She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She’s the first school chancellor we’ve really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me–with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.
I was fully prepared to dislike this show (Disco was on shaky ground with me, but I was more or less on board, then they went to the 32nd Century; I was not a fan of that jump at the time and worried that SNW was going to be the only outlier in regards to Disco spin-offs that would be any good), and I felt affirmed in that feeling during the first few minutes of the first episode. But once the tone changed a bit I was happy to watch the second episode. Then we met Tamira and I just kind of fell in love with the show. Then they managed to take something sacred (the Sisko), pair it with my least favorite character (the SAM), and somehow making it a truly great episode AND making me come around on said character (thus proving that Tawny Newsome is an absolute treasure to this franchise–give me a LD/STSA crossover now!).
Creepy how close this is to my exact experience… I did really enjoy Disco 4+5 however, even though I also thought the whole “jump to the future” idea was a little contrived.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 22 hours ago
She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She’s the first school chancellor we’ve really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me–with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.
Kirk@startrek.website 18 hours ago
“It’s a school but also they go on starship adventures” sounds so dumb to me I can’t believe it works so supremely well.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 11 hours ago
I was fully prepared to dislike this show (Disco was on shaky ground with me, but I was more or less on board, then they went to the 32nd Century; I was not a fan of that jump at the time and worried that SNW was going to be the only outlier in regards to Disco spin-offs that would be any good), and I felt affirmed in that feeling during the first few minutes of the first episode. But once the tone changed a bit I was happy to watch the second episode. Then we met Tamira and I just kind of fell in love with the show. Then they managed to take something sacred (the Sisko), pair it with my least favorite character (the SAM), and somehow making it a truly great episode AND making me come around on said character (thus proving that Tawny Newsome is an absolute treasure to this franchise–give me a LD/STSA crossover now!).
Kirk@startrek.website 9 hours ago
Creepy how close this is to my exact experience… I did really enjoy Disco 4+5 however, even though I also thought the whole “jump to the future” idea was a little contrived.