It's very very early days yet, but so far I prefer season 2 to season 3.
Seems to be a natural law that Trek shows grow the beard in Season 3
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Of course there's the other aspect to it. It takes time to get to know characters, to become fond of them, and for the actors, by the time they get into their third season, they're far more into their characters than they were in season 1. I've enjoyed DSC from the beginning, each season has been distinctive so far and I hope that continues. 4 episodes in, season 3 is shaping up beautifully.
Especially because functionally, there really was no difference between 23rd/24th century shields and polarized hull plating, Warp 5 and Warp 9 for the most part (except once in a while there were ships that could go Warp 6 or what have you and overtake NX-01. The crew for the most part would have felt right at home in the TNG era.
I would say that it was the fourth seasons of DS9, VOY and ENT that they grew the beards to the extent they could. DS9 was a magnificent ZZ-Top length deal with the intro of Worf and more of a focus on the Dominion, Voyager got a Spock goatee with the introduction of Seven of Nine, and ENT got a peach fuzzy job by kicking the Temporal Cold War to the curb and trying to focus more around the founding of the Federation.
Hopefully the fact they held onto the same showrunner for the whole season this time will help in that regard.
Discovery needed someone to grow a beard. Maybe Stamets or Culber.
Culber has a beard.
Ah ok. I think he had a beard but I actually wasn't sure. So Culber is the beard guy of Discovery season 3. He's also slowly becoming my second favorite character after Suru.
Agreed. If season 2 hadn't shat the bed in the second half, I might have really loved it. As it was, the first half had all the makings of something special, plus a number of really solid individual episodes.
So far, the only episodes in season 3 I'd rank above their counterparts in season 2 are the premiere by a hair and the third episode by a lot, because s02e03 was garbage. But episodes 2 and 4 of this season were much, much weaker than the corresponding season 2 entries, and I don't find the overarching season premise as engaging as the Red Angel mystery was at first.
The reasons, however, differ. In my opinion, both TNG and DS9 suffered, in addition to other reasons, because they tried to be the previous series. And by the way, I think DS9 has probably the best first two seasons from the original three 24th century shows. Fndom is still unsure, if VOY and ENT ever found an identity of their own.
DISCO and PIC seem to have pretty distinct identity from the beginning, connected to their arc structures. But yeah, this time the trouble stemms from the fact writers are´t sure how to use their series potential. I´m still in tense, if the overall arc of the S3 will be as good as some of the individual episodes.
DISCO and PIC seem to have pretty distinct identity from the beginning, connected to their arc structures. But yeah, this time the trouble stemms from the fact writers are´t sure how to use their series potential. I´m still in tense, if the overall arc of the S3 will be as good as some of the individual episodes.
Lower Decks had a beard from the first episode. It just got longer as the season went on.
Star Trek: ZZ Top?
As does Bryce.
"Random communications officer man" -Harry Mudd
I guess if a show jumps the shark, we should call it "shaving the beard."
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