Star Trek: Discovery

The show started out techno-clever with interesting character interactions.

Now all we have is a bunch of needy characters episode after episode. Even the computer is needy. It is exhausting.

I give it a 6 because I still have hope, but the writing is being sucked into a black hole of neediness.

I really like ST and grew up with Kirk in the days if you missed an episode, you missed an episode!, Even in Picard days , I'm that old. I loved the original and Next Gen. The stories, the acting , sets and characters. I even liked the early episodes of Discovery and didn't know S5 was coming. So S5? It's just a hard slog watching the captain sob, cry, hug, cry again and not do any adventuring , well not much anyway. The series is just a long chat with each other on how they love each other and will miss each other and then a bit of story. I suppose the days when a whole story per episode is long gone replaced with a 2 hour story elongated to a series of 8 hour chats, hugs and crying and the occasional bit of story.

The first season was ok and had a promising start but it rapidly decayed into a sappy soap opera set in the Star Trek universe. The characters in the show and the plot have all the potential needed but the continuing agony of ongoing psychology sessions (they call them episodes) is making me reconsider my future and I'll need counselling, long into the future, for having watched this. Writing this is part of my exposure therapy after season 4 where my brain was set to stun. But seriously, so disappointed that the focus was on giving out life lessons and not writing good Star Trek stories. I get it that you can have positive messages in shows, not a bad thing, but this is just way too much, at the expense of a potentially good series.

In my personal unscientific rating scale 4=Forced myself to watch to the end but didn't really enjoy and won't watch it again.

Never have been so bored to death of hearing stupid speeches. Every 10 minutes there's a big speech about what there going in to and how important it is. Yeah yeah we got after 50th speech we didn't need another 100. Make a sci-fi program not political bull crap.

These days, Star Trek is all about over the top graphics, silly side plots, boring story lines, and forgettable characters. That's a shame because Star Trek used to be exciting, intelligent, and something to truly look forward to, even stay home for. I miss the focus on deep philosophical questions, complex moral dilemmas, technical challenges overcome with ingenuity, and just the pure fun of watching a story unfold. There's still room for great storytelling in the Star Trek universe, but it needs to return to its roots: thoughtful exploration, genuine curiosity, and technology that feels achievable, not outlandish. Let's be honest, the spore drive? The most ridiculous addition ever. But it's not just the spore drive, the dark and murky scenes, and the unclear goals just don't excite me anymore.

Remember the days when a malfunctioning transporter sparked a debate on the nature of consciousness? Now, technical hurdles get resolved with a unrealistic technology. Where's the ingenuity?

The characters themselves have become, for me, one-dimensional, unlikable, and forgettable. Can you even recall what happened to those characters just one season ago? This prioritization of spectacle over substance feels like Star Trek has gotten lost in space, far from what made it such a groundbreaking and beloved series.

Sometimes the past was better then the present.