I am actually starting to dislike it less and less...and maybe even like it. Certainly episodes 3-6 are far better than the horrible episodes 1-2.
I do share some of Kevin’s concerns. It is not clear to my why it was important to position Discovery so shortly before TOS in what I understand to be the prime timeline. They could have made it 10 years after, created a new alien race to be the main antagonist, and done most of what they seem to be doing. I guess we have to trust that they are planning on providing some link-up with Spock back story, and with Klingon back story, that they think will make sense (though for now it seems every step in that direction is mostly undermining things already established in TOS universe prime). We have already seen enough tech in Discovery not available to Kirk’s era (and some of which was later available to Picard) that it is almost inevitable that at some point the world of Discovery has to be some kind of cul de sac, in which Star Fleet orders some kind of embargo on everything about Discovery and forces the next generation of star ships to evolve on their own without benefit of the tech Discovery had. While I at this point do not like the discontinuities in the tech, I also do not like the emphasis on the mystical, religious and quasi-magical elements of both Vulcan and Klingon culture in Discovery, that moves this show in my view closer to fantasy than sci-fi. These elements were not unknown in TOS or TNG, but they were not so central. For my, Roddenberry Star Trek is always about the relationship (sometimes conflicted) between humanity and science, sometimes often framed as emotion or intuition and rationality or logic. Vulcan mysticism was used occasionally as an example of one way of reconciling those tensions - and as periodic plot rescuing devices. But Discovery seems to want to make these elements a core part of what is going on. That is not my Star Trek Jam. I do really dig Sonequa Martin, and several others of the cast are great. I have not yet found any other use for the horrid CBS app, though there are a few nice films I have already seen but might watch again. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I cancelled my month-long free pass to CBS All Access after week three or > four. Discovery isn't worth paying for. The effects are good, and there are > some decent actors in it, but it isn't good sci-fi, and it surely isn't > good Trek. > > Can the next Star Trek NOT be a prequel or a reboot? Please? I've said > before that it is so much easier to write an origin story than to come up > with an original idea that advances the "universe." Discovery fails even as > an origin story, since -- unlike Star Trek: Enterprise -- there are no ties > to what is to come. We now have not one but two different Kirks, Spocks, > and McCoys, and Discovery has nothing to do with the build-up to either of > them. > > I'd have preferred Axanar. > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
