Finally something the fans can agree on

Well, mostly agree on 😉

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STD is trash overall. It has no redeeming qualities. Saying that one or another season is "the worst" means little to nothing when the best it has to offer is still some of the worst sci-fi I've ever seen... Until Picard somehow surpassed that...
"STD" is the most deserving acronym.
- It features space tardigrades and that's a redeeming quality
I enjoyed Discovery overall, but I really preferred when the show was in the 23rd century instead of the 32nd century.
I can’t believe I’m being nostalgic for a 14 episode season, but early Discovery still dabbled in one off episodic adventures or 2-3 episode mini arcs. The later seasons were short enough that they really had to commit to their world ending plot lines. Running around the mycelial network for a couple of episodes was generally more memorable than, “We leaned a bit more about the 10C.” Plus Season 2 got us Jett!
The real world production drama fundamentally broke the season’s puzzle box and left some pretty glaring plot holes, but that finale was stellar.
- I disagree with you, but for the same reasons? I felt like season 3, when they're first getting into the future, exploring, and meeting the people there, was the most like Star Trek. I also think the Mycelial drive is a good fit for the future setting
  
  Season 3 was excellent as well! I wish 4 and 5 had a bit more futureness to them, but Discovery overall was good in my book.
One positive I'll grant it is that it functioned as a backdoor pilot to Strange New Worlds.
- It’s my favourite season just for that.
- Made me laugh-cry how the first two seasons of Discovery ended on a shot of the damned Enterprise!
Kept trying to parse "DSC" as "Deep Space Cix", and thinking that didn't make any sense. For multiple reasons.
I think I'm gonna go...
I'm just so tired of all the time traveling bullshit.
When time travel is introduced, it tends to make the entire plot line pointless.
I also consider time travel a fantasy element, because our understanding of causality does not allow for time travel back in time.
Forward in time is most piratically done with cryo/stasis, "flying" into the future is simply bullshit.
So IMO Discovery was OK in the beginning, but devolved into nonsense.
- "flying" into the future is simply bullshit.
  Yeah the way they did it, but reaching relativistic speeds outside warp sounds like a feasible way to jump to the future given the technology dreamed up for star trek
- Giant Space Water Bears was my limit. I watched the entire first season, but I found it to be too ridiculous.
DSC? I always call it ST:D as it too burns in uncomfortable places.
- I've stuck with DISCO. Highlights the silliness of it all.
  
  That or discotrek
- Yep.
The second season finale was actually great though, if only because the climax was visually very experimental and cinematic. I feel like Discovery often took chances, and they didn't often pay off, but that one really did. It looked like they blew the entire season's visual effects budget in that one episode.
- I thought the storytelling in that finale was pretty bad in general, but you’re right that the visuals were spectacular. That wormhole sequence that called back to TMP was absolutely beautiful.
The Klingons in season 1, though...
- “t’KOOOOOVma!”
- Weren't they just supposed to be pre augment virus Klingons? I liked their portrayal for the most part, even thought the klingon with subs was kinda cool. I have a lot of grievances with Discovery, but not that
  
  Lower Decks confirmed that they're from an alternate universe.
the sound of Stamets approaching quickly
- I love Season 2
  Also this will probably be one of the last times I comment on TenForward. I left lemmy.world and set up !Risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com for the unaware
  
  W-why?
  c/Risa was made as an alternative to r/Risa, because Reddit.
  c/tenforward was made as an alternative to c/risa, because Reddit mods on Lemmy.
  Now there’s another c/Risa on another instance? What drama did I miss?
I rewatched it a while back, and for the most part it’s a much stronger season than I remembered. The last couple of episodes were frantic and nonsensical enough that it coloured my view of the rest of it.
Still probably agree that it’s the worst season, but it’s not that bad.
I still haven't watched season 5, so I can't say for sure.
Was that the space baby season? or was that the weird third one?
So I agree for the most part, however I miss the early seasons of DSC. I feel like it really went off the rails (for me) starting in season 3. I feel like it started with a decent season and every season after it was a step down, with hints of greatness here and there, like trying to figure out how to communicate with that 10-C(?) species.
- Agreed on all counts - me and my other half were down to just getting it done with at the start of S4, but couldn't bring ourselves to even start S5.
  I rather enjoyed the first two seasons.

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