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Star Trek has never been hard science fiction, though.

How is the spore drive any more fantastical than half of what happens in Trek?

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In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors.

Like they are in TOS?

They also don’t look like klingons at all

Are you similarly upset by the change in appearance the occurred between TOS and TMP?

and architecture

Architecture? I don’t know, the House Mo’Kai fortress we see in season two doesn’t seem all that out of place. The rounded towers of the capital city seen in ENT is a greater divergence than anything we see in Disco. But that’s also fine, because architectural styles change over time.

the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes

And apparently, according to experts in the language, that’s the best Klingon has ever sounded on screen. Not really sure how that qualifies as a lore thing, though.

they make ships out of coffins.

One ship. The home of a cult leader.

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Interesting theory. If you’d never previously seen “Discovery” called STD, what made you choose it?

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There is no other Trek that follows that name convention. We don’t call “Voyager” STV or “Enterprise” STE. For me to believe that someone had a) never seen someone use STD applied to Disco pejoratively and, b) decided to use that abbreviation when DIS, DSC, and Disco are all far more common, I would have to be convinced that this is their first week discussing Star Trek on the internet.

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I really enjoyed Resurgence starting out, and without giving too much away, I liked the general thrust of the story, but man there are certain points along the way where you really see the Telltale cracks in the Trek facade.

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Could you give some examples of bad writing in the show? Feel free to skip the overwrought metaphor.

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I get to do the pithy bot mot that’s actually nonsense

The term is “bon mot.” Don’t worry though, this in no way affects my impression of your ability to judge what is or is not good writing.

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So that’s a “no?”

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I’m actually still just waiting for you to give some examples of bad writing in Disco.

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