“One is my name. The other is not.” You serve that cunt Data. You fucking serve it.

Your last paragraph is just untrue. One of the biggest complaints is that they routinely lock stuff in a DLC that should be in the base game.

So was I. I was so excited and gung ho about this final season. I’ve never been so depressed and demoralized by a TV show before.

Me 5 minutes into work

Oh it’s a quote from True Blood. I’m just replacing the characters name in that with Michael.

That’s not a good contrast. It’s a bad contrast. Discovery and SNW take place in two very different time periods. In SNW, Federation is still strong. When Adira comes out in Discovery it’s during a period where Earth is xenophobic as fuck and the Federation is crippled. It’s a big deal for Adira because they don’t live in the same Universe as the character from SNW. Then there’s the fact that the other non binary character was on screen for a single episode while Adira is a supporting character.

You can’t compare those two so easily while dismissing the surrounding atmosphere.

Thanks for getting a genuine laugh out of me. Kinda needed that.

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Sorry. I didn’t sleep. A few things going on but this stupid fucking show has really been bugging me.

Apparently according to the EPs, Michael was chosen because Trek has a history of switching things up. Michael has been used in the past as a womans name so they decided to use it here. Basically the skant but in name form. It’s fucking dumb.

I did not post spoilers. You could have just not responded instead of saying “Sorry, I didn’t read what you said.”

Conclusion: Needs fucking any Reno. Or anyone other than Burnham.

So many parts of the show are great but have been smothered by parading around Michael Burnham and trying to give her the world that she doesn’t deserve. The new season showed her to be an outright psychopath who is willing to put the needs of the many above the needs of her relationship. And that was in Episode 1. Every episode from there demonstrated how the writers of the show did not give a singular fuck about anyone or anything other than Burnham. The final scene of the series ends on something that, when you give it a second of thought, is HORRENDOUSLY FUCKED UP. Especially when we saw a glimpse of what that kind of thing would do to someone (hint, it’s really not good) and they still fucking do it anyway.

I am so sick of Sookie Michael and her stupid fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. FUCK SOOKIE Michael.

Season 4. Characters are learning and growing and carrying on. Ends with a big event and a satisfying open ended narrative conclusion.

Season 5 undoes every ounce of character development and abandons every single character that isn’t Michael Burnham. Throughout the season various characters keep dropping with no explanation, slowly whittling down. The tacked on epilogue for the entire series does not have a single line from any Discovery-crew main character that isn’t Burnham. She gets 20 minutes of bullshit about her that ends with the most wildly unsatisfying narrative tie-in to something else. A tie-in that undoes everything that happened since Season 3 and leaves a future that is objectively depressing and hopeless. And that’s not even talking about the fact that Burnham does something in the first episode of the Season that is worse than mutiny. What she does in that first episode is so overwhelmingly fucked up that it proves she didn’t learn a singular fucking thing.

It is fucking mindboggling to me that the final season was greenlit.

That’d be a great idea. Get Neelix back without the nightmarish amounts of prosthetics they’d have to lay on Ethan Phillips again.

But the thing that throws me is everyone else wears it open too. There are tons of shots of it open. It’s just bizarre that they have such a noticeable uniform change for a single character and never mention it.

Ah okay I see where you’re coming from. I’m just so incredibly stuck on how much of a categorical failure Burnham is in every facet of a Starfleet captain that I haven’t even attempted to compare her to anyone else. By every single measure I can think of she fails that test.

Janeways tough call was weather or not to protect a race she had never heard of at the cost of her and her crew being likely stranded and remain stranded for the rest of their lives. She tried everything else in her power to do otherwise but accepted the ultimate cost when needed.

Burnhams tough call was blasting her friend out of an airlock or the death of all sentient life. She tried everything in her power to do otherwise but did not accept the ultimate cost. Nhan had to blast her from the airlock. Time was running out. It was up. Burnham did nothing but scream. Honestly… when has that changed in the newer seasons? Unless it directly serves her, she doesn’t make tough calls. People have to force her into it. Fuck sakes earlier in that same season she found Spock and it was Sarek who had to force her to turn Spock into Starfleet, pointing out she would lose everything all over again. Then in Season 3 she has this whole bit about whether or not she belongs in Starfleet, it coming really to a head in that kickass episode with Mama Burnham and Ni’var, Unification III. She says she doesn’t know. Had she fucking ever?!

