Cheap isn't always referring to money.
^ These have become the standard / generic comments Discover apologists make anytime someone criticizes the show. It gets said every single time.
Some of us care about the ST franchise, so we follow it, we like to see where it's going, and thus comment on it, even when we think it's not good.
While watching Discover does cause some cringe, it certainly doesn't rise to the level of torture or consternation.
You're just going to have to get over the fact that not everybody who follows ST likes Discovery, but will still checkout the show from time to time and criticize it if it's still terrible (which it is).
It's interesting to me as someone who's been watching Star Trek first run since TOS season 3 in 1969 that every time a new interpretation a Star Trek comes along, a small group of Star Trek fandom always pops up claiming it's:
"Not true Star Trek"
And claim anyone who enjoys it can't be a real Star Trek fan, and when challenged always respond with:
" it's because we're the ones who really care about the Star Trek franchise..."
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And that attitude is an utter load of bullshit. I know that personally because that's exactly the way I felt in 1987 after watching the T NG pilot episode "Encounter At Farpoint". It wasn't what I expected and it was nothing like TOS which is the version of Star Trek I like best and still to this they enjoy the most.
That's sad because it was the only version of Star Trek available back in 1987, I still kept watching in the hope that I would find something to enjoy oh, and I finally got enjoyment out of it in the third season. That's sad I know there are fans that enjoyed it from day one I'm still feel it's the one true representative version of the Star Trek franchise. I of course do not agree with that, and I've actually found that I find it harder and harder to re-watch many episodes of TNG as the years have gone on. I also finally found one version of Star Trek I could not watch past the first season and that was
Star Trek Voyager, but again, I realize that that show has many fans who enjoy it.
So yes thankfully after 55 or so years, there are many flavors of Star Trek that a wide variety of people enjoy. There's no one true version of Star Trek.
And I hate to tell you younger fans this (or the older fans) who have bought into Gene Roddenberry's inflated and somewhat false image of himself that he promoted after TOS regarding his "vision"... but Gene's vision regarding Star Trek ( which was exemplified by his own Star Trek memorabilia company, Lincoln Enterprises, as well as many of his other projects post TOS, like the feature film he did entitled:
Pretty Maids All in a Row) was:
$$$
and.
And access to the (.)(.) of pretty young actresses on a casting couch.
If the me too movement had been around in 1969, Gene Roddenberry would have never finished his run on the original Star Trek.
So yeah fans need to get off their high horse about the protection of "Gene's vision for Star Trek".
Star Trek was designed primarily as an entertainment property, and on occasion various writers and producers have used it to do occasional stories with social commentary. But contrary to what some fans believe, that's never been the prime driving force behind The Star Trek franchise and that goes all the way back to 1964 when Gene Roddenberry first envisioned it.
There's nothing sacred about it. It's a form of entertainment and it's meant to be enjoyed and to make the producers of it money. Over 55 years there have been many forms of it made. If there is a form of it you don't enjoy I would suggest can you stop watching that particular version of it much like I did with Star Trek Voyager, and let those who enjoy a version of it which you don't, enjoy it in peace.
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations or IDIC
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Of course the interesting thing about the story behind of why Gene Roddenberry created that phrase was because he wanted Leonard Nimoy to wear a piece of jewelry Emmett a scene so that afterwards Gene could sell that design of jewelry to fans using the marketing phrase "as seen on Star Trek". On the set when the scene was filmed, Leonard Nimoy refused to wear the jewelry piece unless there was a story reason behind it because he just didn't want to be part of a marketing Ploy by Gene Roddenberry - so IDIC was born.
