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- Comment on Where to start? 2 days ago:
Yeah, definitely not. Picard and Discovery were very serialised, as were the later seasons of DS9, but outside of those you can pretty much dip your toe in to almost any episode and not worry about getting sucked into a whole arc. It’s probably best to keep a low-commitment mindset and skip around a bit until something really works for you.
- Comment on Where to start? 2 days ago:
Since you’ve already watched the relevant parts of Discovery, I’d recommend SNW. It spins off directly from Disco season 2, but it’s more episodic and has a wider tonal range. Some episodes are dark and serious, some are plain goofy. Overall you’ll find it much more light hearted and adventurous than Disco.
Otherwise, I’m a big supporter of starting at the beginning. Give a few episodes of TOS a try. Yes, it’s a product of it’s time, but it still holds up as great TV. It’s also one of the few Trek shows that really hits the ground running quality wise - the '90s series tend to take a few seasons to rev up.
- Comment on Wagon Train to the Stars 4 weeks ago:
Maybe not literally, but the season 3 episode where Discovery arrived in the future went hard on the western vibes. I think they even included swinging saloon doors at one point.
- Comment on Anyone here play the Super Star Trek terminal game? 5 weeks ago:
I grew up with this variation on my C64. Good times. gaming.trekcore.com/startrekc64-1/
I’ve also come across this mashup with 25th Anniversary, which looks like great fun: emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 2 months ago:
Now see, if they’d had Jokester Data drop that pun right before the credits rolled, I’d have forgiven the whole thing.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 2 months ago:
I thought the crossover element of Generations really brought it down. The original cast had a far better farewell in Star Trek VI, and I don’t think the writers of Generations had enough to say about Kirk’s character to justify the tortured story logic that brought him in.
Give me a Kirkless cut and I’ll be so much happier. All the pure TNG elements work fine for me, McDowell is great, and the D looks beautiful with cinematic lighting.
- Comment on Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact? 2 months ago:
I was raised a Trekkie, can’t rightly say what my first contact was. My earliest memory of it was me expressing a preference for “the one with Spock” over TNG, the only other option at the time.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Khan – Ceti Alpha V’ Audio Drama Podcast Is Currently Casting 2 months ago:
Canon is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Canon is a pretty flower… which smells bad.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
That footnote points to an uncredited trekplace article from 2004 that itself has no citations. There was never an “original vision" that Klingons have bumpy heads, that was an idea entirely original to TMP.
Anyway, how do we feel about the Star Trek III redesign? In TMP it was one hairless bump that was supposed to represent a spinal column, running all the way from the back over the cranium. TSFS and onward, suddenly it was a flatter, wider set of ridges that was localized only to the forehead, with a full head of hair behind it. For some reason I’m always seeing people act like those are the same design, but to me the differences are glaringly obvious.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
TV and movie productions are collaborative efforts undertaken by a huge number of creative people, and I don’t think any of them make their decisions for no reason. The “original creator” of the Klingons was Gene L. Coon, who had nothing to do with their portrayal in TMP.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
Who wanted a visual reboot of the Klingons?
Gene Roddenberry, I guess. IMO the guy really fell off when he turned Trek into a saturday morning cartoon show. But yeah, sweaty orc is right, just look at these monstrosities:
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m facetiously comparing the 1979 arguments over bumpy headed Klingons to the 2017 arguments over cone headed Klingons. What’s “new” keeps on changing, but the arguments about it stay eerily familiar.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
NuTrek started when they did a full visual reboot, including completely changing the look of the Klingons: TMP.
Then it got worse, when they followed that up with a grimdark shoot-em-up that felt nothing like Trek. These people aren’t even fans of the show!
- Comment on Extended Clip | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 3 months ago:
Last season’s Charades also supports the genetically encoded notion. Which goes against everything we know about Vulcans, but makes for fun comedic episodes, so they’re probably going to just keep doing it. Psychosomatic is as good an explanation as any.
- Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central 3 months ago:
I agree completely, and it really didn’t help that they introduced him in an episode that took place during an alternate version of the TOS timeframe. I’m can deal with him as a younger Kirk, but as a version of Kirk in his prime? No way.
- Comment on Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 4 months ago:
In 1997 adding a sexy Bord crew member to Voyager reeked of desperation. But the writers told to make it work actually gave a shit and whoever was in charge of casting took the time to find someone who could actually act, so in the end Seven Of Nine became one of the best things to come out of Voyager (nevermind the cringe worthy marketing and costume).
End of the day, I don’t care about the mental state of the exec signing off on an idea, because even a bad one can turn out good with the right talent. And I don’t even see why Star Trek as a teen drama is a bad idea. Star Trek can work with all sorts of genres, and we’ve still got SNW holding down the fort as the old school exploration series.
- Comment on Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 4 months ago:
It’s weird. It’s a weird show. It doesn’t fit in. And it doesn’t want to fit in.
- Comment on Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 4 months ago:
Seemed like the best reference as a notoriously bad teen drama. That doesn’t mean I didn’t watch every episode. It’s fabulously, gloriously bad. Anything else I could name would be mediocre at most.
- Comment on Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 4 months ago:
Not every teen drama is Riverdale. No idea if this show will be any good, but there’s nothing wrong with the premise.
- Comment on The number of lines for each character by percentage of the series 4 months ago:
Fascinating! It would be illuminating to see this broken up by season as well. Seven of Nine’s relatively low ratio, for instance, can definitely be attributed to her late arrival to the series. In the latter seasons, I suspect her percentage could be rivalling Janeway’s.
Conversely, it’s impressive Lorca ranks as highly as he does, given he was gone by the end of Disco season one. But since he was simultaneously captain and antagonist while he was around, I guess it isn’t that surprising.
- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 4 months ago:
All fair, and I appreciate how much you’re trying to avoid Trekkie infighting in this thread. I’m not always so conscientious about that, but it is, after all, just a TV show.
- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 4 months ago:
I’ve seen this complaint a lot with some of the newer shows, but it doesn’t really resonate with me. A good central character ought to be able to carry a show, and I don’t hold Trek as being inherently different in that regard. In fact, I think the original series would have been an example of a show like that if Spock’s popularity hadn’t been taken into consideration by later writers. Even then, I believe it would have a pretty low “pass” rate compared to all the '90s series.
(Incidentally, since Burnham wasn’t Captain until season 4, Discovery passes on a technicality for most of its run).
- Comment on POV: Your overdue book fines have been piling up 5 months ago:
- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 7 months ago:
Voyager was present at the big bang, also thanks to Q, so that’s got to be your first scene. This would be a massive undertaking, but a lot of fun to see.
- Comment on It's all in the trim 11 months ago:
I think that must have been a different Trill officer? According to a link in the footer of the same page it was this actress on the bridge: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephanie_Niznik
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
For the reward of instantaneous travel, I’m sure the Federation could muddle its way through amending a 100 year old law. The rest of the points don’t seem all that different than the complications we see our heroes regularly encounter exploring the galaxy. And none of them were enough to convince the crew of the Discovery to stop using the spore drive for the rest of the series.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Discovery anyway. Trek is full of miracle technologies that go conveniently forgotten. Janeway has no reason to be miffed given that she sat on an infinite speed drive herself, which had no downside that the doctor wouldn’t have been able to cure after it took them home.
- Comment on Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism 11 months ago:
There must be a better way to bankrupt a company than flushing your personal reputation down the toilet. He’s just dumb. No contradiction.
- Comment on Logic and Miracles 11 months ago:
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, this is the most complete attempt I’ve seen to rationalize the mess: atavachron.wikidot.com/start
But, yeah, the short answer is that they don’t.
- Comment on The finest organic suspension ever devised FTW! 11 months ago:
Nah, they must be referring to the Hogwarts library…
