I have a feeling that the characters on the hot seat in the future will be
Lorca
Tyler
Which is too bad, because I really like both.
Yeah, at the very least Tyler's more than likely going to make that transition to Sto-Vo-Kor (which would be a shame for many reasons, not the least of which it trivialises the male sexually abused by a female angle).
Lorca, though, would be a crying shame. He is, in my judgment, the best character of the series. Certainly the most holistically well-rounded and nuanced.
I would also include Stamets on the dead pool; another shame, too. He's really grown on me since his initial appearance.
Oddly enough, I have absolutely no solid feelings for two of the characters that were gushed about prior to the show coming out: Saru and Tilly. Saru, I think, had a lot of potential but he feels somehow a bit hollow or underutilised. Tilly is...mildly amusing and majorly annoying, in my judgement.
Who else are we left with? And is it not odd that, of the bridge crew, we know so very, very little about both the helmsman and the navigator? A goodly part of the season passes and they've said, what?, sixteen words between them? At this juncture, they could both die and I would daresay few would notice.
And who's the bloody CMO? Weird that Hugh Culber--
not the CMO!--gets all the lines that a CMO normally would! Which is fine; he's a good character. But...compare that to other
Star Trek series. When was the last time we heard anything about the second-line medical officers, aside from Chapel? It's almost like they were trying to do an upstairs-downstairs kind of story but, instead, ended up doing a regular ensemble cast whilst
pretending it was still an upstairs-downstairs story! Between "Specialist" Burnham (presumably a temporary enlisted grade; not even NCO calibre; a real demotion for Michael), Dr. Culber, and Cadet Tilly, we've three characters who, ostensibly, are second-, third-, or even, in the case of Tilly, z-grade-level positions more-or-less acting as if they were regular first-stringers. Like they were department heads and not third-in-line on the org chart (or worse!). I get it, Michael is, ostensibly, the POV character, but...just some very odd writing choices, methinks.
