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The Star Trek Discovery S2 Finale was Awful and You All Know It
A while ago I asked “what’s the point of Star Trek Discovery”?
Well, last night we got our answer: Nothing. There is no point.
The first two seasons of this show have literally been about nothing. The story, as it exists in-universe, has no legacy, no influence, no ramifications, and no existence. It is as if everything we watched for two seasons did not happen. The writers LITERALLY wrote their show out of existence. Star Trek Discovery is meaningless, its characters don’t exist, its ship doesn’t exist, its fake magic plot devices don’t exist, and its hideously directed action scenes don’t exist.
Moreover, the resolution of Star Trek Discovery season 2 was explicitly, in no uncertain terms, a capitulation to the critics of the show. For two seasons, Discovery has had many more critics than supporters, even among the mainstream press. The “fans” of the show like to pretend “the haters” are the vocal minority, when by seemingly every metric, they have it exactly backwards. CBS won’t release viewer data, but we don’t need that, we can look at what happens on-screen.
They overhauled the show for Season 2. It was no longer a dual-centered show about a Klingon-Federation war, the Mirror Universe, and bad characters. It changed the Klingon makeup, it changed the…
