Jaida R. L. Mack

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Jaida R. L. Mack @jaidamack

11/5/2023, 12:41 AM

@starkat1138 asked:

What is one direction you'd take a series you love if you could?

Discovery wouldn't have gone to the 31st or whatever century.

This is a long, blithering exploration of what I think Star Trek could do with the pre-TOS (or pre-OS if you're in a hurry) era, but to boil it all down... Star Trek seriously needs to be less fucking prissy about continuity, especially when shows like Strange New Worlds are just going to go "lol the eugenics wars happened because-" and... yeah, I could yell for a while about that. SNW's writers just... hadn't seen First Contact, I guess?

okay i'm gonna just breathe

But for real. Give me Discovery. Give me pre-TOS.

#star trek #discovery #lorca is a handsome king

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Mark, Panther Fairy @starkat113811/5/2023, 12:58 AM

Honestly i'm curious, my biggest issue with that episode is that none of the genetic engineering debated seems dangerous in the slightest. Surely not enough to create whole excluded underclasses.

Jaida R. L. Mack @jaidamack11/5/2023, 12:59 AM

remind me about this when i'm sober. because the episode itself wasn't bad, but the premise was fucking infuriating.

Mark, Panther Fairy @starkat113811/5/2023, 1:00 AM

God I

I feel this feeling about a few S2 episodes

And somehow everyone gives the Elaysian Kingdom and Musical One shit

John Colagioia @jcolag11/5/2023, 1:07 PM

Yep. As much as I like watching the show, Discovery is also a massive disappointment by how utterly spineless they get about everything. They came out of the gate with "oh, this is going to be heavy-handed Gulliver's Travels weirdness," and the moment they got any pushback, they shifted to a capital-P prequel, teed up a banal spinoff ("what if the original series was written and filmed like TNG?"), and aggressively excised from the timeline with all the same condescension that the 2009 movie carefully used to explain that we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads since the old timeline is still around...