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Re: DSC S3: Terra Firma, Part 2

After all this talk about The Expanse, I watched the first 2 episodes. There are plenty of good things, and it's already provided far more substance and vision than Discovery could hope for. However, I don't find the characters any more diversified; each one only differs in how much more cynical, hostile and unfriendly they are than their peers. Even the UN lady is going around torturing people to death.

For some reason, some time around nuBSG this became the sci-fi norm, and the idea of characters with different personalities was abandoned. Why is this? I yearn for the return of the Spocks, the Datas, the Roms, the Delenns. Even a Neelix-like character would be welcome, just for the contrast, and who would have thought we'd be saying that 20 years ago?