It’s funny, if you go back to the beginning, there’s so much promise in Voyager’s premise - I liked the final product, but I would have LOVED to see it if they had stuck with the Maquis/Starfleet conflict throughout and have it actually feel like a truly different area of space instead of just making it TNG-lite.

My favorite part of Madame Web is when she eats all the spiders and says “It’s Morbin’ Time”

Yeah, pretty much every major 32nd century advancement Discovery came up with seemed specifically designed by the writers to shoot themselves in the foot and remove all tension moving forward.

The site-to-site transporters, and literally being able to transport guns into (and out of) people’s hands with pinpoint…

The “transport everywhere instead of just walking” is definitely a choice that I get as an obvious extrapolation of the tech, but I don’t like it.

Exactly. Part of the problem with the serialized style of storytelling that Disco invested in is that we’re not actually left with a setting that is exactly brimming with stories. So, there’s what, the remnants of the Emerald Chain and the Breen? What else is going on in the quadrant that’s interesting and worth…

What are the chances that because this show is going to star young people that the writers use that as an excuse for them to use even more 21st Century idioms?

This will probably be one ST show I wouldn’t be watching unless it gets stellar reviews. I’ve got zero enthusiasm for it. I’ve been sort of hate watching ST: Disco. I don’t feel like doing that again.

what are the chances that this will be better writing-wise than the show it’s spinning off of?

Eh. Fine. Just can we please have a little less saccharin over-encouragement for new recruits/ensigns? It was really hard to watch those ‘You can do it. You did such a great job. I’m so proud of you.’ scenes in this season of discovery.

This show started as garbage and ended as bad, which I suppose is an improvement

The finale perfectly encapsulates why the Progenitor story should have been left alone. In the TNG episode the various factions believed that what they would find would be a thing, a weapon, a source of power, whatever. But what they found was an idea, a philosophical truth: we are all more alike than even we realize…

Your comment is better than the article.

So to conclude, Star Trek Discovery was a bad show that never achieved its potential because of consistently terrible writing, incoherent plotting and weak characterization. It never really got better it just ran along the bottom going from mediocre to outright terrible, A real dud of a show that is pretty inessential…

I agree that the writing hasn’t been good, but on a show that’s all in on serialized storytelling if you have bad writing it infects the whole season. If you have at least some portion of the episodes dedicated to telling individual, episodic stories then there’s at least a chance that you’ll get a really great…

Terrible writing and some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen. B-movie acting. It’s insane.

This shows writing feels so lazy even after all these years.

I heard someone come up with the idea that every title the show has gone through will actually the titles for the episodes. I’ve not seen whether they’ve been officially announced yet, so don’t know if it’s been debunked, but I quite like that idea. It’s bonkers, but in keeping at least.

I’ll shoot my shot--Agatha will be quietly cancelled.

BSG is very much in the same camp as LOST and Game of Thrones for me- it had me obsessed and waiting on baited breath for the next episode... only to cock up the ending so bad that they killed any desire I’ve ever had to revisit the series. Such a shame too, because the miniseries and 33 were so strong; Should have…

With Adama bitterly trickling soil through his fingers - “Earth”? I wish it had ended there too. Instead we got...that whole second half of the season...