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If you’re a fan of older Star Treks it’s bad, real bad. I watched until the end of season 2 with my partner and had to bail. Everyone above has given good reasons why, I’ll add one I haven’t seen: the lead actress (Soneqa Martin-Green?) overacts Michael Burnham. She overdramatizes almost every scene, to the detriment of the believabolity of the in-universe world, I tried to overlook it but found it grating. I told my partner that half-way into season two, and she responded that she doesn’t really see it. Then about five seconds later Burnham is raising her voice to a senior officer and on the verge of tears over nothing… a minor misunderstanding. Partner laughs and goes, “ok yeah I see it”.

I’d rewatch Enterprise 100 times over ever watching Discovery again, and Enterprise is probably my least favourite pre-2010 Trek, if that helps you.

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cuchi@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean, Star Trek dosen’t had overacting in general?

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- Corgana@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Discovery gets a lot of selective criticisms in online spaces. I don’t want to say it has anything to do with being the first Star Trek show with a Black female as a central main character, but Burhnam does seem to be more frequently criticized for behaviors that are celebrated when done by someone like Kirk or Riker.
  
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- pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Go ahead. Watch it. 🤷🏻
  
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- CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  TOS does but the 80s/90s series not so much.
  
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StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Speak for yourself.

I’ve been watching since 1967 and happily watched all five seasons of Discovery as they came out.

I’ve also rewatched them all with other members of our household.

I’ve definitely watched Discovery more times than Enterprise.

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- pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Cool. Power to you - we clearly have differing tastes. OP was on the fence and asked for an opinion so I gave mine, not sure who else I’d be speaking for. Now you’ve given yours, so they’ve even wider opinions 👍
  
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  - StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was your assertion that ‘if you’re a fan of older Star Trek’, someone would share your view that irked me.
    
    There’s a lot of older fans that don’t dislike the new shows. We just aren’t feeling the need to caution other older viewers about the new shows.
    
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dazflorplebam@dice.camp ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@pulsewidth @cuchi I felt the same way, until a friend pointed out that's what Shatner did, too. Stylistically, tonally, etc. the shows are very different, but I wonder if #StarTrekDiscovery feels similar to TOS, to audiences with more modern tastes.
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