I was 100% sold on Discovery after Season 1, but after watching Season 2 im all in. Loved the entire plot line with Spock and the Red Angel. BUT, as I said, I wasnt a huge Star Trek fan going in so that might be why im enjoying it more than people who are.
Both Picard and Discovery are watchable, but I can't imagine anyone calling them exciting.
I was just teasing Dead Souls lol, but yea it was a great battle sequence.
There's a lot I like about Discovery, but one of the criticisms I have (of the second season in particular) is that a lot of it felt insecure about the series' place in the canon. They created a setting that didn't easily fit into existing Star Trek (Klingons that looked different, a foster sister for Spock, a method of travel that seemed a whole lot better than warp drive yet was absent in other Star Trek series), and they got some flak for that (some fair, some unfair), and in season 2 it felt like they went out of their way to address that. One of the ways they did that was the erasure of Discovery from history and Spock deciding that he would never mention his human foster sister ever again. Those are things that do patch up the lore, a bit, but they felt artificial (because they were). One of the reasons why I'm looking forward to the rest of the third season is that there is no (perceived) need for them to come up with convoluted explanations to try to justify their own existence within existing Star Trek time periods.
So we kind of know the answer to this already. Not definitely, since plans can always change, but we know how they want to handle the time shift and whether they want it to be permanent, to return to the previous Discovery era alongside Strange New Worlds, or to move to a different time period. It's technically a spoiler I suppose, so I'm tagging it in case you don't want to know the answer just yet.
Oh neat, thanks! Hadnt heard about Strange New Worlds. I guess thatll give them a chance to play around in both eras. Glad they are keeping Spock and Pike, although I wish Spock kept the beard lol. I can see how weird it might feel trying to fit this first two seasons of Discovery in the middle of decades of established continuity.
People were upset because the Klingon language, culture and religion had already been explored heavily between the TOS movies, TNG, DS9 and Voyager, even Enterprise added more. Then Discovery releases and pretty much ignored it all.
TOS never did much for developing the Klingon culture, the TOS movies onwards didn't change anything as they were building on a near blank slate.
I dislike time travel paradox stories very much so I did not like the conclusion of season 2.
No.
Doesn't have actors from the old show at least. It does keep bringing in the Enterprise/Spock but that's about it
The writers know.
I don't think it ignored Measure of a Man, the mars androids were clearly less advanced and might have been a response to Data being declared a person with rights. If the Mars androids have no desire to be more than they are, don't stand up for themselves, have no sense of self preservation, don't form friendships and relationships then they are not like Data. The federation didn't produce a sentient slave race, they made Siri on legs.
there's a difference between killing an already downed enemy and killing people who's actively shooting at you
