Good. It was already three seasons too long.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green
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otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me it’s hard to consider discovery as even star trek. It was like a weird cartoon where half of the time was spent on plot holes and half of the time on people asking other people how they feel. It was like most modern shows that are made for people watching it while doomscroling on their phones. Except for discoverys aspect for care for mental health, I really don’t understand what it was about. The characters were always acting so illogical and weird. Maybe it’s again time to make a Star Trek show that is about modern problems that are solved with wit and diplomacy, a show thats not going to always try to 1-up itself and become a bizzare comedy because of it.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Like Strange New Worlds?
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I adore SNW, but honestly, “always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it” seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
That’s a shame. Not that I’m into Discovery at all, but the best series finales are always double-episodes. I quite literally just watched DS9’s finale earlier today, and it would’ve felt way too rushed if it had just been a regular episode.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
the best series finales are always double-episodes
I think you’re right:
TNG: 2-parter, check
DS9: 2-parter, check
VOY: 2-parter, check
ENT: 1-shot, check
DISCO: 1-shot, check
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I count Enterprise as 1/2 since TNG was the other half.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I think the word “movie” is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour “event” episode.
Paid_in_cheese@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. There were some things that were really sweet about that coda but it sure didn’t make for a coherent and satisfying end to the series that kick-started the modern era of Star Trek television.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Everything deserves a finale, rather than to be cancelled. Discovery was not worth it though.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It ended nicely but too quickly. I wouldn’t mind a special.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think they were well into shooting the season when the cancellation came down no? They didn’t have much time to turn the season finale into a series finale.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
They had no time at all - filming was already complete.
They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.
data1701d@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I hope we can yeat Saru in somewhere else - at least the occasional appearance on STA. Let’s hope that Robert Picardo claiming “he’ll be deeper” means he’ll be 99% comic relief like when he said he’d be “more than comic relief” in Prodigy, meaning the show will be a banger.
Either that or throw him through a portal to another era and call it temporal causality, although I guess the only currently running show they could throw him in is SNW, which wouldn’t make sense for obvious seasons. Now if Prodigy got its (unfortunately improbable) season 3 and he somehow managed to appear and they made a good plot out of it, I might not mind.
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Saru and the backstory about his planet was the best part of Discovery.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Thank God we have less of that drek.
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
lol good
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Thank God. This would have been 2 straight hours of mind-numbing dialogue between characters about how much they’ve been through together and how much they’re going to miss each other.
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you see the photo attached to the story? It pretty much validates Archangel’s comment.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“if you don’t like what I like, you suck” but upgraded to “your dad sucked”
Nice.
the_sisko@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
The dislike of Discovery is a totally valid opinion, but this is a poor & disrespectful take. The show did a lot. I enjoyed it, even if it wasn’t my top trek show. Any trek deserves a proper, respectful send-off. You can point at the finale that we got and say that it wasn’t great, but honestly what do you expect with a few extra pages of writing and barely any shooting time? The actors and writers deserved an opportunity to actually end things properly, and instead they were given next to nothing and they did their best to make do.
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Except this is what I disliked about Discovery. You’d have ten minutes of activity that actually moved the plot forward, followed by twenty minutes of crew “checking in” with each other in order to discuss everyone’s feelings about what just happened while also rehashing events from past episodes. It was like watching a Spanish telenovela, where every second piece of dialogue was intended to remind you of what happened in the last episode…just in case you forgot.
Every episode was 3/4 dialogue, discussing what we all watched happen in the first 1/4. It felt like every season should have taken 3 episodes…not 14. In the last couple of seasons, I literally skipped entire episodes, and it did nothing to impact the plot.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No.
This wasn’t star trek. The name was slapped on, it was NOT star trek. I wanted an intelligent shoe that makes you think about and question morals. Whatever the hell discovery was, it was dumb, made by people who actively dislike trek. I’m happy it’s gone.
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Why do you have shit taste?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m sure you absolutely loved the Section 31 movie.
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah, never watched it. I’m not that much of a masochist.