Never felt a star trek had a main character in any show before, it always kept switching perception and narrator.
The fact you have a wide lens telling the story does shape the story. For a show that often ran many seasons this was to me a key aspect of the show as it let the even the smaller side characters grow over the seasons and was one reason often it was not until season 3 or higher the show peaked.
Discovery or as ive become fond of calling it STD has a chosen one, a main character that have that classical hero aura around her. But feel her sharp glow hides the other characters on the ship and lessens them in comparison as the hero always solves the issue.
The fact the Hero with capital H is unlikeable also. Not sure how they managed to accomplish that feature as since the main character is the POV you tend to take his/her side even when his clearly in the wrong.
Its a shame as do feel it is a part of the show that keeps it from improving from a single weak first season, it does not invest in building a stronger foundation. It wants every single episode to be a peak even at the cost of the future. If not for this inherent flaw feel this show might have been able to come into its own if it just ran long enough now though it has nothing that invested that will build it blew everything it had going and stands naked with a full cast of unlikeable characters nobody knows anything about and a Hero that is not stepping up and carrying the show but even being its weak point.
Discovery or as ive become fond of calling it STD has a chosen one, a main character that have that classical hero aura around her. But feel her sharp glow hides the other characters on the ship and lessens them in comparison as the hero always solves the issue.
The fact the Hero with capital H is unlikeable also. Not sure how they managed to accomplish that feature as since the main character is the POV you tend to take his/her side even when his clearly in the wrong.
Its a shame as do feel it is a part of the show that keeps it from improving from a single weak first season, it does not invest in building a stronger foundation. It wants every single episode to be a peak even at the cost of the future. If not for this inherent flaw feel this show might have been able to come into its own if it just ran long enough now though it has nothing that invested that will build it blew everything it had going and stands naked with a full cast of unlikeable characters nobody knows anything about and a Hero that is not stepping up and carrying the show but even being its weak point.