'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 3: What We Know and What We Hope For

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4. They did indeed. The Pike scenes were really standout...

...exploring Pike’s future and his acceptance and understanding of the tragedy to come was probably the most human and compelling plot point in the entire series. That it was a resolution of a tension point set up in the original TOS pilot only pointed more to the STD writers’ inability to conceive of and carry an entire plot arc. If they had had to write his accident from scratch, they’d have botched it imho.