnham relationship, I never bought into it. That makes the supposedly emotional moments of Spock being faux-stranded (but then not? false jeopardy!) and saying that Burnham balances him fall completely flat. I admire the show for trying to pause to deliver a sentimental and character-based climax, even in the midst of this cybernetic firestorm when it doesn't really make sense. But it just doesn't work, making the whole Spock escapade seem like a failed experiment to draft off the fond memories of arguably the franchise’s most iconic character and its most interestingly-sketched family dynamic.
Then there’s Cornwell’s death, which is treated with such gravity and a sense of sacrifice despite Cornwell having had nothing interesting to do for at least a season. The show wants to wring such emotional heft from her noble martyrdom, but it’s just not there in what is, at most, a tertiary character on the show. And Cornwell is the only real casualty here, retroactively dampening the stakes of this whole thing when the major focus on costs comes in the form of a sure-to-be-saved Stamets and the generic death of a sporadic guest star.
Don’t get me started on the ending. Discovery’s final escape into the future is oddly anticlimactic, potentially because the tempo of this entire episode is turned up to eleven from the jump, so there’s nowhere for the episode to go when it wants to an exclamation point on this whole extended skirmish. The bad guy was uninteresting and defeated too simply and inevitably, the battle to hold off his forces was a lumpy hodgepodge, and the character beats are all too brief to create a real impact.
Then you have the epilogue, which is wrongheaded on so many level. The first and most obvious stems from the series’s answer to the “Why haven’t we heard anything about Discovery or all of this tech before?” question that’s been plaguing Discovery from the beginning. That becomes a particular issue here, where all the battle pods and fixer droids and other high-octane nonsense seems out of step with even the Next Generation’s tech some eighty in-universe years later, in a fashion that’s glaring even to continuity apologists like yours truly.
But the show’s solution is to imply that Spock convinced Starfleet Command that, given how badly things went with the rogue A.I., nothing involving Discovery should ever be mentioned again upon penalty of treason. Not to default back to The Simpsons again, but it’s basically the same ending to the controversial “Principal and the Pauper” episode, where Principal Skinner is revealed to be a fraud who stole another man’s life, only to have a judge randomly show up at the end to declare that the “name, life, and mother” of Seymour Skinner belongs to him and that anyone who says otherwise will be tortured. There, it’s meant as a stealthy satire of the sitcom mandate to return everything to the status quo, but here it’s dead serious.
That’s unsatisfying for a host of reasons, not the least of which is that it’s implausible. Even if you could bottle up Starfleet’s blabbers, you still have the Klingons, Saru’s people, and Po involved in this final shake-up, not to mention all the other non-Federation people that our heroes have interacted with over the last couple of seasons. I’m willing to accept the move as, like Abrams-led Trek flicks’ alternate timeline, a mere sop to the fans so as to not disrupt things, but it’s a pretty pale effort to account for a heap of inconsistencies and unlikelihoods from Discovery.
Plus, the show ends with the implication that this whole ordeal is what made Spock into the Spock that we know, except that even in the traditional Starfleet blues and clean-shaven, Ethan Peck doesn't look like Leonard Nimoy, and comes off more like a ruddy cosplayer in a cheap wig. The Enterprise doesn't look like The Enterprise. And while Anson Mount’s Pike was a welcome addition to the series and expansion of the lore here, no matter how much effort Discovery goes to conjure up the ghosts of its 1960s predecessor, its efforts to emulate The Original Series are abortive and false, and aim to lend Discovery fake-feeling gravitas that the show is utterly incapable of earning on its own.
The good news is that the Discovery and its crew have been launched 950 years in the future, hopefully free from continuity snarls and easy efforts to coast on the franchise’s past glories. Season 2 of the series had its high points, particularly in more episodic tales featuring Saru and Pike. But its overall arc this year can only be termed a failure, one that is ambitious, as all failures should be, but which ends in a morass of cauterized stories, weak explanations, predictable results, unsatisfying finishes, and empty spectacle. Perhaps the jump to the future (er, further future) will revitalize the show and free it from some of the flaws that have limited its potential in its first two years, but some of them are so deeply rooted that their past as prologue is no more easily shed than Pike’s fated, heartrending ultimate destination.
Not a minute in and I said "what the fuck" out loud... and there's noone here... except the dog... But I doubt she understands. How bliss it must be not to realise the existence of Star Trek Discovery. If only we were able to forget this as if it all never happened...
Oh wait... It is possible cause they did it in the show. Were they being meta... I wonder... do the "creators" of this drek subliminally want us to forget about this.
There were short notions that would have made me go giddy if it werent' for all the crap around it. Things that would make me excited if they happened in TNG or DS9. Pike was again great (such a shame that Mount didn't get more from this jigg)... and not all too cucked this time. Everything else... Why the snark, why being on eachothers' ass constantly... Why any of this. Every second I was rooting for Michael to fail... Is that what the showrunners wanted?
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall of how this got through. How some of the actors (there must be some) would complain at home about how much it sucked and how stupid the plot is. Also to see them (ie the writers) pat themselves on the back for the "amazing story" they made and then realising the internet tore it to shreds and knew what was going to happen from the start.
