As if all that Star Trek: Discovery violence wasn’t dangerous sufficient, season 1 ended with the Federation authorizing a plan to destroy the Klingon homeworld, and whereas Burnham finds a extra peaceable various, it’s sort of horrifying to see our heroes able to assist killing billions of individuals.
Frankly, if we needed to write episode after episode of such darkish episodes, we, too, would bounce on the alternative to write down a extra comedic journey.
The unhappy fact is that if Discovery had been much less darkish from the start and had extra of this comedy all through the primary season, the present would have had a stronger begin. As an alternative, the present selected to loosen up solely in later seasons, however lots of its would-be followers had already been pushed away by the bleakness and violence of season 1.
The franchise took too lengthy to study from Discovery’s errors, too, with Picard being a present that saved substituting gore for plot, arguably ruining the title character’s triumphant return.
