That's not why she cares.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I would love to know what the original story arc was for that season - it’s obvious that the original identity of the Red Angel was completely different and that the Section 31/Control stuff was haphazardly jammed in at the last minute.
Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone cares enough about Disco or Berg & Harberts for there ever to be a book or something that will reveal the season’s initial plan.
The burn resolution wasn't terrible at all. It wasn't amazing, either, but there's nothing that out there about it compared to the rest of Trek and it is reasonably well put together.
The reason it doesn't even remotely work is that the entire Burn plotline is just empty calories to start with. A lot of vague mystery and 'what caused the burn?!' but not much more than that and 90% of the season is about other stuff that has nothing to do with it. Hence, after all that, I just don't give a damn what the answer to the mystery is regardless.
It was a Quadrant-wide (Galactic?) cataclysm that ended the Federation as we know it because of an upset little boy? Am I remembering that right? Saru calms him down and we get warp drive back and now we have Starfleet Academy?
It's not like we're dealing with an infant Q or anything like that.
The Burn resolution was fine. Very TAS style and a little bit of TNG.
A psionic scream from a dilithium infected alien that traveled through subspace to knock out warp drives everywhere in the Galaxy? Does it get more Star Trek than that?????
Sometimes it's not. But it has been Woke since the Sixties. Not just by including characters like Sulu, Uhura and Chekov but by casting actors like William Marshall, Percy Rodriguez, Key Luke and Barbara Luna in roles that would have been played by white actors just a few years earlier. Sadly Trek was happy to sit on its laurels until recently.
oh ok lol
It IS very Alternative Factor. *cough*
Other than what I consider the worst episode of TOS ever made, what other episodes are similar?
I suppose the difference (to me) is that this was not only the defining mystery of the third season, but has had multi season / multi series effects. This would be like finding out that the Starfleet had been wiped out by the Friendly Angel from And the Children Shall Lead catching a cold.
Well the beauty of this thread is - you can voice any non-majority opinion here, that in any other thread just gets you swarmed & shitstormed.
And turns out - almost everyone of us holds quite a few non-majority opinions.
that is true
Yeah, but "The Alternative Factor" doesn't meander for fourteen episodes.
Any episode that references psionics, dilithium, sub-space, and warp drive.
Not seen Discovery's third season, but going from the "psionic scream" description, it sounds like the plot of the TOS novel "Tears of the Singers"!
and also a bit extra special supernova.
Is that better than nova? Gary Mitchell would like an intro.
Yes, it was a joke - that was extremely obvious.
But then....
Alien obviously is a "more" correct form of early Star Trek. In that the 2150s +- 30 years is the more likely possibility. That is extremely rough going. Devices and understanding of reality comesforth.
Please no.
That was a lot of words for such an "obvious" joke response.
Because that is murder on your part.
