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Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)

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Despite Star Trek: Discovery's critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn't pulling the numbers to make it a financially viable intellectual property.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not angry, just isn't star trek to me. In my mind star trek, for each episode has: an external threat or issue the crew has to overcome and an internal conflict or issue to overcome. Neither will have any obvious solution at the start and are often very difficult topics or philosophical in nature. The crew then solves these creatively and reflect on their situation a little. Very seldom are there multi-episode story archs, but even those fairly closely follow that formula.

I was excited at first because the Klingon wars with modern CG sounded like fun. But star trek isn't about that in the end. Even when war is at the forefront of a story in there, it is still often more about resolving it rather than indulging in it.

Not to mention (but this is an issue of a lot of modern SciFi) why in the world is everything so darn dark in that show? Why is everything inside the ships so black and shiny? Don't like that design at all. Difficult to watch and just far too depressing. Star Trek is hopeful, not doom and gloom to me. It is about the best of humanity, even when they struggle.

[–] Parellius 7 points 10 months ago

The dark thing was a major turn off for me too. It just didn't FEEL like Star Trek (even before getting more into the story lines themselves). I started watching The Orville around the same time and actually continued watching that despite a pretty rocky start because they nailed the Star Trek feel.

[–] SirSamuel 1 points 10 months ago

Respect. I do like that they tried new things, and didn't "ruin" existing characters in the process. And sometimes a show doesn't click and your time is better spent elsewhere. That's The Office for me. Nothing wrong with it, just not my cuppa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@AlteredStateBlob you don’t get any feel for the ship because you don’t see it.