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My expectations for the explanation of the burn weren't high, but it was even dumber than I expected.

I went ahead and searched for the explanation just now. Holy shit, this show is as bad as I thought it was. I'm glad I gave up on it.

There are some things about Discovery that I really like, and some things I don't.

Things I liked:

1. I really liked the first half of Season 1 where Burnham went from First Officer to being the most hated criminal felon in Star Fleet, then back to being a Star Fleet officer again.
2. I thought Jason Isaacs did a superb job as Captain Lorca. He was a complex character with good and bad qualities. I kept looking at Jason Isaacs and thinking "I can't believe this is the same guy who played Lucius Malfoy". Jason Isaacs is a great actor.
3. I really liked the way they introduced Ash Tyler and the way he was stuck in Klingon captivity, waiting for the "right" guy to help him escape, since escaping was a two-man job.
4. I really liked the development of so many characters with back stories that made them interesting, especially Stamets and Culber.
5. I really liked Rainn Wilson as Harry Mudd. I'd like to see that character again, although that seems unlikely now.
6. I liked the way Ash Tyler murdered Culber so suddenly and surprisingly. I still flinch whenever I rewatch the scene where Tyler snaps Culber's neck.
7. I'm glad they are finally done with Georgiou on this show. There was something about her that I just found annoying.

Things I hated:

1. I absolutely ****ing hated the reveal of Captain Lorca as simply an evil ****er from the Mirror Universe. That almost made me stop watching. They took a great, complex character, and they turned him into a cartoon villain.
2. I hated it when they revealed that Ash Tyler was really a Klingon who had been surgically altered to look like a human.
3. I hated the whole idea of Captain Georgiou as the Emperor of the Mirror Universe.
4. I hated it when Burnham brought her into our universe.
5. I hated it even more when Emperor Georgiou immediately was accepted into Star Fleet's double top secret Section 31 organization.
6. There were far too many Klingon scenes where they spoke Klingon. I got tired of that quickly.
7. And more recently, I totally ****ing hate what they came up with as the cause of The Burn. Ridiculous and disappointing.

Even though there are so many things about the show that piss me off, I find myself watching it every week, because they also do a lot of things very well.

I just finished re-watching Season 1 of Star Trek Picard. I know that some people don't like that show at all. I love almost everything about that show.

The entire cast gave outstanding performances and the season-long plot was incredible. My favorite character might have been Dr. Agnes Jurati, who wound up murdering Dr. Maddox and then later redeeming herself. She was a very complex and interesting character. So were Soji/Dahj, Raffi, Rios, and Seven of Nine. And watching Data ask Picard to terminate the simulation that was keeping his consciousness alive was very touching and seemed very fitting for Data's character as the Android who desperately wanted to be human. Since humans aren't immortal, he didn't want to be immortal either.

Seeing Riker coming to the rescue in the last episode as temporary captain of a star ship was one of the highlights of the season. It totally made up for seeing him in an earlier episode as a boring old retired guy in overalls and a scraggly grey beard.

I must say I had very low expectations for Star Trek Picard. I didn't want to see a show with 80 year old Patrick Stewart playing a boring old retired guy. This show far exceeded my expectations.

I understand you have your own personal tastes and I don't want to shit on them, but Picard is bad TV and it is garbage Star Trek. These reviews are better than the show, and you should consider watching them. Picard is bad and they do a good job of explaining why.

The best thing about Picard is that it's been rolled at at the same time as Discovery. I'll take the bologna sandwich on stale bread with flat pop that is Picard over the steaming pile of shit with sour milk that is Discovery. Yum. :shake:

To each his own. It's clearly a mixed bag, but I'm hardly the only person who likes the show. According to Rotten Tomatoes, 56% of the audience likes the show (along with 87% of the critics).

If you don't like the show and you consider it to be garbage Star Trek, that's cool.

The funny thing is that the first time I watched it, I was like "Meh". But then I decided to re-watch it a couple of weeks ago. When I re-watched it, I put my phone away and really watched the show instead of having it on in the background while I browsed the Internet on my phone. I enjoyed it a lot more that way, and I picked up on a lot of things that I missed the first time. I don't think I gave it a fair shot the first time.

I tried to watch the reviews you posted, but frankly, those two guys bored the shit out of me. I prefer the reviews on Post Show Recaps ==> https://postshowrecaps.com/tv-show/s...p-remembrance/

I laughed when Burnham of all people told Book she was afraid Saru couldn’t be objective as captain. There are ideas in this show that are intriguing but it’s just such lazy writing and so badly executed.

Also why did the entire crew spent like 5 minutes giving toasts to the departed Georgieu as if she ever had positive interactions with anyone on the ship other than Burnham? Just bizarre. She was basically Trek’s version of Vegeta except not developed as a character whatsoever.

Botching Lorca as badly as they did turned me off this show about as badly as any show ever has.Took a long break before getting around to watching S2. They spent time in the first half of that S1 making him an interesting character and threw it all away for reasons that are still unclear.

I noticed that Enterprise is on Netflix. Watched the first episode and it was good enough to start wiping the bad taste of DISCO away. I recall that the final episode is a stupid shitshow holodeck bullshit scam but I think I'll give it a shot anyway.

Seasons 1-3 are legit excellent. I'm in the middle of season 4 and it is weak.

I'm thinking about rewatching Enterprise as well.

https://i.imgur.com/Y3PnGuJ.gif


Enterprise is only my fourth favorite Trek series, but it is lightyears ahead of everything that came after it. The final episode is still complete shit though; Demons/Terra Prime is where the series ends for me.





I'm just the opposite, in that I think that season 4 was the most consistently good. Daedelus and These Are the Voyages are the only two episodes I dislike. The show was on the upswing, imo, and I would have loved to see a fifth season centered around the Romulan War.



P.S. I like to mess around with Photoshop, and I did some ENT related stuff a few months ago. Here's an Enterprise/ACDC mashup I did then:

https://i.imgur.com/mstV8mf.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/gf4t7KC.png

Since nobody has posted since the season finale I can only assume that you guys have given up on this pos?