I have been a long time watcher of Star Trek, and I feel the quality of the writing has severely decreased for specific shows.

(God I love this place)

@VoqSlashBurnham, I think you’ve got your (1) and (2) the wrong way ‘round. Burnham’s actions in the pilot start a whole damn war, are driven by fear, anger and trauma she cannot control, and see her violate every oath she’s taken as a member of Starfleet and all sense of personal loyalty she has to anyone. That’s not…

The word is “had”.

And how many Trek episodes have you authored, o superior judge of other people’s criticism of badly written episodes?

She has a couple of lines. And plots courses to starbases.
So......no.

Actually, no.
I watched the first episode of Discovery, disliked it, but was at least compelled to keep watching (heck, even though the show is seriously sub-par I’m still on board). I watched the first episode of the Orville and have no interest in seeing any more, despite the good noises about it among some Trek…

Ermm....wait. The Discovery did 133 jumps to get the full effect of the sensors, so the one that got them lost would be #134.

No way, Narns have a sense of humour.

I’m not the one being paid to write for Discovery and turning out this pablum.

First all, it feels good to have a place to vent about Discovery. So my thanks to the A.V. Club, Zack and everyone here also voicing their opinion on the show.
Secondly....how the heck did Saru make it through the Academy? If he is so absolutely, constantly terrified that he would lose control so utterly, there’s no…

Yep, sounds about right. Tyler and Burnham were just setting up what the initial conflict in the episode would be, for the benefit of the audience.

Yeah, it’s quite confusing. I’m concerned that they’re setting up all these complicated strands that they intend to pull together, but they’re getting so invested in keeping us uncertain that when they spring the trap it’ll just be a mess.

The Klingon plot is already making very little sense.
-“I mysteriously disappeared and now return suddenly and ask to be accepted in your army.”
-“Very well, you may then interrogate my most valuable prisoner. Alone.”
-“I seem to have allowed your most valuable prisoner to temporarily overpower me and attempt to escape,…

And apparently got mind-wiped at some point inbetween then and now.

So now instead of “jumping the shark” we’ve got “transporting the space whale”, even if it doesn’t roll of the tongue as easily.
It’s interesting how the finale of this episode perfectly sums up Zack’s criticism (echoed by a fair few folks in the comments) from the previous episode. Everything we’ve seen so far in Disco…

And it does sound a little Klingon.....

Well, it looks like all the good writers have fled to the Delta Quadrant, and we’re left with the also-rans.
Last episode, Burnham launches the tardigrade into space (yeah! well done!), with no clear indication on her having informed anyone else of this decision. Hands up anyone who didn’t expect Lorca to ask her what…

Transporter malfuntion episode, anyone?

(Most) Slow, talky, overly moralistic Star Trek is, let’s put a fine point on it, bad. It’s always been bad.

Good point. Hadn’t thought of it that way, because it seemed like a technical problem as well- even rehydrating the tardigrade might not have worked, or its unstable state could end up in another USS Glenn incident. The episode didn’t really explore that, going for the “surprise!” reveal of what he did rather than his…