Star Trek Discovery

Star Trek Discovery is a show I'm really into right now because I was introduced to it by someone who watches more tv than me and was able to watch it without buying a subscription to anything myself, which I have always been quite unwilling to do.

I was a little iffy on this series at first, but the characters really grew on me, and I've really enjoyed the story.  I've watched all three seasons and have generally enjoyed how the story develops in each season, but I've particularly enjoyed the third season.  This series both is and isn't like other Star Trek series.  It is because it is obvious that the writers of this show have taken great care to reference elements from the other shows, especially but not only from the original series.

However, it is different due to the approach the storyline takes with the plot.  This makes it easier to watch the shows sequentially since the seasons are fairly short and the episodes are all tied together with common story threads, but that means skipping episodes may cause more confusion than in other Trek series since the main story and characters change a lot as the series goes on.  

One thing to know about this series is that there are elements that are extremely fantastical, more fantasy than sci-fi, really.  They still have plenty of more plausible sci-fi elements embedded in the series, but some things are just like...no amount of rationalizing is going to explain that!  You just have to accept that Discovery runs on mushroom power and that's that!  For me this is fine, since I'm alright with a certain amount of handwaving in a story as long as there are enough elements I enjoy.  I just classify things like that as sci-fi+fantasy.  But this could be an element that some people might not be able to get past.

So yeah, this is a sci-fi I've enjoyed a lot so far.  The first three seasons are currently complete, but apparently there will also be a forth season, too.

An Issue I Want To Do Something About

I wish I didn't feel so much anxiety about even giving my opinions about anything.  It's just that I constantly worry about not being able to articulate my position regardless of how much I know about an issue, and also about any actual articulate arguments I manage to give only serving to upset or annoy people and not actually accomplishing anything because I didn't say something the 'right' way. Also this issue causes a lot of resentment in me, which unfortunately only magnifies the likelihood of either issues one or two occurring when I do actually give my opinion.  I also don't like the fact that no matter what you do, people can just...not understand a word you say and describe this state to you in great detail while saying how wrong (or right) you are that [thing you very much did not say].