Funnily enough, both Mae Jemison and William Shatner will be in Bloomington Indiana for the April eclipse. Also the musician Janelle Monáe for some reason. And she gets top billing with their names below hers in smaller fonts and her picture bigger than theirs on the advertising. I feel like that does Mae Jemison dirty, but I console myself with imagining the fit Shatner threw when it turned out he didn’t get top billing.
I’m curious what made season 2 low quality for you, can you elaborate on that? I also finished season 2 yesterday, currently giving Discovery another try on my journey to watch all of Star Trek since I watched it as it was releasing but I stopped halfway through because the Terran Empire thing was difficult to keep track of for me at the time (probably because it helps my memory if I can watch an episode a day and don’t have to wait a week for the next one to keep track of the storyline). My rewatch made me a pretty big fan though and don’t really understand the hate it got/gets in the fanbase.
Sorry for not writing for such a long time - my first try got erased before I sent it, but I’m back now to answer your question! It was the writing. I found so many of the dialogues to be really cringeworthy. To be fair, this was not the case for all the episodes. I felt ashamed to bare witness to some of the dialogue in The Sound of Thunder for example, while Light and Shadows was ok for me. I truly suffered through the Red Angel arch. There were so many things that just didn’t make any sense to me that I kind of stopped caring. And there was so much unending declamation with no real depth - all I saw were actors trying hard to say the flat lines as well as they could. I continued watching Discovery even after this season mainly because there were great characters again, that is Discovery’s strength in my eyes. And the later seasons seemed better to me. Have a nice day!
The production reason would likely be that they had only built that one physical model, and it was used for that one-off, had to be blown up, and was never digitized. The other Enterprises got a lot more screen time probably because they had high quality models they hung onto and reused.
I honestly can’t think of a good in-universe reason outside of them being maybe predominantly used for diplomatic missions more or less exclusively. We also don’t really explore the gap between TMP era and TNG. I think it’s a pity, because it’s such a gorgeous ship. It’s one of my favorite designs.
I have never been a huge fan of Star Trek comics to begin with, but I am just not a fan of this. Especially when they usually have to come up with a pretty convoluted reason for why those two universes crossed paths when they definitely should not have. But mainly, it just feels like a lazy way to avoid coming up with more stories that are just Star Trek stories.
After all, it’s much easier to come up with “what happens if Spock fights Wolverine” than “what happens when the crew go down to a completely unexplored alien planet and encounter a problem they haven’t encountered before, so it takes an effort to fix it.” But the latter is Star Trek.
I guess to me, it feels like they’re doing it because they can, not because they should.
Two things. The first is something that I posted a week or so ago to my Mastodon.
So I just had a realization.
My entire life I’ve known what’s going to happen in Star Trek. I started with TNG but by the time I was actually invested it was off the air and Enterprise was limping off screen itself.
Lower Decks is amazing and I love the characters. If one of them dies I’ll be upset and if the Cerritos is destroyed then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on.
Strange New Worlds is amazing and I love the characters. Most of them we know the trajectory of but some we don’t. If one of them dies then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on and with TOS specifically.
Discovery is amazing and I love the characters but it was a prequel. As with SNW, we know what’s going to happen so the threat didn’t feel as severe to me. It was the same as Lower Decks and SNW. If someone died I’d be upset but it was Starfleet. I’d carry on. I was upset at Culber but carried on. Upset with Ariam but carried on. Even when they went to the future things didn’t change much for me. Sure I didn’t know what was going to happen anymore but it didn’t seem to the click.
But this fucking [trailer] and the realization that this is the final season? I am actually scared and really uncomfortable now and I don’t quite know how to process this. Like I started to have a minor panic attack. I don’t think it was until this moment I realized the show is ending and I have no idea how it will…
The second is something I have been realizing about myself a lot lately and I’m not sure what it says about me. But I’m more concerned for the ship than I am for the crew. I don’t really know why. Like don’t get me wrong, I’ll be upset if someone dies, as I said in that toot, but I am going to be devastated if the ship is destroyed. I don’t know why. Every other hero ship has been either destroyed or battered and it stung but this would kill me. I keep staring at my Discovery model on my desk (I really need to eventually get that Refit model) and panicking. She’s my ship. Not my first. Won’t be my last. But she’s my ship.
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