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#CountdownTo1701: Two big things that ARE the problem with Star Trek Discovery
Superficiality. Despite the conventional talking point that Star Trek Discovery is trying to bring in outside audiences, it desperately wants to be a show for Trekkies. It’s stuffed to the gills with references and couched in events found only in the Encyclopedia. They even canonized the map from Star Trek Star Charts. But the show is written and produced by people who have no idea what any of those references or events mean. The result is a show that uses all the Star Trek words and has all the Star Trek “easter eggs” but it’s gibberish.
The producers expected the Trekkies in the audience to clap and clap when they saw a Gorn skeleton and a (single) Tribble. Show-friendly outlets raved about how great it was to tie in the original series and make older fans feel at home. Except older fans — again, the show’s backbone audience— collectively went what the fuck is this shit? This makes no sense.
Instead of clapping when the show referenced the Defiant NCC-1764, the Trekkies cried out because why is the Defiant still around 100 years later and why does it look completely different. This is not Marvel or Star Wars, where fans are happy to clap and cheer when they see an easter egg. This is Star Trek where apparently the target audience knows the property better than the season one writers…
