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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, I don’t necessarily need Riker, but then I never thought Disco was really Star Trek. It could stand on its own feet perfectly fine but shoehorning it into TOS killed it for me. VOY and DS9 were great and showed that you could do different and still fit well.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always felt like they stretched a Star Trek skin over another IPs pilot in season 1

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It reminded me a lot of Stargate Universe, a complete tonal whiplash that was clearly imitating other popular shows rather than a continuation of the franchise. I was pretty kind to it in the beginning because SGU got pretty good after I got over it not being Stargate as well, but Discovery S2 completely killed any hope I had.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stargate Galactica was awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I thought it was incredible that the SG:U writers copied all the teen drama from the SG1 episode Wormhole Extreme. It's like they didn't realize that episode was a parody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you liked SGU maybe give Disco Season 4 a shot. I did not like 1-3 very much at all but S4 is one of my favorite seasons of any Trek series and I did not see it coming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually caught up on S4 recently, but unfortunately did not like it. S3 was actually the one I enjoyed the most of the two, if only because I thought it was really amusing that they just decided to do Andromeda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha yes. I wasn't crazy about it but it was a lot better than Andromeda which is not saying much of anything (Why god did I watch all five seasons and how on Earth did it last that long?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It has been a long, long time since I watched watched Andromeda but I remember always thinking it might be on the verge of something interesting then it seemingly forgetting what it was setting up and moving on to something boring again. Besides, I have always had a soft spot for dodgy look sci-fi action adventure from the 90s/00s.

Also I had a crush on Lexa Doig.

That last season was especially painful though, my god.