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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•10 months 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.

    • Norgur
      4•10 months 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.

      • @MimicJar
        7•10 months ago

        Picard season 1 was a mystery box that never went anywhere.

        Picard season 2 was a wild sci-fi adventure that just doesn’t quite fit.

        Picard season 3 was a season-long reunion.

        Each is basically a completely different show. I liked all three, but it isn’t 3 seasons of the same show.

      • @trolololol
        1•10 months ago

        Wasn’t it filmed during COVID restrictions? I wonder if that had an impact on the 2nd and 3rd season plot.

    • Travelator
      0•10 months 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•10 months 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.