Well, I tried, but I think its ok to take this series off of recording, and I don't think I'm the only one, this show is not even in the top 10 screening for Paramount screening, and its YouTube debut was outwatched by a reviewer that put up a video of a Spock action figure sitting in a chair at the same time.
Its clear that the 8 to 10 million they're spending per episode has led to some nice set pieces and effects but not one dime reached the writing room.
The dialogue is so amazingly bad. I get it, every writer thinks they can write fast quipy funny dialogue like Joss Whedon did in FireFly and Angel and the Avengers and Buffy. But they can't. The poor actors talk really fast throw in a bunch of unfunny and at time awkwardly stupid quips and swears that makes me think back to the bad dialogue writing in Discovery ("Science Bitch").
Then they combine this rapid fire Dialogue with quips and swears with the worst editing and character reactions possible. The scenes with Ake are awful as she twitches and moves around and sits down and stands up to the point that it distacts and you miss key dialogue because you've suddenly got motion sickness. The scene in the elevator with her continually moving away from the Doctor was funny or Quirky it was just stupidly weird.
And why do they need elevators and doors when they can suppossedly transport everywhere, and why do they need chairs for a less then a minute elevator ride?
And why is there a cadet in a wheel chair, when they can literally transfer a persons conciousness to a robot body like they did with Picard.
And here's the thing that made me throw my remote. I get it the Betazoid was deaf. But why the hell were his Betazed aids communicating with him in sign language. The Whole species is TELEPATHIC.
Oh and that Lesson or Lecture where Jett Reno was not really teaching or lecturing, she basically just trashed talked a Cadet and bragged about how great she is. I get that the Writers wanted to do some agenda based writing, but that whole lecture scene was a badly written stupid embarressment.
And the Number 1 character, I no longer care that she was bred in a test tube, or the Federation made Jem' Hadar grow genitalia. Her prosthetic are terrible and restrictive. She's extremely annoying, and the Actress has all the acting ability of a brick.
You notice I'm not talking about the story in this episode. Because it was a boring story, where the two main characters had act like they had chemistry and a growing relationship and neither could do it convincingly.
This show is embarrassingly bad. Its writing is a mess, there's nothing interesting really happening.
After Lower Decks left, I felt that was a shame, it was a fun show, not really Star Trek but a fun show. Discovery was just trash by the end. Strange New Worlds I felt took a pretty big step back last year. But whoever greenlit this atrocity and let Kurtzman run with this should be transported into a black hole or the center of a Star or off a cliff of something, and none of the people working on this show with the exception of actors not named Holly Hunter, and not playing the character of number one should be fired out of a Cannon into the ocean.
I doubt I'll watch the next few episodes and just watch the reviews to see if its worth coming back to.
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