Star Trek Discovery Is Cancelled And Fans Are Divided

The Gamer ^ | March 3, 2023 | Rhiannon Bevan

[BillyBoy]

Star Trek Discovery Is Cancelled And Fans Are Divided

Star Trek Discovery is being cancelled after its fifth season, and the reaction from fans shows that its place in the franchise is uncertain.

By Rhiannon Bevan Published 2 days ago

After a six-year run, it's official: Paramount is pulling the plug on Star Trek Discovery. This isn't quite enough to make it the shortest-running mainline Trek series - that "honour" goes to Star Trek Enterprise - but it is a far more abrupt end than most. So unsurprisingly, fans are divided on both the show, and the decision to can it after just five seasons.

While some are mourning the show, grateful that it kickstarted a new generation of Trek, others shed no tears at all, feeling that it was the worst of the bunch. Then we have others who are actually happy it's gone, celebrating the end of a show that seems to have struggled to find its place in the Star Trek series.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not really. It had very low ratings after the first couple of seasons but they needed it to work.

If you think ratings actually mean anything you are not paying attention.

[Fai Mao]

Yeah I have problems watching TNG. DS9, TOS and even Enterprise have aged much better.

TNG is almost unwatchable.

[MikelTackNailer]

Good list of the insufferably pompous over-thinking excuse for a captain’s f’ups. A few of those were due to his adherence to the Prime Directive...which Kirk always regarded as a guideline while his butt was hanging out there alone at times having to make the hard calls.

I noticed that Tom Cruise’s “Maverick” also did everything possible to avoid flying a desk via promotion. My heroes live my tagline.

[Fury]

Re: 67 - I like TOS.

And generally TNG other than Seasons 1 and 2. But Nemesis destroyed the Next Generation franchise.

Lately I have been watching VOY. Hated the last episode of the season, as it involved time travel, which seems to be the catch all device when writers can’t figure out a decent plot line. Sometimes it’s okay to just end a series like they did with TOS. The ending for ST:Enterprise was just awful.

DS9 is okay but sort of lost interest in it when it originally came out. May give that a whirl again.

Watched two or three episodes of ST:D - just gave up.

[newzjunkey]

Stewart struggles a bit at his age yet shines at other times. They killed Picard in season one. He was reborn as an android and it’s that version we see in two and three. Seriously. Seasons one and two was a mess. Three is OK so far but remixing too much wrath of khan elements.

[newzjunkey]

I could only laugh at Mary Sue Burnham. STD was largely unwatchable. It was like terrible fan fiction. I don’t know how much of it I saw but it was too much.

[wardaddy]

Yep

https://youtu.be/xYSnDl4py5Q

[joma89]

Oh noes! The woke and racist version of star trek was cancelled?

[mad_as_he$$]

Good! Staci Abrams killed something else.

[chrisser]

"Stewart struggles a bit at his age yet shines at other times. They killed Picard in season one. He was reborn as an android and it’s that version we see in two and three. Seriously. Seasons one and two was a mess. Three is OK so far but remixing too much wrath of khan elements."

I guess given all that, they seem to have done a pretty good job salvaging from the carnage they created, I guess.

I wish everything wasn't so damn dark all the time. Don't they have interior lighting in the future? Or maybe humans have become ultra-sensitive to light?

[cowboyusa]

DS9 is the best non- TOS Star Trek.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The ratings were abysmal. In fact, it was THE worst rated show on that network it aired. I believe the show was losing money and they couldn’t really even give it away. There’s not going to be a syndication for it. They couldn’t even produce merchandise for it, which is a key staple of Trek (and has been a chronic problem for post-2000s Abrams era). An all-around disaster. I’ve never watched a single episode, nor do I ever care to. It’s not real Star Trek. That ended with Enterprise.

[discostu]

Umm Picard is ending after 3. So it’s not like unprecedented.

[PIF]

Hip Hip Hooray!!
Nappy haired woman gone. Sigh of relief.

[PLMerite]

They kinda lost me when the red head chick dropped the f-bomb twice in one episode.

[Macho MAGA Man]

I’m liking season three of Picard so far. It’s all action and starship porn.