Oh, it felt more then that. After the pile of garbage was written, the editors and the showrunners were bypassed to the marketing department and senior execs who decided to cut continuity and plain “making sense” to “make sure we cram in more woke” (and not real “progress by a strong person that identifies as a certain way” but outright insubordination), poor decision making to make controversy at every level, or heroin induced flights of fancy… My favourite was that time some producer wanted a fight on top of a turbolift, so they showed that 90% of the interior of the ship is empty space where turbolift apparently just fly around. https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-discovery-turbolifts-season-3-finale/
Oh, it felt more then that. After the pile of garbage was written, the editors and the showrunners were bypassed to the marketing department and senior execs who decided to cut continuity and plain “making sense” to “make sure we cram in more woke” (and not real “progress by a strong person that identifies as a certain way” but outright insubordination), poor decision making to make controversy at every level, or heroin induced flights of fancy… My favourite was that time some producer wanted a fight on top of a turbolift, so they showed that 90% of the interior of the ship is empty space where turbolift apparently just fly around. https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-discovery-turbolifts-season-3-finale/