Does anybody else perceive Discovery and Picard more harshly after Lower Decks?

Discovery tried too hard to be something bigger than it needed to be.

now that I read it like this... that might possibly be my main issue with them both: They both are to big, too ambitious for their own good. They are bigger than Starfleet.

Previous Trek was way smaller in scale. TOS, TNG, ENT.. they were about a starship and it's adventures. They didn't set out to save the universe, they just did their job, we got to watch them do that, and then occasionally bigger stuff happened. But they still were just one ship in starfleet. We could imagine that there were countless other ships, even of similar build, having similar journeys. We'd even occasionally see them. Even Voyager was just trying to get home. No huge ambitions. The Cerritos is like that, even less remarkable. They were all part of Starfleet, part of something bigger.

DS9 was the same stuff with a starbase. only in the later seasons things got a bit bigger, but that's fine: As the issues got bigger, they didn't have to deal with them alone. And there were several seasons of "life on a starbase" before that.

And then there's DSC with it's chosen one protagonist in the super unique special-snowflake-ship that saves the universe every season (..even though from problems she created herself in a way, but.. still..). They are alone, Starfleet can't deal with any of this. And PIC is about the old retired geezer that's better than all of Starfleet, and his special crew.

While I don't necessarily need things to be episodic, I guess that's the result of going from episodic to more serialized plots. It's all gotta be bigger, grander, more important. I think that's what I don't like though.

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