Kirk should’ve only done spoken word
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I think this is his best one.
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Really deserved the 30 years of dunking that ended up with that great Ben Folds album.
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this was the first version of Common People i heard (it was big on national youth radio station ‘triple j’ when i was a13)
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looks like the picardo is coming back on prodigy and there’s a Voyager-A. there’s a clip on this page
it still does not technically have an announced network or service that it is airing on but they are uh…being paid to complete season 2 and it seems like it will be released soon
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This is the one that got cancelled right? Huh.
The musical ep was good, glad they actually managed to pull this off.
It has a few issues that are not much more than gripes: [1] Pike does a lot of “well THAT just happened…”-style winking at the camera and like, yeah, we get it, [2] the big final musical number, as is usually the case in these things, is too broad and unfocused to be a good song, [3] the idea of a musical reality existing is sorta too absurd to swallow, but I don’t know how else they could’ve tried to ground this as a thing that actually happened.
Beyond that, every character progresses their story this season in a very fun, very satisfying way. I think La’an and Uhura’s are my favorite by a country mile, those hit the hardest, but I also really loved Chapel’s and Spock’s conflicting songs. Sam Kirk is a real standout this season for me, he’s the perfect background character - just a big enough dipshit to bring out fun moments with Spock and Kirk, but clearly one of more fun hangs on the ship.
SWN continues to achieve what Disco aspired to: This crew feels like they’ve become friends in an earned way. You can see how they live their lives on this ship, and that universe feels like a place people could and would exist naturally within. On the Trek podcast I’ve been listening to, The Greatest Generation, they have this idea of “Star Trek is a place”, and SWN really nails that feeling. We’re seeing one block of time in the lives of people that had history before the show started and will have lives after its over, however beepy that life may be.
My favorites:
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can’t believe they hired an actual scot to play scotty seems illegal
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ruining the illusion that in the utopian star trek future it’s socially acceptable for a person to do a fake scottish accent all the time as a bit
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that’s true today so it’s definitely true in a utopian star trek future
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kinda dissapointed captain angel didn’t pop back up this season tbh
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Pretty mid ep?
Scotty seems nice. Tactical gear looks cool, I love the Gorn spacesuit.
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to me this version of the gorn simply are not cool or interesting or compelling and the idea that they really are thinly spreading warmed over story beats and shots from the movie Alien over multiple seasons is pretty funny but luckily this is not heavily serialized like enterprise or discovery so we don’t have to hear about the bad idea every week
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I have one episode left, but I really wanted to just pop in here and say how much I loved this season of SNW. Nu-Nurse Chapel has become one of my favorite Trek characters and the genre-hopping from cartoon-crossover to war medical drama (“oh my god, it’s like Star Trek MASH,” I said to my wife at one point) to the musical rocks. Against my better judgement, I might go back and check out Disco again, which I dropped after season one? Cronenberg is in it now or something, what.
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if your goal is “to watch an enjoyable television show” i would not bother with star trek: discovery
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i want it to be good and it just isn’t
the finales for seasons 2 and 3 are so bad
maybe the most curate’s egg of any trek show
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i think you could probably make a medium good star trek show if you put the actually interesting discovery characters into the warmed over tng/ds9 plots of enterprise although this is kind of what strange new worlds is lol
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