Star Trek: Discovery
WARNING : hold SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery , season 5 , episode 9 , " Lagrange Point " .
Summary
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 9 , " Lagrange Point " is the last instalment to be direct by Jonathan Frakes , so how does it rank alongside his other directorial efforts ? Jonathan Frakes is a prolific director , having direct 31 incoming in the canon ofStar Trekmovies and goggle box shows , with more to amount . Between 1990 and 1995 , Jonathan Frakes directed 14 episodes of televisedStar Trek , before moving into the movies , directing bothStar Trek : First ContactandStar Trek : Insurrection . 22 years after , Frakes returned to TVTrekto directDiscoveryseason 1 , sequence 10 , " Despite Yourself " .
Since then , Jonathan Frakes has racked up an telling 15 more credits , directing episodes of all the live - actionStar Trekshows of the modernistic era . Over half of these 15 credits are taken up byStar Trek : Discovery , as Frakes has train at least one episode for each of its five seasons . Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 9 , " Lagrange Point " , written by Sean Cochran and Ari Friedman , is Jonathan Frakes ' last entranceway in the serial , raising the question of how it ranks alongside the previous seven installment .
Jonathan Frakes sensation as Captain Will Riker in the Star Trek creation , but he has also become one of Trek ’s most dear and fertile directors .
8Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4, Episode 6, “Stormy Weather”
Zora gains emotions as the Discovery explores the DMA.
InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , episode 6 , " Stormy Weather " , the USS Discovery becomes trammel inside a split in subspace . While trying to figure a way out , something commence eating away at the Discovery ’s shield , while Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) is storm to confront a malign hallucination of his father . " Stormy Weather " should be a claustrophobic chamber piece for theStar Trek : Discoverycast , but it feel too ponderous and meandering . There ’s simply too much going on in the instalment that take away from what could have been an eerieStar Trekstory about understanding the unknown .
Zora ’s emotional crisis echoes how Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) was paralyzed by fear inStar Trek Generations .
The emotional crisis of Zora ( Annabelle Wallis ) , Book ’s hurt , and Gray Tal ( Ian Alexander ) come to term with their new synthetic body , the strongStar Trekstory at the core is all drowned out . It ’s average to say that Jonathan Frakes excels as a director in activity - packed narration likeStar Trek : First Contact , butStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , episode 6 , " Stormy Weather " is n’t that sort of story . The failings are down to an overstuffed script , however , as Frakes builds an unsettling and tense ambiance as the Discovery work party begin to doubt whether they ’ll make it out animated .
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7Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3, Episode 8, “The Sanctuary”
The USS Discovery fights to save Book’s planet from the Emerald Chain.
Jonathan Frakes channelize three episodes ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , and " The Sanctuary " is the sapless entry . It marks the USS Discovery ’s first visit to Book ’s dwelling house planet , and the results are quite dissatisfactory . While there are some wonderful VFX brandish like the sea locust tree , it ’s arduous to get away the fact that Commander Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Book are walking around a local woods . bad still , Book ’s adopted brother Kyheem ( Ache Hernandez ) , appear to be living in a modern-day twenty-first C apartment , which breaks any immersion .
Kwejian therefore , never feels like a aliveness , breathing major planet , which is a larger yield result , mean that it should n’t only model on Jonathan Frakes ' shoulders as director . As ever , Jonathan Frakes directs the starship scenery with cool , particularly the tense encounter between Captain Saru ( Doug Jones ) and Osyraa ( Janet Kidder ) . However , there ’s a genuine struggle on the part of the script to make the audience truly worry about Book ’s planet and his selfish crony inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , episode 8 , " Sanctuary " .
Screen Rant interviews Jonathan Frakes about aim the penultimate installment of Star Trek : Discovery and his own Star Trek future .
Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.
6Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3, Episode 12, “There is a Tide…”
Jonathan Frakes directed part one of Star Trek: Discovery’s season 3 finale.
