I have watched about three episodes of Star Trek Discovery. I don’t have any passion for this show. I had mixed feelings going in but its worse than I feared. Not fun and heavily pilfered from a variety of successful sci -fi franchises (NONE of which were Star Trek). They even say “It’s not you, it’s me.” just like in Seinfield! Its harder to watch than the worst episode of Deep Space 9.
Its boring predictable and derivative. Because I have PTSD Im going to try to write my way to a place where I can forget the trauma and sleep. Yeah, its THAT bad.
At this point I must trash JJ Abrams greedy merchandise oriented creative decisions he selfishly made in his time at the Helm of the Final Frontier. We split the timeline so we wouldnt have to revenue share toys and this is what we’re left with. The implications of his Star Trek franchise, which he’s now abandoned to ruin Star Wars, throws all shows out of cannon except PREQUELS of the original 1967 series. In other words, Enterprise and this. I guess the idea of a traditional Star Trek show was never considered. Certainly the writers are a bit handcuffed.
That said they did a shitty job. No respect for the fans or the material was shown. More of the Abrams era “Lets fix that awful Star Trek by killing its charms” approach. Its not really an excuse. This is still Star Trek and big budget and good script could have come together, because things like the sets are a triumph most of the time. No such luck. They failed deliver a show you would want to watch or any likable characters for that matter. The lead is a Human female Reverse Spock who grew up on Vulcan. And that’s not even the worst or laziest part.
What went wrong? Apparently everything but mostly, in no real order, it’s that the shows few attempts at humor fail miserably. Then the shows tone is self important and overly slick. All CGI special effects stops have been pulled out. You might be dazzled by a near future holographic subspace conference calls and a huge, even Bigly space battle, but you wont have any fun or crack a smile as the show just sort of happens.
Also lacking- Trek compassion.Its stark how little life seems worth to the Federation. We see characters in jeopardy, like a shuttle pilot who i guess dies for no reason except the dialog was particularly cumbersome and bad for the preceding 5 minutes. You would expect the loss of any Star Fleet officer to deserve at least a remark, like how these awful people werent worth the loss, or that she had been recovered no thanks to them. The show lacks HUMANITY. In a universe of aliens its rudderless.
Heres an example of how terrible it is- theres an episode called “The Butcher’s Knoefe Cares Not for The Lambs Cry. Think about that!
By episode 2 we are subjected to some kind of screaming conference call (via holograms) between some pretty badly designed Klingon’s, complete with a flashback to a troubled Klingon childhood out of Blade Runner 2049. It doesnt work at all. In THIS Star Trek show Klingons either yell or deliver lines (in Klingon) with Shakespearian stage kind of acting to I guess make the sheer drivel they’re saying seem important? Wait til you get to their enormous flag ship for a discussion of repairs and food! What a treat!
Some truly unfamiliar and badly designed Klingons
It limps along depending on special effects and gets hamstrung by some of the worst Techno-Babble ever seen on the Final Frontier. Its about as bad as Voyager. Even worse it takes itself very seriously while showing that the writers did only cursory research into Trek Lore.
The plot revolves mostly around an emerging technology that we pretty much can foresee is sort of wrong, but hey, we got Klingons! So we’ll focus on the tension between the Scientific Explorers and the more military people in Star Fleet I guess. I’m on episode 5. Its not gotten any better or developed any sort of energy. This is where the show goes most wrong and borrows heavily from Event Horizon, which was an ok movie but TERRIBLE Star Trek!
Instead of any kind of good or cohesive story its a freakish trip through other successful sci-fi franchises like an awful Aliens Send Up in episode 3.
The show has no feel of Trek at all. Its not as good as even Babylon 5. The ship is even kind of boring looking with a better development story than result. Maybe the retasked Horta-like creature they keep in bondage is supposed to be a bone thrown to the real fans? Because its a lot like a creature from a GOOD trek show? Ok but it actually looks pretty bad when we get a good look at it, and is completely irrelevant, propping up their bad technical experiment story. This subplot just hangs around to justify the engineer characters reluctance to be a military weapons developer.
I cant blame any actors for lurching and scenery chewing through this mess. I mean, William Shatners pure bluster DOES float a few episodes, so who could blame anyone for tucking in and going with it.
Oh yeah and Vulcan Logic has become somehow like The Force, Because this is an amalgam of other successful NON STAR TREK Franchises! And they can still put on a pretty overwhelmingly boring but sort of serious delivery of their outright silly scientific sub plot.
I hope they dont try to keep this idea going. Its UnWorthy.
some overly Self Important official art
What does Star Trek Discovery deliver? Ok the special effects are awesome. They have some pretty well made aliens among the terribly done Klingons. If you were one hated Enterprise for its title sequence hve no fear, the title sequence might be the best thing in this wreck.
What they basically confess is a ship inspired by Star Wars
Its Unimaginative, its no fun and it depends on special effects. Some plot devices are plain bad, Beaming from deck to deck. A retinal scanner that only scans, I guess eye fluid? It was back in Blade Runner territory on that one.
Boring, disappointing and action packed this stupid show is should be called Star Trek Disappointment. They need everyone to die in a final episode to wash Trek clean. Watch The Orville, its closer to Star Trek than this mess!
Im now up to episode 5 and the heavy handedness is of toxic proportions.
Do Not Engage with this garbage!
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