{"id":17578,"date":"2019-02-03T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17578"},"modified":"2019-02-03T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:07:25","slug":"discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/02\/03\/discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I keep seeing articles suggesting that it\u2019s universally understood that <cite>Star Trek: Discovery<\/cite> wasn\u2019t very good in the first season, and\/or that it\u2019s generally disliked by fans. Which makes me sad, because I loved the first season (and am continuing to love the second season so far). It continues to be my favorite <cite>Trek<\/cite> series by quite a bit\u2014I\u2019ve been describing it as being more or less what I always wanted <cite>Star Trek<\/cite> to be. (I\u2019ve been watching <cite>Trek<\/cite> since I was a kid, and I consider myself to be a fan, but I\u2019ve always found it a little frustrating in various ways, even in the series that my friends love.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Not to say that there aren\u2019t things I dislike about the show. (I could do without Harry Mudd, for example.) And I share everyone\u2019s concerns about the continuity-disconnects on various levels between this series and <cite>TOS<\/cite>. And I agree that they\u2019ve made some missteps around the handling of Klingons. But for the most part, I love the characters (and the racial and gender diversity of them), I love the actors, I love the writing, I love the plot twists, I love the production design, and I love the handling of Federation morality.<\/p>\r\n<p>Certainly not saying that people who dislike the show should change their minds. But I love it, and I\u2019m glad that it\u2019s doing well enough that CBS seems to consider it a success.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17580,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions\/17580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}