#startrekdiscovery

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A lot of people who complain about not knowing the bridge crew in confuse an ensemble show with a show that has many characters around a chore character. This is not an ensemble show, just like TOS wasn't one. Tell me what backstory TOS gave to Sulu. To Chekov. Uhura. It was all Kirk with Spock as secondary character, just like Discovery is a Michael Burnham show with Saru as secondary character. We didn't know ANYTHING but the names of the rest of the crew in TOS. Not even from McCoy. TNG was an ensemble show and gave their bridge crew backstories. In this regard Discovery has already given us more backstory to the side crew than usual and those who complain are the ones who simply want to hate.