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poebrey · 2 months

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still a bit annoyed that disco’s final season unintentionally focused on someone else’s return to the captains chair after taking three whole seasons to make Michael captain, an entire season after Saru, and only after he stepped down

#star trek discovery #michael burnham #also every captain of Discovery besides Michael was either a white dude or a white dude in prosthetics #Star Trek owes us a Shenzou prequel with Georgiou and Michael as captain and XO and Keyla in the pilots seat #(also I know Michael and Saru were captains within the same season however we’re talking season premiere to finale distance #that’s an entire season)#this isn’t a critique of the narrative explanation for it either #Michael wasn’t ready to be captain in 3x01 #but the deeply antagonistic way they explored this all throughout s3 & s4 #felt unnecessarily critical if that’s the right word #the continuation of this into S4 while skipping her actual early days of captaincy was also frankly not a great choice #they spent 6 whole months exploring the galaxy having ups and downs #and s4 opens with a down and then spends another 3 episodes critiquing Michael and holding weird political double standards via Rillak #like she’s the protagonist of the show but the show doesn’t like her half the time

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