If you’ve watched any Star Trek this week, feel free to drop the episodes/movies and any thoughts you might have on them in the comments!
If you’ve watched any Star Trek this week, feel free to drop the episodes/movies and any thoughts you might have on them in the comments!
I am doing a second pass through Discovery, even though it’s not my favorite series. Watching season 4 right now. Last night was s4e5 The examples, where Deputy Secretary Errinwright from The Expanse shows up as a know-it-all scientist that rubs Stamets the wrong way.
What do you think about the later seasons compared to the first two? I really struggled to stay interested in it during the first season and a half, and I don’t want to try it again if it’s more of the same!
The second half of season 2 is okay in my book. The space battle with Control in the denouement is pretty great, and I enjoyed the characters of Pike and Spock but I do find the whole Red Angel plot line to be convoluted. My biggest issue with the show altogether is that I think they focus on Stamets and Culver’s relationship too much. I feel the same way about Adira and Grey later in the show. I know that Star Trek like to push boundaries with non traditional relationships, but I just didn’t care about these characters or their relationships. It was usually during these scenes that I found my mind wandering. I’ve found Trill interesting since Dax in DS9, but it’s like they forgot Adira even has Tul with her after a few references early on. How you make two characters that shared the same symbiote boring is beyond me.
I always struggled to care about the characters, which to me is the most important part of the shows! And being mostly focused on one character also didn’t help, as you don’t learn a lot about everyone else. In SNW I think it only took 3-4 episodes before I liked every main character.
I think Trek has almost always had an issue writing good romantic relationships, and I’ve never figured out why. A lot of the friendships often feel pretty natural, so it just never made sense why the romances were usually awkward.