Dukat wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:07 amI hope she will play a bigger role. She, Detmer, all the other people.
In TNG, DS9 and Voyager, every character got their 'own' episode from time to time. That is only possible when there isn't a plot that makes everything explode every two seconds.
I've been thinking about it and I wonder how much of our feelings about this, which I share, are due to modern story-telling. I mean, we feel like we know our TOS characters, but really those were all "plot-driven" episodes and we really only got little dashes of personality from time to time. Ask yourselves how much you really know about Uhura or Checkov or even Kyle or Leslie (characters that would have been major guest stars like Barclay or Ro in TNG). Hell, besides being "raised by humans," we hardly got much backstory for Worf either and he was on
two shows.
As for the (in my opinion, which I believe I share with some of you) overlong fight sequences, that ends up usually feeling like filler, which is a shame. As an example, the fast-paced transporter chase scene between Michael, Book, and the Orion/Andorian Currier guys was showy with beautiful landscapes, but was overall kind of a yawn. Maybe there was a bit of gaining trust there, but not as clear as it could have been. Whereas, Saru putting Discovery in the way of a quantum torpedo and then being willing to do it again after the torpedoes took out the shields in one shot was story-driven, so I was much more impressed. And we saw way less impressive CGI on that one.