Star Trek: Discovery

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Galactus

Spoiler:

That's been a thing in Star Trek as far back as DS9. The writers of that show felt they needed a big shocking storyline to up their game for the fourth season of the show and considered having the Vulcans break off from the Federation over their handling of the Dominion. They even laid some groundwork on that before going the other way and introducing the Klingons and Worf into the show. However the idea that the Vulcans aren't so comfortable being part of the Federation has been alluded a few times since then

Except DS9 didn't do that because they determined that would be dumb and were only ever looking for something "big" to happen because their ratings were taking a hit and the people upstairs were forcing them to come up with something.

And pretty much any one of these "big" ideas as they happen on STD aren't inherently dumb in and of themselves (except for the Burn... they don't seem to understand what dilithium is and that it's not a reactant)... it's the way they're presented and the almost 0 thought put behind them, amid empty-headed "me, me, me, I, I, I"/"I don't know how I FEEL today" type Burnham melodrama.