Why Star Trek: Discovery is like fan fiction

The A.V. Club

“When I say Star Trek: Discovery is like fan fiction,” explains the AV Club's Zack Handlen, “what I mean is: It’s a show that uses the tropes of an established franchise without any real understanding of how those tropes work; and it’s written without the craft or patience necessary to tell a story that means something outside of our recognition of those tropes. To put it another way, if this was just called Discovery, if the serial numbers were filled off and this was just another science fiction show with aliens and parallel universes and FTL drives, I doubt we’d be talking about it."