I stopped watching after she became a time lord… did it get any better?
Eh. Season 3 is more coherent than 1 and 2, but I found the season-long arc to be ridiculous nonsense that wasn’t compelling at all. You know how TOS and early VOY in particular just get real weird every once in a while? DIS season 3 had that energy, except when TOS or VOY did it, it was a one-episode experiment with no lasting repercussions. DIS season 3 spent a whole season on it and there are enormous repercussions for the Trek universe.
Season 4 is definitely the most cohesive season in terms of story and theme, and did raise some interesting (if cliché) concepts. However, I found it to just be terminally boring.
I’m not quite sure what to make of season 5 from the trailers. The description on YouTube tells me that we’ll be embarking on “an epic adventure across the galaxy” which could describe every other season of DIS all the same. It looks like it’s definitely going to be… another season of Discovery, and all that entails.
And it only took four seasons for them to actually, ya know, Discover something…
I do like the gas-bag aliens, but you’re right, that whole season would have worked as a two-parter in a better Trek show.
I just finished watching season 3. I think the premise had great potential (with the Federation being a fraction of itself). Just like Voyager had a fantastic premise, but sometimes fell flat. I feel like the season started pretty well, but felt rudderless by the middle/end. I actually prefer Seasons 1 & 2.
It gets less bad.
So, like a molotov cocktail?
Like a chest infection that had you off work for a week and the doc gives you antibiotics, but you’re still left with a lingering cough and bit of a sore throat for a long time after.
Two things. The first is something that I posted a week or so ago to my Mastodon.
So I just had a realization.
My entire life I’ve known what’s going to happen in Star Trek. I started with TNG but by the time I was actually invested it was off the air and Enterprise was limping off screen itself.
Lower Decks is amazing and I love the characters. If one of them dies I’ll be upset and if the Cerritos is destroyed then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on.
Strange New Worlds is amazing and I love the characters. Most of them we know the trajectory of but some we don’t. If one of them dies then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on and with TOS specifically.
Discovery is amazing and I love the characters but it was a prequel. As with SNW, we know what’s going to happen so the threat didn’t feel as severe to me. It was the same as Lower Decks and SNW. If someone died I’d be upset but it was Starfleet. I’d carry on. I was upset at Culber but carried on. Upset with Ariam but carried on. Even when they went to the future things didn’t change much for me. Sure I didn’t know what was going to happen anymore but it didn’t seem to the click.
But this fucking [trailer] and the realization that this is the final season? I am actually scared and really uncomfortable now and I don’t quite know how to process this. Like I started to have a minor panic attack. I don’t think it was until this moment I realized the show is ending and I have no idea how it will…
The second is something I have been realizing about myself a lot lately and I’m not sure what it says about me. But I’m more concerned for the ship than I am for the crew. I don’t really know why. Like don’t get me wrong, I’ll be upset if someone dies, as I said in that toot, but I am going to be devastated if the ship is destroyed. I don’t know why. Every other hero ship has been either destroyed or battered and it stung but this would kill me. I keep staring at my Discovery model on my desk (I really need to eventually get that Refit model) and panicking. She’s my ship. Not my first. Won’t be my last. But she’s my ship.
