Star Trek Discovery premieres tonight

[TheELF]

I liked it well enough.
I like all Star treks , even DS9.

Using the pizza vs sex analogy, I'll interchange it here.

Star trek series are a lot like sex.
When it's good, it's very, very good.
And when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

Hmmmm, but this (std, ironically) isn't even sex,
it's like the demolition man version of sex where people after years of sex having gone away made a VR version of whatever they remembered about it and whatever emotions they wanted people to have during it.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Good one!

 

[FelixDeCat]

Cancelled. Hurray!

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ST Discovery (aka ST Michael Burhnam) had a lot of chances to be great. Some of the stories were novel and exiting and kept you on edge waiting for the next episode. I enjoyed watching overall so long as I fast forward past the cringey parts.

Unfortunately the show focused way too much on Michael Burnham. She was the answer to every problem, the plot twist in every episode, the salt and pepper to every recipe and even the space between molecules. So predictable.

Ive been a lifelong Star Trek fan, have all the old the seasons of TNG, DS9 (my favorite), Voyager and Enterprise on my home computer and actually randomly watch one almost daily.

Whereas the answer to most problems on Voyager was simply to reverse shield polarity or use an inverse tachyon beam, Discovery's answer was to locate MB and ask her "what do we do now?" to which she would reply "lets time travel to yesterday to the center of the galaxy, right after I change out of this prison jumpsuit and take command".

It could have been better had they not relied on her so much to 'save the day' as if the others were simply living in her world and a not really a big part of it. In the older shows almost every character had a chance to be the hero even support characters like Rom in DS9. From lowly sidekick to brother Quark be eventually became Grand Nagus of an unfortuanely newer more liberal version of the Ferengi Empire.

Strange New Worlds might have a chance.

 

[crashtech]

I liked the SNW musical much more than I thought I would. It was a fun one-off, but I wouldn't want to see a musical episode every season.

When they first started singing I thought I was going to hate it, but somehow it got me to buy into it. So much so that several months later I watched it again because it was hilarious and entertaining. But, yeah, no more of those please, it should stand alone.

 

[K1052]

Well I watched it. What a pile of predictable overwrought clunky garbage. I had to ask how much longer it was going to run twice during it because it felt interminable.

I swear to the Blessed Exchequer that if I ever hear the words "connection" or "let's fly" again it will be too soon.

 

[K1052]

When they first started singing I thought I was going to hate it, but somehow it got me to buy into it. So much so that several months later I watched it again because it was hilarious and entertaining. But, yeah, no more of those please, it should stand alone.

You can sprinkle in fun and off the wall episodes every once in a while. TNG, DS9, and VOY certainly did and I've grown to appreciate them. Bride of Chaotica is now hilarious as is the dark version of Voyager in Living Witness where everyone is having tons of fun with it.