# Star Trek Discovery season 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [April 4, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835 "2024-04-04T21:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/41 "2024-05-30T12:00:14Z")
I finished S3. Is either remaining season better than the other (given an understanding of the show’s “style” as present in all). It seems to me like they made this specific Trek in an attempt to appeal to some specific demographics, what they stereotyped those demographics to want anyway. Not sure exactly which ones, but I think I’d be insulted if I was the target? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/42 "2024-05-30T12:14:01Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I finished S3. Is either remaining season better than the other (given an understanding of the show’s “style” as present in all). I think they are more or less equally more of the same. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/43 "2024-05-30T13:08:29Z")
Finished the finale. _So_ much whispering. _So_ much sentimentality. _So_ much string music. It takes itself so, _so_ seriously in _such_ a syrupy way. Remember how _All Good Things_, after all the action, tacked on a card game among friends to give the sentimental send-off? Well, for _Discovery_ after the action ended they tacked on a full half hour of sentimental wind-down. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/44 "2024-05-30T13:10:59Z")
Interesting to hear the phrase ‘liminal space’ for the 2nd time in a few days. Doctor Who used it on Saturday too. Coincidence? Or is it from some SciFi writers workshop? Portal to a near infinite space containing other worlds? I so wanted the progenitor to announce her name as Slartibartfast. The last 10 minutes of this episode was so glurgy I now need to go and get tested for diabetes. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/45 "2024-05-30T13:24:16Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Interesting to hear the phrase ‘liminal space’ for the 2nd time in a few days. Doctor Who used it on Saturday too. Coincidence? Or is it from some SciFi writers workshop? Seems to be a term only popular since 2019 and especially 2022. About the right timeline to be filtering through writer’s rooms. > **[Liminal space (aesthetic)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_space_(aesthetic))** > > In Internet aesthetics, liminal spaces are empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition, pertaining to the concept of liminality. > Research from the Journal of Environmental Psychology has indicated that liminal spaces may appear eerie or strange because they fall into an uncanny valley of architecture and physical places. An article from Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture has attributed this eeriness to famil... (The term is also used in the new series _Dark Matter_.) > **[The Moment When Apple TV+'s 'Dark Matter' Lost the Plot](https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/the-moment-when-apple-tvs-dark-matter-lost-the-plot.php)** > > \* ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/46 "2024-05-30T15:02:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (The term is also used in the new series _Dark Matter_.) I bailed on that after the first 2 episodes. Did it get any better? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/47 "2024-05-30T15:22:35Z")
It isn’t _Star Trek Discovery_ bad but it isn’t great either. The whole premise of people imagining an endless hallway of doors is silly (as mentioned in the article I linked). The show is sort of _Sliders_ crossed with _Black Mirror_. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/48 "2024-05-31T00:52:20Z")
So - I usually try to find something good to say… I failed this time - It’s progenitors all the way down. They could have avoided alot of this season by tossing the first clue out the airlock. Was somewhat nice for that call back. “This is something I have to do on my own…” - the fuck it is. I was happy to see they made a use out of some second hand shuttles from the Orville. Not one denoument for the rest of the crew past Saru’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/49 "2024-05-31T01:06:44Z")
I’m enjoying it, but not as much as I’d hoped I would since the book it’s based on is one of my favorite recent reads. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/50 "2024-06-20T04:42:06Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > (The term is also used in the new series _Dark Matter_.) > > I bailed on that after the first 2 episodes. Did it get any better? The last two or three episodes have gotten better and the most recent one (episode 8) was really good. Extreme spoilers: not only has Jason 1 got back to his home timeline to recover his family, but at least _five_ Jason 1s have got back to his home timeline to recover his family. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/51 "2024-06-23T14:28:00Z")
I skipped all of season four so there is lots I could have missed, but did they ever explain, even as an aside, what happened to the Klingons in the future? Or why the crew never even puzzled about it? FWIW I see I am the exception in finding the farther future coda okay. It closed the book on a spin off from it. A bit odd of who was not there in here remembrance though? And Zora is going to be left alone? That seems … cruel for a show all about love and the power of connection. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/52 "2024-06-24T04:20:24Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I skipped all of season four so there is lots I could have missed, but did they ever explain, even as an aside, what happened to the Klingons in the future? I don’t think it ever came up. Today is a good day to get Chuck Cunningham’d. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835/53 "2024-06-24T10:46:24Z")
Yeah Klingons never came up in the 32nd Century. I don’t think we even saw one in the background. The thing about Zora is they were hamstrung by the Short Trek film Calypso. Instead of ignoring it they had to use the coda to set it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-5/999835.md?page=2)