Every other Captain we have followed puts Starfleet first or the needs of the many first. Burnham just… doesn’t. It’s all about her. On one hand the show is entertaining but on the other hand it sits squarely in a universe where how to be a good Captain has been readily defined or at least has shining stars to look towards. I mean Saru even looks at other Captains in Season 1 when he’s trying to model himself. But Burnham is unlike any other Captain for me. That’s why I completely agree with you staying as either a convict or a science specialist. Getting her rank back is fine but when she became Captain after all she has done… just so unearned. There was one sort of speech she was giving Rayner in episode 2 about how to be a Captain and I had to pause the TV after shouting “GURL” at my TV so loud I scared my cat.

I sound kinda angry and frustrated here because frankly I am. I’ve been rooting for the show and her since the start but she just keeps slipping on the same lessons she’s already learned and falling back to the same self absorbed ways. As the son of a narcissist, I’ve kind of become disgusted with her character because of it. The scene in the first episode when she gives Kovich that ultimatum on reading her in turned me against her so fucking violently and with such intense revulsion that I lost every goddamn ounce of passion for the show. I still love it. Still have been watching it. But where I would have been up at midnight waiting I am now being pushed into watching it by my roommate.

Also where the fuck is Stamets this goddamn season.

Sorry I angy. I am angy. I’ve been stressed with some behind the scenes shit in my own life and the show just hit hard at a bad time for me. I stop bitching now. I do love everything else about this season with the exception of a couple small things, same with any season. The ‘baddies’ I didn’t see coming.

There’s a glaring thing you’re missing. The pips on the collar and shoulders are only for captains. I’ve been seeing the same shoulders on people of very different rank but there’s one thing even more fucking bizarre. Everyone’s collars open and you see that the badge on it is attached on side and hooks on the other. Except for a single crewman. Jett Reno. For some inexplicable reason, hers splits directly in the center and I cannot figure out why. She’s wearing the same fuckin uniform. It’s not even an engineering thing because other engineers have the other badge.

I do not fuckin get it. I love the colors but that’s about it

And FUCK THAT BADGE. It’s just an ugly goddamn circle.

Honestly that feels offensive to Janeway. She never put herself above Starfleet. She never put her own personal aspirations above the crew. She never had to be taught the same lesson a half dozen times only for her to repeat the mistake. She didn’t let love cloud her decision making time after time after time. She didn’t learn on logic only to throw it out when convenient. I can’t see a single parallel between the two.

Until this season I liked Burnham. Not my favorite but liked her. But she’s doing the same mistakes from season 1. She hasn’t learned. I liked her because of perceived growth but this final season cemented that it wasn’t growth. It was self preservation.

Fuck her. She’s just a selfish cunt in a uniform. A uniform she repeatedly finds herself wondering if she should be in it. Every. Goddamn. Season. Well guess what honey. No. You fucking shouldn’t be in it. Go eat the wrong type of mushroom.

Also for the record, I’m not angry at you or anything. Pissed off at the writers. I wish she was a Janeway knock off because then there’d be something redeeming.

Because she is a genuinely bad Captain. She has only been captain for one full season and in it she was passable but the new season has proven she isn’t fit to sit in the chair or have pips. And this is coming from the dude who has been called a rabid defender of the show. I still love it but Im struggling due to Burnham.

She threatened to let terrorists get away with information that had the potential to collapse the Federation. She knew the security level on it was staggering, coming from a red directive (something that has still not been fucking explained at the end of the season) that is supposed to be hundreds of years old and above the heads of everyone in the federation. She knew this. She threatened to let them get away unless Kovich gave her access to information she didn’t have clearance for and, due to her actions in the episode, didn’t have the headspace to properly serve Starfleet in that instance.

Burnham is the worst written Starfleet character hands down, never mind Captain.

Jellico is genuinely better suited to the chair than her.

And again… This is ME saying it.

The reason I vote Pike is because to me he’s able to blend both of those where Picard couldn’t or wouldn’t. It’s likely just a different philosophy but I like both sides of that coin. Just happens to be the warmer one gets my tick. That and the psychotic level of self sacrifice he has thrown around so far