Thread by @jfruh

lol can't believe it took me a whole season of wondering "who's this charsimatic creepazoid they've parachuted into this year's ST: DISCOVERY with little to no explanation" before i finally checked IMDB and realized it was david cronenberg

CBS EXEC [on the phone, seeing werner herzog on THE MANDALORIAN and flying into a rage]: get me david lynch. or dario argento. one of these weirdos loved mr spock and i want him on my fuckin show

i find DISCO v enjoyable and v frustrating by turns and my hot take is that star trek works much better when you have 22+ eps a season to slow down and fuck around

https://twitter.com/someguynamedg/status/1364103181207179268

like, "planet al capone" and "bev's sex ghost" and "vulcan baseball" are goofy eps that advanced nobody's "arc" but years later they have stuck with everyone who like star trek!!! but you can't do those when you have 13 eps a year to tie up two to four overarching plots

two of my fav DISCO eps are the time loop/harry mudd one, which was the first one that felt like it gave the crew a chance to play around a bit, and "ariam," one of the few to really linger on a peripheral character

the vulcan episode in this season felt like it was emblematic of the problem. it had a TON of great ideas (vulcan-romulan unity and its aftermath! trial by thesis defense! michael's mom is a warrior-monk!) crammed into way too little time PLUS they had to get a plot maguffin too

yeah, exactly. TNG eventually had some continuing strands but only after we had spent years getting to know the characters

https://twitter.com/stejormur/status/1364105650834464770

except for stamets, for any number of good reasons, a choice i love. i absolutely want him to turn into the frank grimes of DISCOVERY

https://twitter.com/GrouchoMarxist/status/1364106666011070464

i think that's part of a bigger problem which is that they've decided "it's the third season, we love each other and we're a family now," which feels a little unearned imo

anyway i still like the show and will watch more of it obviously and tweet about it, obviously, as opposed to PICARD which i enjoyed while it was happening but honestly haven't thought about since. (i will watch more PICARD anyway bc i'm a simp for star trek, but still)