I haven’t yet finished DSC yet but I highly disagree with that last bit. Every single Star Trek has been “Star Trek but…” They all do it very differently and that’s what makes each one so incredibly interesting to watch as a group instead of just 1 long series. From what I’ve seen of DSC it’s basically just “Star Trek but… It focuses on the characters” similarly to DS9 in that way.
A lot of great SciFi stories are just characters talking but it’s in space… That’s most Asimov stories actually… so DSC is definitely sci-fi and very much so sci-fi.
I have no issue with character focus, it’s that if I wanted to watch a romantic drama I wouldn’t switch on trek. Some sprinkling, fine, but it has been front and centre, carried more by music than actual story or character development. You could plot the “ok we want to hit these emotional cues” spreadsheet that they wrote the story around, haphazardly.
SNW also has quite a romantic arc, heck, even a love triangle. I don’t mind it there, it’s actually done well and serves Spock’s character development.
TOS was utterly blatant, TNG not so much. What I’ll agree to is that DSC was way too sappy, it failed to be scifi on so many levels.
I haven’t yet finished DSC yet but I highly disagree with that last bit. Every single Star Trek has been “Star Trek but…” They all do it very differently and that’s what makes each one so incredibly interesting to watch as a group instead of just 1 long series. From what I’ve seen of DSC it’s basically just “Star Trek but… It focuses on the characters” similarly to DS9 in that way.
A lot of great SciFi stories are just characters talking but it’s in space… That’s most Asimov stories actually… so DSC is definitely sci-fi and very much so sci-fi.
I have no issue with character focus, it’s that if I wanted to watch a romantic drama I wouldn’t switch on trek. Some sprinkling, fine, but it has been front and centre, carried more by music than actual story or character development. You could plot the “ok we want to hit these emotional cues” spreadsheet that they wrote the story around, haphazardly.
SNW also has quite a romantic arc, heck, even a love triangle. I don’t mind it there, it’s actually done well and serves Spock’s character development.