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Discovery got vaulted into the 32nd century for reasons of plot, and it was by far the best thing to happen to the show, as it got a billion times more interesting in the fictional future history’s future than in its past
✏️ Reason 1 for liking discovery a lot: Season 3 onwards, going to the future.. that’s true Discovery for me. And that timeline, and worldbuilding, and setting, was brilliant and great. 🔗 View Highlight
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how the journey of a character to the role of captain. Every other lead in a Trek show started out as a person in command with their place at the top of the ensemble a fait accompli as the show began. But unlike Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, and Archer before her (and Pike and Freeman after her), we saw Michael Burnham work her way to it, from her lowest point as a rank-less prisoner to a bridge officer to first officer and finally to captain of the U.S.S. Discovery. She did it with brains, she did it with fearlessness, she did it with a certain arrogance (she was raised by Vulcans, who have raised arrogance to an artform), and she did it—like all Trek commanders—with compassion and love.
✏️ Reason 2: Not a fan of Burnham as a personality, but nowhere else did we get a story of a character go from the lowest of the low (prisoner) and work their way up and up and up to being a captain. Till now we’ve always had already established leadership, and seeing one build up to it, especially a woman of color, is powerful. 🔗 View Highlight
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smart people solving problems, ideally with as little violence as possible. Prior shows always had a pair who Did The Science: Spock and Scotty on the original series, Data and La Forge on TNG, Dax and O’Brien on DS9, Torres and Kim on Voyager, and T’Pol and Tucker on Enterprise. But on Discovery, the whole crew is like that! Indeed, it’s from the top down, as Burnham and Saru are both brilliant (and we get one final example of the two of them being the science pair in “Under the Twin Moons”), but there’s also Stamets and Tilly and Reno and Adira. For that matter, we often see the bridge crew get in on it
✏️ Reason 3: The whole crew are nerds. In the past, it’s maybe one or two characters, but here it’s everyone! They all get into it all the time. 🔗 View Highlight