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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Irrelevant - part of the point of the series is that she's captain material, but neither Discovery itself nor this continuity's Starfleet have ever been in a stable enough position to recognize that. (Until now.) She herself also had some personal demons to deal with before she felt ready for the chair, unrelated to her technical competencies.
In a perfect world, I would have liked more development and dedicated episodes for characters like Detmer and Bryce prior to this season too. But Discovery doesn't have the luxury of an episodic, dedicated timeslot, monster-of-the-week format like prior Trek did. They had an overarching plot to tell and precious little time to get through it. Fleshing out a smaller core of main cast members like Saru, Tilly, Stamets and Georgiou was a more effective strategy in the long run.
She's not "always right," this is a ridiculous meme.
SpoilerThe show opens with her biggest regret/blunder. Her gamble with the vulcan logic debate failed, and they only got the data they needed because of her mother very publicly humiliating and dressing her down in front of the president of Ni'var. Her plans are brilliant, but often have unintended consequences that other characters have to bail her out of (if they don't just get killed, e.g. Airiam and Landry.)
Yes, she ultimately wins in the end because protagonist, but you keep counting that as a negative against her when every other captain (fine, "main character") in the series' history has both gambled with and gotten away with far more. Sisko was the chosen one of an alien prophecy, Picard routinely caught the personal attention of a godlike entity (and was ALSO a prophesied chosen one) and Janeway has saved her crew solo more times than I can count. If Burnham being a hero bothers you so much more than all the other examples of such throughout Trek history, it might be good to reflect on exactly why that is.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-01-19, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Great last episode *except*... what was going on with the turbolift? Are we to believe there is *that* much open space in the Discovery in between/around decks? Or is the Discovery actually the The Tardis?
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2021-01-19, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
I'll point out that Michael is the focus of Discovery far more than any of the characters you mention are the focus of their shows. I didn't like Janeway as a character very much, but the show would just as often focus on Tuvok, Torres, Paris, Seven or the Doctor who were characters I did like so that wasn't a problem. Discovery is much less of an ensemble show and while it's personal preference, I don't feel that Michael is interesting enough to earn the spotlight she's been given.
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2021-01-19, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Originally Posted by Psyren
Yes, she ultimately wins in the end because protagonist, but you keep counting that as a negative against her when every other captain (fine, "main character") in the series' history has both gambled with and gotten away with far more.
I would call this something of a narrative legacy effect. Trek is used to having its main characters be captains, but they wanted this series to be different by telling the story from the perspective of a junior officer. Which is fine, except they ended up investing her with the narrative authority of a captain, which translates to giving her actual captain's authority without any service rationale for exercising it.
Originally Posted by Maelstrom
Are we to believe there is *that* much open space in the Discovery in between/around decks? Or is the Discovery actually the The Tardis?
Originally Posted by Dire_Flumph
Discovery is much less of an ensemble show and while it's personal preference, I don't feel that Michael is interesting enough to earn the spotlight she's been given.
As for Michael, I’d say that she’s interesting enough, but not inherently pivotal enough for the spotlight without a great deal of contrivance. From the first moment it came up, I was nonplussed that she was Spock’s adoptive sister who has somehow never been mentioned before now. To me that is utterly forced and completely unbelievable, and only James Fraim made it bearable from moment to moment.
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2021-01-19, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Actually, yes. I believe that was meant as a subtle reference to Enterprise. In the episode, "Future Tense," the crew of Enterprise discover a small craft that appears to be from the 31st century. One of the discoveries about it is that it was 'bigger on the inside.'
Seeing as how Discovery now takes place in the 32nd century, a hundred years later, it makes sense that many starships have this technology, and since Discovery got a bunch of upgrades (like the detaching nacelles), it stands to reason that might be one, too.
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2021-01-19, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Originally Posted by JadedDM
Actually, yes. I believe that was meant as a subtle reference to Enterprise.
