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- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 2 hours ago:
Rhys Darby saved the Q/Trelane episode by being Rhys Darby. Everything else about it was weak sauce. Which, honestly, can be said about most of John de Lancie’s episodes, so fair play I suppose.
I thought the holodeck episode was better, actually. I could have done without not!Uhura’s self-congratulatory speech, but other than that it was all good fun. But then, I usually think that of holodeck episodes. Who doesn’t like Moriarty, Doctor Noah, or Queen Arachnia?
- Comment on It's true 5 days ago:
Well, okay, I guess that sounds good, too. But make mine cellular peptide flavoured.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 5 days ago:
You know, I disagree. I think this season is genuinely significantly worse than both of the previous ones. No season has been perfect, but the past two had episodes I’d still rank close to some of Trek’s best. Memento Mori, Ad Astra per Aspera, Under the Cloak of War, all really great. I don’t know what happened this season, but none of these episodes come close to those. And a couple, like this finale, are just terrible.
- Comment on It's true 5 days ago:
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- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 6 days ago:
Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' & 'Doctor Who' Crossover? Watch Finale Sneak Peek 1 week ago:
I’m only a casual Who fan, catching up on it sporadically every so often… does it actually have a cohesive view of the future? It’s hard to imagine that over decades of stories popping randomly throughout time they’ve maintained a intelligible future chronology. I assume fans have collated every single reference and tried to massage them together, but does it actually hold up at all?
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 1 week ago:
Starring Captain Pike? I’d watch.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
Beyond Tasha, I’d say there’s a lot of nuance in Yesterday’s Enterprise that calls for more context. You can’t know how wrong the wartime setting feels if you have basically no exposure to the uncorrupted timeline. A new viewer can certainly get by, but it’s a much better episode if you have some experience with the show already.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
Throw in The Trouble With Edward and you’ve got a trilogy spanning the three very roughly defined eras of the franchise.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 3 weeks ago:
I love the work of the Reeves-Stevenses (even the Shatnerverse), and Diane Duane.
Also, in the realm of non-fiction, I’ve collected almost every volume of The Best Of Trek. It can be really enlightening to see what the fandom was talking about at their times of publication, and the intense analysis of the planet Vulcan given in the article “A World of Time” by Kenneth Reeler was probably pretty influential on me and the particular way I like to deep dive into the minutia of my favourite stories.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Director Talks Challenges Of Shooting Kirk’s First Time In The Big Chair 4 weeks ago:
I like Wesley as a young, uncertain Kirk. I very much do not want to see him as Kirk during the 5YM. When we saw him in that time period at the end of season 1 he didn’t feel right at all.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 4 weeks ago:
I’m bothered by the false equivalency made in the original post, though. The diversity isn’t the cause of bad storytelling. The problem isn’t that they prioritised one thing over another. Casting a white male lead on Discovery wouldn’t have given them more time to work out the plot, or a more talented stable of writers. The two are completely orthogonal to one another.
If someone wants to criticise the storytelling, they can just do that. There’s no reason to bring up diversity unless they have some desire to scapegoat it.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
I doubt that’s what they meant, partly because it really doesn’t seem to apply to either Disco or Picard. Both had their fair share of issues in the writing, but I wouldn’t say tokenism was among them (unless you count Disco’s bury-your-gays moment, but they course corrected on that).
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
It hardly seems fair to compare them to robots.
I agree, but also… you know if battle droids existed in Star Trek there’d be at least one episode where one of them breaks with its programming and comes to Starfleet seeking asylum. Like the exocomps, or Hugh in “I, Borg”, or even Data getting his day in court to prove his free will. Star Trek wants everyone to be free, whatever they’re made out of.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
Just saw jem Hadar in the star fleet in this trailer? What?
Why is that a problem? In TOS, Klingons were the enemy, then TNG brought us Worf. In TNG, the Ferengi were the enemy, then in DS9 Nog joined up. Star Trek is all about coming together and overcoming differences.
I see them prioritizing:
- Diversity and political correctness
I wish. They’ve cancelled all the shows with queer representation. SNW has about a hundred relationships going on, all straight. I miss Disco and Lower Decks.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t noticed much backlash, though I’m sure you can find some in the usual discontented corners of the internet. Personally I’m optimistic, but we really don’t have all that much information yet. The trailer mostly sold the tone, but it seemed like the right tone.
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 5 weeks ago:
I’m one of those people, and really appreciated the little bits of political wrangling we saw in the last half of Discovery. And while I was never a fan of Enterprise, Bakula could kill it as the president of the Federation in its formative years. I love this idea.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 5 weeks ago:
Just fun times.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t get through Enterprise when it was first airing, and it remains the only Trek series I haven’t watched in its entirety. Tried to get through it again with my partner a bit ago, and we switched off after that first decon chamber scene. We aren’t prudes, but it’s just so skeevy.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 month ago:
Honestly impressed with Discovery’s restraint in not showing it to us for their last three seasons.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 month ago:
Ah, so I just missed it. There goes my little theory.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 month ago:
We’ve definitely seen cadets serving on ships a few times, and The Wrath of Khan featured a training voyage (though they didn’t seem to be going to anywhere in particular).
So I agree there’s precedent. I was really just stretching for a way to cheekily suggest the name.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 month ago:
So these kids will be going out in the galaxy on real missions before they’ve even graduated. I love the enterprising spirit that shows.
Say, have they revealed the name of the ship yet?
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser Trailer 1 month ago:
Agreed. I’ve been enjoying SNW, but it’s been playing it far too safe. Star Trek needs to rock the boat a little!
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 1 month ago:
The inevitable next step after the musical episode. It was either this or Thunderbirds style marionettes like Stargate did.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 1 month ago:
I don’t mind zombies, but they didn’t even factor into real story. Why not have the tension come entirely from the Klingon hunting M’Benga? Then they could have spent more time building up her motivation and their ritual combat at the end would have felt like a culmination of the hunt instead of an awkward distraction from the zombie hoard surrounding them.
I didn’t hate the episode, but it could have felt a lot more cohesive.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien 1 month ago:
Not much concrete here beyond the images, so I’ll just comment on those:
- Lots of amber lighting. Seems like it’s always sunset at the academy.
- I’m really digging the new uniforms.
- Curious about the significance of the wall of names. A whole lot of familiar names on there from almost every era of the franchise.
- Picardo looks like he’s ready to have a lot of fun in the role.
- Nice to see the new bridge, but that’s an ugly captain’s chair. Obviously supposed to harken back to the TOS style, but while TOS had a minimalistic elegance to its blockiness, this one feels way too busy.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 month ago:
Don’t show him any of the all time greats. Then there’s nowhere to go but down.
I also wouldn’t try to hook him on a twenty or thirty out forty year old show when there’s a really good Trek series coming out right now. There’s no urgency to watching an old show, so even if he likes it he’s likely to put it off for later and forget about it.
Just hit him with SNW episode 1. It’s a decent episode, not an all time best but a good introduction to what the Federation is all about and very briefly how it grew from the present day. And if he decides to continue in his own, there’s no question of where to start - just move on to episode 2.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 2 months ago:
Is this that feminist riddle again?
