Yeah, add me to the group that'd rather see the crew of the Enterprise from this point out in a show that has a modern take on Trek (serial storytelling, special effects, etc) rather than follow the Discovery. Though the crew has grown on me over time, the ship is still fugly, I don't like Michael and I find Georgiou annoying and hard to understand (audibly, I mean, her accent is REALLY thick). Saru is good though, and I don't mind Tilly so much. Stamets is ok as a subsidiary character - he can get a bit annoying when he's brought into the forefront. I really like Reno though. Hope they do more with her in season 3. Also kindof wish Po would've stuck around, I could have seen her being fun, for a while anyway. Though I suppose she's yet another Wesley.
My big problem with Discovery in general is that you can really see the behind-the-scenes strings being yanked to make it work. First, Brian Fuller's original re-imagining of Trek, without real care toward the timeline. He wanted to make it a show about the Fed-Klingon War, and show the ravages of it from both sides. Then you have Berg and Harbert's tweak to that, taking away most of the Klingon POV, retcon-ing out the spore drive and tying up the war as soon as possible to go to the mirror universe for some reason that really never fit in the overarching story. The entire setup of the show was changed 3/4 of the way through the first season. And now we have Kurtzman's entire season as an intermediary to try to fix the timeline. We've really seen three shows from three different showrunners, and it shows. Go back and watch the first few episodes, and it's hard to imagine it's the same series. Yeah, every Trek show has gone through it's growing pains, especially TNG, but I can't think of one where the ENTIRE PREMISE changed. Except, I guess, for Enterprise's Season 3 Expanse arc.
