“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 5 Review
I know I said I wasn’t going to watch this season as it came out, but the seasons are so short and the show is so ephemeral that I stayed with it until the bitter end. The show never changed it’s course and stayed true to concepts of emotional self discovery that so many Trek fans complained so bitterly about, and for that I believe they should be commended and applauded for. Mind you, I’m not happy with the entire direction that the franchise is taking in the larger sense, with Lower Decks being canceled, Prodigy being forgotten about nearly completely, and Strange New Worlds existing in it’s own little pocket of content creation that feels out of step with the next few shows that are coming out. I’ve figured out what brought me to Trek, the quasi space military crew far away from the support of their superiors in what I now know was a clear reference to deep sea boat crews.
Who knows what the future will bring through, especially with the parent company for Trek up for sale. Will we get someone that wants a unified story feel like Star Wars has done or will it continue to have multiple shows that all feel like they have the same touchstones but wildly divergent interpretations of the core elements of the universe?
