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Originally Posted by listopencil
The saving grace for me has been that the episodes (more so this season) have been fairly independent of each other even down to tone and usage of differing characters. So if the Mary Sue Uhura episode annoys you (as it did me) then at least it's not necessarily a direction that the show is taking. It is still mildly annoying that they seem to be pushing her character hard each week though.
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Well to me they are pushing the "Mary Sue Uhura" even though, as you say, they do focus on different characters from time to time. But I can see the writing on the wall and where this is headed. And you know what? That would be okay IF the stories were somewhat reasonable. A captain blowing up a dilithium refinery (IIRC) on the say so of a green LT is not reasonable IMHO.
Before anyone dismisses me as a hater, or just being angry, I would say my biggest feeling about the show is disappointment. I was one of the voices clamoring for a Pike series after seeing Anson Mount on Discovery. And I enjoyed season 1. I REALLY like the idea they do weekly episodes instead of a 10 episode arc. After watching the first season I thought we were getting close to old time Trek (as close as we can get in the modern Hollywood era). But somewhere in Season 2 it's lost it's way. And now it appears to be just yet another vehicle to push an agenda.
