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  • • Nihilistic, apocalyptic future

    Do you have any examples of the Nihilism? I’m struggling to think of any… In fact Season 3 was about maintaining optimism and faith in the strength of the Federation against unbelievable odds.

    • Bad guys that are just bad, they’re evil, don’t ask questions

    Khan, Gul Dukat and the Clown from Voyager were all in Discovery?

    • One principal star of the show that is the focus of nearly every episode

    I agree that there was a main character, but I also enjoy a lot of media with a main character so I don’t see that as a bad thing.

    • No attempt to explain things with any veneer of science

    I suggest you avoid watching TNG and TOS because they do the same thing!



  • There’s no doubt reactions to Discovery have been mixed.

    I feel it’s important to note that a lot of the “reactions” we see today are the result of coordinated review-bombing campaigns by “anti-woke” outrage-peddling youtubers.

    That’s not to say it’s universally beloved among Trekkies online, just that for someone trying to suss out the “reception” is going to have a difficult time separating authentic reviews from inauthentic ones.



  • She is the Mariest Sue who ever Mary Sued.

    For clarity’s sake, a Mary Sue describes a character who can do no wrong. This is how it’s described on TVTropes:

    [A Mary Sue] is exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws.

    I’m curious how you square that description of a Mary Sue with Burhnam’s many regular, repeated, failures and flaws as seen on screen and described in the dialogue? As one example, her character is introduced in the very first episode as a misguided mutineer and is demoted for it.


  • Honestly, when I hear that interpretation it makes me feel like the person didn’t actually watch the season, they just watched the outrage peddling influencers online.

    Semi-related but I lost count of the number of times someone on Reddit described Adira’s coming out (a ten second moment in a larger unrelated scene) as a “huge story arc” or being comprised of “multiple episodes” being “shoved in the audiences faces”. I felt like I was taking crazy pills until I learned that’s exactly how the outrage-tubers were presenting it. If you’d never watched the season you’d have no idea it was such an inconsequential moment.





  • I haven’t seen much arguing, it is unquestionably centralized and for profit. There truly is nothing unique about it.

    I’m not an expert with the AT protocol but it really seems like what Dorsey and co have made is a super complicated protocol that (under specific conditions that cannot exist in the real world), has the potential to be federated in a meaningful way. That way they can steal all the talking points of the fediverse and muddy the meaning of words.

    There are also a lot of people on Fedi who will seek out threads like these to explain how line 2532 of the AT protocol handbook explains how having 100% of users on a single server is actually decentralized but I’m sure they’re all authentic accounts.