Despite Star Trek: Discovery's critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn't pulling the numbers to make it a financially viable intellectual property.

Despite Star Trek: Discovery’s critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn’t pulling the numbers to make it a financially viable intellectual property.

  • DerisionConsultingEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    More seasons than TOS, TAS, Enterprise, or Picard.

    I didn’t watch the whole show; it didn’t really seam to know what it wanted to be, or how to get there. But I watched waaaay more of Discovery than Picard. Picard was awful, but it doesn’t seem to get as much flak as Discovery.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      The third season of Picard was the best. But it’s literally just fanservice.

      It has little to say as a story (though the returning presence of changelings in the alpha quadrant has potential) the season just boils down to “omg that’s a character I know” and “omg that’s a ship I know” as well as some cathartic moments involving those. It’s not all bad, it gave us this.

      The first two seasons are not worth watching.

    • Norgur@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Picard had the retrospect to notice that fans didn’t want new experiments with old figures and then they did their latest season and it was brilliant. The rest of Picard was very decidedly Trek but so awfully slow paced that I can’t blame anyone for giving up on it.

    • Travelator@thelemmy.club
      12·
      1 year ago

      Do you not have the belief that you should watch every bit of canon Star Trek that’s available, no matter what? I do. It doesn’t take much time. Now that Picard 3 is out, I’m going to do a fast rewatch of all three seasons and see if I can understand it better, because I sure as hell didn’t the first time through S1 & 2.

      • DerisionConsultingEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think that there really can be cannon for media projects with this many different leaders at the helm, made so far apart, and without a strong source material. There’s so much media to watch out there that if I don’t like a show, I am not going to watch it just because I liked other shows with a similar naming scheme.

        There is also a lot of time travel and “mirror universing” in Trek, so whatever could be considered cannon might not have happened in the same timeline as other events that are also considered cannon.