FIRST THOUGHTS: It’s better than the show’s other seasons, but unfortunately, that’s not saying much. This season’s ongoing narrative was much more compelling than any of the other storylines they’ve found, but their attempts to go darker and wrestle with ethical dilemmas were halfhearted at best. Just because you have your characters talk about how bad they feel doing ethically dubious things for the greater good, that doesn’t mean you’re suddenly wrestling with weightier issues than your average STAR TREK show. The fact that the show’s writers seem to be on the side of the ethically dubious choices is tiresome, and the constant lionizing of the straight white male captain is tedious. Again, the narrative is much more interesting the the rest of the series thus far, but that’s a very low bar.
Shout by Josh HornbeckBlockedParent2021-08-04T08:08:55Z
FIRST THOUGHTS:
It’s better than the show’s other seasons, but unfortunately, that’s not saying much. This season’s ongoing narrative was much more compelling than any of the other storylines they’ve found, but their attempts to go darker and wrestle with ethical dilemmas were halfhearted at best. Just because you have your characters talk about how bad they feel doing ethically dubious things for the greater good, that doesn’t mean you’re suddenly wrestling with weightier issues than your average STAR TREK show. The fact that the show’s writers seem to be on the side of the ethically dubious choices is tiresome, and the constant lionizing of the straight white male captain is tedious. Again, the narrative is much more interesting the the rest of the series thus far, but that’s a very low bar.