I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
I met a Discovery fan. He was an older guy and very liberal. He insistented that the people who didn’t like Discovery just couldn’t appreciate that this was Star Trek for a new audience and that they should stop being babies and stick to their old Trek if they must.
I’m convinced it’s mostly this. They’re aware that the wrong sorts of people DON’T like NuTrek and so, like much to their lives, they virtue signal and insist NuTrek is the best ever. They just do it to pwn the CHUDS, and don’t actually bother to support Discovery. If they did, the show would be doing much better.
I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
I met a Discovery fan. He was an older guy and very liberal. He insistented that the people who didn’t like Discovery just couldn’t appreciate that this was Star Trek for a new audience and that they should stop being babies and stick to their old Trek if they must.
Discovery fans don’t truly like the show. They’re just invested in it being successful.
I’m convinced it’s mostly this. They’re aware that the wrong sorts of people DON’T like NuTrek and so, like much to their lives, they virtue signal and insist NuTrek is the best ever. They just do it to pwn the CHUDS, and don’t actually bother to support Discovery. If they did, the show would be doing much better.