Stamets [Mirror]Phasers set to "Bitch please"
dontcarebear If anything, you could complain that it is copy pasted from modern culture, and doesn’t imagine the history of the timeline up until then, such as bell riots, eugenics wars, world wars, vulcans, establishment of the federation…
It feels disconnected from the world. Like an American microcosm snapshot of 2023 dropped into the world of the Star Trek future.
THAT I can understand as criticism.
Just calling it woke because “woke is bad” is just political trolling as it is everywhere. Like a cheap bot.
BarrelAgedBoredomI watched season 1 of Picard and discovery and they just didn’t feel like Star Trek to me. The people complaining about how “woke” it is just distract from legitimate criticism. A lot of it for me was the sets. Their design was dark, gloomy and had an air of oppression that, while present in various forms across trek, wasn’t previously baked into the design of the federation. It was all moody lighting and permenantly frowning actors. That temperament translated into the writing as well but you’ve already addressed part of that. And I’ve got a bone to pick in general with season 1 of Picard but that’s a whole other rant lol