Star Trek

I don't dislike it for existing but there are a few characters I can't stand. Sadly the main two for me are Burnham and Tilly, so I have to cringe a lot. Don't like the action pace of the show and didn't like big, season long story arcs. But I do love Stammets and his entire story, wish the whole show was about him, he's such a unique character and has such a unique skill and connection to Starfleet and the discovery ship itself

And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

• "God" lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
• Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
• V'ger
• Q and the continuum
• Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
• Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
• Mirror Universe
• Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
• SPACE FUNGUS

Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco's first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.

I just don't like the story spanning entire seasons. They either become too complex to keep it interesting, or ir becomes a boring slog to get through.

Also means that if the story sucks, the entire season sucks.

Would have loved it more if it was episodic like SNW.

I enjoyed large parts of Disco so far, and pretty much agree with you. The show feels like a decent Brian Fuller setup that was corrupted during the production of season 1, and continued to take course correction notes for each new season.

[They] EXTREMELY underestimated technological advancement across NEARLY 1000 YEARS. Everything basically looks the same.

Let me one-up you here: it looked like a step back. Not only in terms of in-universe development, but also just... uninventive production design. Trek gave us sliding automatic doors, flip phones and touchscreen tablet computers before they existed in the real world. Its conceptualisation of 32nd century tech and design on the other hand is swiped from actual 21c industry pipe dreams.

If this sounds very negative, I'll add that I've really enjoyed the highs of Discovery, and there have been a good few throughout the show. I like that they've leaned into the emotional and therapeutic work that would go into an accepting, peaceful society — even on a daily workplace and social basis.

And hell yeah, will I binge rewatch all seasons as a warmup to the final outing!

I'm hopeful that they fire up the hype machine as we get closer to the premiere date - you don't want to start too early.

But we'll see. There are many reasons not to have a lot of faith in the current Paramount regime.

Bonus trek for you!

Keep hoping!

For me it was just the emotional tone. I only watched the first 5 episodes, but one of the things that makes Star Trek enjoyable for me is its optimism about the future. Discovery was really bleak (at least to start) and I couldn't keep watching it. I've heard it gets better, so maybe I should give it another shot.

Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.

While hardly a first for Star Trek, it's always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.

The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.

That's what I really loved about the season.

You want them to go to the mirror universe AGAIN?!

Oh you want the Riker/fullhouse spinoff

Really? For me, Season 3 was when it finally stopped sucking (as much), and S4 was good. The only thing that made S2 bearable was Pike, and them buddying up with Space Hitler put me off until S4.