Is Star Trek: Discovery trying too hard to be like Star Wars?

Mashable

The Star Trek franchise has been accused before of wanting to be like Star Wars, particularly with J.J. Abrams' Trek movies. New Star Trek: Discovery boss Alex Kurtzman even invited comparisons when he recently said that Star Trek has never given him a Luke Skywalker moment. Discovery managed to avoid the Star Wars comparison in Season 1, says Chris Taylor. But in Season 2, he says, "suddenly I couldn't stop seeing or hearing homages. A lighthearted scene with a sneezing alien in the elevator could have come straight from a Cantina. Pike and Burnham land on an asteroid where a stranded scientist (Tig Notaro, in one of the episode's better performances) has constructed floating drone 'children'; they sounded like the floating torture droid on the original Death Star and looked like Boba Fett's ship. Notaro's base also had that dirty, lived-in, 'used universe' feeling Star Wars pioneered." ALSO: Discovery is stronger and more fun in Season 2.