I messed up and deleted the wrong comment. Sorry about that.
Original content: I think it likely that it is some kind of near deity like the christian god, or the Klingon gods that make an appearance. Not to mention the Koala.
I always thought that was the point. People are often a byproduct of the environment that shaped them. Saru’s lack of empathy to the creature is a watershed moment for Saru, storyline wise.
That does make sone sense, yeah. I’m confused, because Saru is otherwise depicted as very empathetic, it’s even pointed out verbally, but this situation was different and it came so early on that it was hard for me to believe his empathy for a while afterwards, so I’m not very sure what the writers wanted me to think.
I think it was also a desperate situation. Lorca was in immediate danger and I am guessing Saru would, even with his empathy, have reasoned that a sentient being’s life, especially someone as important as Lorca, was more important. He also let the tardigrade go back to its home in the mycelial network after the emergency was over and it would have died on either the Glenn or the Discovery if that hadn’t happened.
Based on what I remember of the “classic” Star Trek series:
TOS: can be watched in any order; very episodic; IMO has generally aged poorly and is not a good place to start
STNG: has a few plots lines through the series, but these only appear in some episodes; mostly episodic. If you’re worried about getting bored I think you can just watch the first two episodes, then skip to season 3 or 4. Once you feel like you’re enjoying the series go back and watch the episodes you skipped.
DS9: has a number of plot lines through the series, somewhat episodic, but best watched in order. The first season is ROUGH. My favorite of the classic series, but oh wow does it take a while to get good. Watch after STNG to understand properly.
VOY: pretty episodic after the first few episodes, with the exception of seasons 3-4 which have a fairly substantial continuing plot. The series makes a little more sense if you’ve seen season one of DS9.
ENT: has a decent amount of continuing plot lines, but still generally episodic. A prequel so it can be understood without watching any other series, but it has a lot of callbacks to previous shows that make it best watched last IMO. Also it’s probably the worst of the classic shows (excluding TOS which gets a pass for cultural relevance reasons), so I definitely wouldn’t start with it. I don’t think any one season is especially better/worse, and it’s fairly short so there’s not much point in jumping around.
In conclusion, I’d recommend either starting with one of the newer series, or watch the first two episodes of STNG, skip to S3 or S4, then once you’re enjoying it go back and watch STNG in order starting from S1E3.
Probably good to clarify: as per Wikipedia, The Naked Now is S1E3, and Code of Honor is S1E4. Encounter at Farpoint is actually two episodes. So to clarify: get through the Q Trial, then skip ahead to S3/4, then backtrack to The Naked Now.
For what it’s worth, I always thought The Naked Now would have been a much better episode if it had aired later in the series, or even later in season 1. It’s the type of goofy episode that works best after viewers have gotten to know the characters, much funnier that way. I assume they wanted to do a TOS callback early on as an homage, or a welcome to old fans or something, but it felt like an clunky, wasted opportunity.
I liked seeing Captain Archer learn the lessons that would lead to the Prime Directive. Trip was a fun character, and I liked his romance with T’Pol. There were lots of good individual episodes, like the one about T’Pol having Vulcan AIDS, and Shuttlepod One. Any episode Commander Shran was in is great, especially the episode that Archer duels him. Jeffery Colms is the best. Brent Spinner was also great in his little arc. And, I legitimately liked the Xindi.
That said, the timing of the Xindi arc, in the middle of all the real-world stuff going on, was bad, and it had a bad message. I also did not like all the sexual stuff, especially the episode in season 1 where T’Pol gets forced into Pon Farr by a virus, and tries to have sex with everyone. And then just, like, the whole last half of the last season. Mirror Universe, gross. Trip and T’Pol’s baby dying, sad. Riker’s Holodeck cameo finale, disappointing. Fuck Berman.
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.
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.
The show is pretty good, what I don’t like is how Paramount pulled it from Netflix in Europe 2 days before it was due to air here, with no legal way to watch it until the Paramount+ app was launched here months later.
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?
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