In Which I Discuss Star Trek

As I've said before I don't pay for any subscription services but I do have other ways to see shows and have been watching both Discovery and Picard.

While my favorite of the two is Discovery, I've been enjoying Season 2 of Picard quite a lot.  Picard's first season just felt really slow for my taste, especially in the beginning.  I also didn't connect very well with a lot of the characters, as it often takes me a while to gain an interest in a new character, and there are quite a few major new characters.  But Season 2 is a lot zippier, and it has Q, who's one of my favorites.  It's also the most fun the borg have ever been.  Love the borg queen in this.  Well, there are two borg queens who appear, actually, but the first one we don't get much time with.  The second one we see a lot more of, and it's in a quite intriguing and unusual context.  Don't know how it's going to all end, but it's been really enjoyable so far.

Picard and Discovery are very different shows, and because of that, I feel they're quite complementary.  Discovery has a cast of entirely new characters taking center stage, and I really enjoy how they've developed the main cast, though their development of secondary characters is quite uneven.  Like there are secondary characters I absolutely love on the show, but there's also a number of the secondary crew members who I don't even recognize or remember names for. 

Star Trek Discovery Thoughts

I really love what Star Trek Discovery did with the mirrorverse, and especially the Emperor.  Definitely one of my favorite characters of the show.  Also the mirrorverse plot isn't just incidental, but is is actually an important element of the story.  I also enjoy DS9's mirrorverse, but Discovery's is definitely my favorite.

Another thing I love about Discovery is Saru, and the kelpians in general.  Besides the fact I just really enjoy a lot about the kelpians in and of themselves, the kelpians actually remind me a lot of muuns (except for being much better designed --looking at you, San Hill).  If they just had a longer head they'd look almost exactly how I imagine muuns should look.  Or at least a lot closer than anything George Lucas did for them.

In general the main characters have really grown on me, whereas I was initially unsure how they'd be handled.  But overall I've enjoyed seeing them develop over each season.  Michael Burnham is one constant in the show, as she's the main character, though her arc has been far from static.  I think this also reflects the story, which is very dynamic itself.  Michael also has the most mother figures of any character I've seen.  Sometimes a character has a complicated relationship with her (non-biological) father, her brother, and her four mothers.  Okay, maybe that's just Michael.

Also the Mudd time loop episode is hilarious.

Fun Star Trek Fact About Me

Deep Space 9 is the only Star Trek I've watched all the way through.  Star Trek was a staple of my younger years, and I've seen episodes from almost every Star Trek show, but I've only watched all the episodes of DS9.  I did that very recently too so it's pretty fresh in my mind.  I'd seen some episodes back when it first aired, but back in those days, it was easy to miss shows.  I remember being fascinated by Odo's shapeshifting abilities back then, but that's about it.