Thanks for all the recommendations, should keep me going for awhile.
I got to episode 4 in Discovery s04 and boy it just keeps getting worse somehow. I don't get how they continue to focus on the relationships between the crew to the detriment of the story. It's been done in other Treks but in Discovery they dial it up 10x to the point where you feel like you are watching a soap opera. Every single interaction between crew members seems to end up as a personal "discovery" journey. What makes it worse is they try to hamfist it into the most inappropriate situations as possible i.e. the crew have 2 minutes to solve a life or death situation and they spend 3/4 of it talking about how much the other person means to them. It might be okay to have one occurance in an episode but 3 times in a single episode? Just because two characters are in a relationship doesn't mean they will be all lovey dovey while shit is going down. It is frankly insulting to the gay community. Same bullshit with Michael and Booker. It doesn't need to be constantly shoved down the audiences throat. TNG just alluded to it and that was part of the charm. Discovery has to show two people naked under the sheets so we know that they are in a relationship... What the actual F.
I got to episode 4 in Discovery s04 and boy it just keeps getting worse somehow. I don't get how they continue to focus on the relationships between the crew to the detriment of the story. It's been done in other Treks but in Discovery they dial it up 10x to the point where you feel like you are watching a soap opera. Every single interaction between crew members seems to end up as a personal "discovery" journey. What makes it worse is they try to hamfist it into the most inappropriate situations as possible i.e. the crew have 2 minutes to solve a life or death situation and they spend 3/4 of it talking about how much the other person means to them. It might be okay to have one occurance in an episode but 3 times in a single episode? Just because two characters are in a relationship doesn't mean they will be all lovey dovey while shit is going down. It is frankly insulting to the gay community. Same bullshit with Michael and Booker. It doesn't need to be constantly shoved down the audiences throat. TNG just alluded to it and that was part of the charm. Discovery has to show two people naked under the sheets so we know that they are in a relationship... What the actual F.