Expand / / “The Federation is not only about boats. The Federation is the individuals.” (charge: CBS
The most common complaint imposed against Star Trek: Discovery through its first two seasons has been”This does not sense as the Star Trek I recall.” The critics did really have a point{} the beginning, Discovery attempted to lean to the contemporary streaming prestige-drama mould, while also preserving its Starfleet soul. Those two aims do not always align, and consequently Discovery occasionally seemed like a series that just could not make up its head.
In its third year, nonetheless, Discovery has picked a negative. The series is currently all-in on venerating the positive, wide-eyed Federation buffs wish to keep in mind in the’80s and’90s, and it is bringing back the older planet-of-the-week structure to achieve that. The show’s inner battle has taken a completely new direction: to get a story about jumping a century into the future to investigate the strangest potential new planet, Discovery for the most part plays it wholeheartedly secure.
(Spoilers under for its first two seasons of Discovery.)
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