Musicals are built to get you from one song to the next. It's all about the songs. The actual story is of secondary importance.
Martial arts movies are built to get you from one fight to the next. The actual story is of secondary importance.
Discovery is built to get you from one therapy session to the next. The actual story is of secondary importance.
Porn is built to get you from one sex scene to the next. The actual story is of secondary importance.
For all of you complaining that STD is just one emotive character reveal after another... well, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. Those are the songs/fights/sex scenes, folks. The problem is that this choice disregards Star Trek's entire massive, loyal audience. As such, Discovery feels like it's constantly saying "Take THAT, nerds!"
The lack of interest and attention the writers of this show pay to the attributes of Star Trek that has made it so beloved is so palpably obvious that eventually one has to conclude that this is intentional. That really, beneath all its vapid middle-school-journal dialog, the show is just mean-spirited and smug. "All you boomers with your sterile science talk... well we're going to show you what REAL DRAMA looks like. Oh, and we can do science too, just listen to all our science-y talk. Happy now? You're welcome."
No attention is paid to what has made the show such a success for half a century. Sure, boxes are checked by using some of the souvenirs of series past, but they come across like teenagers rifling through grandmas stuff, and though they never really liked her much, this or that knick-knack is cute. So they can say they are 'honoring' grandma while really just using her. Listen to the utterly incomprehensible science jargon they throw at us. Do they really expect anyone to know what they are talking about? Of course not, it's a cover so they can tell themselves this is REAL SCIENCE FICTION. But the feelings scenes are the songs.
Next time you watch, squint a bit and take away the fancy CGI and prosthetics, and forget about those absurd sets. What's left? It's actually a really cheap piece of trash, all dressed up in Star Trek. It makes me sad how cynical it all is.
Scenes after scene after scene of sharing feelings while whatever story might be going on grinds to a halt. How many minutes of screen time/dollars of budget have been spent on bringing that to our screens, yet the original series could break your heart with one brilliant line - "You couldn't pronounce it".
We're all being swindled, folks. The Star Trek name is just being used to foist very low quality content on us. It's so depressing.
