Star Trek meme: Day 5 - Saddest Event

[lizbee]

This one's easy for me -- the final twenty minutes of the second season finale of Discovery.



Not just because they blew up my admiral, although I am very much not okay with that, but ... I think they were going for a bittersweet sense of loss and hope, with Discovery jumping to the future, and leaving the recurring supporting cast behind to move on without them.

But we got the writers essentially going, "Welp, sure, there's a long history of diverse people, especially African American women, being erased from history, but let's have our mostly white heroes conspire to erase the achievements of Michael Burnham and her compatriots -- but it's okay, they'll feel bad about it!"

It's a level of tone deafness that makes me unspeakably sad and angry. Like, I'm not supposed to walk away from this series hating Spock, but I kind of do, a bit.

And the whole finale revealed a total lack of faith in the show's premise that was really disappointing. I know I've ranted about this at length in my podcast AND my blog, but they were answering questions that were never being asked in good faith.

It's possible the show can come back from this, but there are still no African American women in the writers room, as far as I can see, and I can't help but feel like the lack of that voice and experience is only too obvious.

ALSO they blew up my admiral.

The rest of the days

Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want
Day 12 - Crew Position You Wouldn't Want
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14 - Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series

Comments

[kore]

....yyyyyyyyyyeah we actually never even finished S2, and still might not. Which is such a bummer, because I adored S1. (Hilarious the outside consensus seemed to be "Season one SUCKED, but two was a lot better!" No. No, it was not.)

[lizbee]

Yeah, season 1 was messy, but ultimately coherent. Whereas season 2 seemed coherent, but was ultimately less than the sum of its parts.

I really hope that season 3, with more behind the scenes stability and without the baggage of the 23rd century, comes good again. (I would also laugh if, say, Discovery returned to the 23rd century in episode 5 -- maybe to the movie-era or something -- and Michael got to confront Spock about that whole erasure from history thing.)

(Obvs it wouldn't be the movie-era, they don't want to recast Spock again. But, you know.)

[kore]

Yeah, season 1 went a bit off the rails with the Voq and "no it wasn't rape" stuff and it was messy, but it was a story I fell in love with, due to MICHAEL. S2 felt so much less focused on her, and I was not a Pike fan, and I know it's my hangup, but I grew up on OST Spock and nobody else is as good.

It's very interesting to think about what the series might have been like without the Klingon and Spock plots, but I have the feeling those were the major selling points. I don't like them being erased from history, but yeah, maybe S3 will be better??