Separating late-period from early period Discovery doesn’t really work. As much as I like the time jump, it’s pretty much the same show, and Burhnam is still Spock’s sister.
Picard is still a relatively hard se-quel, which resonates with the essence of my argument … plus it had a Soong. I’m not sure you can describe S3 as any less nostalgia baiting or digging into established IP than any prequel. Not sure Picard, especially S3, is a convincing example of “Star Trek doesn’t have a default setting”.
Which leaves Lower Decks and Prodigy … which are by my reckoning the two relatively universally appreciated Trek projects since Voyager (at least amongst those that have watched them) … which I would claim is not a coincidence (not that we all have to like the same things).
They’re both animated too which I feel exemplifies the risk-aversion modern Trek production has to “new” projects/characters etc.
I want to watch the crew of a time ship, one that has to fix problems around the universe. They could go anywhere, probably lots of Q, cameos abound…
There was an episode on Voyager where Red from That 70s Show was trying to fix things in time and kept not getting the results he wanted or expected. I want a limited series of that with a ton more references to previous episodes/movies.
Separating late-period from early period Discovery doesn’t really work.
So your contention is that the third and fourth seasons of Discovery are a prequel to…something?
Picard is still a relatively hard se-quel, which resonates with the essence of my argument
Which makes it a prequel? Your argument is that the default setting is “prequel.”
But okay, prequels are bad and sequels are bad, so I guess we need to pick one episode of “old Trek,” and all future series and films should occur simultaneously with that episode.
maegul@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Aren’t prequels the default setting? What trek have we had since voyager that didn’t have a Spock or Soong in it?
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
Lower Decks, Prodigy, Picard, late-period Discovery…is that enough? Should I continue?
maegul@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
There are more?
But to dig into this …
Which leaves Lower Decks and Prodigy … which are by my reckoning the two relatively universally appreciated Trek projects since Voyager (at least amongst those that have watched them) … which I would claim is not a coincidence (not that we all have to like the same things).
They’re both animated too which I feel exemplifies the risk-aversion modern Trek production has to “new” projects/characters etc.
beckerist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I want to watch the crew of a time ship, one that has to fix problems around the universe. They could go anywhere, probably lots of Q, cameos abound…
There was an episode on Voyager where Red from That 70s Show was trying to fix things in time and kept not getting the results he wanted or expected. I want a limited series of that with a ton more references to previous episodes/movies.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
So your contention is that the third and fourth seasons of Discovery are a prequel to…something?
Which makes it a prequel? Your argument is that the default setting is “prequel.”
But okay, prequels are bad and sequels are bad, so I guess we need to pick one episode of “old Trek,” and all future series and films should occur simultaneously with that episode.