I found Discovery the same way, it’s the only trek series I couldn’t make it through.
Picard suffered from bad writing unfortunately. Season 3 cashed in on nostalgia and I appreciate it for that, but the first 2 seasons were very meh.
Starfleet academy is great though, IF you’re ok with a show targeted to young adults. If you’re not ok with that, the episodes will be very hit and miss. The most recent episode was fantastic, once you get through the 3 minute long sex scene it opened with. Even that does serve a purpose though to show the bond that’s developed between two chars.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 day ago
My main problem with DIS has a name: Michael Burnham. Not the actress, the script.
And about your question: no, the crying is only in scenes that work (traumatic or sentimental enough) unlike DIS.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 19 hours ago
Yeah, Burnham could have been better and she was the center too much. I like Discovery as a show, but I hate it as Star Trek because it actively goes out of its way eschew so many baseline Trek Tropes, the biggest and most obvious being the Spore Drive. It feels like the writers were like “We don’t want to deal with the time issues of Warp travel.”. Then they extended this to the personal transports, which at least made sense as it was the 32nd century.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
it was pretty much a push"woman can have masculine names too" kind of preachy attitude from Kurtzman, and not just ambigious name that be either gender.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 23 hours ago
I don’t mean the name itself. I mean the way Michael behaves. Even more when you think that she was adopted by a Vulcan family.