Star Trek: Discovery was a good news/bad news kind of situation. The good news was that there would be a new Star Trek series after many years. The bad news was that you’d have to pay for it. Alas, my local library saved the day with the first season on DVD. I had to put in a hold and wait, but I was still able to get all 15 episodes of the first season.
So, here we are at the last of those episodes. It would seem that there’s a resolution to the Klingon War at hand. Starfleet has a plan to send a probe to the Klingon home world and maybe find a way to threaten the Klingons into submission. Only, it‘s not really a probe. It’s a bomb intended to destroy the planet. And when I say intended, I mean that it’s what Starfleet actually planned to do: Destroy the home world so that the Klingons would realize how serious the Federation is.
I’m not sure I like this plan. There is a parallel to the United States dropping the bomb on Japan. It shows that Starfleet is serious. I had never thought of Starfleet being that serious, but this is what they get for putting a Mirror Universe Emperor in charge of the war effort. It puts an admiral on the verge of selling Starfleet’s soul just for the sake of winning.
Given that there’s a Klingon home world in the other series and that this is the second-earliest Star Trek series, it’s safe to say that it doesn’t come to that. The question is how and why it doesn’t come to that. This is where Discovery has a chance to redeem itself. The previous series had been about exploration. Deep Space Nine had a wormhole, which led to a new part of the galaxy to look at. Even Voyager, which was stranded 70,000 light years from home, took time to look at a new planet or meet a new race.
Discovery was mostly about conflict and war. It’s almost a darker version of Deep Space Nine. I am hopeful for the second season. I know I’ll have to wait a few months if I don’t want to fork over the money, but I waited this long for Season 1. I’ve also seen some spoilers for Season 2, which have me curious. Despite what I may have felt before, there is some Star Trek in Discovery.
So, here we are at the last of those episodes. It would seem that there’s a resolution to the Klingon War at hand. Starfleet has a plan to send a probe to the Klingon home world and maybe find a way to threaten the Klingons into submission. Only, it‘s not really a probe. It’s a bomb intended to destroy the planet. And when I say intended, I mean that it’s what Starfleet actually planned to do: Destroy the home world so that the Klingons would realize how serious the Federation is.
I’m not sure I like this plan. There is a parallel to the United States dropping the bomb on Japan. It shows that Starfleet is serious. I had never thought of Starfleet being that serious, but this is what they get for putting a Mirror Universe Emperor in charge of the war effort. It puts an admiral on the verge of selling Starfleet’s soul just for the sake of winning.
Given that there’s a Klingon home world in the other series and that this is the second-earliest Star Trek series, it’s safe to say that it doesn’t come to that. The question is how and why it doesn’t come to that. This is where Discovery has a chance to redeem itself. The previous series had been about exploration. Deep Space Nine had a wormhole, which led to a new part of the galaxy to look at. Even Voyager, which was stranded 70,000 light years from home, took time to look at a new planet or meet a new race.
Discovery was mostly about conflict and war. It’s almost a darker version of Deep Space Nine. I am hopeful for the second season. I know I’ll have to wait a few months if I don’t want to fork over the money, but I waited this long for Season 1. I’ve also seen some spoilers for Season 2, which have me curious. Despite what I may have felt before, there is some Star Trek in Discovery.
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