Star Trek

I don’t dislike it, I actually truly enjoyed the first two and half seasons, even thought it is way too centred on Michael; I do miss the synergy with the rest of the crew, that we find in the other series.

About Michael Burnham—yes, she’s highly conflicted emotionally, going batshit Vulcan logic enforcer for a moment then flipping into full emo mode the next. But then again, that fits perfectly with the persona, and she is a wonderful actress to be able to play this with such finesse and subtleness. I get that some may not see or understand the level of acting at play, or it may resonate a bit too much to others, but damn, I personally find Sonequa Martin-Green is amazing in her acting.

What stretch it a bit too much was how fast they were able to get back into service 900 years in the future. But, I’ll close my eyes on this, as it was somehow needed for the plot.

But what truly lost me, are:

• The true reason of The Burn, being the silliest thing possible;

• That crazy turbolift fight, with the pod literally floating through immense football fields of empty space—inside the Discovery?!??

• The fact that the future looks so boringly "sanitized". And, the tech isn’t that advanced in many points. It’s 900 years forward dammit. Especially with from when they left. Yet it feels like maybe only 200-300 years after Picard, not 600-700 years later, aside for the personal transporters maybe.

My biggest disappointment is that they had a huge chance to show so many potential new worlds, freedom from fixed canon, to show how it changed, with how each world evolved independently. What we briefly glimpsed as she just arrived in the future. But it only lasted for one or two episodes.

I want to see wonders, I want to see exotic worlds, with lustful vegetation and animals, just like they did with the Klingons, making them truly alien. I want to be swooped in and marvelled like the kid I used to be. The fourth season brought back a little of that, with the 10C at the end. But barely.