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Star Trek: Discovery: Red Directive (2024)
Exciting, But Also Frustrating
Action was fantastic, but writing decisions like Burnham and Book opting to talk about their relationship rather than pursue an escaping target are still phenomenally bad. If the characters spent more time on task rather than discussing their feelings with each other, the show might resonate with Trekkies a lot more and not be facing its final season.
Star Trek: Voyager had the right kind of interconnectedness for a Starfleet crew treating each other as a family. I'm not the sort to think it's impossible to improve on a concept, but I don't know why the idea that mixing Dawson's Creek into Star Trek is the way to go continues to find traction in the writer's room.
Velma (2023)
Meant to Outrage
This is not a show that was made in good faith. On the contrary, it was written specifically to attract attention through how much it would offend and outrage people, even those with no investment or passing care for the Scooby-Doo franchise. The race changes, the labeling of offensive dialogue and completely unfounded and shocking scenes as "comedy", the near-complete reversals of character behavior...all of it is a transparent experiment in the concept of "there is no bad publicity."
The selected clips for trailers, the show-runners' vocal support of their own dramatic changes, the amount of money spent, the marketing, the attachment to what was originally such an innocent brand-all-of it is specifically created to farm controversy. It's a cynical, self-aware cash-grab by some of the most soulless people in the business.
Do. Not. Watch.
Star Trek: Prodigy (2021)
A Noisy Screensaver
Get ready for a Star Trek show like you've never seen before, because it's for 5-year-olds. The show is rated for ages 6-11, but the writers clearly had a lower number in mind. Even for a half-hour show, the plot races forwards, emotions swing around nonsensically to drive mundane conflict, and characters will do whatever it takes to establish their own stereotypes and remain in lockstep with whatever the episode's moral may be, if one exists. This is a show of bright colors, loud noises, and zippy action made to keep a toddler clapping.