1) How do you know he’s talking about the Vulcans? I thought he was talking about the Klingons. 2) You say it’s not a valid criticism but you don’t say why. That’s not a valid criticism. 3) Just because he only mentioned two does mean that that’s all he has. He may have ‘a lot’ more but didn’t list them.

And then there’s that whole canon thing that they flushed down the tubes.

You weren’t only disagreeing with me. You knew exactly what I was talking about, and you decided to get snarky just because you could.

1) Klingons. Stop trolling.

Tyler, who turned out to be evil. Stamets, who kept secrets and was an a-hole to everyone. Admiral Cornwell, who was less evil and more borderline incompetent. LT Landry, who tried to torture a new life form and let her security officers jump Burnham. And Burnham, who when we first meet her, mutinied and started a war…

There are a lot of reasons to hate Discovery, but serialization isn’t one of them.

I found that most of my problems with Discovery went away when I decided I wasn’t watching Star Trek anymore, but rather some new, unknown sci-fi franchise. Instead of Star Trek it becomes Stellar Journey. Klingons become Krugs, and so on. Ship being called Discovery is fine, because it’s already not Enterprise.

No, the io9 just wants to shit on Star Trek Discovery any chance they can get for page clicks so they are reporting on a controversy they invented.

On-demand works much better for serial because you can start and stop at any time, and it doesn’t matter if you miss a week without a DVR.

Was serialization really that controversial, compared to all the other problems STD had/has?

Right on.

What was responsible for the lousy writing though?

As it turns out, déjà vu didn’t seem to bestow the ability to predict the future.

‘As it turns out, déjà vu didn’t seem to bestow the ability to predict the future.’

The game does not have black people. It is not only filled with white people. Those two things are not the same.

I thought the evidence of the prevalence of actual black skinned people in the region was up for debate. But honestly the game already has eurasian people (cumans/tartars) which actually has a historical significance in the region with invasion of the mongols (hence why theyre the games villains - as far as i know,…

Wow insane right!? It would be like making a game where you walk the streets of Nazi Germany and not including at least one openly gay black Jewish acapella group performing.

I really, really doubt that feudal japan had more diversity that eastern europe.
Japan was a very closed society, where it was VERY rare for someone not japanese to aspire to anything other than a servant. And this is in the time where the samurai were servants to the daimyos. Unless you are saying that diversity is…

Why does historical accuracy bother you that much?

Its a historical setting about the region around the devs homeland, whats questionable about doing their cultural heritage justice? Im looking forward to your opinion on the next histocial game set in feudal japan and how its full of asians (although japan probably had alot more diversity at that time than eastern…

I like interacting here on Kotaku, but this comes off as one of the more petty articles I’ve read. The man has conservative politics and he made a pretty good video game that is successful. This kind of snide disdain for what is obviously a labor of love is why games journalism isn’t taken seriously anymore.