Yeah the writers want girl bosses, the only men bosses are that admiral that recruited our Chancellor, and the head of the war college, who was just there to be lectured by a slouching wriggling barefoot slob of an Ake who lectures him on Empathy, he's teaching a war college, its not a day care.
But fine Girl bosses are ok, unless you as a writer create just blundering incompetent weird girl bosses.
Ake - A slob who walks around bare foot, and looks like she just rolled out of bed, in the big crisis in the first episode she had nothing to add. She lectures of using empathy to disarm an enemy and turns psycho.
Her number 1 - Who is a flat one dimensional character who's only thing is she yells a lot, and for some reason teaches physical fitness. (Some people might critize what I'm saying, that she's fat. But when I was in, as a Drill Instructor or PT instructor you'd better damn well be able to do everything that the people you are leading are doing. If you give a cadet 50 push ups, you'd better at least look like and you'd better be able to do 50 push ups"
And the academic advisor who seems to be a psycho like Ake making quips about learning opportunity as people die, but other wise does a whole lot of nothing.
Have girl bosses, who cares, but at least making then credible girl bosses. These are mockeries of girl bosses.
It seems like half of the characters are gay or bi or whatever, but at the end of the day who cares. But these characters are written either so poorly or are unlikable. Jett and Number 1 are just two bullies who bring nothing to the table. The Klingon and whatever. But the Klingon is such a weak Klingon, that I have to believe in a encounter with a real Klingon, he'd be discomendated and have a knife plunged into his face. Even in the last episode where he has anxiety and cries, and really does nothing just wrecks the characters. But then again 1000 years after the burn the whole Klingon character is now weak.
Writing and details matter, and this cast of writers are awful at it.
- Betazeds using sign language.
- Holograms blowing bubbles
- Holograms not being able to be harmed, yet this one is frightened and tentative.
- Characters eating comm badges.
- The destruction of Picards speech.
- using holograms as emergency medical personal, so when your ship is attacked and the power goes down, you pretty much either die or do surgery on yourself or your friends.
- Oh stealing food, fine oldest premise in the book, but there are replicators, and if you don't have one, then steal that instead of food. And if there are replicators why would you need to ship food.
- A combination of Klingon and Jen'Hadar a genetically engineered species that doesn't breed but is manufactured. You can argue that hey you can engineer them to breed, but from a civilization perspective, why would you suddenly allow a former enemy who were brutal super soldiers to breed.
Honestly I don't care if you as a writer, are putting out episodes with pushing an agenda, every show does that. But at least be good at the whole writing science fiction, or understanding the lore of the IP. The Writers don't do that.
And the actors have gone from ok and not the problem in the first episode to terrible by episode 4.
I mean how could Picardo not look at the quote from Picard "Drumhead" in his script and read it and say "This makes absolutely no sense (Because it doesn't in that form" and go to the writer or director or the 21 producers or the quality control people and say "Are you sure about this?". And Hunter who I am usually be a big fan of has been awful too.
The Academy kids are all just terrible and unlikable when they're not two dimensional
For the most part the reviews that I've read and watched don't have a primary complaint of identity politics or agenda based episodes. They hate this show because its just outright stupid, its cringy and its just not good.
The good news is it sounds like Kurtzman is on the way out. You can't take a major IP like Trek and make it so bad that its not even in the top 10 in streaming on its own platform.
Because they're already made two seasons worth of this train wreck, they'll play them through, but I expect that the promotion of this series is going to go to zero, and it will fade away.
So what happens with Trek, with the disaster of Discover and this, and the last two nutrek JJ movies not being good that they'll jump on the SNW bandwagon. But there probably won't be much Trek for the next 5 or 10 years.
You know, just thinking, if I was a writer on a show like Trek Academy, I would have probably gone to the US Naval Academy or the Academies in Britain or whatever else and gotten a sense of what a real academy that develops future Captains does.
I would have watched previous Trek series so I can understand what those Captains were like and not written Ake as she is now.
Oh and if things can't get worse, in the next episode the Frightened of everything that says and does stupid stuff Hologram. She's going to solve the "Mystery of Sisko" which isn't a mystery by the way, but I want to see how these idiots try to wreck Deep Space 9
Look, I just want well written, interesting science fiction with good characters, hell I just want to watch interesting well written TV, but its nowhere to be found.
I just got done rewatching Fire Fly, I watched the BSG movie and Razer and some key episodes, and I have to wonder, where did those writers and show runners go?
