Star Trek: Discovery goes out as it came in: robbing better shows of their mystique

Warning: spoilers up to Discovery S05E07 within. Cards on the table: I’ll watch anything if it has Star Trek in the title. Hell, I’ll happily watch Enterprise, which infamously ditched the franchise branding for its first two seasons in an ill-advised attempt to modernise. It was a bit pants – an ill-fitting prequel series where the ship seemed way more advanced than Kirk’s and had a captain unfit to lick his boots, in the shape of Quantum Leap's nice boy Scott Bakula. At the time, we al...