And it was a better creative decision than the Klingon makeup redesign. By a longshot.
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Most of the strange creative choices about DSC would have worked a lot better had the series been set in the 25th century or later.
It's always been puzzling that the series went with yet another prequel setting instead of just going ahead in time and not having to do contortions to make it all fit together.
One problem with the Spore Drive is that it's a device for getting to places all across the galaxy. But Disco didn't want to visit anywhere it couldn't get to with a regular warp drive, so all it did was take out the travel time, which is usually something a writer wants to have so they can tell stories of people doing stuff on the ship during the journey.
The Spore drive didn’t make any sense to me and I hated the future as shown in Discovery.
Agreed. A lot of the issues I had with DSC's first season would have evaporated overnight if it had been set in the 25th century, if Burnham had no connection to Spock, and if the "Klingons" had turned out to be Tzenkethi, or something entirely new from the far side of Romulan space, or whatever.
Actually that extra large hamster powers the Enterprise-D.
I wouldn't have cared if they used the Klingons, if they came up with an interesting angle. Just more mumbling about Sto-vo-kor was already old by the time Discovery premiered.
The Klingons are overdone, as are the Borg. And yet that’s what they keep going back to.
It's Star Trek so it must have Klingons.
Klingborg! That's what the kids want!!!
Set DSC in the 25th century, make it episode of the week format, but have an overall narrative for the season.
Bring back underused villains, like the return of the Hur'q, check back on the Kelvans, make a Soong android go rogue and establish some android space kingdom with older androids from the TOS era.
The possibilities are endless, but nope, here's Spock's adopted sister he never mentioned till the day he died back in the Kelvin timeline.
Bring back underused villains, like the return of the Hur'q, check back on the Kelvans, make a Soong android go rogue and establish some android space kingdom with older androids from the TOS era.
The possibilities are endless, but nope, here's Spock's adopted sister he never mentioned till the day he died back in the Kelvin timeline.
With the Spore Drive’s ability to go anywhere, I would hope they’d be more creative.
Go to Andromeda and fnd it to be a dead galaxy because of extreme radiation, hop back to the Milky Way but have a squadron of Kelvans now finding a way to escape Andromeda.
Hilarity ensues when the Kelvans singleshots every single Borg, Cardie, Klingy or even Romulan remnants and starts taking over the Milky Way.
What makes money.
I like Klingons but after DSC mishandled them in Seasons 1 and 2 the less we see the happier I'll be. SNW has used them very well, but that's kind of an outlier for streaming live action Trek.
Oh it sure did that they got cancelled midway filming S5 and Mikey boy from LD made fun of the Klingons and stoked the fire in online discourse.
DSC is the fastest forgotten Trek of the modern era.
Five seasons for a streaming series is pretty solid.
Lowering the bar on everything nowadays, it's neither solid nor discussion worthy.
Greys Anatomy is on it's 20th or something season, SVU is on 26th, Law and Order is 23rd season, so it can be done.
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