[CaptainCrunch]

Honestly I like the story line of the Burn, the pretty much end of the federation, and almost like a descent of the galaxy into the equivalency of the Dark ages.

With Dilithium becoming increasingly rare we're seeing the possible end of the era of exploration in space and the end of warp travel.

Its a very cool idea to me, We saw in DS-9 at times that there were cracks in the Federation, that at times was willing to sell out their ideals for security. Now we're seeing a almost ineffective Federation living in denial that they can ascend again to relevancy.

I'm intrigued by the discovery of the cause of the Burn, but at the same time, I don't know if I trust the writers in terms of carrying it out, just based on the really awful first season, and a intriguing second season that couldn't carry it through to the end.

Look, I love Star Trek, well Voyager I didn't like, I want success for the franchise, I'm hoping they carry it off. But yeah the last couple of episodes to me have been a dip compared to the first few episodes.

I will say that compared to TOS, TNG and DS9, that this crew of actors still isn't amazingly strong. I still think that character development outside of Michael and Saru is not great. I mean in DS9 you learned about the secondary characters, and they spent time developing them, same in TNG. In this one outside of the main few characters the rest are furniture and when they do try to do something with them it feels poorly executed or they forget about it.

I keep talking about Detmer, because they could have had a really interesting storyline with her. Michael's actions caused her injuries and disfigurement, but instead of exploring that she basically forgave her in two seconds and then sat in a chair until recently where she had either PTSD or something else, and they've seemed to drop that one in a hurry.

The Burn is a story line that could be really memorable and shift the narrative of the ST Universe if they do it right.


Also because they're working so hard to develop Book, I'm assuming that he's going to die so they can angst up Burnham.