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What do you like and dislike about Star Trek Discovery? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by YoBuckStopsHere to c/startrek

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Without a doubt, STD is the most controversial series in the franchise. What do you like about the series as a whole? What do you dislike about the series as a whole?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like Saru. I like the show's aesthetic. That's about where it ends. May as well do the dislikes as bullet points for readability.

The tie-in of Michael being Spock's never-before-mentioned adopted sibling just feels like bad fanfiction.
Most of the crew is so neglected that I didn't even know their names in Season 2. This came to a head when in one episode they were going to kill a bridge character and had to spend 20 minutes at the beginning of the episode highlighting her life so that when they did kill her, the audience would actually care.
I dislike the constantly very high stakes. The series feels like an extremely long action film.
Trill lore changes
Season 1 Klingon design choices. Besides the hair thing, I also think a lot could have been done to flesh out the culture and highlight differences between the various houses' traditions besides basically assigning them colour differences.

I'm sure there was a lot more that bothered me, but it's been so long since I stopped caring enough to watch that I've probably forgotten.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 2 points 1 year ago

I hate watched this last season. I just don't care what happens to that crew, which is a first for Star Trek. I'm hoping for a Newhart ending and the whole series is a dream Spock is having.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think your opinion relfects mine the most so I just piggyback on your comment.

Maybe I'd go one step further with your second point that specifically giving Michael Burnham the spotlight 95% of the time has been a bad decision. On the hand the series relies on all of the crew, on the other hand it is almost always Michael who is involved in finding the solution or making the decision.