STD fan, QuiGonFishing?
To be clear, I mean the series not the affliction. Or hey, whichever. I'm not judging
Yeah, I guess I’m a rarity amongst the fandom. I really enjoyed Discovery. I was able to appreciate and enjoy all of the things that were decidedly different from all the other shows. I loved the serialized story line that kept me hanging on week to week, I held no grudge against the show following Burnham’s personal journey through the series. Summed up, I didn’t mind the deviation from what we’ve come to expect from all that came before, and actually appreciated Trek reinventing itself.
I honestly think that a very large portion of the criticism is folks comparing the show to other iterations of Trek lore. And that’s not altogether unfair since we expect any version of Trek to follow the rules and the timeline set for it by the Trek universe writ large. So it was a square peg forcing itself into a round hole for many, and again, that’s fair.
But Discovery fans for the most part were willing (and able) to take the show for what it was unto itself and didn’t feel compelled to make constant comparisons through every scene. No judgement though (at least not much). We all consume art subjectively, so those who really need their Trek to fit perfectly into all that has come before, I get it. And in that light, I fully understand your perspective. But I also hope you can understand and respect my perspective as well. Disco exists in my mind outside the prime trek universe and follows its own path. And taken within that paradigm, I found much (if not all) of it excellent. I will throw in a quick caveat that in later seasons under a new show runner, the wokeism started to get to uncomfortable levels for me, but I was able (by and large) to ignore most of it.
But what really fires me up, is when people who are locked into their perspective on this, call Discovery garbage and berate fans of the show as not true Trek fans. Nothing could be further from the truth than that. I can appreciate your position on the show, so I’d surely appreciate you appreciating ours.
All that said, I’d also like to add that I’d love to see the Discovery poster crew get produced in figure form by EXO one day (regardless if you think they didn’t have enough lines/participation in the show
).
At least Lorca, Detmer, Tilly, Detmer, Stamets, Detmer, Culber, Detmer, Admiral Cornwell, Detmer, Admiral Cornwell, Detmer, and DETMER!
