Star Trek: Discovery
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Osyraa the Terrible.
Did she deserve death, objectively?
The Granny Smith Gotti was a monster who committed unspeakable atrocities, even against her own.
Last week,I positedthat the series might be trying its hand inDeep Space Nineterritory.
In both cases, Id settle for Nuremberg.
Instead, weve chosen Hero Shoots Big Bad, Saves Day.
Time to look to the future and get busy reuniting!
Even the FBI knows it cant simply kill the don and destroy the mafia.
Thats not how organized crime works, even if this don fed her second to a trance worm.)
I am all for presenting audiences with a better vision for the future.
In many cases, Im even a fan of wish fulfillment.
None of these platitudes are true.
They are empty, and perpetuating their emptiness hurts us all.
Osyraa isnt the only one being robbed of complexity in this conclusion.
For the Captain Kirks and Luke Skywalkers of history, triumph over evil has always been enough.
Yet thats part of the problem.
She is more confident now, sure.
But she never stopped believing in the Federation.
Was this show notsupposed to be a redemption story?
And then theres Saru.
was on his way toward being one of the franchises great leaders.
Stubborn, begrudging stuffiness is what made Vance interesting, charming even.
If the 21st century gave us holographic dead pop stars, why couldnt the 32nd offer holographic consciousness?
Owo is now, far and away, the bridge crewmember we know the most about.
It would be nice to know at least this much about Detmer, Rhys, and Bryce, too.
There will be gelato on one of them.
Stamets, for his part, hasnt forgiven his new captain for what shes done.
Look,Star Trekisnt a successful fantasy world because it gives us easy solutions.
Those jagged edges are even more essential to Trek than the utopia.
They remind us that better is actually achievable.
But the larger series isshowingus something different.
Its a truth we desperately need, and I do believe its creators are trying to fill that role.
But for now, Im still waiting.
(Forever and ever, amen.)
Personal Log, Supplemental
That giant flying fish I noticed here last week was actually a Gormagander!
Still absolutely no clue who that one rando bridge crew woman was.
kindly, someone, make a GIF out of the SuKal/Saru exchange Outside can be challenging Dangerousssssss!!!
for me to use ad infinitum.
Seriously, how did Aurellio manage to stay on the ship?
And how did that holo-program work, exactly?
Even though your physiology is being transformed?
Speaking of tentacles, I kind of want an entire horror film about SuKals haunting Ghost of Christmas Past?
And a whole cyberpunk movie starring Vulcan Ian Alexander walking through the Matrix?
Those effects were dynamite.
Ill end with a bit of science: Culber posits that SuKal is apolyploid.
In sci-fi terms, it seems like a mutant X-gene scenario.
And then, of course, theres a medical reason pregnant people arent allowed to smoke or drink.
