Hello Flavio!
05 Jun 24 21:32, you wrote to all:
FB> ... any thoughts?
I have a love/hate relationship with it. Overall I enjoyed the series, but
lots of things made me sad, or just irritated me.
Star Trek has always taken chances with stuff that's not quite "scientific".
Beings like the Q have been around since the very beginning, The "galactic
barrier", etc. Roddenberry tried to squeeze in "The crew meets God" on
multiple occasions and was rebuffed (which was a good thing, look how Star Trek
V turned out). The spore drive though just kind of hurt my brain. Eventually I
came to accept it, but it felt like more fantasy than sci-fi. Mushrooms are
fascinating and there's a lot we still don't know about them, but believing
there's an entire network of mycelium throughout the galaxy? eh...
Discovery focused more on problem solving via emotional intelligence vs logic &
experience. I guess it's a valid way of doing things, and they seemed to
challenge it a bit when they brought Rayner in on the last season, but trying
convey and bring viewers along for that emotional journey each and every episode
was a little exhausting.
I feel like Detmer, Owosekun and Zora all got done dirty. I know the actors had
scheduling conflicts during season 5, and that's why they weren't around in the
second half, but I really wanted to get to know them as characters. Maybe we
would have if we got a season 6, but they had a full 4 1/2 other seasons to do
that. Season 6 supposedly would have told a much longer story leading up to
what happened in the Short Trek "Calypso", instead of the tacked-on ending we
got in the final episode. I'm guessing that was a huge part of the "reshoots"
that were done after it was announced Season 5 would be the last.
All in all, Discovery was just "OK" for Star Trek. I'm incredibly happy that it
launched an entirely new era. It directly spawned "Strange New Worlds" which is
fantastic, the upcoming Starfleet Academy series that will give us more Tilly
(Mary Wiseman is amazing), and the Section 13 movie with Michelle Yeoh that I'm
really looking forward to.
What I'd really want to see though is an entire series on Jett Reno. Tig
Notaro's dry humor and razor sharp wit put me in my happy place. Fingers crossed
that she moves to yet another career as a teacher at Starfleet Academy :)
Mike
... Hint for Mom: Make goofy faces
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