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Hello Flavio!

05 Jun 24 21:32, you wrote to all:

 FB> ... any thoughts?



 I have a love/hate relationship with it.  Overall I enjoyed the series, but
lots of things made me sad, or just irritated me.

 Star Trek has always taken chances with stuff that's not quite "scientific". 
Beings like the Q have been around since the very beginning, The "galactic
barrier",  etc.  Roddenberry tried to squeeze in "The crew meets God" on
multiple occasions and was rebuffed (which was a good thing, look how Star
Trek V turned out).  The spore drive though just kind of hurt my brain. 
Eventually I came to accept it, but it felt like more fantasy than sci-fi. 
Mushrooms are fascinating and there's a lot we still don't know about them,
but believing there's an entire network of mycelium throughout the galaxy? 
eh...

Discovery focused more on problem solving via emotional intelligence vs logic
& experience.  I guess it's a valid way of doing things, and they seemed to
challenge it a bit when they brought Rayner in on the last season, but trying
convey and bring viewers along for that emotional journey each and every
episode was a little exhausting.


I feel like Detmer, Owosekun and Zora all got done dirty.  I know the actors
had scheduling conflicts during season 5, and that's why they weren't around
in the second half, but I really wanted to get to know them as characters.
Maybe we would have if we got a season 6, but they had a full 4 1/2 other
seasons to do that.   Season 6 supposedly would have told a much longer story
leading up to what happened in the Short Trek "Calypso", instead of the
tacked-on ending we got in the final episode. I'm guessing that was a huge
part of the "reshoots" that were done after it was announced Season 5 would be
the last.


All in all, Discovery was just "OK" for Star Trek.  I'm incredibly happy that
it launched an entirely new era.  It directly spawned "Strange New Worlds"
which is fantastic, the upcoming Starfleet Academy series that will give us
more Tilly (Mary Wiseman is amazing), and the Section 13 movie with Michelle
Yeoh that I'm really looking forward to.

What I'd really want to see though is an entire series on Jett Reno. Tig
Notaro's dry humor and razor sharp wit put me in my happy place. Fingers
crossed that she moves to yet another career as a teacher at Starfleet Academy
:)



Mike


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