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sabrose1020Dec 17, 2021

The show insults the viewer in many ways. Unlikeable characters, SJW principles outweigh story development, character development, logic and entertainment value. I feel very sorry for Anson Mount being a part of this abomination. He is aThe show insults the viewer in many ways. Unlikeable characters, SJW principles outweigh story development, character development, logic and entertainment value. I feel very sorry for Anson Mount being a part of this abomination. He is a fine actor .I am sure he had to take a long shower to rid himself of the stench of this show. It takes talent however to assemble this many physically unattractive actors on one show. It takes hubris to shove this show down the throats of an unwilling audience and push its immense failure for 4 seasons. I haven't watched season 4 even though I have Paramount.I did watch much of the first 3 seasons. It was sort of like watching a car wreck. I would watch Season 4 if they had the Mystery Science theater 3000 guys writing ongoing commentary during the show. That is what it deserves.… Expand

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steelreviewssDec 5, 2021

Low effort cash grab. Again.
Pseudo diversity is front and center again, good writing is lacking.

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ajewoMay 16, 2021

Star Trek: Discovery is primarily about fast-paced action and one big mystery plot for each season rather than episodical mystery, exploration, ethical or social issues. The episodes are not very memorable, unlike other Star Trek series.Star Trek: Discovery is primarily about fast-paced action and one big mystery plot for each season rather than episodical mystery, exploration, ethical or social issues. The episodes are not very memorable, unlike other Star Trek series. Discovery is a gritty, non-optimistic version of Star Trek with prequel continuity issues, e.g., the Klingon makeover is just unnecessary, holograms, or the "instant everywhere" spore drive. However, some issues will be reverted in the second season.
If you start to think about the plots for a minute, you will often find many issues that do not add up. Some episodes are so packed with "stuff" and contradictions that I didn't even care to follow the plot in a logical sense anymore. The voice-over pathos inspired by the JJ Abraham movies is just another empty element. And most of the characters are shady (especially in the first season) and unlikable. Some characters become charicatures. Michael Burnham, for example, is supposed to be the hero of the series, but since she's not the captain of the Discovery, she's not in a position to make the big decisions, yet she has all the answers and rebels without consequence (because she's always right in the end). As for the production, the series is well done. There are annoyingly overused light glares in the first two seasons, but the costumes, masks, and visuals are very good at movie level. All in all, I wish they had invested the budget in better scripts, stories, and dialogues written by actual science fiction authors.
I recommend watching the earlier Star Trek series, The Expanse, or The Orville instead.… Expand

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j0hnnjOct 10, 2021

Building up a consistent universe can't be done if fashion political views shared by autors in the real life society change everything in the story, the spirit of your fiction.

Discovery is poorly written, protagonists are superhumans, aBuilding up a consistent universe can't be done if fashion political views shared by autors in the real life society change everything in the story, the spirit of your fiction.

Discovery is poorly written, protagonists are superhumans, a little bit dumbs - but I supose that scenarist could do better - but they can do anything. antagonists are bads stupids and ugly.

The story TL;DR version is: "Trumpists are klingons, klingons are bad, we are good, we kill bad". From an entire neutral pov, this story make no sense compared to the olds star trek. You feel that this show promotes a new wave racism and not diversity.
Every body good is a female, every white male are bad and/or coward and/or stupid except if they are gay.

1 point for the design that is good, people doing the visual effect are the only one that deserve to be paid for this show.… Expand

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Wehmut1701Nov 17, 2021

This is a silly show which embraces dumbass action and other visuals. They try to do Star Wars within Star Trek and by that they are destroying Star Trek.

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TellGoodStoriesNov 21, 2021

Special effects are great. Everything else is grating. Some of my gripes have to do with using the destroy the past premise for the whole show. But it's just painful to watch.

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BigfootBillboAug 29, 2020

Completely ignores canon and the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek in my opinion.
It turns out that in addition to this show being terrible SJW woke mess that they're currently also being sued for stealing material from a video game.

