Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Look, that douche nozzle has a video titled "men are the new red shirts on Trek".
MRAs have been screeching "misandry!" since they've been a thing.
There's an agenda there, and it isn't to give hugs and cookies to orphans.

What is an MRA?

something you could google yourself... and likely are a bit of. "Men's Rights Activists/Advocates".

on one hand, there's some positives, working towards codifying shared custody of children and such

on the other, there's a vocal segment of overlap with "traditional" values in a socio-economic sense that gets uptight about everything from tv shows to the workplace becoming overly "feminized".

Was prophesied. "The Girl Who Made the Stars".

Look at all that respect earning.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Made_the_Stars_(episode)

As the summary shows, there is no prophesy about Burnham. Rather, Burnham was told a folk story and she had empathy for the girl hero in it.

Bounce a graviton particle beam
Off the main deflector dish ...

Every main character in Trek pulls sciencey-sounding solutions to problems out of their ass on a regular basis.

Look, we all know that seeing a Black woman as the hero of a show makes insecure white fanboys' testicles retreat into their bodies, but this is really pretty silly.

Also, it's performing.

Season 5 trailer.

Does anyone else think that this show would redeem itself if they all assimilated themselves as borg and then time traveled 3000 years into the delta quadrant past, therefore explaining why the borg exist? I do.

na...
gonna have them travel back to just before the Kelvin and blow the Narada out of the sky thus maintaining the timeline.

Burnham becomes president of the UFP

I can't believe Starfleet promoted a godsdamn Cylon to captain.

https://trekcentral.net/meet-star-trek-discoverys-new-captain/?amp=1

Hard to glean much from that trailer, except that Saru will still be around (can anyone tell if that's a Starfleet uniform or not?) and there will probably be some kind of MacGuffin that looks like a giant Rubik's Cube made out of terra cotta.

Season 5's finished production.
It's only going to be 10 episodes to sync up to the other shows.
Season 1 was supposed to be 10, but they broke the limit, then the broken limit became the new limit, and now they're on the intended limit.

https://trekmovie.com/2022/11/20/production-has-wrapped-on-star-trek-discovery-season-5/

If I were uber-producer, I'd pull a Walking Dead, and have a 3 part 30 episode season to really slam dunk on the CHUDs .

TWD pretty much abandoned its audience.

Discovery has quite an uphill battle to win back its audience. I don't think they can do it with one season, but hope springs eternal.

I think it's got its audience. At this juncture no one's coming back, IMO.

And my guess is they are fine with that. They seem (wisely IMO) to have an ambition for almost year-around new Star Trek (presumably to avoid selective cancelation/renewal)

If that's right then they'll have something set up to Replace Picard and then whatever comes next after, and is up and running, will likely foreshadow the end of Disco. In a few years. Having served its purpose.

The next ones they have lined up are Section 31, and Starfleet Academy.

Confirmation that season 5 is the end.
Um, no duh, Paramount!

https://trekmovie.com/2023/03/02/breaking-star-trek-discovery-to-conclude-with-season-5/

hope they got Michelle Yeoh confirmed before her price quadrupled...

A shame they are in the future, as I'd love to see a few of the characters as guest stars on other shows. Tilley and Saru are fantastic.

But my guess is as they didn't write this season knowing it would be their last they will remain in the future at the end of it.

And the guest star list doesn't include Michelle Yeoh, unfortunately.

Overall I wasn't a big fan, but it gave us SNW, which is very good, and brought back Star Trek to TV, so I'm very happy with it overall.

Billy Talent!!

I loved the first two seasons for being imaginative and taking a few creative risks with the cards that they knew would come up.

Maybe that's the problem by erasing them into the far off future? There's no longer a connection to the universe we were supposed to see from that different corner.

Frakes calls the finale "stunning".
Well, he said Lower Decks is hilarious before it came out, and that wasn't a lie.
I trust you, Riker.

https://trekmovie.com/2023/03/08/jo...overy-ending-talks-up-plan-for-series-finale/

I just read a nasty rumor that Disco S5 isn’t coming back until early 2024! WTF?!!

We'll almost certainly get the next season of SNY and the two animated series this year, thus Disco get's pushed back. Apparently SNW is close to starting filming on S3 so putting Disco last in this rotation gives them room to do all the post-production on SNW S3

The thing I'm wondering, given all the turmoil in the original streaming material market - are they still open to a new series?
S31?
Legacy?
and if so wouldn't it/they logically slot into the rotation hole(s) left by Disco and Picard?

I don't get the sense that they want to get all the way down to just SNW, LD, and Prodigy.

So after PIC disappointed me yet again, I finally decided to finish where I left off with DSC. I have some thoughts as I start on the S3 finale:

* People do not cry nearly as much as they say they do, holy fucking shit.

* I generally don't hate the more modern language but I'd be lying if I said I ever want to hear Pike say "Make it make sense" ever again

* Speaking of Pike, he really was a great addition to the cast, 10/10 no notes

* Doug Jones as Saru really deserves all the hype he's gotten and the thought he put into making this character as unique as possible really shows.

* I'd heard a lot about the scene where Adira announces their pronouns and.... seriously? Y'all mad about THAT?! It could've been more gracefully, sure, but it was ten seconds max and it wasn't in the middle of some crisis where this happened.

* I normally couldn't care less about the ships but that line when they find Starfleet and notice other type of ships made of organic matter and other sorts of things makes me hope they'll follow up on that if we continue the 32nd century timeline.

* Tilly really came into her own in Season 3 and I'm sad I only have four more episodes left to enjoy her

That said: acting XO? Really? I get they had a limited cast and the other two main characters are in specialties where they couldn't act as XO but....bruh.

* I really don't care that the bridge crew isn't fleshed out because it was never pitched as an ensemble series and outside of DS9, there were only ever three characters that got the lion's share of the writers' focus anyway. DSC just took away the pretense that this would not be the case.

* Mirror Georgiou is absolutely fun but definitely feels like she was kept around because TPTB realized they'd made a huge mistake killing Prime Georgiou off in the pilot.

* I like the gay collective in this show

* As much as I enjoy Ethan Peck as Spock, the connection to Michael was really unnecessary and turned a lot of people off well before the supposed nonstop crying did. If the PTB really wanted to break from established Trek, they should've really went for it by setting the show after the 25th century from the beginning. But if one is completely new to the franchise, they're not gonna be any more bothered by this than I was about the NX-01 turning the trip to Kronos into a quick run around the block.

It's definitely an uneven show, but I respect what it was trying to do. It's not bad and was more inventive that VOY or ENT ever were.

Are you watching Disco S2 or S3? S2 was Pike and Spock. S3 was in the future with the "burn".

I'm at the season 3 finale now. My thoughts weren't in any particular season order.

Agree with the rest of what you posted. But I like VOY and ENT … simply for what they were - stories.

But...but anyone who dares criticize Discovery will get tarred and feathered by SJWs...aren't you afraid for expressing any form of disapproval of the show?