Two Reasons Discovery Didn’t Feel Like Star Trek at First
Star Trek: Discovery is not unique among new shows in the franchise facing backlash. However, two subtle choices may have made some fans feel the show didn’t match its predecessors.
Star Trek: Discovery is set to debut in 2024 with its fifth and final season on Paramount+. Filming on the series wrapped in 2022, long before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA were forced to strike. Studio leadership is so desperately greedy (and foolish), they’d rather shut down production for half a year losing billions of dollars just to save what amounts to an infinitesimal percentage of their annual revenues. Discovery, along with everything else that bears the Star Trek name (save for the animated series Prodigy) is the anchor of Paramount’s streaming service. All due respect to Taylor Sheridan’s Rich Cowboy Cinematic Universe, Star Trek is a big reason why people stay subscribed. If there is any silver lining to the studios’ greed, when the “new content” pipeline eventually dries up, Star Trek fans can do what they’ve always done before. If they revisit Discovery, they might notice two clear reasons why the show was so jarring to a significant portion of Trekkies and Trekkers.
