Star Trek has always taken some liberties with things like consistent scale for the sake of spectacle. But Discovery has never spent enough time on the actual ship to really give the audience a sense of its size or layout.
(Not that it really matters much, since it’s they botched the design of the ship in the first…

I mean, at least in the Abrams movies that space was at least filled with machinery. Discovery seems to be mostly empty inside.

I mean it will certainly be interesting to see the show dig itself out of the particular hole Chibnall saddled it with when he completely rewrote the show’s mostly established history. But the whole tone of Doctor Who just seems off these days, Davies and Moffat had their flaws, but they mostly knew what their…

Yeah, and conversely Pryce would have been a better fit with the Greg Wise-Mountbatten. But Pryce has a bit more of a prominent resume these days, so it’s understandable, even if he just seems a little too soft to play Philip.
My guess is though that it Philip will continue to recede further in the background. This…

The way that storyline was just left open, makes me assume that there’s more there we’ll have to wait for.

I mean, if you’re making the show in Ontario why not capitalise on it? Just bring on Atom Egoyan and Guy Maddin on for guest parts too. 

It’s also I think a good thing for Discovery to slow down a bit and actually spend some time with its crew/characters. There’s no great, urgent, overarching mystery to be solved this season, more a series of breadcrumbs really, so the show would be wise to settle down and give some space to the bridge crew to grow…

Yeah, it seems like a weird attempt at creating some sort of connection to previous firsts in Star Trek, than something written organically.
If they hadn’t made a bit of a thing out of the two actors being on the show, it would have simply been nice to have a trans and an nb-person there without calling attention to it.

It’s not Star Wars without ‘rhyming’.

It was clearly meant as some kind of homage to Lucas’ rhyming structure of Star Wars to have another episode at the beginning of the season that features jabbering natives needing help with killing a big creature and then celebrating over a round object it produced.

it’s a bit of a choice to make both the non-binary and the transgender character Trill.

Yes to that one the one hand, but on the other hand, speaking as an expat who only sees their family in person every few years, Michael’s ‘I’m so estranged after not seeing you for a year’ came across as somewhat hyperbolic.

Yeah, and what’s wrong with good old fusion reactors?
I know it’s nitpicky, but they could have avoided it by just making the not-raiders from a surviving colony on Alpha Centauri.

lol I mean disinterested.

The way I see it Discovery suffers from writers whose influences are all a lot more shlocky than what Star Trek needs. So you get a show that just rushes from (emotional) climax to climax, without ever really developing anything of substance. If you’d ask the Discovery writers to do an episode like TNG’s The Drumhead…

What I wonder is if she was Bryan Fuller’s choice for the role, and how he saw her and the part.
Perhaps there was a version of Michael Burnham that would have worked better. For the most part I’ve found Green to be adequate in a mostly terribly written part. 

I’d give Martin-Green the benefit of the doubt, since she can only be as good as the material and the direction she gets.
What annoys me about Discovery is that it won’t just give the cast space to inhabit the characters, or let them be.

I mean that’s what you get when you take one writer’s concept for an anthology show, kick him off the project and then retool it with a bunch of other hacks, who are all so insecure about their comicbook-level writing, that they decided if they can’t do quality writing, they’ll do quantity writing. Everything in…

I mean technically Starfleet ships are powered by antimatter reactions, the dilithium is just what’s used to control that reaction.
But in the Kurtzman version of Star Trek those old rules don’t really apply anymore.

I mean Kurtzman is profoundly interested in things like worldbuilding, so dilithium crystals can be anything he wants.
The problem with Discovery is that it’s made by people who love Star Trek, but have no clue what makes Star Trek work.