It is like you would come home from work and you see your kid playing Heroes of M&M Reforged, but all you can see is
colorful dancing tiktok champions in a battle royal map.
You mention thats not HM&M at all and get an Ok booomer. reply.
The game had to be modernized, right?

Yup I don't get what is so human in Discovery, they don't act like what humans act nor today nor in the ST universe.
Threaten the Klingon Empire with planetary holocaust... yeah.
Giving a ship to a totalitarian leader from a parallel universe...

ST is about an optimistic future where humanity weeded out most of the bad things like racism, sexism, women wage gap etc. and how they can solve problems with that attitude. Discovery is nothing like that. It doesn't fit into ST.
That other show The Orville is more ST than Discovery.

To each their own. Personally, in most cases, I think remakes are at least enjoyable. I guess maybe it's because I don't take it so personally when a remake doesn't meet my expectations or live up to what it's remaking.

Discovery is underappreciated, IMO. It's definitely different in its overall feel, it feels more like Star Wars to me which may be why I loved it so much. I get some of the criticisms, no doubt, but I like it. I also don't feel like they propped up Burnam by degrading other characters. If anything, I thought it was refreshing to have a female lead that wasn't just magically in charge of everything, good at everything and respected by everyone. I liked how she made deep-seated mistakes, she had to prove herself to most people and even after she did, there were some that still didn't trust her. Like I said, I understand some of the criticisms for the show but I also feel like it is unfairly hated at times.
The rest of your post is just subjective so I won't argue that but come on, The Orville? Really? If anything, it feels like a poor parody of TNG rather than actual Star Trek.

But anyways, I digress, I won't derail things further with the ST talk lol

What was Burnam not good at? And I don't mean "not good" as something that others do instead of her (like Stamets being an expert engineer) but something, she tried and failed and had to learn. Or was there a situation when she was wrong and another crewmember was right?

As for the "refreshing" part, I honestly don't know what to say. Haven't you seen StarGate, Babylon 5, Dark Matter, Andromeda? There is also Farscape where the main lead is male but female co-leads are pretty great characters too.

As I understand you consider TOS, TNG and DS9 captains to be leads and Janeway in VOY to be "magically in charge and good at everything" (though honestly, I never thought of her to be "overpowered"), but there are many other space operas.

Yes, it's a parody. And it still feels to be more Star Trek than Discovery or Picard.

And I typically find that what you just said is just a lazy way of responding to legitimate criticism in the abscence of counter arguments.

There are many sequels, reboots and remakes that were, in general, very well received - Nolan's Batman movies, Mad Max Fury Road, Ash vs Evil Dead, Rogue One, Bill & Ted Face the Music, BBC's Sherlock (before it jumped the shark in season 3)... Fans aren't nearly as resistant to new things as some people like to say. But it's easier to paint fans as toxic, perpetual displeased grognards who will always hate everything then to face the truth - when a new installment in a franchise is received as poorly as something like Discovery or this Masters of the Universe, it's almost always because the writng is bad, plain and simple. It's particularly laughable to say backlash comes from "resistance to change" when pretty much the chief criticism of Force Awakens, for example, was how much of an unoriginal New Hope rip-off it was.

Discovery also a great example of how wrong you are, as it doesn't really do anything new, except for sucking. Darker tone, themes of war and morally questionable actions? DS9 dealt with all of that decades ago and people love it, some consider it the best of the Trek shows. Discovery is just extremely poorly written and, with few notable exceptions, very badly acted. And that's why fans hate it. As a fan I want people to be introduced to the franchise I love, but I want them to be introduced to it at its best, not its worst.

In season 2 it pretty much stops being a parody and becomes a straight up Trek show in all but name. Really good one too.

Sidenote - I still think Picard was ok (though surely flawed), it just would have been way better as a movie.

Interesting & thanks for sharing kai2. I've heard about that but haven't heard for the rest of the money cycle. (investment return). May I ask you then:
-What happens with the part of making money?
-What's the process when the expected success (generate money) doesn't happen? (Who is blamed and axed for, how those big decisions makers sneak their failure, how the no-decision makers (the mortals) survive the failure?, how the financiers keep making business? or money doesn't matter at all?)

Currently the "Hollywood system" is built on 3 things:

1. promises of entrance into larger markets; the Western market is being sacrificed for unrestricted exploitation of other markets in the future.

2. studios are being paid to promote ideologies via production partnerships that are actually backdoor payment channels from governments

3. debt. Hollywood is carrying huge debt owed overseas that cannot easily be repaid. Even if Hollywood wanted to make product that the Western market wanted (independent of specific ideologies), it can't.

ie. Kevin Smith pretty lying to fans about He-Man is a ridiculous example... but exactly what's happening.

Look to Disney. Iger was going to be the ambassador to...? Now there's a "civil war" between Iger interests and those that don't want to go down publicly to the West as the leadership that killed Disney

Unfortunately, I can't see a way out of this problem without current Hollywood being exposed as essentially propagandists, the Hollywood system imploding due to audience completely leaving, and a new independent system being built that is only beholden to their audience.

Now, pls understand I'm not saying that a studio or production must stay away from all ideologies. That's not the case. But what's happening ATM is specific ideologies are being demanded by those who hold the money... and their purpose is not to make entertainment.

Wow... just wow. Thanks again kai2 for being brave and share. Something else to analyze deeply.