Basically 80% of the star trek rumors you see eminent from a group of about 5 youtubers, who basically have made an audience by hating on new star trek, star wars, marvel ect, and basically make up stories about having inside sources at CBS, or people working for the Redstone family. They always claim things are horrible inside those organizations, but they have inside sources telling them shows are being canceled or people are being fired, and New people they like will be put in charge. Basically fake news channels for Sci fi geek culture. Various blogging sites, or cluck bait news sites, would then post articles, based on info from those YouTube channels and pass it off as real.
How many times has he claimed to have inside knowledge of Discovery being cancelled? Few months ago it was cbs was very unhappy with Picard, and had fired Kurtzman. He has no inside sources, he scours the incel dens, looking for rumors then passes them off as inside source.
Spare us your false political analogies. lol
I never watched the you tube channel in question, but I interpreted the other posters statement you quoted to mean that the faults of the show are too much to look past regardless of what those you tube posters had right or didn't about behind the scenes rumors.
There are perfectly valid reasons why you may dislike Discovery. I have some myself. But a lot of those youtube channels, and it seems the people that hate Discovery, usually site stuff like, Its SJW bs, women as the leads, its too political, ect. Those reasons are always weird to me because Star Trek has always been about a utopia fairly liberal future, embracing new cultures and ideas, science, and relaying the politics of today into science fiction stories. Discovery and Picard, still largely fulfill those.
They sure look cool though. I think most Star Fleet vessels will still have consoles. Rio's is used to being alone and has everything automated or easily access with his holographic controls.
I think all of the innuendo/symbolism in the early Star Trek was tastefully done, but this show doesn't really have masterful innuendo. And, in addition to that, the individual performances have been downright terrible at times. The show will always be "STD" to me. It just doesn't deserve better. Picard (thus far) is not in the same camp as STD as far as I am concerned. Picard is a far better production.
Could say the same about the first 2 seasons of TNG. Most the acting outside Stewart and Spiner was awful, and outside a few gems, most of the nearly 50 episodes in the first 2 seasons were pretty bad and cringy. Old TOS Fans also complained about about similar things, that new DSC hating fans complain about. Only difference is they didn't have the internet to rage on. TNG wouldn't have survived its first 2 season in the internet era(not comparing modern day production values). Star trek would have been dead and gone, so the old bitter haters could have there Kirk, Spock, Bones reruns to keep them happy. That's an issue in all Fandom today, but I have noticed it so much with Discovery. IMO season 3 is make or break for DSC, as it has been for many of the other treks.
Season three of Orville is also make or break.
I didn't watch the first run of the first 2-3 seasons of TNG or DS9 for that reason. Some things you just can't take back though (like those hideous, expressionless Klingons).