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portobellojimJul 6, 2019

I watched the entire first season. James Issacs carried it for a bit, so did the Star Trek brand and some of the writing was ok earlier in the series. Also Brian Fuller has made some great and interesting tv (Hannibal had some greatI watched the entire first season. James Issacs carried it for a bit, so did the Star Trek brand and some of the writing was ok earlier in the series. Also Brian Fuller has made some great and interesting tv (Hannibal had some great moments).
This season begins with an excruciating speech from the main character where she repeats the phrase 'this is who we are!' over and over while the show cuts to the faces of the crew who are looking proud and emotional. It is a truly awful moment.
Then the show gets under way, it's built around a main character who is basically superpowered in her wisdom and strength. They’ve even sacrificed the character of Spock so they can show just how strong and clever she is (he took her place in science academy unfairly (She's his adopted sister), he's a spoilt child and basically if you think he's smart, she's smarter!).
The plot is daft and amateurish, the acting involves a lot of speech-making and manufactured emotionalism. But the effects are good.
All in all this is the weakest film or tv addition to the Star Trek universe to date. It’s too melodramatic, too preachy, it lacks subtlety, the storylines don’t work and the characters are mostly forgettable and generic.
I haven’t give it 0 out of 10, because despite the story-telling incompetence, the show is strong in terms of visual design.… Expand

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WolfHeathenAug 25, 2019

Discovery feels like a generic space action show that could've really had any name other than "Star Trek" attached to it. Almost everything is wrong with this show.

1) Every Star Trek fan knows that Star Trek has a certain feeling. It wasDiscovery feels like a generic space action show that could've really had any name other than "Star Trek" attached to it. Almost everything is wrong with this show.

1) Every Star Trek fan knows that Star Trek has a certain feeling. It was present in TNG, DS9, and VOY. Enterprise faltered a bit on this and Discovery doesn't have it at all.

2) Starfleet has completely abandoned everything it stood for and apparently it's absolutely OK to just act willy-nilly and shoot and anything if you feel like it. It seems as if the rules and laws that Stafleet holds sacred have all been thrown out the airlock.

The crew many times act like children, with one character in the first episode running onto the bridge telling the helm to do donuts because it's cool, which would never be acceptable no matter which navy you belong to, futuristic or otherwise. There's a massive lack of discipline on this ship and it's completely unrealistic and gets rid of everything Star Trek has taught us about behaving and having manners. In the previous shows you only broke the rules if you felt it was absolutely necessary, not because you're an impatient ****

It's almost as if the ship is run by adults suffering from extended adolescence.

3) Klingons never cared about their dead because the soul was what mattered. The body was nothing but an empty shell, so making sure the soul made it to Sto'Vo'Kor with honor was their priority, not caring for a dead husk. Klingons are no longer Klingons.

4) Memorable main theme. Discovery has none. ST:E alienated 50% of the fan base within the first 30 seconds of the first episode because of the horrible musical score chosen to introduce the show. Discovery has a forgettable main theme. The only way you'd be able to "recognize" it in an audio quiz would be by pure deduction; it would be the only one left that you didn't recognize.

Star Trek music is not supposed be a generic mediocre orchestral score that doesn't evoke emotions of heroism, bravery, or wonder.

5) The identity politics. Oh, joy...

The first black captain was Cpt. Sisko in DS9. He was a brilliant captain and a brilliant character who didn't have to resort to screaming "racism" every time he didn't get his way. The white characters on the show weren't overtly diminished because of their skin color in order to make Sisko more prominent because of his.

Jadzia Dax in DS9 was a character who through her symbiont had changed gender multiple times. This wasn't anything anyone cared about because it wasn't the main emphasis of the character. They didn't make a big deal out of this obvious metaphor for transsexuality. Instead they emphasized the vast amount of knowledge she had accrued over her seven lifetimes and they made use of her extensive expertise, making her a strong female character based on nothing but her own merits.

Captain Janeway was a great character who needed nothing other than her own merits to stand strong as the show's first female captain. She stood alongside strong male characters and she did so as an equal, not as someone who needed to be made stronger by making her male crew any less masculine.

STD has to belittle and denigrate masculinity in order to make the female characters seem stronger and better. The fact that they're quite badass on their own isn't enough for the writers of this show, and the feminist agenda becomes painfully clear at this point. Elevating women isn't for feminists: masculinity has to be belittled and portrayed as something negative instead of making women just as good as men at everything men do.

Blurring the gender lines is also a clear and overt thing in this show. The most obvious one being the main female character named Michael.

