In September of 2023 Jordan LaFordan hosted a weeklong celebration of Star Trek: Discovery on Social Media (search for #CelebrateDisco2023) to commemorate the show's 6th anniversary. She put up trivia quizzes, encouraged positive conversation, had us show our Disco t-shirts, link to favourite fan art, fan fiction, fan videos, etc. We ended the week with a watch-along of the premier episodes "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars".
That made me want to re-watch the entire 4 seasons, as I had only watched it through once and did not remember a lot from the first two seasons. Other people wanted to join in as well. Together we agreed that 2 episodes per week are ok to do and I put it all in a schedule.
Ever since we started I put my thoughts for each episode in lists of bullet points. Some are reactions to certain scenes, some are more fully formed thoughts. I started to post them all on my fediverse account. I since moved to another server and am continuing to post there.
Because I wanted to have all my thoughts in one place, away from another platform, I decided to also publish everything here on my website.
As I keep thinking about the episodes long after posting my initial thoughts, chances are that I will go back and edit the lists I post here. That very much aligns with the idea of digital gardens that I have read and written about before. I may add thoughts, change opinions, rephrase or even delete passages over time. The original will always be unchanged on my fedi account.
I had a list of podcast recommendations right here that I since have deleted. It were podcasts that reviewed and talked about Disovery episodes, most of them right after their first publication. Those podcasts had been recommended to me by poeple who responded to my question for positive Discovery podcasts. I have listened to all of them for a least one episode but remained listening to only a few. I kept editing this list to reflect that, but eventually found it was silly. There are other podcasts that I had already listened to years ago, who also talk about Disco episodes but never were on this list.
Now I have a whole links page, where I also link to my top favourite Star Trek podcasts. If you are looking for positive discussion about Discovery and Star Trek in general, that list is a good starting point. There are many more, some of which you might like better than what I list. So please don't stop here.