It was a definitely a “let’s add sex appeal” moment. I quite like her as an actual character though (besides the weird Chakotay thing), they’re lucky Jeri Ryan is a good actress. The ratings went up pretty much immediately after her introduction so I guess we played right into their hands haha.
The Chakotay and Seven relationship isn’t canon in my opinion. Seven and the EMH? Adorable! Seven and Harry Kim? Sure! Seven and no one? Even better! Just another reason to hate Berman.
I see the point of the additional plot line to Saavik, but ignoring that, is it really the only additional heft we could have added to the character? She needs to be a child-bearer, basically a container, for another Spock? That feels like it’s really backwards and lazy storytelling, and something not of that period. Also, she’s so young and he’s so damn old - it wouldn’t have been a good look then, and certainly not now. It would completely undermine his role as a guiding father-figure to Saavik in these films.
The film would bring Kirk and company from the 23rd century to the 21st, where their quest to bring two humpback whales back to the future would receive assistance from an uber-nerdy college professor played by Murphy.
I don’t dislike it, I actually truly enjoyed the first two and half seasons, even thought it is way too centred on Michael; I do miss the synergy with the rest of the crew, that we find in the other series.
About Michael Burnham—yes, she’s highly conflicted emotionally, going batshit Vulcan logic enforcer for a moment then flipping into full emo mode the next. But then again, that fits perfectly with the persona, and she is a wonderful actress to be able to play this with such finesse and subtleness. I get that some may not see or understand the level of acting at play, or it may resonate a bit too much to others, but damn, I personally find Sonequa Martin-Green is amazing in her acting.
What stretch it a bit too much was how fast they were able to get back into service 900 years in the future. But, I’ll close my eyes on this, as it was somehow needed for the plot.
But what truly lost me, are:
• The true reason of The Burn, being the silliest thing possible;
• That crazy turbolift fight, with the pod literally floating through immense football fields of empty space—inside the Discovery?!??
• The fact that the future looks so boringly “sanitized”. And, the tech isn’t that advanced in many points. It’s 900 years forward dammit. Especially with from when they left. Yet it feels like maybe only 200-300 years after Picard, not 600-700 years later, aside for the personal transporters maybe.
My biggest disappointment is that they had a huge chance to show so many potential new worlds, freedom from fixed canon, to show how it changed, with how each world evolved independently. What we briefly glimpsed as she just arrived in the future. But it only lasted for one or two episodes.
I want to see wonders, I want to see exotic worlds, with lustful vegetation and animals, just like they did with the Klingons, making them truly alien. I want to be swooped in and marvelled like the kid I used to be. The fourth season brought back a little of that, with the 10C at the end. But barely.
God damnit, I forgot about the turbolift parallel universe. Holy crap, that was such a weird choice to make. Like, this does not make sense in any sort of way. But they kept doubling down on it, right? Wasn’t this shown like 2 or 3 times throughout the series?
Most of the characters suck. Tilly is great tho. “Spore drive”, wtf, totally idiotic. Also the red angel shit was too stupid. The tardigrade shit was stupid. I could do with never ever hearing about or seeing fucking Michael burnham ever again. Really disappointing.
Been a while but I honestly liked most of the characters. With the exception of Burnham. I also wasn’t much of a fan of a main character like that although it’s interesting that the closest thing to a main character is not the captain for once. And I like that in lower decks too. Burnham just kinda felt… I don’t wanna say not star trek but not star fleet. Just not connected properly to most of the crew. Not like the rest of them did.
Most of the overal storylines felt mediocre to me. Wasn’t much of a fan of the mirror universe.
I honestly still enjoyed watching it, and I think most complaints are bullshit.
I like Saru. I like the show’s aesthetic. That’s about where it ends. May as well do the dislikes as bullet points for readability.
The tie-in of Michael being Spock’s never-before-mentioned adopted sibling just feels like bad fanfiction.
Most of the crew is so neglected that I didn’t even know their names in Season 2. This came to a head when in one episode they were going to kill a bridge character and had to spend 20 minutes at the beginning of the episode highlighting her life so that when they did kill her, the audience would actually care.
I dislike the constantly very high stakes. The series feels like an extremely long action film.
Trill lore changes
Season 1 Klingon design choices. Besides the hair thing, I also think a lot could have been done to flesh out the culture and highlight differences between the various houses’ traditions besides basically assigning them colour differences.
I’m sure there was a lot more that bothered me, but it’s been so long since I stopped caring enough to watch that I’ve probably forgotten.
I hate watched this last season. I just don’t care what happens to that crew, which is a first for Star Trek. I’m hoping for a Newhart ending and the whole series is a dream Spock is having.
I think your opinion relfects mine the most so I just piggyback on your comment.
Maybe I’d go one step further with your second point that specifically giving Michael Burnham the spotlight 95% of the time has been a bad decision. On the hand the series relies on all of the crew, on the other hand it is almost always Michael who is involved in finding the solution or making the decision.
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