Star Trek: Discovery 2017

well, i thought id wait until we got to the end of the season to right a review.
the first episode was a good start and looked like it could go somewhere, gave you just what you needed to keep coming back for more. sadly the following 4 episodes became boring and you were left with the feeling that you where treading water, but then it was as if the writers had noticed their mistakes and turned the show totally on its head. i loved the turn around and the alternate world story line, to see the complete change in the characters from the two different worlds was so enjoyable....
the last 3 episodes, especially the final one, seemed rushed as if they just wanted to get to the enterprise cliffhanger as soon as possible.
for me personal id rather, season 1 had gone to the alternate world by episode 4 and had stayed there until the final episode, leaving us with the cliffhanger of them returning back to their world but at a slightly different time, season 2 would then be taking up with the story of where they have ended up and the bring about of peace and giving us the enterprise as the season 2 cliffhanger...

so this all said, i enjoyed the new show, its a nice little twist on the original and other spin off shows. but i do agree with some other people that it could have almost have been a totally new syfi show in its self and has maybe just used the STAR TREK brand to just give it a boost!
I WILL BE BACK FOR MORE...

I've seen every episode of every iteration of Star Trek. I've seen the cast get-together interviews. I've seen the behind-the-scenes and bloopers. I've taken several years to say anything at length about Star Trek beyond my appreciation for the analogy that is The Borg. Well, here goes nothing.

Star Trek Discovery turned me onto Star Trek broadly. I was always, confidently, a Star Wars person. The campiness of the older series and the look and feel overall just did not mesh with my sensibilities, especially as a child. Discovery modernizing and evolving the in-universe technology and raising the catastrophic stakes drew me in. It, yes, suffered, particularly later in the series of what reactionaries deem "woke" bullshit that felt particularly cringey and distracting, but, on the whole of Star Trek, it's not like it's a series that doesn't belabor its character's feelings and mushy interpersonal struggles. Odo and Kira come to mind immediately. T'Pol and Trip I'd argue was clunky and Worf and Dax probably the best in how they were developed.

I think what Discovery does best is its big-picture narratives. I'm considerably less concerned about any individual crew member and they feel less "iconic" perhaps precisely because they're servicing more cliche role-fillers in service to the broader picture than meant to develop into the next Spock. I do think Stamets, Saru, and Cleveland stick out star-power-wise in general, and while I don't mind Michael, I haven't been convinced, and I think I blame that mostly on the writing than her performance.

Star Trek has the same "problem" as Star Wars. You can't erase multiple generations of people's memories and feelings about dozens of episodes or characters. A franchise has to grow and iterate to meet modern landscapes, just like a person, sometimes in direct spite of gut-level reactions about what the property means or represents. To be sure, literally no one has a singular grasp on what is or isn't Star Trek, and I take any pissed off troll-esc opinion of someone personally affronted by more gay representation or chubby body types as lazy and hateful reactionary nonsense. Today, Discovery is trying to mirror today's conversation from "Hollywood" or "left-leaning" ideas, like the show about the struggle explore, defend, and live according to universally sensitive and translatable ideals always has. If there's a larger singular note I hear from Star Trek, I'm deaf to that frequency.

The Star Trek universe is one of the most nakedly idealistic fantasies you could ask for. It tries, sometimes, to lay a larger claim on the way we achieve its vision than feels remotely possible or even fleetingly sane, but the exact same impulse that turned me off as a a child keeps me intrigued as an adult. I didn't want goofy pontificators lecturing and awkwardly conveying an unconvincing struggle. That, still, turns me off whenever it comes up across any of the series, regardless of who's saying it. (Seriously, no one finds Sisko absolutely exhausting?) This universe is the bridge between the cynical Star Wars and the painful naivety of shows on The CW. It commits no bigger sin than any classic insanely-long-running franchise that attracts too-personal idealists to show run. The, by definition and existential circumstance, ever-fluid identity starts to crack because it has to as things evolve.

If you can learn and grow and change, but maintain your identity and through-line relationship to the franchise, the brilliant and compelling parts will shine considerably brighter than the cringe. Star Trek is daring you to believe in yourself like it does.

Binged all 3 seasons.

First things first: this was my first Star Trek series, I've never watched any other, only the original one's first episode. Apart from that, I've watched the 3 Star Trek movie with Chris Pine, and while I've enjoyed those, I've never took myself as a fan, didn't know where the story is originated from.
After 3 seasons of Discovery, I'm still not sure if I've became a "true" fan or not, but after all I've enjoyed this 3 seasons as a whole. I guess (from reading comments on youtube) fans of the previous tv shows' are won't agree with me, but I have to say that this is a fair sci-fi series.
But of course let's break this down further.

