★★★★☆ I just finished my second watch through Discovery season four. On balance, I liked it about as well as season three. I enjoyed seeing Burnham come into her own as captain, and continuing development among the secondary cast. Zora’s evolution toward the self-aware being seen in “Calypso.” The Stamets/Culber/Adira family. Saru and T’Rina sort of awkwardly dancing around each other. I’d hoped to see more of them rebuilding Starfleet and the Federation, but that kind of took a back seat to the main storyline of the Dark Matter Anomaly. On one hand, the DMA (not to be confused with Direct Memory Access or the Direct Marketing Association) was an interesting scientific disaster: What do you do about a black hole that moves around in ways you can’t predict and has been known to tear up planets? On the other hand, I’m tired of galaxy-level threats. It got old in comics, it got old in earlier seasons of this show, and wow did it get old in Picard. Getting back to ship-scale (and even…
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