Sorry for not writing for such a long time - my first try got erased before I sent it, but I’m back now to answer your question! It was the writing. I found so many of the dialogues to be really cringeworthy. To be fair, this was not the case for all the episodes. I felt ashamed to bare witness to some of the dialogue in The Sound of Thunder for example, while Light and Shadows was ok for me. I truly suffered through the Red Angel arch. There were so many things that just didn’t make any sense to me that I kind of stopped caring. And there was so much unending declamation with no real depth - all I saw were actors trying hard to say the flat lines as well as they could. I continued watching Discovery even after this season mainly because there were great characters again, that is Discovery’s strength in my eyes. And the later seasons seemed better to me. Have a nice day!

I mean the graph we’re talking about, the one with retirement. If the retirement age was higher and you count in the data from the other graph, that makes it even worse. It means that many people worked their asses off right to their death, without being able to retire at all.

That’s not what the graph says.

I’m not sure the higher retirement age is a good thing. The rest is wonderful.

I’m righthanded and I struggled to learn the fingering of a righthanded guitar. Lefthanded seemed more natural to me, but then I wouldn’t be able to just borrow a guitar from anyone. I really wonder why anyone thought it was a good idea to do the strumming with the dominant hand. In more difficult pieces, both hands get their share, like on piano. In easier pieces, the dominant hand has it much easier and the other hand does all the hard work.

I think some kind of food is just not designed to be healthy. It was made to be tasty without thinking about health. You can either make it more healthy and less tasty or you can eat it less often (as a treat).

That does make sone sense, yeah. I’m confused, because Saru is otherwise depicted as very empathetic, it’s even pointed out verbally, but this situation was different and it came so early on that it was hard for me to believe his empathy for a while afterwards, so I’m not very sure what the writers wanted me to think.

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Jean Luc IS my captain

Orville ships have the superior design.

There’s no botanical meaning of vegetable. That’s a cooking term. In botany, you have different parts of the plant, like fruit, stem or root, you have different groups of plants, like the ginger family or monocots. And you can say a plant is edible or useful.

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I think it’s the different humor and visual style case. And that’s ok. I don’t think you need to understand the many Trek injokes to like it- I know people who don’t know Trek and enjoy LD.

What I find interesting is that you feel the characters are cynical. I was quite suprised how endearingly idealistic the characters were, despite being written as flawed. They always make sure to do the right thing and they try very hard to better themselves. There’s a lot of character growth involved, which I much appreciate.

During the first two episodes, I also found the characters hyperactive. By the third one I adapted.

This is awsome!

Yeah, Tendi irl is not green at all.

It feels a bit less lonely if you’re a trekkie who likes cats.

…even when you grow, you can slip and you can revert, but you still get another chance. You can still help yourself.

I’m always in awe when it comes to the character growth in Lower Decks. It feels so real and natural. It’s nice to see that the creator knows exactly what he’s doing. Too many intuitive writers fail to grasp what the strength of their writing is and therefore risk losing it.

It's ok that the whole world of Star Trek is not at the same level morally. I also understand writers are just people and they are influenced by the time and place they live in. But I appreciate it when they at least try to continue to elaborate the utopic aspects. I love thinking about what could be better in society and how it would work (and that's what I like about TNG). Thanks for the analysis of DS9, by the way.

Can’t believe we got a Twin Peaks scene in Trek. I didn’t know I needed that but it makes me so happy!

Discovery is not necessary, but there’s quite a bit of stuff from TNG, Voyager and DS9 in Lower Decks.