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Star Trek: Discovery: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (2017)
I will not sacrifice Star Trek..
We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They reboot our canon and we fall back. They assimilate entire timelines and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn HERE, and NO further. And I, will make CBS PAY for what they have done.
Computer - Save under historical disasters and End program.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry (2017)
no wonder Bryan Fuller was fired
he was the only one with common sense and would never have agreed to having his name on the worst ever version of star trek. I don't think it even deserves the right to use the name. It's all about money money money, and nothing about social morality and the progression of humanity. these are all horrible characters played by actors which somehow manages to make industry talent look like a bad fan movie. Where is all the money going? 8 million dollars per episode what????!!! Unbelievable.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Ignore reviews from laser battle lovers
This has absolutely no business abusing the Trek brand. It is a full complete reboot of Trek stripping everything back to iconic words and names in Star Trek and nothing more.
If you tune in to watch bombastic special effects, stabbing people, blowing them up, gratuitous gore and overuse of VFX with as little boring character development in between them as possible, then this is the show for you!
If you are scientifically curious of your place in the universe, where humanity might end up, and like pretty much all of Trek's past introspection you will absolutely hate STD because it's completely absent, yet abusing Star Trek IP and retconning everything possible to remold it in to an action adventure like the Abrams movies.
We all wanted Trek to be back on TV, ie Trek that has been on TV for five decades. What we didn't expect or want was Trek to be created for TV based upon the flopped reboot movie franchise (2nd movie under- performed, 3rd movie cost Paramount over $50m in gross losses).
Of course, this wasn't known to CBS at the time of the green-light for STD.
Had development of this show waited just another 18 months, ie after Beyond outright bombed, then it may well have followed it's roots rather than following the reboot model when it didn't need rebooting. It's set hundreds of years in the future and you have everything from the 24th century to infinity to explore, why oh why are we being fed ANOTHER REBOOT sandwiched in a slither of 10 years between two pre- existing trek shows?
Oh, that's right, because you can cash in on past successes rather than creating your own.
I've watched three episodes and can't stomach anymore of it. Part of this is out of principal for what CBS is doing to Trek, but mainly as I find it to be extremely poor sci-fi in general.
It's not written for intellect at all, it's very low brow with continual cliff hangers with zero payoff. I don't have the desire or energy to sit through another 12 episodes of this garbage, already having found myself skipping forward through many scenes just to try and get past the action crap and in to some kind of meat.
It's included in my Netflix subscription, all I have to do is click it and watch, but I can't get through it without finding something else to do.
I grew up with TNG, the TOS Movies, DS9, Voy and Ent. I liked them all in their own ways, but that is not difficult because they are all very similar, following the same basic formula and expending upon it's universe.
STD attempts to change everything for the sake of it (likely to get around licensing issues as they are using Paramount's alternative timeline license rather than CBS's), whilst also removing the very core of Trek and leaving behind a shell filled with something completely uninvited.
STD is poison to Star Trek.
Thank god for the Orville.
I will never trust CBS again, I will never knowingly support them, and shall be doing everything I can to undermine CBS from this point onward as they should not be encouraged to do this again.