The alternative is that they went to Starfleet and started blasting admirals apart and nobody questioned it after?
Edit: I forget the rank of the dude they blew up at the end but he might’ve been the investigator.
This would be a great B plot for Lower Decks.
They’ve already mentioned it once or twice. It’s time they actually have an episode about it.
Oh jeez, this is how we get Disco season 6, isn’t it?
Spoilers! Ah, it’s okay, I don’t really care about it. I did try…
Admit it… you LOOOOOVE whisper-lectures.
Disco is not really a bad show. It’s a bad show, a good show, a kind of decent not-star-trek show, and sometimes all of that in a single season. The whiplash is real.
This jives with my current understanding of Disco as Star Trek: Oops All Crunchberries!
The quality is really just insanely variable. There are some scenes where I’m like “yeah this is 100% exactly what Star Trek is supposed to be”, and then later in the episode something happens that’s just like “wat”. They’ve done some of the coolest concepts that Trek has had, and they’ve also done some of the stupidest. And the technobabble - sometimes it feels like they talked to a subject matter expert, but only listened to a third of what they said. And the deeply frustrating worldbuilding inconsistencies.
And then there’s the time Burnham thought it would be super cool to just start reading Alice in Wonderland aloud from memory. Definitely some deeply questionable weird acting and directing, but also, there are some truly outstanding moments in places.
All of that said:
I must admit I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for the show for two big reasons:
- they are DEEPLY committed to the core UFoP ideal of radical acceptance, empathy, and diplomacy, especially on a personal level, which is wonderful to see - particularly in the context of how awful the real world can be these days
- guys, seriously, we finally got a sentient fuckin starship. Zora is bae <3
Every once in a while I’d watch Discovery and think oooh this part of this episode is good, they’re hitting their stride! They’re figuring out what works and what doesn’t!
And then it just collapses back into mediocrity or annoyance.
At least SNW has been almost entirely excellent, IMO.
SNW, Lower Decks and Prodigy have all been fantastic, it’s kind of a bummer Disco is the only one to five seasons so far
The finale of S1 of SNW is top-tier star trek IMO. They managed to show that even though Pike did everything “right” from his own frame of reference (on the basis that violence can escalate to war and war is to be avoided at all costs so violence must be extremely measured) . The Romulans are operating from a completely different frame, where not pressing an advantage is fatal weakness.
Pike was just not the right man for the job despite his intentions.
