Star Trek: Discovery

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I just realized what is inherently the problem with Discovery and nuTrek... there is no grand overarching purpose or hook, no new frontier.

The Next Generation took us almost a century after Kirk and crew; the Federation's greatest enemy (the Klingon Empire) is now its most powerful ally and proves that Star Trek isn't just Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, it's the UNIVERSE.

Deep Space Nine explored a stationary locale (DS9), politics, religion, and the Dominion War, as well as the Gamma Quadrant through the Bajoran wormhole. (And also proved Star Trek isn't just a ship named USS Enterprise.)

Voyager explored the Maquis working alongside Starfleet, the Delta Quadrant, and the Borg Collective.

Enterprise went a century into the past, before the Federation even existed and explored human-Vulcan relations and the founding of Earth's first intergalactic alliances (and enemies).

Discovery... is redoing the Klingons? Showing us a species we've already exhausted in a time period we've already exhausted? With a theme (war) we've already exhausted?

Star Trek Discovery didn't have a creative vision--it had a calculated business plan to cash in on existing ideas and polish them up for a new audience, lazily coasting on established goodwill the same way JJ Abram's crappy movies did.