It seems Red Angel brought showrunners straight from the 1995 to 2018 to work on this show.
There are just so many inconsistencies and stupidities that I at least am totally pulled out of the story. For instance:
I was wondering why Saru set the timer to one minute for the teleport (we literally see him set it to one minute), when it takes him 3 seconds to walk to the pad. The answer came 3 seconds later, when Michael barged in. Oh, so that was so they can have that little bit of overdramatic conversation. How convenient. While we're at it, why wouldn't Michael just go up to the console and cancel the teleportation, but instead pull the phaser on him? How could he even teleport under alert and shields up? Pure shit.
Then the scene on board the Ba'ul stronghold. So, Saru is suddenly capable of breaking free of restraints presumably designed specifically for Kelpiens. That aside, he crushes all the drones they sent their way. One would think they would send reinforcements or something , not leave them on their own like nothing is happening, especially with them obviously able to spawn in the room. I mean they detected he came back through the pole in the village but they're not aware what's going on within their stronghold?
And don't get me started with fan service. There's that one shot of someone on the bridge flipping 60s style switches. Should we expect Pike fighting with lizard man on the planet service as well?
All that talk about General order 1 that boils down to this:
Listen Trekkies, we know there's such thing as General Order 1, so don't freak out, but we are about to shit all over it. First contact: hi, I'm Michael from Earth and we travel on a spaceship and there's like million different species and here's the thing we communicate over.. Wait, why are we here again? Oh, just to find out if they've seen red flying person... Hm. Maybe it wasn't necessary to say all this."
Putting aside what is and what isn't Star Trek, this has turned into badly made show. It took a nosedive right after 2x01. And I don't mean the production quality, but the script is so atrocious to the point that even the mystery surrounding Spock and Red Angel isn't enough for me to keep going because 80% I'm cringing at the dialogue, the actors that try to make that dialogue work and then going overboard with emotions.
Michael started the series shaky but till the end of the first season her character came into its own. Now it's just laughable. In every episode she has few scenes where she makes that wide eyed face full of emotion and compassion.
Review by ChronosusBlockedParent2019-02-26T13:04:50Z
It seems Red Angel brought showrunners straight from the 1995 to 2018 to work on this show.
There are just so many inconsistencies and stupidities that I at least am totally pulled out of the story. For instance:
I was wondering why Saru set the timer to one minute for the teleport (we literally see him set it to one minute), when it takes him 3 seconds to walk to the pad. The answer came 3 seconds later, when Michael barged in. Oh, so that was so they can have that little bit of overdramatic conversation. How convenient. While we're at it, why wouldn't Michael just go up to the console and cancel the teleportation, but instead pull the phaser on him? How could he even teleport under alert and shields up? Pure shit.
Then the scene on board the Ba'ul stronghold.
So, Saru is suddenly capable of breaking free of restraints presumably designed specifically for Kelpiens. That aside, he crushes all the drones they sent their way. One would think they would send reinforcements or something , not leave them on their own like nothing is happening, especially with them obviously able to spawn in the room. I mean they detected he came back through the pole in the village but they're not aware what's going on within their stronghold?
And don't get me started with fan service. There's that one shot of someone on the bridge flipping 60s style switches. Should we expect Pike fighting with lizard man on the planet service as well?
All that talk about General order 1 that boils down to this:
Listen Trekkies, we know there's such thing as General Order 1, so don't freak out, but we are about to shit all over it.
First contact: hi, I'm Michael from Earth and we travel on a spaceship and there's like million different species and here's the thing we communicate over.. Wait, why are we here again? Oh, just to find out if they've seen red flying person... Hm. Maybe it wasn't necessary to say all this."
Putting aside what is and what isn't Star Trek, this has turned into badly made show. It took a nosedive right after 2x01. And I don't mean the production quality, but the script is so atrocious to the point that even the mystery surrounding Spock and Red Angel isn't enough for me to keep going because 80% I'm cringing at the dialogue, the actors that try to make that dialogue work and then going overboard with emotions.
Michael started the series shaky but till the end of the first season her character came into its own. Now it's just laughable. In every episode she has few scenes where she makes that wide eyed face full of emotion and compassion.