Also watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home for the first time recently while my partner had COVID. We both loved it! It’s a really excellent comfort movie when you’re sick. I loved all the psychedelic whale stuff (as I always do, in media). It’s so great that they made a high-budget movie version of Star Trek in its comedic mode. I think that’s my favorite style of Trek, and this so far has been my favorite Trek production I’ve seen.
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The voyage home is 100% the best star trek movie of all time. It works on every level
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i did not realize the entire season of prodigy was out i’m really not paying attention to trek lol
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Prodigy season 2 was pretty good! I was entertained, enjoyed the cameos.
Definitely a lot of them trying to hook kids into Trek with a million, million references, but, nice to see the Voyager crew back.
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This Section 31 trailer. I can’t do it.
Kurtzman and the NuTrek people are so, so dreadfully enamored by the concept of Star Trek people going to a seedy strip club. It has happened fully five times across Picard and Disco, and it has sucked absolutely every time without exception. WHAT WILL SATE YOU, KURTZMAN
FUCK OFF
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The trailer is really giving me Suicide Squad (2016) vibes, where whatever this was, they saw it, realized it was a miserable slog, and are trying in post to turn it into Guardians of the Galaxy.
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The borg dude is Drax. There is a quippy comic relief guy complaining the whole time, then three identically dour action figures that we will be made to endure set pieces for in:
- A dimly-lit strip club
- Bad Guy Room of said strip club
- The dimly-lit engine room of the Millennium Falcon
- SPACE MINECART
- Night-time outdoor woods set
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The romulan guy will die because he is a romulan, he will probably betray them. The borg guy will die because he’s the comic relief and they must fully complete their flanderization of these villains.
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It sucks so bad that the guns are modern barettas with a little glowing red bit on them.
I don’t think I can actually watch this one.
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haven’t seen any nutrek but from reading this thread it looks like i’m not missing much. from where i stand the barrage of new and not very interesting shows seems like a very disney’s star wars way of going at it, “diversifying the portfolio” with “different shows for every demographic” and none that actually seem to get to the core of what trek is…
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Strange New Worlds is quite good, I definitely think it’s worth the watch. It seems to be good very much in spite of its grating prequel premise and spinoff nature, as if your Goldmans and Kurzmans wanted this to be a way way dumber thing, and we got really lucky on the writer’s room.
But yes Picard is a low point of the franchise for sure, in large part because they were not interested in doing Star Trek, they just listened to whatever Patrick Stewart wanted to do and did that, so we got Nemesis again.
Discovery is a lot more what you’re describing, where it had a confident (if bad) vision right out the gate, and then immediately turned itself in knots trying to please every demographic, until it became this utterly benign and tasteless nutrient paste.
S31 definitely feels like more Picard/Disco, in fact it looks like it was made during season 5 of Disco, then shelved during Covid until now. Every little thing I read about it drives me more insane with how the showrunners can’t seem to understand the most base themes of the DS9 war arc they desperately want to do again and again.
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I finally finished Enterprise yesterday. I ended up enjoying it more than I thought. Shame it was canceled when they seemed to be hitting their stride and the stories were more interesting. I can’t believe just how sidelined the black guy and the asian woman characters were, even the British guy barely did anything. It seems like a blatant lie to call it an ensemble show when really only three characters had any screen time and felt much more egregious than other trek series. I know Voyager became the Janeway- Doctor- Seven variety hour the last few seasons but this was worse idk.
I really would’ve liked to see more of the build up to the start of the Federation, and it was bullshit they didn’t actually show Archer’s speech in the finale. And I can see why that finale is so universally hated.
I think my favorite aspect of the show was that it felt more, idk, real? Like the characters will get mad and say something is crap or drop a damn and actually talk like most people do. Or I guess in the Federation utopia of the later shows no one curses, but to me the clean language always rang false but I get the tv standards of the time were different.
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nice looking ds9 upscale based on the japanese laserdisc release
https://x.com/Ds9Redefined/status/1815985704976986574
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Almost done with the second season of Prodigy and kind of surprised by how much I like it, and how deep it goes for what is ostensibly a kids show. Chakotay has better character development here than in Voyager proper lol and too bad we’ll never see his bird person first officer in a live action show, or whatever that species is. I loved the episode where Janeway and Dal body swap. You could just tell how much fun Mulgrew was having. And the cameos have been great.
I think I’m going to rewatch Lower Decks after this and see how many more references I am able to catch this time around.
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Imo TNG fucked up by not putting a ship’s library on the Enterprise. Imagine some cool ass librarian character that Picard occasionally visits to consult the research on some arcane space subject. That’d rule.
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On Enterprise it’s just some old coot with a bunch of old stories about ufos and aliens
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Joel Hodgson from MTS3K fame actually played this character in Other Space. If ever a show deserved another four seasons, it was OS.
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Imagine getting assigned quarters above a bowling alley deck and below another bowling alley deck.
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It’ll take some time but people of this century will remember how to care
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We’re in the middle of season 4 of TNG now and this show is really cooking now. We just watched Data’s Day (the one that’s just a day in the life of Data) and The Wounded (the introduction of the Cardassians, where Picard has to stop a rogue Starfleet Captain from going on a rampage). Wow! One of the show’s best sitcomic episodes so far, followed by one of its best dramatic episodes.
I’m glad they’re making O’Brien more of a character. I like that guy! I don’t buy his relationship with his new wife at all though; it feels like they just met each other like 3 hours before getting married and don’t know the first thing about each other. His interactions with the rogue captain were great, two Irish boys kicking it, making cracks about blarney stones and singing The Minstrel Boy. The way Star Trek handles ethnicity is so goofy.
Loved the amount of screentime devoted to Picard delivering stern, portentous monologues. Every time that happens in this show I’m hooting and hollering.
After watching these episodes, we were filled with trekkie magic and decided to see what would come up from searching “Star Trek AMV” on youtube. Lot of garbage, but this inscrutable hidden gem really got us going:
Pretty competently framed and edited recreation of an old Taylor Swift music video using tons of action figures. The person who made this was passionate about it and clearly put a lot of work and skill into it, but for some reason EVERY SHOT is completely out of focus. Frustrating but lends the video a sort of queasy nostalgic pallor that ultimately works in its favor.
Next episode up is Devil’s Due, which I know is infamous but I don’t know why. Is the devil gonna show up on the Enterprise? Is it gonna be one of THOSE episodes, in the venerable tradition of the TOS Abe Lincoln episode?
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