Well, mostly agree on 😉
One positive I’ll grant it is that it functioned as a backdoor pilot to Strange New Worlds.
It’s my favourite season just for that.
Made me laugh-cry how the first two seasons of Discovery ended on a shot of the damned Enterprise!
I’m just so tired of all the time traveling bullshit.
When time travel is introduced, it tends to make the entire plot line pointless.
I also consider time travel a fantasy element, because our understanding of causality does not allow for time travel back in time.
Forward in time is most piratically done with cryo/stasis, “flying” into the future is simply bullshit.So IMO Discovery was OK in the beginning, but devolved into nonsense.
Giant Space Water Bears was my limit. I watched the entire first season, but I found it to be too ridiculous.
“flying” into the future is simply bullshit.
Yeah the way they did it, but reaching relativistic speeds outside warp sounds like a feasible way to jump to the future given the technology dreamed up for star trek
DSC? I always call it ST:D as it too burns in uncomfortable places.
I’ve stuck with DISCO. Highlights the silliness of it all.
That or discotrek
Yep.
Kept trying to parse “DSC” as “Deep Space Cix”, and thinking that didn’t make any sense. For multiple reasons.
I think I’m gonna go…
The Klingons in season 1, though…
“t’KOOOOOVma!”
Weren’t they just supposed to be pre augment virus Klingons? I liked their portrayal for the most part, even thought the klingon with subs was kinda cool. I have a lot of grievances with Discovery, but not that
Lower Decks confirmed that they’re from an alternate universe.
That’s not exactly what happened. The Lower Decks episode just told us that there is another universe where the Klingons look like that. That doesn’t mean they never looked like that in our universe. One of the other things the Klingons turn into is an Ancient Klingon Sailing Barge. I took it to mean technology and culture had progressed differently in those universes.
Indeed. The same episode showed the Cerritos transforming into a Galaxy class ship, but no one takes that to mean that the Galaxy class only ever existed in an alternate universe.
Must have missed that one, thanks
the sound of Stamets approaching quickly
The second season finale was actually great though, if only because the climax was visually very experimental and cinematic. I feel like Discovery often took chances, and they didn’t often pay off, but that one really did. It looked like they blew the entire season’s visual effects budget in that one episode.
I thought the storytelling in that finale was pretty bad in general, but you’re right that the visuals were spectacular. That wormhole sequence that called back to TMP was absolutely beautiful.
I rewatched it a while back, and for the most part it’s a much stronger season than I remembered. The last couple of episodes were frantic and nonsensical enough that it coloured my view of the rest of it.
Still probably agree that it’s the worst season, but it’s not that bad.
I enjoyed Discovery overall, but I really preferred when the show was in the 23rd century instead of the 32nd century.
I can’t believe I’m being nostalgic for a 14 episode season, but early Discovery still dabbled in one off episodic adventures or 2-3 episode mini arcs. The later seasons were short enough that they really had to commit to their world ending plot lines. Running around the mycelial network for a couple of episodes was generally more memorable than, “We leaned a bit more about the 10C.” Plus Season 2 got us Jett!
The real world production drama fundamentally broke the season’s puzzle box and left some pretty glaring plot holes, but that finale was stellar.
I disagree with you, but for the same reasons? I felt like season 3, when they’re first getting into the future, exploring, and meeting the people there, was the most like Star Trek. I also think the Mycelial drive is a good fit for the future setting
Season 3 was excellent as well! I wish 4 and 5 had a bit more futureness to them, but Discovery overall was good in my book.
Was that the space baby season? or was that the weird third one?
I still haven’t watched season 5, so I can’t say for sure.
So I agree for the most part, however I miss the early seasons of DSC. I feel like it really went off the rails (for me) starting in season 3. I feel like it started with a decent season and every season after it was a step down, with hints of greatness here and there, like trying to figure out how to communicate with that 10-C(?) species.
Agreed on all counts - me and my other half were down to just getting it done with at the start of S4, but couldn’t bring ourselves to even start S5.
I rather enjoyed the first two seasons.
STD is trash overall. It has no redeeming qualities. Saying that one or another season is “the worst” means little to nothing when the best it has to offer is still some of the worst sci-fi I’ve ever seen… Until Picard somehow surpassed that…
“STD” is the most deserving acronym.
It features space tardigrades and that’s a redeeming quality
Something they got away with stealing from someone else.
wait what who did they steal it from? i want to have an astral multibear marathon
It was a video game called Tardigrades. Not sure if it was ever fully released in the end.
yeah last update was a little under ten years ago. i think it’s dead
