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Speaking with TV Line, Elizabeth Henstridge stated the 100th episode features numerous, “gorgeous Easter Eggs” for longtime fans of the series.

Didja read those articles? Did the DIS Klingon seem “aesthete” to you? Did they seem to be “more than thugs”?

It isn’t. Characters on the show scapegoated her, since her attempted mutiny coincided with the start of the war, and folks who don’t pay attention to detail thoughtlessly repeat that false assertion.

Fuller was fired a year before the show aired and months before production really began. (He left in October 2016 and Isaacs was cast in April 2017.) There’s no way his episodes episodes weren’t heavily rewritten in the intervening five or six months, tweaked by the myriad producers, story editors, and staff writers.

Agreed. Knowing what she did at the time, her logic in taking the first shot had some merit. The fact that she never actually executed the plan makes it hard for me to see how people can say she started the war

Yeah, one of the key problems with Discovery’s early running is that the central fact of its central characters’ life doesn’t make any sense.

I never understood that either. The Klingons very clearly started the war.

There’s Michael Burnham, an officer stripped of her rank for making an awful error in judgment that flung the Federation into a bloody war.

“and is now critiquing it for staying too true to Federation ideals”

Eh, you are of course welcome to disagree with the review (and I’m glad you enjoyed the season), but I think it’s perfectly logical to say ‘You shouldn’t have done that, but if you were going to do it, you should have done it right.’ I.e., the reviews are positing that sticking with Star Trek ideals from the get-go

It would explain a great many things.

It’s what we’ve feared all along - this is the mirror universe...

I’d prefer to not have shows reviewed by people who clearly hate the show.

Counterpoints:

To each their own. Personally, I loved it. Does it give Lorca’s behaviour a cop out? Probably. Did they hang a lantern on the twist? Absolutely not.

It is a pretty accurate description of the author’s sentiments, though.

It’s like reading reviews of the Star Wars movies.

“Sorry to break your head canon” should be shown on screen before everything now.

I read a couple of different recaps of Discovery each week, and I find that they say a lot more about the particular reviewer and what he or she expects STAR TREK to be than about the particular show.

Point of parliamentary procedure: