ehh. this is not true. Kirk never whined about his dad. in fact kirk never really brought it up at all. there were only vague references that kirk made to his dad. what are you talking about?
George is not even mention in STID and In Beyond Kirk tells Bones he has made it further than his dad or something like that. sorry I have not seen those movies in a while.
But if there is anything I know about Pine's Kirk. he never whined. he had too much swag to whine.
it was spock and pike that brought up george and they did it only once in the first film. I think you are confusing snw soap opera element with kelvin trek lack of it.
Yes they killed spock mother which worked in the story and also it was balanced. kirk lost his dad, spock lost his mum. so both mother and father are killed off. if it was streaming nu trek, they will only get rid of the fathers.
Lasly you are wrong about me. I just do not like seeing a weird unrealistic pattern of behaviour in tv shows that I know is doing harm to it than helping. it is not sexism.
I am even some what kind of forgiving of michael since the character is meant to be
special or like a chose one kind of thing character and she is an original new creation but when you have other established characters like Una/Chapel overdoing things to the determinant of the male characters just to show women can be just as good as men in everything. for me it is red flag and we see it pop up everywhere in snw.
Lol. Yes perhaps you are right. It is more accurate to say that Kirk was whining on the inside and acting out as a genius level delinquent, even in command in STiD.
It's not Kirk's behaviour that I find problematic, other than the summary executions at the end, because he's on a character arc, it's the other characters endorsing and enabling his behaviour as positive and command-worthy. Spock saves the ship and the Earth. Kirk puts the ship in danger and rescues Pike. Kirk gets promoted 3 ranks over Spock.
My point is that the parental issues are NOT balanced just because one lost his dad and one lost his mom. One underlying theme of the movie is daddy issues. Kirk not having one, until he finds surrogate Daddy Pike, and Spock not having one he can relate to. That's the theme they chose, for the story they wanted to tell. That's not balanced.
In Discovery, they wanted to tell a mother/daughter story. It is no more or less balanced than NuTrek but you're only hating on one of them.
I don't think Michael is a good character. I find her her prone to emotional swings and unprofessional while on duty. She's messed up and the way so many people treat her behaviour as command-worthy is equally troubling. Put her outside Starfleet and she works fine for me.
Making Tilly a command officer to show her growth was also a terrible idea. She's a terrible command officer. I loved her so much as an homage to Trek's geeky female fans everywhere and they went weird on me.
But saying Trek treats women as more accomplished than men is silly. On average men are stronger and fitter, while women are more intelligent and emotionally stable but averages don't mean we can't have characters who are exceptional. Personally, I would rather each Trek series just had one or two exceptional characters and just made the rest competent.
As for Una, she's very much in a supporting role to Pike. I can't think of a single episode where she was shown to outshine or usurp him. She's stronger and fitter than him,
because she's an alien but she didn't even get an episode focus in season 3.
As for Chapel, she just has a scientifc skill set that lends itself to stories. Spock used to stray outside his areas of expertise a lot and now someone qualified can do it. IMO the places where they went wrong is seemingly have her stand in for M'Benga when she's not a doctor, and giving her a martial arts drug.
Don't listen to Mike Hesgeth. The whole world, including the US military think he's a numpty.
