Yes, in season 7, the ideas were getting a bit stretched thin with the writers.
Discovery has only had one and half seasons, so far and look at all the crazy shit that has happened so far. Of course, ALL the other series have had there fair share of weird episodes, but for discovery it is norm, rather than the exception. The show is entertaining and that is what matters (its all about the ratings), but as a serious contender in the Star Trek universe along with its fellow series, I have some doubts.
How about the revelation that the Greek gods were aliens pretending to be omnipotent, or the most powerful starship ever encountered was an upgrade on a Voyager probe, or the one about the aliens who couldn't cope with humour, or the one about the aliens who needed to kidnap Spock to remove his brain?
What about the naughty omnipotent child who got spanked by his parents, or maybe the one where going through the "galactic barrier" gave one psychic powers and a Napoleon complex?
Maybe the one where a petty criminal created an army of android clones?
Best not wipe out all the whales, but tell me - what does God need with a Spaceship?
Is that Tasha Yar over there returned from the dead to invade the federation or is it just Spock returned from the dead by his friend he lent his soul to?
Wow, hello Kes, you returned as an ominpotent being with anger issues, why not have a chat with Q, the omnipotent being seeking sanctuary on the ship, or was that Q the omnipotent being putting humanity on trial whilst trying to get in the sack with the captain (and I don't just mean Janeway).
Why are we all dressed as the Merry men?
Why are we all dressed as cowboys?
Why are we all dressed as gladiators?
Why are we dressed as cowboys again?
Look, I have Moriarty living in a box, and we're dressed as cowboys again. That one's growing old....
I think we should investigate this planet where we'll find Datas' head, or maybe this other planet where we'll also find Datas' head.
Did you know Kirk seduced Mother Nature and fathered all the species in the galaxy? Apparently though the progenitors helped by scattering their DNA, but they didn't do it to the Voth. Why do so many alien planets have humans living on them reliving our own history down to the tiniest details? Could it be a transporter accident? Does that make half of them evil?
Did you know the universe is kept in existence by some bearded mad bloke having a fight with his evil alter ego in an alternate dimension? Was that a transporter accident too or some other technology which creates an evil duplicate? Maybe it was the mirror universe, that plays the same trick apparently.
It's also kept in existence by the ship flying into a weird wibbly wobbly spatial anomaly and getting destroyed on three separate occasions, but somehow all at once. Did they meet Lazarus in there?
There's normal space, subspace, fluidic space, mycelial space, the mirror universe, pocket universes, transphasic space, transwarp tunnels, parallel universes, the Q continuum, an infinite number of alternate timelines, some following completely different underlying rules for temporal phenomena than others, transdimensional space, not to mention wherever Iconian gateways take you while doing exactly what the spore drive did, kinda like the Guardian of Forever but less pompous, did I mention the wormhole or wherever the hell it was V'ger went after bonding with its' creator and finally noticing all those biological types knocking about?
