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And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.
I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:
- “God” lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
- Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
- V’ger
- Q and the continuum
- Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
- Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
- Mirror Universe
- Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
- SPACE FUNGUS
Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco’s first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.
Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.
Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.
While hardly a first for Star Trek, it’s always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.
The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.
Transporter buffer imprisonment
This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.
Console explosion
Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.
The dog is the only one that can’t actually consent to space travel, and regardless, couldn’t possibly know the risks. It is innocent, and doesn’t deserve a violent fate.
Everyone else knows that they signed up to live in a metal box, with an artificial biosphere, which is all that separates them from the cold void of deep space. Also, said deep space is jam-packed full of things trying to actively break that metal box, if the crew doesn’t beat them to it first. And nobody knows that better than Seven.
“O’brien in Agony”
Is just a picture of Miles with Keiko
For a moment, I though this was a play on how holodecks work versus the current state of AI.
Then I realized what an utter nightmare it would be to build a full-blown VR environment using nothing but present-day stable diffusion prompts.