I love star trek and wanted to like this for so much.
I followed it for a few seasons when everyone of my friends and forums were already criticizing it. But then it got to be too much and even I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Such a pitty but this is not the trek I came to love. I hope they have success but I really can’t stand the writing and am out off by some acting I won’t name.
I believe Season 1&2 had more good than bad, even with the obscene Klingons, but after that I strongly dislike it, and that’s from someone who liked Enterprise the first time I saw it.
The one thing I wish they’d do is go back and refilm the Klingon scenes for future viewers.
I’m just happy Picard finally found it’s groove.
Did it? Can I skip whatever the bad Seasons were and have it still make sense. Picard was always my favorite captain so I was super bummed when I heard the show was super jaded / gritty / bad.
The new producer took over for season 2. Season 3 is clearly what he imagined 30 years after All Good Things to be like, undoing Generations, and in season 2 he focused on changing the parts of Picard’s character that were too major to stuff into season 3.
@Nadalofsoccer They wasted Jason Isaacs. I was fascinated by his character and if his arc as a Terran secretly manipulating the spore drive project to get back home had lasted seasons, maybe even to the point of redemption and wanting to stay…I would still be watching. They could even have still let Michael be a Mary Sue. Maybe even have her find out at some point.
The show basically committed suicide by killing off Jason Isaacs character.
It (will have) lasted four seasons without him. I liked his character and wish they hadn’t killed him off, but five seasons is a decent run for a show, and I don’t think it’s obvious that it would have lasted longer if he had remained.
I mean it committed suicide as a show worth watching. Thankfully it’s over now.
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Interesting snippet. A lot of action. It does look like Burnham has relaxed into her captaincy. And, continues the tradition of Starfleet captains putting themselves in harm’s way. No sign of Book in this clip, but Burnham sure has picked up Book’s, “come on!” expression when things are going sideways. I am perplexed by one thing – who is Gallo and why are they in Owosekun’s bridge position? Where is Owosekun? Argh. I just have to be patient and wait until season 5 is out.
I suspect scheduling is the reason that we’re seeing new officers on the bridge.
Oyin Oladego who plays Owosekun is the lead in a Nigerian-Canadian indie film. Here’s the Hollywood Reporter story. She’s previously also been managing around a couple of seasons as main cast on a Canadian tweens show called Endlings as well theatre work in Toronto.
Most of the Canadian actors in the Discovery bridge crew have other Canadian-based work. Ronnie Rowe Jr who had played Bryce (Communications) is a lead on the BET+/CBC historical drama ‘The Porter’ which is why he’s been replaced by Lt. Christopher.
Thanks for the info. I miss seeing regular characters in episodes, but I can’t fault Ms. Oladejo and other actors for working on other projects. I’m hoping all the characters are there for the final episodes of the series. Including Tilly. Michelle Paradise previously said, “I can’t spoil anything into season five, except to say that we love Tilly. I expect that we’ll have her in the world and all of those things. She’s not going anywhere,” so that’s encouraging.
Has the writing gotten any better?
Yesn’t?
It kinda improved but it’s also Star Trek discovery still so your mileage will depend on how you feel about that.
but it’s also Star Trek discovery
This is important; there’s a distinct feel to the narrative, cinematography, performances and dialogue that the other series def don’t have and kinda maintains through all four (soon to be five) seasons.
Loved the show in season 1-2 but it has been such a camp-fest since s3 I stopped following …
Oh really? Then I’m going to guess you won’t like it since it has changed and kept changing.
My exact question. I saw season 1 when it aired but life happened and I never came back to watch the other seasons. Tbh i thought it was over at this point.
Anyone wanna give me the motivation to binge the next four seasons? Did the show mature?
It never quite finds its grove.
Season 1, 2 & 3 all had fantastic premises I would have loved 7 seasons of but were all unrelated and concluded within a season.
Season 4 actually demonstrates the missed opportunity, they deal with the fall out of season 3
For example if you think of the scene set in “A Vulkan Hello”, you would have ended up with an Action focussed version of DS9.
You didn’t need a spore drive, Jason Isaacs could have stayed the same and we could still have watched scientists struggle to become soliders with the war causing the type of fall out we see in Season 4.
My nipples got stiff.
New (final ;_;) season can’t come fast enough.
