• astroturds@startrek.website
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    2 years ago

    I swear people that don’t watch trek think it’s just about lasers and technobabble.

    I know people that refused to watch Discovery because ‘they made it all woke and now it’s all about women’.

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        2 years ago

        This. I don’t watch Discovery anymore because I couldn’t stand a lot of the characters but it had absolute nothing to do with progressive views.

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          2 years ago

          This! I could not stand the characters, just not my group of people I guess, which is fine. I don’t hate the show, it’s just not for me and I’m ok with that.

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        It’s got a very TOS-style of writing and story to it.

        I remember seeing a fair few people pitch a fit about the Burn, for example, even though “angry man has a tantrum and nearly blows up the universe”, and “child with godlike powers” are common TOS plots.

        They tried something new, which I don’t mind them for, but I don’t think it mixed well with people being used to more TNG-styles plots, and the writing not being that great. Still, it managed to help kickstart the modern revival of Trek, and gave us (non-wheelchair) Captain Pike, so it wasn’t all bad.