20 years? What a low bar. This show is dog vomit, and a disgrace to Star Trek. Your blind affection for it reminds me of Petey's for
True Blood s2, or those who couldn't accept what happened to
Dexter and
The Walking Dead before it became impossible to overlook. On the last page you hounded
@fonzob1 by challenging him, "Have you even watched the show yet?"
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People watching the show don't think highly of it, including the most hardcore Trekkies, like unattached creatives who have written Trek episodes in the past, and there is a undeniable downward trajectory of esteem among viewers this season.
Anson Mount as Captain Pike is the show's redeeming grace. Spectacular actor. He is the show's voice and moral center. They should accept he is the show's central character, but they are clinging to the errant idea from their outset of a first officer as the main protagonist. Burnham, Ash, and Georgiou are anchors dragging everything down: actors and characters alike. The show will never be good with them in it, but they won't let go of their mistakes. That's why there is no digging themselves out.
Saru was more interesting before they tried turning him into Nat Turner. That subplot had so much freaking potential, but they blatantly demonized the species who should have been the object of our sympathies.
The showrunners realized killing Culber was so dumb they cooked up a ridiculous subplot just to bring him back. Uggh. The actors are crushing it trying to carry that dropped ball, but it's too late. It's like a comic book with the inability to commit to a decision-- even a bad one. Incoming...retcon!! What? We've done it before! Remember
Wrath of Khan?!! See?! Justified! Justified!
The show could earn some cred if it had the spine to just be honest, instead of a feel-good fantasy, in how it treats its characters. Someone like Tilly has
no place in leadership, and would never ascend to a place of leadership in the real world, or have her misguided delusions about that entertained by no-nonsense military colleagues who would instead do the right thing, the hard thing, and let her know she would better invest her energies and dreams in a different destiny. Curveball of life. Show doesn't have the courage to confront it. It would rather tell fairy tales to weak, insecure girls.
Section 31 is boring, dumb, hackneyed Hollywood treatment of black ops and military intelligence. It's nonsense.
There's more insubordination than in a
Harry Potter movie, there's more infighting than on
Game of Thrones, and there's more Kung Fu than on
Xena: Warrior Princess. Seriously, wtf is the deal with all the kung fu. Pulp television. Belongs on the CW.
Star Trek: Enterprise has a higher IMDb rating, and that isn't a mistake. One strong (not great) episode won't change that. This is unremarkable, glossy, forgettable television.
