The third season was where we saw the TNG level of writing for the first time since TNG. The admiral speeches and negotiations with the chain are magnificent.
The admiral was great; Michael and other characters crying/shouting almost constantly were not. They are supposed to be the best of the best, yet they behaved like whiny teenagers.
+1 on that. Those snobs are tiresome. Firs they shitted ST: Enterprise out of existence (which now they keep on whining how underrated it was), now they are pooping all over the place on all modern stuff.
Modern Star Trek is basically just Space: 1999 with better special effects. I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show.
> I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show.
Here are some of the elements off the top of my head
1. Takes place in the same universe
2. The characters belong to Starfleet
3. Spock
4. Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
5. *spoiler* Cardassian Federation President in Season 4
6. Trills
7. Warp drives
8. Replicators
9. Romulans merging with Vulcans to reunify
10. Synthetic humanoid modeled after Data, Lore, etc.
11. New stuff like Tardigrades
12. Mirror universe
13. Unified earth
14. Klingons
15. Ferengi
I mean, I get it, original Star Trek is super campy, but like all the ST since ST:TOS, ST:D is inclusive, prioritizes working together to solve monumental challenges, and breaks cultural barriers many people don't even realize exist unless they are marginalized.
And damn, they got amazing Tardigrades. Such a cool run at the concept. I really enjoy the show for what it is, not to satisfy some deep longing for legacy Star Trek. Picard satisfies the legacy urges nicely.
Since they retconned basically everything in the old universe out of existence, ... no. It's not the same universe.
The old show was about professional people working together to do their job, the new show is about a team of people acting like a bunch of immature teenagers, completely driven by whatever emotion happens to come over them this episode, always acting short sighted and having arguments and panic attacks. It's exactly the sort of junk psychology that made Space: 1999 such an awful show. Like, how are these people allowed aboard a space ship. Wouldn't calm-under-pressure be the first thing you look in when you recruit someone for a position like that?
I just finished a rewatch of Star Trek the original series and wow professionals working together to do their job is... So not what that show is. I don't like Discovery but TOS is absolutely people acting emotional and unprofessionally in basically every single episode. It is hilarious.
Watching TOS in full was very eye opening to how much current cultural memory of what that show was doesn't match what was actually in the show.
And modern Star Trek rocks. Definitely a different groove but a fun one regardless.