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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Again, I haven't really watched the episodes in the last half of the season because I have no appetite for it but I have read the synopsis.
The whole wrapping up the war in 10 minutes (bomb Qo'nos!) and brushing the revolutionary spore drive under the bed (unethical!) sounds really stupid.
They should have pulled a DS9 where they found some sort of property of the spore network they could weaponize against the Klingons to force their hand but the trade off would be they lose their ability to use it ever again. That's kind of DS9'y with the wormhole but that would have actually tied the plot into the whole spore thing that came out of nowhere.
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You know what I really liked about DS9 and their war against the Dominion. They didn't use gimmicks in it for the most part. They didn't force an inverse tacyhon beam through the secondary injectors into the tertiary adjunct of the Quadrophonic deflector array to defeat them.
That whole war was ship against ship, and soldier against soldier.
they had a brilliant episode where the Discovery Crew were in a land battle against the Jem'hadar. And they worked with a group of soldiers who had been there too long.
It was an incredible episode, because you had casualties, you had a major character losing his leg, everyone was dirty, and tired and despondent. You could feel that the Federation was on the edge, you believed that they could lose, or be pushed back.
Or another episode where they were displayed phaser coils that had been used up in battle, and there were a bunch of them on the wall.
The desperation to win in the "Pale Moonlight". These massive battles where you could see people dying on both sides. In nearly every episode, they would talk about a loss, or casualties. But they backed it up by showing loss or casualties.
At the end of the day, they did what Discovery tried to do, but were incredibly clumsy about it, with the whole genocide thing.
They had section 31, and they had the virus in DS9 that was killing off the Changlings, and Star Fleet knew about it and were ok with it because all paths to victory, but the DS9 crew didn't go along with it and it was really well done.
I know its a comparible, but I just didn't feel those things with the Discovery. the Klingon War didn't feel like it was actually a thing because they rushed it and didn't show it.
On a side note, when they were going to murderize the Klingons, even though it would really screw up the time line I was hoping for it, because these Klingons were frankly annoying and not very interesting, even though they tried to make them interesting by basically ripping one of them apart and having sex with him to make a spy.