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Originally Posted by craigwd
So Saru is the next captain right? (Ugh) 
That was the point of his needless "ummmm you mean Acting Captain" line.
The crisis with Pike will prevent them from going straight on to Vulcan. |
I doubt it, they were heading to Vulcan to pick up the actual Captain, that dosen't mean he's Klingon though, it just means that he's on Vulcan.
Is this going to be a brand new Captain, or a name familiar from the TOS?
Could a Matt Decker or Robert Wesley from TOS stride onto the bridge of the Discovery? I doubt it, but you never know.
I was reading an final season review of Discovery and from what it sounds like, when they wrote the season, they started at the end and worked back to the beginning.
So they basically white boarded, end of war with the Klingons, Elevation of Berman, and then worked backwards. The problem when you write like that and you basically put your foot in the dirt on an ending is you end up with these incredible leaps of logic, and over powered devices like the Spore Drive as you try to jam elements into a tighter and tighter box to get there.
the other thing that happens, is that you end up forgoing a lot of the development of story and character to get there.
When I took a few writing courses, because at one point I wanted to write, the best thing that a teacher ever said was, have an idea of an ending or two or three, but don't get married to those ideas.
So if you for example say.
At the end the Klingon War is over and Berman is redeemed.
Or
the Klingon War is on going, Michael is redeemed
Or the Klingon War is over and Michael isn't redeemed
Then you can kind of leave it there and map out the start
Michael mutinies, and starts a war with the Klingons that leads her to the death of her Captain.
Now you can start progressing forward and giving your self options.
What it felt like instead was they started with a puzzle that they had a definate idea of what it looked like and started jamming pieces at random with a hammer to get there, and the pieces didn't quite fit, and the characters were never quite developed, and the background characters became button pushers. Then to make sure you reached it, you put in a over arching technology that could fix every single problem.
Honestly to me, if thet're smart, they have to use the Spore Drive to help the Enterprise with whatever the distress call is, and the thing fails catastrophically and kills Staments. Like in the first show, because now you have this story line of solving problems without insta-jumps and a meta-being that can basically see through the universe and all dimensions.