Star Trek: Discovery’s End of the Season Fleet Performance Review

Now that Star Trek: Discovery has wrapped up its first season, and everyone’s had a chance to binge and catch up, two of our writers had a q&a together on the series. What worked? What did we each like? Or hate? It is rumored to be a long time until the next season comes out (2019 is the word) but that won’t keep us from loving Michael Burnham and her crew for the next several months while we continue to dissect this latest entry in the Star Trek canon. Leslie: So Jamil, Star Trek: Discovery has wrapped the first season. We’ve talked a lot in our recaps about what we liked. What’s the biggest thing you *didn’t* like? Jamil: One thing I really didn’t like was the way that the Ash/Voq thing played out. I read the fan theories pretty early about Ash being Voq, so I wasn’t surprised at all when the reveal came (although, to be fair, I don’t think anyone was). I wasn’t upset for plot reasons though; I was upset because I was genuinely happy to see the character of Michael Burnham find love as a Black woman. There are depressingly few examples of Black women finding good, loving relationships on television, particularly genre television. Remember that bullshit Duala went through on Battlestar Galactica? So I was glad that Burnham found Tyler, and Sonequa Martin-Green and Shazad Latif had amazing on-screen chemistry, so it made their budding romance fun to watch. I didn’t want to see that relationship taken away. Granted, the opportunity still exists for Ash Tyler to return, but…