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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 99 points 9 months ago

I strongly suspect Discovery was written and acted by people who have never seen actual shit or suffered trauma.

If they had, perhaps they would realise that people who've been through a lot are often the (seemingly) calmest or least emotional person in the room when shit hits the fan. It isn't their first rodeo. Or they're bitter and angry arseholes. Basically Jean Luc Picard or Liam Shaw are far more realistic portrayals of people who have gone through shit.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

ADHD helps.

"I have experienced this moment 44 times in my head."

"Oh this argument? I was up late three nights in a row running through every possible iteration."

"Dude! Why were you so calm last night? That was a huge fire and you just sort of calmly grabbed your drink and bag and walked out the door. I saw it!

"I have experienced that moment more times than you can possibly imagine."

[-] Desistance@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Written by, sure. But I distinctly remember that the characters cried regularly in that show after trauma.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 23 points 9 months ago

That is what annoys me the most with disco trek.

These people are supposed to be trained professionals, serving in a military hierarchy and should, before they even graduate, be accustomed to the proper decorum and on duty-appropriate behavior for an officer.

If they are constantly involved in personal drama and unrelated problems it just feels like watching a therapy session in space. It’s probably exacerbated by the modern season length of a dozen episodes at best, but in the older trek they struck a much more palatable balance of personal issue / character episodes and more plot centric stories.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think it's no surprise that each Trek, through its own lens, shows us some vision of a possible future. ST:D just showed us a future where living life means dealing with the whole mind and not treating it like a taboo. Considering all the recent buzz about not neglecting mental health, I think ST:D was really relevant in its time for exploring what could be different in a better future. It's not a documentary, it's a vision.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doesn't help your case that you keep (almost) calling the show STD, though 😛

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago

Especially because it's not a naming convention used for any other show: we don't call Voyager ST:V, or Prodigy ST:P. The logical abbreviation is either DIS or DSC

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I keep rooting for DISCO. One, because it's on their exercise uniform, and two, because disco's not dead, baby!

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I call it DSC because it fits the three letter patter and I think it looks nicer in print than DIS, but if I didn't I'd definitely call it Disco.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

it just feels like watching a therapy session in space.

TNG had the ship's therapist literally sitting next to the captain.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 14 points 9 months ago

Which apparently did wonders keeping the bridge crew emotionally stable in comparison

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

I'll be honest, the constant crying and sharing of emotions kinda takes me out of the action. It feels like some of the hyper-emotional scenes are in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the wrong measure. If these scenes were toned down from hyper-emotional to emotional and put in more appropriate places in their episodes, DSC would be a lot better for it.

I don't want to sound like I'm hating on DSC. I think the show has some good bones and interesting concepts, but it's a bit rough like a lot of series are in places (TNG s1...I'm looking at you). Really, if they had true 22-24 episode seasons and just the one series, we'd have LD and SNW-esque stories for DSC, and it wouldn't feel like the red-headed step child series.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago

At least S1-3 had Michelle Yeoh for when you needed some asses to be kicked.

I'm on S4 now and honestly struggling to finish it. There's nobody there I like. Everyone is just so fucking weepy all the time.

I just finished watching Succession (which I highly recommend), and I think you see somebody cry like three times across the whole show. When it happens it means something. In Discovery it's like 3 times per episode. It's exhausting. I don't know who it's even written for. I can only imagine this is what 60 year old studio executives think gen Z wants to watch.

[-] CaptainProton@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can we just take this to its natural conclusion and have the entitled hippy arts majors come up with their interpretation of ww1 trench warfare? I took a lot of theater in school for fun (not allowed to double major) and saw all kinds of dumb takes but nothing on this level, I have no idea what bubble they're finding these writers in.

[-] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

The lead writer/producer for Discovery is also the same writer/producer of the last half of Voyager and parts of DS9. I swear, Paramount is the biggest reason you dislike so much of Discovery, not the actors/writers/producers.

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 73 points 9 months ago

Sisko seems like the type of guy that you invite to a party and he spends the whole evening in your kitchen because the marinara that came with your mozzarella sticks “doesn’t have enough kick to it”

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago

Sisko can and should show up on SNW to help Pike get his jambalaya recipe just right, then vanish without any explanation other than that he needs to get back to his children and wife.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Sisko insists it's important to the future, but really he just can't personally accept the existence of sub-standard jambalaya at any point in history.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 9 months ago

Nor should he.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

I suddenly have new aspirations, thank you!

[-] Damdy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Kick should be in italics, then I could hear him saying that.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

People are always getting Kirk and Picard backwards.

smdh

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

While that post is technically correct, they're only bringing up stuff from their youths. Picard mellowed out a hell of a lot as he got older and is an extremely calm and diplomatic individual by the time he takes command of the Enterprise. Kirk cheating on the Kobayashi Maru was his first step in realizing that he could get away with almost anything if the results were good enough. These experiences do help them a lot later on, though; Picard's reckless and rebellious phase means that later on he was extremely good at keeping his cool in dangerous situations and assessing risk, while Kirk's intelligence and knowledge is why he's able to make his zany plan work even though he only came up with it five seconds ago.

Picard is like if Indiana Jones was injured and had to stick to just teaching.

Kirk is like if Velma Dinkley started solving mysteries by punching out the monster the first time they met.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

How can you forget Christopher "beep-beep" Pike?

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or Carol Freeman?

Edit: it's a lot like Voyager's review, isn't it?

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

Review: "Ran by a former male supermodel, doesnt know how to use the replicator and cooks all his food. Sometimes stops speaking in the middle of a sentence and starts beeping."

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

They didn't have replicators by his time. I remember the TOS Enterprise had lots of pre-cooked meals on cargo, and preferring fresh stuff is perfectly reasonable.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

People complaining that replicated food doesn't taste right is even a bit of a running gag on TNG and DS9.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Review: "Didn't say much, was not very encouraging. Would only answer questions with a yes or no."

[-] teft@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Review so cold it could have been written by an andorian.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

"a murder" implies only one

[-] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Not if it's in regards to crows.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Who besides Tuvix? Not fair to count Lon Suder’s crimes.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Suspiciously the bodycams were off but i've heard the voyager crew was originally twice as large until she ran out of coffee the first time.

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[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

She did murder the wife of her holographic boyfriend.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago

Can we talk about the kids that Janeway had with Paris, that they just abandoned on some distant planet?

[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Say what now? Have I purged this episode from my mind?

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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Oh man discovery. It always seemed like it was written by that guy who was crying and screaming for people to leave Brittney alone.

[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

That was a guy?

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[-] Damdy@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sisko is the GOAT.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

if Sharn had called Sisko black skin he would have punched him so hard that Weyoun would have felt it.

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[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Team Archer right here! ^^

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[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Bring back short skirts in sci-fi!

Well bring back everywhere really.

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

So while not loving Discovery, it’s not so much the crying that got me, I just always feel like I’m watching therapy…innnn spaaaace. It just isn’t very interesting to me personally. I still found it enjoyable enough though.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Nothing about the fancy espresso bar #3 offers to all employees (all employees but her excepted)?

[-] laverabe@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I relate to Janeway the most. Like no coffee? Please cease talking until coffee... ...need coffee.

I mean you're 70000 light-years from Earth, it's ok to have some vices.

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