Vice Badmiral Charlynn Schmiedt joins Bri and Ken to reflect on the entirety of Discovery‘s fourth season: the effect the pandemic had on production, how the characters have grown, where we hope they go next, and how we rank all four seasons thus far.

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Stage magician Kayla Drescher joins Ken and Bri all the way from the Chicago Magic Lounge! Picard and crew have crash-landed on 21st-century Earth. Our highlights were watching Dr. Agnes Jurati spar with the Borg Queen, a budding romance between Cristóbal and Teresa, and an unassimilated Seven of Nine being comfortable in her own skin. We also have five theories as to who the Watcher may be!

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The fourth season finale brings hope and closure for Book, Tarka, Discovery, and Species Ten-C. Ken and Bri love the emotions and sincerity of the cast, crew, and plot, considering it one of the show’s better season finales thus far.

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If you liked the Amy Adams movie Arrival, you’ll love this episode of Discovery! Bri and Ken enjoy get to see the science and linguistics behind first contact with a level II civilization, accentuated by some fancy camerawork directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The decisions of certain characters within and without the Federation continue to disappoint us, though, as does some sluggish detective work by our resident engineers.

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Picard goes through a mirror darkly into a temporal divergence of Q’s own creation. What is wrong with Q (aside from the usual), to what does Picard owe penance, and who is awaiting them in the year 2024? Commodore Mark Thompson joins Ken and Bri as we weave appearances of TNG and Voyager with references to DS9 and TOS, theorizing how it’ll all come together.

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Despite ranking this episode as her least favorite of the season, Sabriel draws some neat comparisons between species 10-C and the saurials of the Forgotten Realms, while also approving of queers mentoring the next generation. Meanwhile, Ken ponders the roles of Jett Reno, Zora, and Grudge in the upcoming season conclusion!

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Dr. Steven Weyhrich joins us to review Picard‘s return, in which we learn more about Picard’s childhood, setting the course for the rest of the season. Will the final frontier be… time? The Borg? Q? Love?

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To boldly make connections where no one has connected before! Discovery may be departing the Milky Way, but this episode is about relations: Kelpian to Vulcan, captain to president, scientist to scientist, father to child. Ken and Sabriel like what we’re seeing — but will it give the crew the strength they need to face species 10C? And, as an aside, what if Man of Steel had been in color?

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Book and Burnham finally realize what Ken and Bri have known since our first episode: mutual understanding is where the real fun’s at! We start to like Ruon Tarka a bit more, and we love seeing Nhan back in action. We also theorize about a fourth Star Trek movie in the Kelvin universe — though there will be plenty of Picard and Strange New Worlds to review in the meantime.

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Discovery returns to the airwaves with its own casino episode! It’s not The Royale, and Vic Fontaine is nowhere to be seen, but we do get clever teamwork between Michael and Book, indecipherable banter from Karma Barge proprietor Haz Mazaro, a surprising brawl featuring Joann “Oh Wow” Owosekun, and the return of a race last seen on Deep Space Nine. Nonetheless, Ken was surprised by the lack of space battles, and Bri was frustrated by Ruon Tarka’s character development being withheld. With only a few episodes left, where does the season go from here? Tune in to find out!

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