10 Greatest Star Trek Season Finales
3. Such Sweet Sorrow Part Two - Discovery Season Two
Star Trek: Discovery is a show that has been free from any drama, or furious backlash, or even discussion.
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Now, once the laughing has finished, there is very much a reason that Such Sweet Sorrow Part Two ranks so highly on this list. The show, closing out its second year, was faced with how to resolve the story of Burnham and Spock's relationship, Pike's return to the Enterprise, Control's threat to the galaxy, and so many, many little niggling issues with historical canon.
The fact that it largely succeeds with all of these points, sets up a sidequel series, closes much of the larger 'canon' complaints, and still offers a fantastic light-show to boot is a testament to the skills behind the camera, and the acting in front.
Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Anson Mount, and Doug Jones all stand out in particular here, with not one of them breaking the high tension of events. The fact that Yeoh, in fact, offers some grim humour to the story in her showdown with Leland, offers us some of the most uncomfortable smiles of enjoyment of the season.
The third season would then become a soft-reboot of Discovery, so if this is both the end of the second season, and spiritual end of the first iteration of the show, then it fires on all thrusters - and Jeff Russo's score deserves a special mention as well for that wonderful, soaring tribute to the ship as it blasts into the 32nd century.