To make everything sort of work, the writers have to play fast and loose with things like time travel. I find this tedious and troublesome, but that’s what they feel they have to do. I accept it as long as they’re telling me a good story. I like the stories of Discovery and Picard. But I have to bend my mind a little in order to wrap it around what they’re doing. I guess that’s my problem.
Erm...the Retcon'ing is WHY it sucks.
They literally don't have to do ANYTHING with the past.
It's there, accept it, move on to newer and better stories.
Occasionally do a Call-Back and have an old character
show up to help out or be a pain in the butt.
Except...Hollyweird really doesn't have better writers these days.
Here's the current problem with Hollywood...
thousands of idiots with boatloads of money, tons of drugs, and no sense.
Really great writers write ABOVE the heads of the public to bring them up.
(Roddenberry, Fontana, Ellison, etc...not to mention Pratchett, Norton and the others of that era)
Current Social Justice Writers dumb stuff down and annoy pretty much everyone except the drug-addled fanboys that are too stoned to notice that it all sucks. Avenue 5 & ST
really are awful. I mean painfully, horribly bad and those writers should be spaced for what they've done to Science Fiction. Send Jar-Jar Abrams with 'em, because what he did to Star Wars should have earned him an instant Jedi push off a cliff....or a nice lightsaber decapitation.
Here's what I believe is going on...they're intentionally making these new versions of great old tv & movies badly to muddy the waters and make money off the names...which also honks off the elderly, stresses them out and gives 'em heart attacks.
On the off chance that aliens are real and end up checking out our current crop of television to research whether we're an ok, species or not...they're going to feel the need to implode planet Earth to keep the stupidity from spreading.
