CapnZapp
Legend
Great quotes from a review:
- "The show is explicitly drawing on Trek lore to achieve its goals, and yet every nod to the original series [] just underlines how un-Star Trek this show really is."
- "I can’t appreciate what it does right because I’m routinely distracted by the weird, pointless, or outright bad choices the writers have made. We’re six episodes in, and I’m still getting annoyed at how advanced the technology is for a series that’s ostensibly set ten years before the original Trek."
- "The ship is just a series of rooms, not a place"
- "adding to the impression that there are maybe a dozen people aboard the Discovery, if that. (Everyone else is a hologram. [])"
https://www.avclub.com/another-episode-with-too-much-star-trek-not-enough-dis-1819758431
(review of episode 6 - SPOILERS obvs)
Add to this how the writers feel obliged to use action at every possible time, the movie-shiny surface with no depth, and (worst of all) the insane amount of mumbo-jumbo.
They have actually went ahead and f*cked with every technical limitation there is. Discovery not only has transporters, holodecks, and replicators, they can travel instantly anywhere, and Burnham has the magical ability to connect with Sarek galaxy-wide.
There is no sense of place or time, since there are no limitations. It is limitations that separate "sci fi" from "sci fa", and these writers are hacks that simply don't care.
No, this is written by someone who just maybe has looked at the recent shallow action spectacles of the movies to learn everything they know of the property.
The end is very pretty but ultimately deeply unsatisfying trek, and way more science fantasy than science fiction.
- "The show is explicitly drawing on Trek lore to achieve its goals, and yet every nod to the original series [] just underlines how un-Star Trek this show really is."
- "I can’t appreciate what it does right because I’m routinely distracted by the weird, pointless, or outright bad choices the writers have made. We’re six episodes in, and I’m still getting annoyed at how advanced the technology is for a series that’s ostensibly set ten years before the original Trek."
- "The ship is just a series of rooms, not a place"
- "adding to the impression that there are maybe a dozen people aboard the Discovery, if that. (Everyone else is a hologram. [])"
https://www.avclub.com/another-episode-with-too-much-star-trek-not-enough-dis-1819758431
(review of episode 6 - SPOILERS obvs)
Add to this how the writers feel obliged to use action at every possible time, the movie-shiny surface with no depth, and (worst of all) the insane amount of mumbo-jumbo.
They have actually went ahead and f*cked with every technical limitation there is. Discovery not only has transporters, holodecks, and replicators, they can travel instantly anywhere, and Burnham has the magical ability to connect with Sarek galaxy-wide.
There is no sense of place or time, since there are no limitations. It is limitations that separate "sci fi" from "sci fa", and these writers are hacks that simply don't care.
No, this is written by someone who just maybe has looked at the recent shallow action spectacles of the movies to learn everything they know of the property.
The end is very pretty but ultimately deeply unsatisfying trek, and way more science fantasy than science fiction.