One positive I'll grant it is that it functioned as a backdoor pilot to Strange New Worlds.

I'm just so tired of all the time traveling bullshit.
When time travel is introduced, it tends to make the entire plot line pointless.
I also consider time travel a fantasy element, because our understanding of causality does not allow for time travel back in time.
Forward in time is most piratically done with cryo/stasis, "flying" into the future is simply bullshit.

So IMO Discovery was OK in the beginning, but devolved into nonsense.

DSC? I always call it ST:D as it too burns in uncomfortable places.

Kept trying to parse "DSC" as "Deep Space Cix", and thinking that didn't make any sense. For multiple reasons.

I think I'm gonna go...

The Klingons in season 1, though...

the sound of Stamets approaching quickly

The second season finale was actually great though, if only because the climax was visually very experimental and cinematic. I feel like Discovery often took chances, and they didn't often pay off, but that one really did. It looked like they blew the entire season's visual effects budget in that one episode.

I rewatched it a while back, and for the most part it’s a much stronger season than I remembered. The last couple of episodes were frantic and nonsensical enough that it coloured my view of the rest of it.

Still probably agree that it’s the worst season, but it’s not that bad.

I enjoyed Discovery overall, but I really preferred when the show was in the 23rd century instead of the 32nd century.

I can’t believe I’m being nostalgic for a 14 episode season, but early Discovery still dabbled in one off episodic adventures or 2-3 episode mini arcs. The later seasons were short enough that they really had to commit to their world ending plot lines. Running around the mycelial network for a couple of episodes was generally more memorable than, “We leaned a bit more about the 10C.” Plus Season 2 got us Jett!

The real world production drama fundamentally broke the season’s puzzle box and left some pretty glaring plot holes, but that finale was stellar.

Was that the space baby season? or was that the weird third one?

I still haven't watched season 5, so I can't say for sure.

So I agree for the most part, however I miss the early seasons of DSC. I feel like it really went off the rails (for me) starting in season 3. I feel like it started with a decent season and every season after it was a step down, with hints of greatness here and there, like trying to figure out how to communicate with that 10-C(?) species.

STD is trash overall. It has no redeeming qualities. Saying that one or another season is "the worst" means little to nothing when the best it has to offer is still some of the worst sci-fi I've ever seen... Until Picard somehow surpassed that...

"STD" is the most deserving acronym.