With a starship under military blockade and a battle for the very futurity of the Federation at its essence , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , episode 12 , " There is a Tide … " is very much in Jonathan Frakes ' pilothouse as a music director . One of manyStar Trekepisodes identify after Shakespeare quotes , " There is a lunar time period … " sees Osyraa take ascendancy of the USS Discovery and heading for Federation Headquarters . The penultimate episode ofDiscoveryseason 3 has a daring jailbreak , and climaxes with Commander Burnham ejecting Commander Paul Stamets ( Anthony Rapp ) into the vacuum of outer space to protect the spore drive .
" There is a lunar time period … " take its name from Brutus ' speech to Cassius inJulius Caesar , later recited by Admiral Jean - Luc Picard in theStar Trek : Picardfinale .
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , installment 12 , " There is a lunar time period … " is the sort ofStar Trekaction moving picture that Jonathan Frakes can direct in his sleep by this point . However , that ’s both a blessing and a hex , as there ’s nothing in particular novel on display in the episode . Of the two episode that formedStar Trek : Discovery ’s season 3 finale , " There is a Tide … " is the stronger one , but there are better lesson of Jonathan Frakes ' directorial work elsewhere in the serial .
5Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3, Episode 3, “People of Earth”
The USS Discovery pays a visit to 32nd century Earth.
Jonathan Frakes is such a safe pair of hands as aStar Trekdirector that he ’s give the episode that introduces 32nd century ground . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , episode 3 , " the great unwashed of Earth " , Burnham and the crew stay on their investigation into the fate of the Federation by visiting Earth . The crew does n’t get a heroes ' welcome and are instead storm to mediate a contravention between Earth and the Titan colony . It ’s an exciting episode that has some enceinte spectacle , such as Burnham and Book ’s unauthorised foreign mission to bewitch one of the Raiders , Wen ( Christopher Heyerdahl ) .
" People of Earth " introduces Blu del Barrio as Adira Tal , a human being who is a Trill host . Jonathan Frakes ' Commander William T. Riker was a human Trill innkeeper in theStar Trek : The Next Generationepisode , " The horde " .
As well as the outer space action , Jonathan Frakes handles the quieter moments in " citizenry of Earth " attractively . Star Trek : Discoveryisn’t really known for its active location work , but Frakes and his DOP Crescenzo Notarile shoot the final tantrum on Earth with an appropriately nostalgic tint . The final panorama where the Discovery crew talk over standing on the same ground 930 years aside is a poetic instant that is direct evocatively by Frakes .
Star Trek is about exploring strange raw worlds throughout the Galax urceolata , but many central locations on Earth are crucially important to the franchise .
4Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 2, “New Eden”
New Eden felt like a classic TNG throwback.
InStar Trek : Discovery , season 2 , installment 2 , " New Eden " , Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) and the gang discover a multi - faith colony establish by refugees from Earth ’s World War 3 . However , 100 after their antecedent fled a atomic final solution , the colonist are put in the path of another one thanks to a radiation therapy cascade . " New Eden " is a classicStar Trekepisode that tackles religion and morals , while forcing Pike and Burnham to consider the role ofStarfleet ’s Prime Directive .
" New Eden " was shot on location in Balls Falls Conservation Area Historic Village , Ontario .
Jonathan Frakes is no alien to the themes and tropes at the nucleus ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , episode 2 , " New Eden " . For object lesson , the remindful guess of the stained - Methedrine windows are a virtuoso path to commune the progress of the colony . However , Frakes is also keen to put in levity into the episode , working out a moment of clowning with Mary Wiseman that lighten the mood of " New Eden" . The conniption where Tilly runs out of sick berth in the wrong direction at a crucial level in the fib was something prepare by Jonathan Frakes as music director .
3Star Trek: Discovery, Season 5, Episode 9, “Lagrange Point”
Jonathan Frakes went out on a high with Discovery’s Breen heist.
Jonathan Frakes ' last music director credit onStar Trek : Discoverywas a thrilling ride as Captain Burnham ’s outside team infiltrated the Breen Dreadnought . There ’s tremendous tension in the scenes where the disguised work party have to portray Breen soldiers , desperate to fit in or kick the bucket . The sequence is a meet word of farewell fromDiscoveryto Jonathan Frakes asCommander Rayner reference Commander Riker . Jonathan Frakes also hint that player Callum Keith Rennie do " a petty Picard maneuver"when Rayner assumes the USS Discovery ’s shopping center seat in the sequence ’s climax .
