Because it defined and represented an approach to Star Trek storytelling that spilled into other series. It was also aggressively rubbish, much like Picard.

I’m watching S3 Picard now and personally I don’t think it’s much better. But if the cancellation is a rebuke of how Star Trek has told its stories for the past half decade - good.

SNW and Lower Decks are much better.

Obviously I’m not wishing ill for the staff and hope they land on their feet.

Discovery is cancelled! Wowa good news!

And I get a bunch of people agreeing and disagreeing agreeably.

But then there’s you.

🤫

Get over it

I could never get into this, even though it has a real cult following. Not as well written as people suggest imo.

“You were a really strong candidate, the best actually, but the position has been filled”…

That’s still nepotism…

Yeh it’s slow as fuck but also great but stringing us along

Quality will pay a part too, HBO can sell their shows on name and I think Netflix would respect not pissing money up the wall for a 1 and done season before cancelling

Plus American ad breaks are obnoxiously frequent. Huge turn off.

Personally I’d like to understand their stats on frequency / duration of ads vs attention.

I’m sure that there’s something in blasting the audience with the same thing over and over to program them into wanting what’s advertised, but you’d also think that fewer ads would make people pay more attention when they are on, and be more impactful.

I don’t see how Covenant knows what it wants to be. It goes from philosophising in the opening establishing the same tone as Prometheus to a really dumb slasher, interlaced with moments of Prometheus-like intrigue where it can’t help but fill in the blanks between the films (and that stuff being far more interesting than the slasher the film actually is). Then it’s never sure if it wants to be an alien film or an android film - I don’t think it’s nearly as deft as the original was at juggling both.

I know the Prometheus script had a dozen hands on it but what happened during production, I’ve never seen the BTS you mentioned.

But that’s why it’s a solid?

Justwatch

That was earned though. That was like three seasons of malice finally exploding on to the screen. It wasn’t monologue-o’clock every episode

Even Dominion barely bothered to have dinos loose and immediately put them back in a park

So agree. Who wrote those scripts and thought “ this is worth spending 100milly on

What a fucking waste of money