Star Trek Minus Everything That Makes Star Trek
Ultimately, STD is an ugly, mean-spirited, shadow of the source material it's the parasite of. Written by incompetent hacks who can only work in "Safe Spaces," produced by a bevy of inept morons who fool themselves into thinking they've got the next MCU in their hands, and a champion of malignant characters who are praised and rewarded for their selfish, destructive, and nonsensical behaviour, this program only serves to show how despicable and stupid humans can be and still somehow survive.
The season starts with a man dying because he dared to disagree with the god known as Mikey Spock. She then proceeds to neuter Cpt. Pike, then carries his gonads around in her purse. The season ends with a primitive flying a fighter craft and an admiral biting the big one because she can't be bothered to open a door! Because Girl Power? Nebula the Robot Woman sums up this entire show with a single line: It's all about you, Mikey Spock.
The ineptitude is rotten throughout the show, in this mega-advanced technological society people do not understand how DNA works (nuclear or mitochondrial, they got it wrong--Dr. Little Ricky, when he's backtracking, starts to try and cover the writers' butts by saying Mikey Spock has the same mitochondrial DNA and can be the only match to their mystery subject, that's a possibility, but not true. There are only so many human mitochondrial haplotypes and it is entirely possible that one of the other crew members of African descent could have the same mitochondrial DNA.) I also thought Mikey Spock was supposed to be this amazingest-super-bestest scientist/test pilot/life coach/know-it-all, then how does she not know everything there ever is or was about DNA? But then, what do you expect from the people who brought you sonar in space, shooting stars in the absence of atmosphere, and an AI that wants to become an AI even though it's aware and already an AI?
"I Leik Sighance." --Lt. Spork of the USS Enter-at-your-own-risk-BoobyPrize
CBS, why must you destroy the most beloved character in the entirety of the Star Trek universe? What kind of sick satisfaction are you deriving from this? What did Mr. Spock ever do to you to warrant turning him into a moronic, leather-wearing, brain-damaged, whinging, hysterical clairvoyant? Grinding Spock into the carpet so he can be rescued/saved/whatever by Princess Mike only serves to make you look bad, CBS.
Turning Amanda Grayson into an ice-hearted harpy who can only express love for Mikey Spock while neglecting her own son was a rotten move. You've taken an intelligent, compassionate, witty woman and distilled her into a sour-faced, vacuous, vicious twit who is too moronic to understand how diplomatic immunity works despite being the wife of a diplomat. Sarek, a confirmed supporter of unprovoked violence and genocide (as per Season 1) continued his complete de-evolution from stern, distant, aloof dad to Spock, into a man whose heart is shattering because he was a Bad Daddy to the stray cat he dragged home two decades ago. There was only room for one child in Sarek's life, and it certainly wasn't his son. When the audience finally gets an explanation as to why this is the case, we learn that the Ambassador thinks his kid needed to learn empathy, because his wife was a frigid shrew and he refused to build a relationship with Spock, so he installed an adopted sociopath into his home instead.
Pay close attention and it's pretty obvious that this clap-trap, Mary-Sue-led, lazy-writing marathon of idiocy is set in the JJ Abrams Trek universe. It's the only context in which this show makes even the slightest modicum of sense. STD is the 2009 Prime timeline, that breaks off into the Kelvin, that's going to give us the new Picard show, because Picard is taking place after the destruction of Romulus, as per JJ and the Countdown prequel comic. This also means that Picard is set in the same JJ universe as the reboot movies, STD, and whatever else CBS tries to hawk at us. The story-telling, characters, ships, tech, lighting, clothes, smarmy attitude, 'splosions!, pew-pew-pew, blow things up and ask questions later style are completely incongruous with the TOS/TNG universe. These two visions of the future are chalk and cheese served with a side of oil and vinegar.
I can honestly say that when I was a moody teenager, I was one of those kids to whom TOS meant the future was worth looking forward to and worth sticking around for. Mr. Spock showed that while it's hard to be different, it's absolutely possible to thrive in the face of adversity. That's no longer the case. In order for someone like Mr. Spock to make it in this world, he had to have a better version of what his father wanted him to be taking him by the hand and dictating his life to him, even to the point of choosing his future friends. Watching STD was like witnessing the drawn-out death of a dear friend as they were consumed from the inside out by an aggressive cancer.
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