T Kellond (TKellond)

My experience with Star Trek dates back 53 years to the beginning. It was an experience like no other on TV at that time. It was a vision of a future that had core values that echoed many of the ideals of the time of it’s birth. We were three years from touching the surface of our own moon, but there was a heavy shadow of global destruction if the escalation of the arms race was not checked. The movies and follow on shows examined the age in which they were spawned, but the core tenets/values that Star Trek explored largely remained in tact with future iterations up until this one. Discovery tries, but it rarely examines those core values/ tenets. It has much more limited scope and tends to bow to special effects and soap opera level drama that is not Star Trek. At best it is a mashup of the many stories previous series and movies explored or expanded on. Occasionally the show flashes a glimpse of Star Trek’s origins, but then degrades into technobabble wrapped in special effects. It is sad that it does not measure up to it’s legacy and keep it’s timeline strait or to visit current world issues through the framework that was set with Captain Kirk and the crew of Enterprise.