Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel’s storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.
I don’t understand why they didn’t just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.
I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives…leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them…as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.
None of this “Universal Star-child” bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Season 3 was pretty good tho.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand the dislike it gets. It had a couple fun episodes and that’s a bad thing?
krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah beats me. It’s still the best tell since the aughts.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
This is the problem with modern TV shows. We only have 10 episode seasons now vs the 20+ long ones from the TNG era. If these were all episodes in a season that lasted 20 episodes I doubt we would be seeing as many complaints, but as it is 10 episodes does not leave much room for any change of pace mid season. This season, while in my opinion was quite well written, was a little all over the place and didn’t really seem to have a lot of direction. It really bounced around a lot, which wouldn’t be a problem as much if there was 20 episodes to work with, but when you only have 10 its hard to justify some of the “fun” or experimental episodes.
As an aside. My least favourite episode “This is Starfleet” was also my favourite story in the season and if it was shot as a normal episode I think would have probably be my favourite of the series so far. It really captured the “Classic Trek” vibe for me.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They need to hate something. Discovery has ended, Lower Decks and Picard too, and Academy isn’t out yet, so what are they gonna hate on?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
hallettj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
They set a high bar with the first two seasons.
I felt like there were highlights in season 3. But it also felt uneven. The episodes I liked felt good, but not great. The first two seasons had great episodes.
There was also a distinct lack of social commentary, which I feel is important in Star Trek. The best we got was Terrarium. Definitely a fun episode, but it’s core is a trope we’ve seen a number of times. What Is Starfleet looked like it was thinking about commenting on something, but frantically pulled the ripcord partway through, and went in a direction I wasn’t comfortable with. (Which is too bad because I thought the directing in that episode was very cool.) There’s nothing on the level of Ad Astra Per Aspera. Instead we got 5 episodes of mortal struggle vs unreasoning monsters.
the list of unreasoning monsters
Gorn, plant zombies, the “pure evil” on Vadia IX, the ship-eating ship
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either
Especially the questionable Vulcan episode…
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I keep trying to finish it. But I tuned out part way through, and I’m gonna have to rewind now, and it’s so bad.
dethstrobe@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I also really like Season 3, but I do feel it is the weakest of the 3 seasons we got so far.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Agreed. It was still good tho.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
one word: musical.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve only seen the first few, but it seems like a space based soap opera ffs. What were they thinking - ‘let’s bring in a Q for a random stupid episode, and then a malfunctioning holo deck - because those are always the worst plots from tng’ ?
krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I liked the q episode a lot, personally. It was fun and low stakes and didn’t fucking with established lore.
The holders episode is agree with you on tho.
troed@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Agree - I enjoyed it a lot.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t make it through the Vulcan episode. I feel like the goal was to make it as terrible as possible.