Has it gotten even bigger in Season Three?
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I covered that; when you have to fill a required timeslot for X number of episodes, and a very flabby show structure with little to no overarching plot and where the episodes are designed for reruns/syndication where they can be shown out of order more often than not, chopping up the spotlight among the ensemble is not just more feasible, it's a downright necessity. That kind of show structure doesn't work (or at least, hasn't been shown to work) for a streaming model.
I would turn this 'narrative legacy' viewpoint on its head. Why were the captains the ones constantly risking their lives on away missions, bucking Starfleet's authority, and getting their hands dirty? It's not like Mass Effect where the leader also happens to be far and away the most capable fighter on the vessel. If anything, more of the series should have focused on the XO's exploits than just this outing. Yes, the Captain getting captured or trapped on an away mission is an easy source of drama, but we've established that a Starfleet vessel would bend over backwards even to get their Counselor or Wesley out of harm's way, so it doesn't really do anything except make most of those captains look a lot more foolhardy than the likes of Saru, Pike, or even Lorca.
So the fact that Burnham got more focus despite not being a captain doesn't matter an iota to me.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-01-19, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by JadedDM
Was the turbolift interior shown in seasons 1 and 2? If so, I have no memory of it.
My reaction when I saw this was the same as Maelstroms: "Seriously, is this the Tardis?" It's a colossal space to fit anywhere within the volume of the Discovery, much less between decks or compartments.
It seems to follow the same "logic" as the second-season finale, in which hundreds of fighters pour out of the Enterprise's shuttle bay without regard for how much volume is actually available. We had a number of good views of the shuttle bay in TOS, and there's room for only a handful of standard shuttles. Turning the Enterprise into an aircraft carrier, with no rationale for how they stored that many fighters or their pilots, is just more frosting on the layer cake of ridiculous.
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2021-01-20, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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I wouldn't be bothered by her not being the captain either...if the captain and the rest of the crew got half as much screen time as she got.
this show is called Star Trek Discovery... but it might as well be called the story of Michael Burnham.
that, at the core, is the main gripe I have with it.
As for Discovery not having the luxury of a dedicated timeslot... that's the choice of the creators, who decided to revolve the story around her. Discovery is also not the first Star Trek iteration to deal with an overarching plot. It is possible to write complicated overarching plots that still give time to an ensemble cast to feel like an ensemble and not like hangers on to the coattails of the main protagonist.
You chose to focus on the "always right" portion of my observation, which I agree is debatable... I am more annoyed by the fact that she was front and center always, and regularly part of conversations where she should not even have been in the room. Her being always right in the end, in the context of that observation, is the plot excuse for having her be part of conversations that should normally not involve her directly. I just don't think it's a valid excuse.
She's more of a Mary Sue than pretty much anyone we've seen in this franchise except maybe Wesley Crusher.
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2021-01-20, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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I have yet to see that term used for anything beyond "female character I don't like." It's practically a Godwin at this point, shutting down any rational discussion.
Yes, not being monster-of-the-week was the showrunners' choice, but the alternative would have been pretty unwatchable in this day and age, so I don't see it being much of a choice at all.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-01-20, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
not my issue.. If she'd been a guy I'd have said Gary Stu.
trying to reduce my arguments to me disliking her because she's a woman...I'm sure there's a name for it.
that said, if that's the avenue you want to derail this discussion in, you'll have to walk down it on your own. I've simply stated my gripes with the show, a show that I like despite those gripes. Clearly you disagree. Let's agree to that and move on.
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2021-01-20, 01:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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She's no more competent than any other main character in a Star Trek show. She's better at hand-to-hand since they can actually choreograph a proper fight scene now instead of skipping it with a neck pinch, but it's not hard to imagine that Starfleet Academy was always meant to include that kind of training too. So yes, I do believe the "Mary Sue" label is shorthand for "I don't like her and can't adequately articulate why."
