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?
I think they are more or less equally more of the same.
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.
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.
Seems to be a term only popular since 2019 and especially 2022. About the right timeline to be filtering through writer’s rooms.
(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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t think it ever came up.
Today is a good day to get Chuck Cunningham’d.
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.