I think part of it is that the original idea of Discovery was that it would be an anthology series, each season focusing on a different ship/crew/era - instead, having a single ship that travels across these settings was what it ended up being. The first season was proposed as being before TOS (and so it focused on…

God, I am so wholesomely envious of that massive nerd. First he gets Billy Ray Cyrus to guest on his massive track because he’s a Hannah Montana fan, and now he gets Michael J. Fox to do a cameo in his video just because he’s a Back to the Future (and The Santa Clause?) fan. He is living the dream...

Seriously, A History of Magic and Quiddich Through the Ages would’ve made killer movie titles, even if they were still part of the Grindelwald plot.

Yeah, I am totally fine with Mirror Georgiou gaining some semblance of redemption, but it’s gotta have weight behind it or it’s meaningless. And it doesn’t feel like they want to put in the time or effort to earn it, they just want to have Michelle Yeoh give snarky looks to the camera and mildly shock someone with an…

Michelle Yeoh is indeed a treasure but frankly I wish that they had ditched Mirror Georgiou at the end of last season. I just don’t like how she interacts with the crew, her presence is being normalized in a way that I don’t think it should. Like, this dinner - all I could think about was how she loved eating Kelpians…

Agreed... the show is at it’s best when it’s no more complicated than: Doctor lands here, something goes wrong, Doctor fixes, Doctor leaves.

This is just more proof that Davies was a better show-runner than Moffat.

Sally Sparrow, best companion that never was.

Haha. Got it. I was actually just trying to confirm you were an attorney... aren’t we all pedantic?

Because JJ is the Marshalls knockoff chair originally designed by Spielberg and Lucas.

Even the prequels started to cheat on travel time through hyperspace. Just how far is Mustafar from Coruscant? Seemed like Palpatine got there pretty quickly after sensing Vader was in trouble. But yes, the sequels made hyperspace instantaneous, especially Rise of Skywalker. Sure, Poe, Chewie, and Finn are playing…

Yeah this was a big problem in the sequels for sure, but I felt like it got worse over time? TFA it was hard to tell how far they were traveling, and so I think I just assumed time was passing or that these locations were somewhat close together. But Rise explicitly stated a time limit of 16 hours that they had and…

Yep. Honestly even the fact that the STD apologists/fans think this is what Trek should be is depressing. They refuse to absorb the philosophy and intent of Trek and think that completely subverting it makes good television. If you transplanted OST philosophy into a The Expanse sequel, that takes place a hundred years…

1) But he never made that show. It was just an idea.
And even in Andromeda the empire failed due to an attack, and there were centers that tried to be good and hold onto civilization, with the center of that alliance still being good and noble. It didn’t turn on itself and succumb to base desires.

Reading this recap makes me so glad I stopped watching the show. Because it basically spits on the very concept of Star Trek.
Hear me out...

Sure, but I’m obviously talking about the general situation. The Federation in TOS and TNG (and indeed in DS9 and VOY) wasn’t in shambles, there wasn’t despair left and right, etc. Star Trek of yore was utopian positive sci fi that used metaphors to tell interesting stories about calm, meticulous professionals working…

I’m beating a dead horse at this point, but what a shame that everything on this show is so bleak and depressing. They travel 930 years in the future, and guess what, everyone is mean and selfish.

Except Gargoyles and Dino-Riders. Bring back, pleeeeese.

I think there’s always room for a new spin on an old property. Just look at what different productions have done with Shakespeare’s plays.

In fact, WE were talking about your logical mindlessness regarding “if it were dangerous we’d know by now hurhurhur.”