(I cannot go into further detail about this yet.) If you’re coming aboard now due to Discovery ’s long-awaited and much-publicized new queer representation, you should definitely lower your expectations. If you’re hoping this season will be an ambitious overhaul of Star Trek as a whole, you should probably lower your expectations. I’ve had the privilege of watching the first four episodes of the season, and while I will only discuss the specifics of the first chapter below, I see this season as the show’s strongest yet, and a fairly clean jumping-on point for fans of the franchise who haven’t watched Discovery before ( though I’d read this first, if I were you ).
Between this and the in-story time-jump, the issues that have most hampered Star Trek: Discovery are now behind it.
Discovery ’s uneven first two years are owed in part to two mid-season regime changes in the writers’ room, but the dust has settled with Michelle Paradise and current franchise custodian Alex Kurtzman as co-showrunners, not just for this season but for a fourth already in production. Of course, facial hair’s got nothing to do with it - The Next Generation markedly improved when head writer Maurice Hurley was replaced by Michael Piller, Deep Space Nine picked up as Piller handed the torch to Ira Steven Behr, and so on.
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Fans invented a term for the point, usually around the third season, that a Trek series gets its shit together: We call it “growing the beard,” in reference to Commander Riker’s new look in Season Two of TNG, and we call it that despite the show still being mostly mediocre until Season Three. Going back as far as The Next Generation in 1987, every Star Trek spin-off has needed a few years to hit its stride. The season premiere offers us only a narrow glimpse at the new status quo, but it’s enough to stir up some curiosity, and just as importantly, it’s a solid, emotional hour of space adventure. Now, going into its third season, Discovery has wound up reclaiming part of that abandoned premise, launching into a new century and shedding much of its obligation to the rigid continuity of the universe. It’s an idea held over from co-creator Bryan Fuller’s original pitch for bringing Star Trek back to television as an anthology show that would start before Kirk’s day and then jump ahead through Trek ’s fictional history each season until reaching a never-before-seen future. Setting Star Trek: Discovery in the franchise’s past always seemed a puzzling choice.
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