Fans have been arguing about whether CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery is absolute genius or total dreck since the series premiered in 2018. Now it’s 2019 (“Oh, really? I’ll be damned”), and last week brought us the second season premiere–
Which, believe it or don’t, has begotten a whole new, ahem, “discussion” of genius versus dreck, shit versus Shinola, and on and on and on. Inasmuch as our feckless leader, Larry Brody, was an early disciple of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (in other words, he spent much of his early career working for the Great Bird His Very Self, writing for a variety of projects including ST:TAS, ST: TNG, and ST:VOYAGER) we here at TVWriter™ also have found ourselves caught up in the debate, we thought we’d give y’all some samples of current thinking.
Let the debate begin!