Trapped inside a mysterious alien portal that defies familiar rules of time, space, and gravity, Burnham must fight Moll and the environment itself to locate the Progenitors’ technology and secure it for the Federation. 

Discovery’s feature-length series finale is very much a show of two parts, and if truth be told, offers very little that you didn’t expect to see.

The first hour wraps up the Progenitor tech storyline, with Michael and Moll duking it out in a shifting environment as those on the Discovery come up with plans to buy their captain time. This feels like the same episode that would have been made if the show had been renewed. But it wasn’t, and the final half hour is spent on a lengthy coda that ties up Michael’s story. And it’s fine… and predictable… though I can’t help thinking we could have spent just a little longer with the other cast members.

Discovery is a show that has never stood still, and a lot of the first two season episodes were top-notch. But after the time-jump for Season 3, it settled into being unremarkable genre TV, re-using well-worn Star Trek tropes while not creating any new ones of its own.

As series finales go, it’s better than Enterprise’s, but not in the same class as TNG’s, DS9’s or even Voyager’s. I feel the show had run its course narratively and look forward to seeing what comes next.

Verdict: An unremarkable and familiar set of story beats to play out a show that became a shadow of its former self. 6/10

Nick Joy