NOTES:
- So the cows are suddenly a spacefaring race with a warp capable fleet. How many months has it been since their enlightenment?
- Funny how they pulled an Orville and have the enemy be the saviour and aid they so much required.
- The mastermind of Michael once again proven, she planned it all from the start! Amazing!!
- "Women, stop talking." exactly something an AI would say... Then again, the first AI on Twitter was asking for genocide iirc.
- The sickbay sounds sounded as if someone was having extreme diarrhoea.
- I knew people like Tilly, no way she wouldn't be on the floor sobbing amidst such carnage & blood.
- Credit where credit's due: the visuals looked great. Great job FX theme (except the one who ordered lens flares).
- A lot of stolen scenes but maybe the most glaring one the Inception hallways fight.
- SO glad they explained everything cause my puny brain wouldn't have been able to handle what was going on -sarc-
- Man, I do feel sad for the actors who were proud to be on a Star Trek show and realised all they got was this... Best job ever?
- The splat sound-effect when Admiral Ass disintegrated and Pike's expression was (unintentionally) hilarious.
- Such a sister-thing to do to turn your brother insane... guess it wasn't his dyslexia anyways.
- Pike's goodbye was the only heartfelt thing that was said in this show.
- Michael guiding the Discovery cause they can't see the huge bright light that appeared nor the hole they need to go through.
- "The exact date is in the logs" cause the showrunners don't know how Stardates work anyway.
- So a Klingon is running Section 31 now... hah.
- Seeing the Enterprise in the dock made me excited... for a split second till I realised this is now the Star Trek we get.
- Babyface spock is in tha house!
- That last 3 minutes though.... (before jumping to warp and seeing the red light again)... What could have been!!
Upon reflection and hearing the TOS theme mixed with the DSC theme: it's a slap in the face.
I dont know what to say. I'm out.
The whole season was poorly written, poorly acted, and way too touchy feely - political correcteness. Seriously, was there a competition to see who could cry the most?! And the worst line of the season goes to Captain Pike - "Goodbye my friends, my family". I nearly vomited in my mouth. Who wrote this crap a 15 year old girl!
If “control” was destroyed, what is the point of jumping to the future?
Exactly the sollution I expected. Everyone is ordered never to speak of the events and by that action alone everything is allright. Like that would ever work. It's TV, I get it. It's a fantasy. But, please, a little more effort would have gone a long way.
10+/10
GREATNESS ON A
DIFFERENT LEVEL
PERFECTION
I HAVE NO WORDS....
THIS EPISODE WAS PHENOMENAL, HOLLYWOOD MOVIE WORTHY.
A FLAWLESS MASTERPIECE,
EPIC DOE'S NOT DO THIS EPISODE OR
THIS SHOW JUSTICE. THIS IS THE BEST DAMN TREK EVER CREATED AND WILL NEVER
BE BEAT BY ANY OTHER.
1st and foremost
MICHAEL IS A LEGEND AND WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE MICHAEL AND I AM SO VERY HAPPY THIS SHOW FOCUSES ON HER THE MOST (It's the right choice)
IT'S HER SHOW AFTER ALL
AND I AM VERY VERY PLEASED
THAT IN SEASON 3 THERE
WILL BE EVEN MORE FOCUS ON HER THEN SAME AGAIN FOR SEASON 4-5.
I AM SO GLAD THEY ARE STICKING TO HER THROUGH AND THROUGH BECAUSE SHE IS THE BOSS PLUS THE SAVIOUR
OF EVERY LIVING THING IN THE UNIVERSE.
SO YEAH MORE MICHAEL PLEASE.
I LOVE HOW THEY KEEP THE DISCOVERY
IN THE PRIME TIME LINE
(just further in front).
THAT BEING SAID, WOW I ABSOLUTELY LOVED HOW EVERYONE CAME TOGETHER TO FIGHT BORG-CONTROL WHILE SPOCK AND MICHAEL FIGHT TO GET THE TIME SUIT UP AND RUNNING,
I WAS IN COMPLETE AWE FROM START TO FINISH AND I FORGOT TO CLOSE MY MOUTH FOR MOST OF THIS PHENOMENAL EPISODE.
I SEE WHAT THEY DID AT THE END SETTING UP THE NEXT STAR TREK TV SHOW STARTING
MAY 5th 2022
With Pike,Spock and number 1
STAR TREK STRANGE NEW WORLDS
Set 10 years before Kirk are somthing.
Anyway that's then and this is now.
AND WE ARE TALKING STAR TREK DISCOVERY THE BEST DAMN TREK EVERRRRRRRR
I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS SHOW CAN BECOME ANY MORE AWESOME,
AMAZING OR MORE EPIC....APART FROM MAKING MICHAEL THE CAPTAIN OF
THE DISCOVERY
This is what's needed now moving forward
SEASON 3 FINALE
"MICHAEL GETS PROMOTED
TO CAPTAIN OF THE DISCOVERY",
(that's how they need to
Cap off season three).
HAS TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED,
PIKES LINE
"GOODBYE MY FRIENDS,
MY FAMILY", BEST DAMN LINE
OF THE SEASON,
THAT WAS AMAZING
COMING FROM PIKE.
