So Star Fleet simply pretends Michael Burnham and the USS Discovery never existed and that allows Star Trek Discovery to fit into the pre-existing Star Trek story-line? I enjoyed the series but it really is a whole new thing and only vaguely related to the Star Trek we all know and love.
shareI tend to take the same view as you. From early on I've suspected (statements from the producers aside) that this will turn out not to be the same timeline as most of the Trek franchise. The so-called Prime universe. This is a world that's very close in most respects but with a few glaring differences.
Next season will clearly be very different from this one. The crew will be stuck nine centuries in the future, way out in the Beta quadrant. Will they choose to make a season or more out of that, or only a few episodes then have them back in the present again? It'll be interesting to see.
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I was sort of hoping Burnham and Discovery would disappear into the wormhole, and next season would focus on Pike, Spock, the Numero Uno lady and the Enterprise. Now THAT would be a great show!
shareHopefully they'll do both, a Discovery series that'll be more like Voyager than we've seen so far and a Captain Pike series which will carry on until he's seriously injured and replaced by Kirk.
shareMy thoughts exactly. TBH I couldn't care less about any of the Doscovery characters. I was getting bored with their messiah complex that puts Bono and Bob Geldof to shame. Only the presence of Jason Isaacs and Anson Mount kept me from stop watching the show. As for this version of the Enterprise, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn (as Numero Uno) alone exude charm and charisma bigger than the entire Discovery cast members combined. The late Jeffrey Hunter and Majel Barrett would be prouf of them. Too bad the series is not about them.
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