I find Zack’s reviews to be realistic and honest about the highs, lows and potentials of a show that can bite off more than it can chew. For therapeutic reviews check out iO9.

Well, miserable goddamn hack writer Alex Kurtzman’s now the showrunner for one.

Discovery? I dunno, lack of character development, bad editing, bad direction, bad science, unnecessary and easy to see coming plot twists, empty fanservice in some places while at the same time ditching big chunks of canon, etc.

Different times. Running concurrently with TNG and then Voyager allowed DS9 to exist in a world where the major Federation ideals were represented in full elsewhere. This gave DS9 a chance to peak into the shadows and explore the edges of those ideals, specifically in the situation of a long drawn-out war. It earned…

Perhaps it’s the show’s obvious shame and self-loathing at all the things that people like about Star Trek? That’s what it is for me.

I can only speak for myself. It’s not that I’m rooting against the show. Nobody wants to see a good new Star Trek show more than I do. But I find Discovery to be so incredibly disappointing that I can’t bring myself to say anything positive about it. Star Trek should be the easiest show in the world to make. There’s…

No! Damn it, no more time travel.

I like how magical realms like these let people shoot magic fire out of their four hands at three headed chimeras or whatever, but fae Black people hailing from frozen wastelands who don’t know what spears are is probably too god damned farfetched for them

This seems like a Damned if you, damned if you don’t kind of situation. I’m happy they published the adventure, even if they stumbled. They tried, which is a weird thing I have come to appreciate from white people around me as a PoC. It’s awkward sometimes, but I appreciate they try to include me and be mindful of me…