So a few thoughts after watching the last episode,
- Over 180 shuttles/pods? Fuck off with that bullshit. If they'd had a dozen starships, maybe, just maybe they could swing that many, but with just the Discovery and Enterprise? Unless virtually the entirity of their secondary hulls were given over to shuttle storage then there's no way they could store that many. This is Shonen Anime levels of ass pull writing where they wanted to do big thing but had no idea how to do big thing, so they just went "Fuck it" and did the big thing anyway.
- The hand waving of "Ok so we just make everyone promise to never talk about Discovery, the Spore Drive, Section 31 and Control" is just....ugh. I guess it's about the best they could do after finally realising they made some serious mis-steps canon wise with these 2 seasons, but it still would've been better to have not made those mistakes in the first place.
- The whole Time Suit thing is still stupid, the final episode did nothing to change that. Hopefully it gets destroyed in Season 3 and then never brought up again.
And a bit of a wish list for Season 3,
- Stop making Michael the center of the Universe. For 2 seasons literally everything has revolved around her, it's time to move on.
- Move back towards less over-arching plot that lasts an entire season and move back towards more standalone episodes. Even when DS9 had the Dominion War going on it found time for making it a background even while having episodes that stood well on their own individual merits. Enterprise even managed it during Season 3 (In an arc that really should've been tied up in half a season at most really) so there's no reason Discovery can't do the same if they absolutely have to have some huge plot going on.
- Settle on a cast. Whilst Pike was definitely great, I'd like to see them actually settle on a core cast and stick with them for a while.
- Never ever ever bring back Po. I don't quite know why but I just can't stand her.
I'm coming across as more negative than I want to really, overall I am enjoying the show, it just seems it's suffering the curse of the first few seasons of a Trek show being pretty weak. Normally they perk up to standard by Season 3 (Though DS9 took until Season 4) so hopefully that'll be the case here.
So far though, this is definitely the weakest Trek show.