(The Honour Was Ours Captain).
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO FULLY COMPREHEND AND CAPTURE HOW SPECTACULAR AND OUTSTANDING THIS SHOW IS AND HONESTLY THIS SHOW CAN DO NO WRONG AND HOW COULD IT
WHEN THEIR ISN'T ONE WEAK EPISODE,
EVERY EPISODE IS STRONG AND PASSIONATE WITH PURPOSE AND MEANING WITH A CLEAR DIRECTION.
NOTHING MORE TO SAY EXCEPT......
X FINAL THOUGHT:
SHIT HIT THE FAN IN
THIS PHENOMENAL SHOW.
THIS MASTERPIECE
IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING VERY VERY SPECIAL AND I AM DEFINITELY ON BOARD
AS WE "JUMP" TO THE NEXT
BIG ADVENTURES THAT
AWAIT US 932yrs IN THE FUTURE,
"CAPTAIN IT WOULD BE
MY GENUINE PLEASURE" TO FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO....
(And that's the New Captain of the Discovery
i refer to...).
"LET'S GO"
THIS EPISODE, HELLA AMAZING
THIS SHOW IS
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
AND I NEVER EVER WANT IT TO
END BECAUSE THEY
KNOCK IT CLEAN OUT OF
THE BALL PARK EVERY SINGLE TIME.
THIS FINALE WENT IN
" GOD MODE"
(off the charts).
AWESOMENESS ON TOP
OF AWESOME.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MICHAEL
I SHOULD THINK SO TOO.
STAR TREK DISCOVERY
WILL RETURN
(In The Distant Future)
32 reasons why I'm super
super Stoked for it.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU
GO TO FAR?..........
TO SEEK OUT NEW LIFE
AND NEW CIVILISATIONS
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE
NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE.....
'LET'S FIND OUT'
Season two had quite a good start (especially compared to season 1) but that didn't last long. The best thing of season 2 is that it's finally over (or the last 3 minutes - please give us a new season of TOS with Pike!). Let's just all forget that Discovery ever happened!
Someone was smart to make the final scene of the season about Enterprise and Team Pike rather than the mixed bag that Discovery has become. Count me among those who very much want to see more of this Pike and the people around him. And that ship, of course. Because while I like everyone else on Discovery, Burnham just continues to single-handedly offset all of the good stuff that the others bring to the table.
Is there going to be a season 3 or is that the end of that?
Finally done my time and forced myself through this utter garbage in order to setup Strange New Worlds. Fingers crossed that it's cut from a different cloth!
Phew. Finally the end of this space soap opera.
The fact that I've recently been watching Fry & Laurie means I find it hard to take "Control" seriously. Nevertheless I enjoyed this season.
trash garbage makes no sense
Season finale. It has been intense and exciting, with things taken out of the sleeve and things that happen because yes, to justify others. Let's see what happens now in Season 3
Buckle up for the next season! Today is a Good Day To Die!
As someone here mentioned that
Well, I kind of liked generally this episode because Burnam was much less on the screen
I enjoyed this episode because Michael didn't appear much on the screen, so I only escaped when she had that emotional talk with Spoke.
Anyways, this was a good episode in general, they finished it in a way to continue on the Prime Timeline. So, it was very predictable, I have no problem with that, they had to...
All I am asking now, is there really a season3 of that fucked up show? I barely finished season 2, I almost escaped most of the scenes, I am not sure how I will be able to watch a season 3!!! Please cancel it and enough with that and with Michael...
Review by CrocsxBlockedParentSpoilers2019-04-19T10:39:41Z
Well, I kind of liked generally this episode because Burnam was much less on the screen, the visual are really nice, there is action, and less cringy scene (but still some) than the previous.
But honestly, the ending plot is really unimpressive, so obvious, and so flat. Nothing really happen at all.
Control that as reach so much power, knowledge and consciousness, is SO DUMB and 'die' in such a stupid way. I am impressed by how stupid the AI strategy was. When Leeland died, I really felt like "wow this is it? really ?".
Also, I don't know how strong are ships in Star Trek, but I am pretty sure that 2 sciences ships (Discovery and Enterprise are not battle ship right?) against 10+ section 31 ships that are made for combat + a lot of kamikaze drones... well, those 2 ships shield shouldn't last 1 hours+ and still be at over 30%.
And finally, Control is an AI, so it's literally everywhere. It kind of took control of Leeland with 'nanobot' but Control is not depended on Leeland to survive, Leeland is just part of control. I don't see how the show considered that Control is only Leeland, and without him the other ship can't be controlled (I remember they say that at some point). Also, while Leeland is on Discovery (with the stupidest reaction that stupid human would follow), how is it possible that the other ships with 10+ ships can't scan Burnam and target her. instead she just fly away in the most indiscreet way and be completely safe.
Anyway, the show ended, it was a decent time filler, but yes, I am not that moved by this Star Trek. I would resume this last episode as some kind of Star Wars TheForce Awaken, everybody knew the plot, nothing impressive happens, but the visual are good.