this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
29 points (73.8% liked)
Ask
628 readers
181 users here now
Rules
- Be nice
- Posts must be legitimate questions (no rage bait or sea lioning)
- No spam
- NSFW allowed if tagged
- No politics
- For support questions, please go to [email protected]
founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Say anything positive about Star Trek: Discovery, or even worse, say that it was actually good, that I enjoyed it, or—the absolute affront say that it is true canon, that it respected canon, and that it truly enriched the whole Star Trek Universe.
omg yes
I recently posted in a thread specifically about "hot takes" that the only Star Trek was the original series and Enterprise; that the rest were not Star Trek.
Got a downvote before I even had a chance to refresh my screen. 😀
I'm just left wondering why those two.
Well I'm someone who was brought up on TOS reruns. So that was my Star Trek. My Star Trek was about "going boldly" into the unknown. Only TOS and Enterprise have that aspect. TNG was "going boldly on cargo missions" and "having meetings about critical situations" in the season I watched. I actually found myself bored by it. (Over many years I've seen, likely, most of the episodes here and there because of the circles I socialize in—and still haven't seen anything to change my mind.) DS9 was "boldy staying in place" which is almost the anti-Trek for me. And Voyager was "boldly fleeing home". None of that is the vibe I loved in TOS. Only in Enterprise did they go back to what it was that grabbed me with Star Trek in the first place.
(I haven't seen any of the subsequent series at all: DIscovery, Below Decks, Picard, whatever. What I've heard about them from their fans suggests that I'll have them in the not-Trek pile as well, though.)