1st season: My overall thoughts were good, I loved the series, especially how Burnham was a different kind of character. I loved her for being unemotional, for being so rational, she embodied the Vulcan culture alone. She was fresh, she was the kind of character whom I've wanted to see on tv for a long time. I loved her relationship with Sarek, and the story was enjoyable too. Because I didn't have previous knowledge about the Klingons, I found them ultimately great and fascinating. I even loved the story arc however tangled and weird it became from one moment to the other (I'm thinking about the abuse of Ash Tyler, and his relationship with his captor over the time). So I guess there were some inconsistencies, some really bizarre storylines, but overall I thought that this first season was fantastic with its' faults too. I gave it 8/10.

2nd season: And so I've ventured to the internet, read a few comments, and was disappointed immediately. Fans demanded changes, the outcry for Burnham's lack of tears were shocking. I was flabbergasted. I didn't understand this, I still don't, because something being different is not a fault, and it shouldn't be bad. I know, I can't understand this, because I haven't watched the original tv shows, but for me, the first season had an awesome message: no matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no matter what color is your skin, as long as you are welcoming, you are welcomed in return too. It had a cute, whole-hearted feel to the series, and while that didn't dissipate, I've felt that everything changed. The story became flatter - rouge AI is a cliché - Burnham became too emotional for me (she cried every time somebody told her something), and she started to get on the Space Jesus path. I had to totally agree with this. No matter what kind of problem have risen, the crew "solved everything together" while Burnham did everything alone. She became the ultimateMary Sue character, and I've felt a great deal of apathy from this. Still, the other characters were great at least, and the story wasn't a total fail (with introducing time travel), so all in all it was saved. I only felt sorry for the actor who played Spock, because he is such an iconic character, he couldn't do justice for him - not that his character in overall wasn't in vain, I still think it was a huge gamble from a creators to bring him in, and I think it didn't work out for anybody at all. Anyway, it was a solid season, so I gave it 6/10.

3rd season: And oh boi, we went to the future, almost 900 hundred years flew by, and there were so much potential in it, I'm shocked that it flapped so hard. The story was plain boring - at first I felt it exciting, everything should have been new, fresh, and while it served some of that, after Burnham started to investigate the Burn, it became the same old recipe: she started to solve the universe's huge problem, so she could've continue on being Space Jesus - and she did that of course, not that it was a riddle she could do it or not. At least her relationship with Book was genuine, there was some chemistry between them (with Ash, it was forced), so I'm glad they changed the love interest. Book is far more suited to Burnham than Tyler was.
So the story sucked, it was boring, the antagonist was a joke, she reminded me of the Grinch all the time. The new characters were plain, we didn't get to know them better, and Tal was the biggest miss of this season. Also the biggest fail I've ever seen when it comes to a tv show becoming politicly accurate. I mean... I get it why it's so important for LGBTQI+ members to be represented, but the show failed so much to incorporate non-binaries, that scene with Paul and Adira was the biggest cringe of my life - and because this show wants to represent equalness, acceptance and all of that wholesomeness, it's a huge mystery why they couldn't make a fair scene to get the viewers understand why a human prefers to be called 'they' or 'them'.
But apart from that, Adira's storyline was the most interesting, and that's why I'm wondering why the creators haven't made anything with that. Being a symbiont when Adira biologically couldn't have been one, is much more interesting for me than the Burn. So because of these misses, because the story fell flat, because the creators kind of forgot about the first season and all of its' glory, I gave it 4/10.

Overall I have to say that while this is a good show with great potential and with good actors, there were definitely some miserably outstanding points: for example I think that Anthony Rapp is the worst actor in the world. His mimicry at this point is non-existant, he only has one face, and even when he is smiling, his eyes are burning with the boringness of his life.
Focusing on the characters are: Tilly was awesome, I wish she wasn't backburned in this third season, that wasn't justice for her character. Apart from Tilly, I don't really have a favorite character, all of the crew are awesome, I really love them, especially the crew on the bridge. I hope everybody will have an episode for themselves, becase they deserve it - so that's why I was sad that Michelle Yeoh left, her character was the sole star in this series. She was brutal, she was a true tactician, a warrior through and through.
Also we can't forget Doug Jones, I mean he is just perfect, and I really hope we will see him from time to time. His acting was very welcoming, his character was an awesome, interesting addition.

So all in all I liked this show, and I'm eagerly waiting for the next season, but I see its' faults. I hope it will progress well, that Burnham maybe change back, but if that wont happen, at least I still have a fairly written sci-fi tv show, and that will be enough for me for a while.