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2021-01-20, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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English is not my first language, but I believe I've articulated it quite clearly, and I'm not alone in this. I don't dislike her.. I dislike that the whole show revolves around her rather than the team.
I dislike that Discovery is, as I said in my last post, functionally the story of Michael Burnham instead of the story of the Discovery.
Again, you might not share my opinion, and that's perfectly fine, but please don't try to insult my intelligence by selectively picking what you react to and what you decide to ignore and put intentions and meanings to my words that are clearly not there.
I'm not going to reply any further, if that's what you insist on doing.
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2021-01-20, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Trek Discovery - Season 3 [Spoilers]
Originally Posted by Psyren
She's no more competent than any other main character in a Star Trek show.
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Originally Posted by Palanan
She’s an ace pilot, a master spy, a xenoanthropologist and an all-around genius at science, not to mention seat-of-the-pants temporal navigation with untested technology.Originally Posted by Psyren
All of this can be applied to Kirk, among others.
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2021-01-20, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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I dont mind Michael Burnham as a character. She is interesting, is well acted, has a lot of drive.
I don't even mind a Star Trek series centered around her character, more or less.
I just feel the writers just want to fit a square peg in a round hole. She isn't suited to be a Starfleet bridge officer. She is suited to be an operative, a diplomat. An independant go getter who works alongside Starfleet to further the Federation interests.
Like, could we have seen the network of contacts she built in her year alone? Which other Starfleet/Federation believers she joined? Why does she have to be the ****ing Captain, when she works so much better when she isn't put in the Captains chair, or event as part of the chain of command.
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2021-01-21, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Psyren
Except it does, both versions.
Kirk has always deferred to Spock on science, and claiming he’s a xenoanthropologist is just silly. And no, he’s never flown untested technology back and forth through time.
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Why should I? Is he not a starship captain there? Did it not predate Discovery?
For the purposes of this one post I'll humor you and draw the arbitrary line, but my larger point that people didn't care about multitalented Trek protagonists until Burnham came along stands, and that I see either suspect motivations or lack of awareness behind that stance.
Spock knows more science, but that's not the same as saying Kirk doesn't know any. "Comprehensive knowledge of starship systems" is science, and Kirk has solved plenty of science problems without Spock, e.g. modifying the deflector dish solo in Generations to free the ship from the energy ribbon.
For xenoanthropology, I could make a joke here about Kirk's many alien conquests counting as anthropology, but I'm curious as to what you think Burnham's excessive exploits are here. Figuring out a new alien culture on the fly? Every series captain has managed that.
As for untested time travel technology, Kirk has so many exploits here that Temporal Investigations has a file just for him. The one that comes most readily to mind (since it showed up again in Discovery) was the Guardian of Forever, but there were many others.
And again, that's just prime Kirk; I didn't go into Kelvin Kirk or any of the other captains yet.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-01-21, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Psyren
"Comprehensive knowledge of starship systems" is science….
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…modifying the deflector dish solo in Generations to free the ship from the energy ribbon.
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The one that comes most readily to mind (since it showed up again in Discovery) was the Guardian of Forever, but there were many others.
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…I see either suspect motivations or lack of awareness….
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Originally Posted by Psyren
"This is applied science, not science."
A digital camera is based around a CCD, which is based on the principle of the photoelectric effect which Einstein first elaborated.
Einstein, it’s safe to say, was doing science. But knowing how to take a good photo with a digital camera is not science. Kirk is the photographer; he knows how to make use of technology based on principles elaborated by scientists, but he's no scientist himself.
Originally Posted by Psyren
Burnham didn't build the suit either.
Burnham is physically assembling the suit and quarterbacking everyone else on the team. So yes, she built the suit.
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Originally Posted by Psyren
Engineering is science, end of.
I get that it’s fun for you to stake out a position and defend it with clever lines, but in this case it’s not productive and not enjoyable for anyone else.
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