The single biggest canon concern, to me, was how they'd handle the spore drive, which was just so extremely advanced compared with everything else until around Voyager, and so conspicuously absent in everything else. Fans who said otherwise were, at best, premature. On the other, I think it was mostly a mistake to try, and I'm compelled to digress a little to explain that:ĭisco season 1 didn't break the canon. On the one hand, I don't think Kurtzman succeeded at that. My initial impression is that Kurtzman may have been a little obsessed with "fixing" canon issues, in the sense of pleasing older fans who didn't like changes to the way things used to be. I'm told this is pretty common with management changes. In hindsight, it looks like a lot of ideas were summarily chucked and replaced by the new management, without too much consideration for overall narrative integrity. That's when the focus of the stories seems to shift towards time travel, but also when they seem to change course on some already established facts. But it seems to me that the main cause was likely the change of showrunners a third of the way through the season. The explanation for why season 2 went the way it did probably won't be made clear until insiders start giving their perspectives, probably years or even decades from now. But I won't feel fully comfortable until I know Kurtzman has dropped the reins and isn't going to fuck up more things. And I'm at least happy we'll get to see more Picard later too. Disco may thrive in the far future, especially if they keep their better writers on, and leave them to do their jobs unimpeded. I'm sure we'll still get decent episodes in future. I'm not going to repeat my mistake from a decade ago and write everything off from this point onwards. I can enjoy long discussions of made-up physics, but I have my limits. If you're spending half your dialogue just spelling out what may or may not happen, and then most of that turns out to be irrelevant anyway, then you've maybe wasted my time. If Doctor Who and Back to the Future teach us anything about telling time travel stories, it's that you explain the setup quickly, early, and simply. Exploration and discovery were sidelined for timetravellers exposition. Almost the whole cast did an excellent job, though some were clearly not given time to do much of anything.Īnd then the second half of season 2 just slumped, mostly. And I enjoyed every moment of Burnham Martin-Green may not always have had perfect scripts to work from, but always acted the hell out of them all anyway. The grim dark style parted way to something brighter and more hopeful, which worked well. It may not have been the greatest thing ever, but it was good, sometimes even great, and nowhere near as bad as some rabid haters try to pretend. But I was open to new approaches, and after struggling to accept the grim start to Disco season 1, I was very pleased to see that they'd had a decent plot in mind all along, and it all worked out well, with only some weird details like the spore drive left to be resolved (which I see as a technicality, not a fundamental scary problem). I don't think TOS was all that great, most episodes, and '90s Trek is my idea of the optimal balance of story elements (peaking with "Darmok", I'd say). I must first clarify that I am not and have never been a compulsive Disco hater, but nor am I an apologist for it.
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