Starfleet Academy Director Jonathan Frakes Says Fan Hate Is ‘Dimensionally More Painful’ Today Than in the Next Generation Years
Starfleet Academy Director Jonathan Frakes Says Fan Hate Is ‘Dimensionally More Painful’ Today Than in the Next Generation Years
I hadn’t even heard of this till now.
Is it better than Discovery?
I watched a couple episodes and they took the parts I liked the least about Discovery and made a whole show about them.
I concluded it’s not really made for me so I’m rewatching Lower Decks
Thx. I get it. Not for me either.
But I’m not worried. For sure something gritty and political will be made at some point in the future.
I think one of the problems a lot of franchises face is that there’s one, singular showrunner.
Why not open it up to multiple people, all able to tell different stories the way they want? Let a million Star Trek flowers bloom, I say.
With the exception of the Section 31 movie, everything they’ve made has been better than Discovery.
Academy is certainly different but I think it stands well on its own merits, including good character work, respectful use of existing canon, and a strong emotional core.
Academy has the best elements of every single series to date.
It’s not perfect—nothing is—but it’s impressively good and enjoyable. Yes, there are some quieter or seemingly “boring” moments from time to time, but these are usually when you need to pay attention, as they pay off big time soon after.
That being said, —and this isn’t necessarily aimed towards you personally— if you’re the kind to snub an entire series barely 5 min into it after mindlessly watching while doomscrolling, then repeatedly trashing it online to justify your lack of interest, then, no, it will not satisfy you, just like nothing else will.
I noped out after 5 episodes. They just got progressively worse to the point of irritation. So I skimmed the episode summaries for the rest of the season and saw
spoilerthe finale is yet another “save the entire federation” type of plot and knew it wasn’t worth wasting any more time on.
So you watched 5 episodes—half the season only, and come here to give your opinion on the matter of whether the entire series is good or not?
And you dare put the season’s big cliffhanger with spoiler on top of it?
I rest my case your honor.