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From: mvp@web1.calweb.com
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Your Name wrote:
>
>According to this reviewer, season 2 (after seeing ONE episode!) of
>Star Trek: Discovery is better than season 1.
>
>From NYTimes.com ...
> being around each other - recall for example how much
> antipathy members of the bridge had toward Burnham for
> much of the season.
Not having seen any of STD but the premire, which was not on
"CBS: Nothing I Particularly Care to Access", Burnham was, in
the premiere, guilty of knocking out her Captain in order to
lie about her orders.
There is *no way* she would *ever* rationally have any role
in the Federation outside of the confines of a prison cell.
Whatever machinations they used to get her out of a prison cell
and onto the bridge of a Star Ship would have to arouse a good
deal of antipathy. "This is not someone who can be trusted."
"This is the loosest of loose phaser banks." "Never turn your
back on that maniac."
Dropping the grimdark, and with any luck never seeing those
stupidly redesigned Klingons ever again, gives me a better
feeling about the series. But my feeling from the first
episode, and what I'd heard of the shows direction, was
so strongly negative, it's not that much of a good feeling.
Maybe if they just pretend the first season never happened...
I'm still not paying for the whole turd sandwich of CBS's
streaming service for just one program that I might possibly
have some small degree of interest in. But if they're
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