I never really understood how the same people who made DS9 then went on to create such boring character ensembles. You went from having shapeshifting goo, Ferengi, Lizard Spies, Jadzia, Clone Gene-warriors and Weyouns to Humans and the most boring species ever ™ Vulcans. Why do they always go back to Vulcans when they are so uninteresting. Discovery should have started with the very first test jump sending them into the future, wiping the slate and going back to a space opera of the week.
I never really understood how the same people who made DS9 then went on to create such boring character ensembles. You went from having shapeshifting goo, Ferengi, Lizard Spies, Jadzia, Clone Gene-warriors and Weyouns to Humans and the most boring species ever ™ Vulcans. Why do they always go back to Vulcans when they are so uninteresting. Discovery should have started with the very first test jump sending them into the future, wiping the slate and going back to a space opera of the week.
Gonna be honest I always wondered if the reason they didn’t was they lacked the talent to write a great story that resolves in forty minutes.
The ascendancy of “prestige TV” as a creative form is truly poison for episodic drama.
Andorrian Bromance and Evil Dean Stockwell made up too little of that show