I’m personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco “hater” and s4 really kinda bummed me out) … but thought I’d see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription.
Asked some friends and they said they’d stopped watching. Then I checked here and the other community and posts about the episodes just seem to be tepid compared to what I would have expected.
Now obviously I’ve got a bias (and I really don’t want to start kicking the show) … but am I reading this right or wrong?
I haven’t really been compelled to start watching this season yet, but I will eventually. Still, it seems pretty lackluster in terms of people getting into it from what I can tell. It’s a really bad sign. Final season of Discovery not being that big, Lower Decks ending, Prodigy shunted over to Netflix, Paramount+ cutting budgets and bleeding subscribers… I think we may be close to the end of another Star Trek era. I hope that isn’t true, but it could be.
They really need to light a fire under the fan base. I would suggest that would involve greenlighting Legacy, but I don’t have much hope for that.
I’m at a point where I wait until the season is nearly half done before I start.
My wife and I are just not in a position right now where we have time to watch anything together in the evening. That will change in a couple of weeks and we’ll start watching.
For my money, sticking to prequels is where the problems start.
Disco, SNW: hard prequels bordering on TOS reboot in the case of SNW.
Meanwhile Picard and lower decks are very much grounded in nostalgia (hint: each have more Frakes appearances than DS9).
This era never really had the same bravery to do something new like TOS and TNG-era, IMO. I was a big fan of Disco’s move into the future (it’s just that Disco miss the landing every time for me).
I like that SNW at least is genuinely trying to live in and explore it’s era, it always felt like disco was just using that setting carelessly.
Picard felt very pandering, I couldn’t get past the first season.
Lost Decks is the best one though, you can tell there’s a genuine affection for the setting and it’s quirks.
I haven’t been paying any attention to anyone else, but I’ve been enjoying this season.
It continues the abandoned Progenitor storyline from TNG. And it does a decent job at explaining why we didn’t see any more about it until 800 years later.
Even the interpersonal stuff isn’t terrible this season. We get to see more alternative captain/crew interaction and how those directly compare with Disco’s crew.
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abandoned Progenitor?
Are you talking about “The Chase”? What’s abandoned?
Otherwise … cool.
Yeah the storyline from “The Chase”. After that episode it was never touched again in any of the series until this season of Disco.
Bombshell revelation that all humanoid life in the galaxy was seeded by a Progenitor race? Never discussed again. Obviously Starfleet wouldn’t have abandoned that research thread. This season continues that story, and gives an in universe explanation to why we never saw it mentioned again.
Funny, for me I was happy for that to go nowhere after the episode. It’s so big and deep a revelation that it’d just be its own show in the end to pursue it further … which I liked … it felt like something so big that even in the Star Trek era it was going to take time and effort to just digest it … which was cool.
Plus in a way the point of the episode wasn’t the sci-fi but the ending dialogue between Picard and the romulan colander about the struggle to find common ground and peace.
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I feel you. I wasn’t ever as big a fan as you, but had a depressing moment somewhere in the middle of Picard S2 right after disco s4 (which I didn’t enjoy) where I realised that I just didn’t like new-Trek and had been doing my best to enjoy it as a fan not realising the work I was putting in. It all slipped away and I was just depressed for a bit. It’s the reason I haven’t started disco season 5 (while I was watching the other seasons live).
Thanks for sharing and hope you’re ok.
And what about that part with the warp trail shenanigans? There were 20 different trails, so they don’t know which way they really went? Why not just do 20 jumps and find out? Didn’t they do like 100 in short succession in season 1?
Hang in there though! The rest of them are good!
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Lots of good points have already been made in this thread, I’ll just chime in to say I’ve really enjoyed Discovery. It definitely has its problems, and I’m kinda bipolar when it comes to Burnham, sometimes I love her, sometimes I can’t stand her…she never really learns any lessons. But the show is gorgeous and tried to do something a little different. I respect that.
The action sequences and cinematography are better and more exciting than any other Trek I can think of. That sequence in S05E01 where Burnham is blown out into space, has a suit materialize on her, jetpacks towards Discovery and then transports through the viewscreen directly into her captain’s chair was BAD ASS.
I just wish the show was released in 4K HDR. Seems like a waste of beautiful visuals.
I gave up on it halfway through season 3. I loved many of the concepts introduced in the show but ultimately found them unable to make up for the show’s style. It was just exhausting to watch, and when I realized it I stopped.
The instances hosting active Star Trek communities didn’t exist during the previous season of Discovery, so Lemmy isn’t a great way to gauge relative interest.
On Reddit, the /r/startrek discussion thread for 4x02 has 1.1k comments and 4x03 has 600 comments while the thread for 5x03 only has about 400 comments. This seems to support your hypothesis.
I’ve been enjoying this season but I am a sucker for anything space related.
