Star Trek: Discovery's quest to answer questions is just angering the fanbase

Is Star Trek: Discovery just finding new ways to anger the fandom by trying to answer questions long proposed by the franchise? It appears as such, as not only is Discovery's team of writers trying to solve the story of the Progenitor aliens, introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation season four episode, "The Chase". They also tried to tackle what The Breen, a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine villain, looks like under their mask.

Both concepts are nearly 30 years old, and no franchise, film, or other form of media tried to solve those questions. Discovery tried to solve both unilaterally, to mixed reviews. Many fans aren't happy with the final storyline, highlighting how silly it can be that the Proegentiros technology can be used as a weapon, an overplayed and problematic trope that Star Trek has over-relied on for far too long.g

Others are mad that the Breen, who was so famous for being mysterious, was their entire gimmick on Deep Space Nine. It was stated that no one had ever seen the Breen without their masks and lived to tell the story. Until Discovery.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, however. Mysteries do better when there is usually no resolution, as that ends up becoming the downfall of the gimmick. Take The Walking Dead's comic for instance. A hugely successful, long-running series that went out on top. The core of the comic was that the dead came back to life and were terrorizing the people of this world. Why was there a zombie plague? No one ever found out. The story ended and no one was too mad about it.

If you look at Y: The Last Man, on the other hand, it starts out with a similar premise, the end of the world as we know it; where every man in existence was wiped out due to some event. We didn't find out what happened until the end, when it was revealed that a long convoluted, and messy explanation was given to the readers that only ruined the story and stopped its momentum in its tracks.

Discovery falls into the second scenario in this regard, but even worse. Y: The Last Man at least tried to answer the question they asked at the start of their series. Discovery didn't. Discovery tried to answer someone else's question and has failed to appease fans due to that.

Due to that, they've ruined The Breen for many and have given a D-Plot that was never intended to have a follow-up storyline way too much significance for modern viewers. The whole Prodinitors story hits too close to the idea of Scientology and for Star Trek to embrace it as a part of their lore rubs many people the wrong way.

Hopefully we can leave other unexplored questions in the past, where many belong.