Which is completely subjective and based off of your opinion. Moreover, I’m talking about the current season. There’s a reason I haven’t bothered to interact with anyone else on this thread slagging off the entire show. Not interested in that. The scope of the post is pretty narrow and obviously so.
(Response is more about holodeck centric episodes in general).
I liked how Data would go all in on the roles he played. And Picard’s frustration at frequently getting called away from his fun time.
I didn’t like the Moriarty takes over the Enterprise ones, you’d figure they’d sandbox the holodeck environment and specifically set it up to prevent situations like that. Maybe even make them incapable of seeing through the 4th wall in fantasy/entertainment programs (though I can see the usefulness of being able to do that for engineering exploration and might have just talked myself into not hating that as much because I had forgotten about the practical uses of the holodeck).
I’ve also always found the focus on holodeck scenarios relevant to the 20th and 21st centuries culture made it harder to suspend disbelief. I don’t think our current entertainment is the peak that everyone would come back to all the time. Like you’d figure LaForge would have done the whole “help build and troubleshoot the first warp drive” on the holodeck before doing it for real in First Contact. Like I get why they focus on things we know rather than having to make up more lore, but they made up a lot of lore each time they visited a new planet.
Also to remind us that there hasn’t been a tremendous amount of character focus beyond the small core. We’ve seen these faces and maybe even remember a few of their names over the years. However, some of them still feel like strangers a few cubicles over where we say “What’s up?” but hesitate to include a first name or develop a nickname.
The catch of the episode put that front and center. I get why Worf had to spend time accepting that his path would never see him fully accepted by his Klingon brethren. It’s not too far a stretch to accept that O’brien is able to take so much punishment and bounce back (minus the PTSD effects lasting longer than 1 episode). Discovery’s crew is convinced to help in future Burnham’s cause with little more than 1-2 lines of detail. Some of those bits even the audience wouldn’t know until we’re told.
I will admit, that much of the potential growth is handicapped by truncated shooting schedules and seasons. We haven’t had 24-26 per batch where we can hyper focus. Only so much time to dedicate to bridge, engineering, sickbay, the bar, and crew quarters.
It all seems just a bit too shallow… the tension forced.
Side note: I did appreciate the end of act 2 callback to the Short Trek: Calypso . Really tied the series together.
The focus is more on Burnham and her belief in personal connection, not the crew and their own piccadillos. Discovery has always been first and foremost the story of Michael Burnham, like it or not. Docking it for what it is not and has never attempted to be isn’t really valid criticism.
This is not being rich, this is the minimum you need for a safe car when you have temperature differences of 40c between a cold winters day and a normal summers day.
You can get all season tires but they are bad both in summer and in winter, and only really a good alternative during spring snd autumn.
I bought my first (used) car last year, it came winter tires included.
That’s not true. Winter tires grip just fine in warm weather. The only downsides of using winter tires in the summer are that they wear faster because of the softer rubber, have increased road noise due to the more agressive tread, and they’re just typically more expensive than all weather tires. Technically there is a slight handling difference because of the deeper more agressive tread but not enough that it is even noticable to most people. So it’s still a good idea to swap if you can, but they are not unsafe to use in the summer, just unwise for your wallet. If the vehicle you have them on isn’t a daily driver it may not even make sense to switch them out.
For those unfamiliar with my opinions of DSC, one may go down that rabbit hole here.
Suffice it to say, DSC S05 isn’t something I lament because it’s the last season, but because it lasted so long. This show is shit, and ENT was better yet didn’t even get a fifth season. Not a single actor in this show could carry Scott Bakula’s left nut, but I digress…
So, The first episode opens with The Queers™ discussing how wtf the drinks are and how they’re totally over this dumb party. Hashtag me too, bitches. FINALLY! Some fucking authentic LGBTQ+ representation in this show! Especially when Rapp— err… Stamets debates whether to leave when his honorific gets downgraded from “Center of the Universe” to merely “Scientific Luminary” because his Very Special Project gets sidelined for being 900 years out-of-date. Boo-hoo, honey. I guess you’ll just have to find something else to be amazing at, which should take you all of an act break.
And then Saru and no-longer-called-Vulcan lady share a nice moment. Then they kinda break up in a flurry of dumb writing. Because Discovery is stupid.
The only other thing worth mentioning from the next 2 episodes is Callum Rennie who’s prolly in his 60s now, but damn is he rocking that hot zaddy energy. And those pointy ears are really doing it for me. Yum.
The show is still shit, tho, and poking at the memberberries with a 24th century Romulan scout ship, a Progenitors treasure hunt, and a Data knock-off isn’t doing the show any favors. It just reminds us all how much better TNG was than this show and how much we’d rather be watching that show than this one.
Definitely. Although I’m not happy about Georgiou in it. Nothing against Michelle Yeoh, but I think we’ve had enough of her. I can’t accept her as any sort of hero or even anti-hero when she committed genocide.
Strictly speaking, O’Brien is a “Senior Chief Petty Officer” in rank, and a “transporter chief” in role. Those two happen to both include the word “chief”, but they’re no more related than “Lieutenant Commander” and “chief engineering officer” are for La Forge. I believe “chief”, on its own, is referring to any of the ranks of NCO with chief in the title, [master | senior] chief petty officer.
Starfleet seems ridiculously officer heavy
Indeed it does. Whether this is actually true, or just an artifact of the fact that we tend to primarily watch the actions of those in command, I’m not sure. But if it is the in-universe reality, that’s probably a consequence of the post-scarcity society and the abundance of time and education people have in order to become officers.
And where are all the warrant officers?
I’m gonna be honest, I’ve tried numerous times, but have never managed to really understand what WOs are. I have this vague sense that their rank sits somewhere between that of NCOs and of commissioned officers, and that they’re involved in more unusual or specialised tasks, but I don’t think they normally sit in a regular chain of command, and I’m not really sure how it works.
It’s hard to show the intricate workings of hundreds of crewmen. It’s just not practical or in the budget. Crewmen pop up every now and then if you pay attention.
Someone said Master and Commander can be seen as similar to Star Trek, and it certainly has the same ship command structure. The crewmen play a larger role and they really cover the dynamic. Very much worth a watch with or without connection to Star Trek.
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