Also, the fact that J.J. Abrams publicly stated that there was an obsession on his part with race (because the Emmy Awards had "the whitest **** room ever") when casting this show proves how incredibly SJW influenced this show really is.

I don't need politics in my TV shows unless they're obviously political TV shows like House of Cards or The West Wing. I watch Star Trek because I want to escape to a better world, not because I want to experience more of the world I already live in. Every single Star Trek show has done this for me except for STD (which is an apt abbreviation for this show).… Expand

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butters19811981Oct 20, 2020

Overwhelming feminism propaganda. Maybe some good special effects but main character is Marry Sue style hero...i tryed to watch that few Times...but everytime feminism propaganda is just to much.

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AoombJan 16, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Storyline feels written by someone unfamiliar in star trek universe. For example surfing a "wave" to escape danger.… Expand

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Radu76Mar 9, 2020

Let me beging by stating: I'm a strong believer in equality between sexes. You won't find that in this show!

This series can literally be summed up to this: women good, men bad. The vile and disgusting sexist and racist writers of this showLet me beging by stating: I'm a strong believer in equality between sexes. You won't find that in this show!

This series can literally be summed up to this: women good, men bad. The vile and disgusting sexist and racist writers of this show see equality between sexes like this: men are only good when following women's orders, but god forbid they are straight white male. Don't believe me? Watch the show and keep an eye out for this. All the figures of authority that are autonomous are females, the men in this show simply do not think. What do I mean by that? I mean to say, all the men that are in positions of authority (few as they are) ALWAYS AND ONLY do what their female comrades tell them to, whether they be their superior OR SUBORDONATE! There's always a whisper or suggestion by a woman that gets followed religiously by the captain if he's a man, only the women with authority actually have their own ideas. Check it out, rewatch the show with this in mind. That should tell you something about how the writers see males. In fact, the writers are so fanatic in their gender/racial fascism, that you won't find one single exception to this rule so far (season two).

The above overtakes everything in this show. This is not a sci-fi show, and is only "Star Trek" in name, in reality being a pure, compressed brainwashing attempt charged with political and ideological propaganda, devised, with intention or otherwise, to devide the sexes, sexualities and race (exactly the opposite of the old series)

If you're wondering why the show continues, in spite of the overwhelming negative feedback, in this humble reviewers' opinion, it's because YOU (WE) ARE NOT THE TARGET! Our children are! That's why the show walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but looks like the golden goose! Shiny special effects and action scenes will absorb children into it, remember your youth? They are sending a message of revolt and revolution, for all the wrong reasons. I hope that revolution will happen, and the degenerates responsible for the show will be brought to justice for their attemps to instigate discrimination agains men (in particular straight white ones), and serve their (in my opinion) rightfully deserved time.

In conclusion: don't waste your money on this, don't fund the propaganda machine. Also, very important! Keep well OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN!… Expand

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DeNomolosJul 31, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Oh, DISCOVERY... Contrary to what some may think, it is not difficult to satisfy most Trek fans. A new ship, a new crew, respecting what came before, and good writing. Is there really anything else we want? Where to begin.. The first mistake DISCOVERY made was being set in the past. If they wanted to blaze their own trail and change the galaxy in big ways - without disrupting established canon - set it in the future! They want ridiculous new tech we never heard of - Fungus Drives, Data-Like Androids, etc., again they could have easily set it post-VOYAGER and solved these things, but no... And why? Much like the Kelvin Timeline films, it is to milk characters that have already been established and are popular, by basing new characters and stories off them. There is one word for this - Unoriginal. They do their best to screw up already established canon, write themselves into a corner, and are forced to then time jump into the distant future to try and be fresh again. No real character development, except for Burnham who is over-developed and ridiculous. The show is full of cheap thrills and loud and fancy effects to make up for lack of storytelling. Gone are the slow burn episodes, replaced by phaser fights and explosions every 30 seconds like some kind of Star Trek Die Hard. Gone are thoughtful and meaningful discussions about science and the nature of space travel, replaced with Time Crystals and other pseudo science BS. It was a nice run, and Star Trek lived a good life - but if there's anything DISCOVERY and PICARD prove, its over. Squandered opportunities.… Expand