Star Trek – Lower Decks (S1-S4)
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Star Trek – Lower Decks (S1-S4)

So, unlike Discovery, this show is a lot more serialized, which is much more Trek-like honestly. There is some loose callbacks within the seasons, mostly at the end of the seasons, but otherwise, each episode is mostly just its own mission or activity. Or more often, several missions or activities. Unlike most Trek shows, this one follows the "lower decks" crew. As the name would suggest. There is a bridge crew that shows up, but they are not the focus. Instead, it's, all those people running around in the background shots of every episode, doing God knows what, keeping the…
Star Trek Strange New Worlds
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds

Despite that I've been writing about Star Trek Discovery, what really brought me back to Star Trek was Strange New Worlds. I had tried and given up on Discovery several times, not making it past the first episode, and I wasn't hearing much great and Star Trek Picard. I was hearing good things about Strange New Worlds. I know the timelines and continuity is iffy, but it's essentially a prequel series to The Original Series. Something I kind of realized when starting SNW, is that I have never really watched TOS. I have seen episodes here and there for sure,…
Star Trek Discovery – Season 5
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Star Trek Discovery – Season 5

And now for the final season of Star Trek Discovery. I have a whole mess of notes to make sense of, and a lot of them are more just, about the series in general. So let's see where we boldly go on this one. Actually, it turns out it's not that much. I kind of had a hard time caring enough to finish this series and season and the whole series has felt a bit downhill for a while. After feeling a bit more like Star Trek for the last few seasons, Discovery seems like its fully embraces its Not…
Star Trek Discovery – Season 4
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Star Trek Discovery – Season 4

As expected, despite there technically being ways, the crew is just staying in the Future's Future. This season has been kind of meh overall, it really really feels like a rehash of the last two seasons except now Space Elon is the bad guy. Also, are the actors getting bored with the show? Or maybe just, COVID messed up everyone's schedules? It feels like a lot of the lesser characters started leaving near the end of the season. At least, the ones they didn't give some characterization to. Last season they sort of gave Detmer a few bits of actual…
Star Trek Discovery – Season 3
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Star Trek Discovery – Season 3

So, how to solve the problem of "Discovery feels too advanced" and solve the problem of, "The writers want to make Star Trek but mostly ignore most established Trek canon concepts." What if you just... Catapult the plot 930 years into the future. I am not entirely against the time travel angle of the plot. I am a bit against the "930 years" part. For one, now there is the opposite problem, where everything doesn't feel advanced ENOUGH. Like seriously, did society just plateau? This is literally the equivalent of being a medieval knight to our present day. Even if…