88 points

It should end with Riker and Deanna on the holodeck

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I’d actually be ok with this.

And Picard.

Retcon them both.

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11 points

No it’s a cgi aged-down Wil Wheaton, and Riker barges in to tell him he’s late for his shift at navigation or whatever.

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Are you saying it was a holo novel with Wesley Crusher playing as Michael Burnham?

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4 points

Some ferangi conned him into playtesting and debugging a new holonovel under the guise of it being a prototype training course for cadets. The whole series was the b-plot of a TNG episode about the ethics of clone voting or something.

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2 points

You are not well.

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6 points

Am I alone in liking that ending?

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4 points

I like it too! I would say there are literally dozens of us but you’re the first I’ve ever encountered in the wild.

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43 points

Well, I don’t necessarily need Riker, but then I never thought Disco was really Star Trek. It could stand on its own feet perfectly fine but shoehorning it into TOS killed it for me. VOY and DS9 were great and showed that you could do different and still fit well.

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48 points

I always felt like they stretched a Star Trek skin over another IPs pilot in season 1

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11 points

It reminded me a lot of Stargate Universe, a complete tonal whiplash that was clearly imitating other popular shows rather than a continuation of the franchise. I was pretty kind to it in the beginning because SGU got pretty good after I got over it not being Stargate as well, but Discovery S2 completely killed any hope I had.

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5 points

Stargate Galactica was awesome.

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3 points

RIP SGU

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If you liked SGU maybe give Disco Season 4 a shot. I did not like 1-3 very much at all but S4 is one of my favorite seasons of any Trek series and I did not see it coming.

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34 points

didn’t he play grudge

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41 points

I am so sorry but I cannot give you the point. You forgot to say “umm…actually”.

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1 point

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20 points

well I’ll be

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27 points

I’m sorry but… I’m particularly offended by you pointing out numbers here. 50 years? Fuck you. Just… fuck you.

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TNG aired in 1987, so it’s only 37 years. Whomever it was that wrote that headline stretched a bit to generate some extra clicks. Yeah, TAS ended in 1974, but there’s still 13 years in between where there was no Star Trek, which is apparently getting lumped into the Star-Trek-that-Riker-has-shown-up-in bundle.

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19 points

I mean, that’s technically correct then. The last time there was a Trek Show without Frakes was 1974 (50 years ago)

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4 points

Phrased differently, “it has been 50 years since a Star Trek show ended without a Jonathan Frakes appearance.”

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3 points

Technically correct is the best kind of correct!!

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The last year there was a star trek show without frakes was the year before tng was released…

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6 points

They are counting the time spent as a twinkle in his mom’s eye.

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Meh. Looking forward to this show dying and making way for the good, new Trek shows, like LD, SNW, and Picard’s Season 3 (sorta).

So tired of Michael Burnham and her stupid “Magical Burnham Problem Solving Mary-su Solution Express”. Really too bad, because Saru, Tilly, Georgiuo, Staments, Adira, and basically all of the other characters are REALLY interesting in this show. Unfortunately, they didn’t relegate Burnham’s character for being a “get out of writer’s block free card” to the background and that basically doomed it.

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Prodigy too, first season was fantastic.

You’ve described precisely how I feel about Disco, Trek is supposed to be about the whole team solving problems but somehow in any century…the destiny of the universe is all about her. Remove deus ex Burnham from the show and it could be so much better. Saru, Stamets and all are great, they’re just background to the Michael story.

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I like Discovery, but I have to agree. So many of the narrative problems could have been solved by simply giving the line(s) of dialogue in which Burnham solves a problem to someone else on the bridge. Easy peasy. Mix it up.

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Yeah the show would be so much better if they didn’t rely on Burnham as the “solver of all things”. Literally the first thing they do with her when she walks into Starfleet Command after the time jump is go “YO HAVE YOU TRIED THIS SOLUTION TO THE PRIONS?”. It’s like the writers can’t help themselves.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she has a stupid, uninspired speech that is a “These are the voyages” rip off at the end of the finale episode right before they inexplicably promote her to the Admiralty. It would be a fitting f*** you to end the show right in line with what the writers have done so far.

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In my head Discovery will always be ST:MBS - The Michael Burnham Show.

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2 points

Tilly? Seriously?

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What beef you got with Tilly?

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