The progenitor were first introduced inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 6 , episode 20 , " The Chase " , which was also guide by Jonathan Frakes .
The climactic scene where Rayner orders the USS Discovery to enkindle everything they ’ve acquire while gate-crash into the Breen shuttle bay is a great picture - style second for modest - screenStar Trek . " Lagrange Point " is a strong instance of what Jonathan Frakes does best as aStar Trekdirector , demonstrating his command of building dramatic latent hostility and aim his actors to respond plausibly to immense VFX sequences that they can not see . The end answer is a thrillingStar Trekadventure that neatly sets up theStar Trek : Discoveryfinale .
Commander Rayner ’s avoidance of the maitre d' ’s chair in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 is a nod to a real - aliveness decision by Sonequa Martin - Green .
2Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 9, “Project Daedalus”
First Contact and Wrath of Khan vibes made “Project Daedalus” an instant classic.
" Project Daedalus " is the strongest of Jonathan Frakes ' two episodes fromStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 . The episode has everything that interview could mayhap want from a dramatic hour of television . There are chilling revelations about Section 31 and their function in frame up Spock ( Ethan Peck ) for murder , a rogue Artificial Intelligence waging warfare on humanity , and the heroic sacrifice of a crew member . The scenes where Burnham , Airiam , and Nahn explore the empty Section 31 base and discover the mutilate crew members is cool down , and reminds viewers of Frakes ' similarly atmospherical oeuvre onStar Trek : First Contact .
Jonathan Frakes was in the first place hired to directStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , episode 10 , " The Red Angel " , but behind the scenery drama mean that he was assigned the premature sequence instead .
Thetragic portion of Airiam inDiscoveryis care sensitively by Frakes , who work the decision to shoot her final scene with Burnham through slimly obscured air lock window , drawing a comparison with the decease of Captain Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) inStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khan . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , episode 10 , " Project Daedalus " is one of the standout episodes of the show , let alone the season , and much of this is down to Frakes ' atmospheric direction . It was such a polar episode that foreknowledge of Airiam ’s death became a cardinal scene ofDiscoveryseason 5 , instalment 4 , " Face the Strange " .
1Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1, Episode 10, “Despite Yourself”
TNG’s Jonathan Frakes finally gets to visit the Mirror Universe.
Star Trek : Discovery , time of year 1 , episode 10 , " Despite Yourself " was Jonathan Frakes ' first sequence of aTrekshow for two decennary , and he brings a great batch of experience and new influences to bear . In particular , the combat conniption between Captains Burnham and Connor inside the turbolift was a thrilling display of how Frakes land forward-looking motion picture and telly techniques to the fledglingStar Trekshow . It was effectivelyStar Trek ’s version of the lift scene fromCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , and so Frakes decide to film it with five cameras positioned around the turbolift lot .
Paul Stamets actor Anthony Rapp reflect inStar Trek Magazine military issue 192that " For [ Jonathan Frakes ] to total back , and be part of our interlingual rendition ofStar Trekwas meaningful . "
Frakes also had a camera operator step inside the turbolift , which add to the cramped , tense feel of the battle conniption between Burnham and Connor . Outside the telling legal action aspect , actress Mary Chieffo was full of praise for Jonathan Frakes for how he pushed her and Shazad Latif to go further in the conniption between Ly’Rell and Ash / Voq , to wring as much emotion as potential out of their encounter . " Despite Yourself " was a bravura return to theStar Trekfranchise for Jonathan Frakes , and it ’s no surprisal that theStar Trek : Discoveryteam kept asking him back afterward .
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Star Trek : Discovery is an entree in the legendary Sci - Fi franchise , place ten years before the original Star Trek serial publication events . The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham , assigned to the USS Discovery , where the crew essay to prevent a Klingon war while go through the vast range of space .
