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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 7338029" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>Yeah, the anthology format would have made casting much harder. Plus, there would have been pressure to keep any fan-favorite/breakout characters for more than one season. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd say in 2018, more people are nostalgic for TNG-era Trek (cf. The Orville). I say this as someone who grew up w/TOS. I still believe the driving factor was Fuller's desire to tell a story about a battle for the Federation's soul prior to the Age of Kirk. Which helped lay the foundation for not only TOS-era Trek, but for the more-utopic and unitard-forward TNG period. </p><p></p><p>Though I may think that because I don't feel much nostalgia in Discovery. For every callback and nod there are deliberate attempts at being "things you've never seen in Star Trek before". </p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think they're stepping on established lore too badly, but honestly I'd be fine with it if they were. I'm not looking for the creative team to "honor Star Trek". I want them to use whatever bits of the canon they find interesting and make something new. And hopefully good. But if making good art were easy everyone would do it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I loved that. It was so stupid. And human. If you're going to indulge in the more operatic aspects of space opera, you could do worse than have a protagonist kidnap-save their evil doppleganger mother figure from a parallel universe. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I think Discovery is better written than something spit out by a neural network or a Markov Chain generator or some such. I'll stand by an earlier assessment; unevenness aside, it's the strongest first season of a Star Trek series since the 1966-67 television season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 7338029, member: 3887"] Yeah, the anthology format would have made casting much harder. Plus, there would have been pressure to keep any fan-favorite/breakout characters for more than one season. I'd say in 2018, more people are nostalgic for TNG-era Trek (cf. The Orville). I say this as someone who grew up w/TOS. I still believe the driving factor was Fuller's desire to tell a story about a battle for the Federation's soul prior to the Age of Kirk. Which helped lay the foundation for not only TOS-era Trek, but for the more-utopic and unitard-forward TNG period. Though I may think that because I don't feel much nostalgia in Discovery. For every callback and nod there are deliberate attempts at being "things you've never seen in Star Trek before". I don't think they're stepping on established lore too badly, but honestly I'd be fine with it if they were. I'm not looking for the creative team to "honor Star Trek". I want them to use whatever bits of the canon they find interesting and make something new. And hopefully good. But if making good art were easy everyone would do it. I loved that. It was so stupid. And human. If you're going to indulge in the more operatic aspects of space opera, you could do worse than have a protagonist kidnap-save their evil doppleganger mother figure from a parallel universe. Well, I think Discovery is better written than something spit out by a neural network or a Markov Chain generator or some such. I'll stand by an earlier assessment; unevenness aside, it's the strongest first season of a Star Trek series since the 1966-67 television season. [/QUOTE]
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