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>> No. 20473 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 8:00 pm
20473 Star Trek
If anyone's interested, Voyager and TNG are continually playing at http://vaughnlive.tv/downlorrd .

Also general Star Trek thread, what do you think of the new movies? What setting would you want a new series to be in?
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>> No. 20476 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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>>20473

Speaking of Voyager, that was the last proper Star Trek we got really. Captain Wrongway was dire though.

She got promoted to Admiral to keep her out of the way, for sure.

I'd like to see more Trek like that. It can work, if it gets consistent writing and direction.
>> No. 20477 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>what do you think of the new movies?
What makes star trek star trek has always been the moral parables, and not being afraid to tell a slow high concept story/ dry political story in the knowledge that the idea should be satisfying enough. The original series and TNG were ram packed with morals.

The new movies couldn't possibly be further away from this concept, all of the characters have been boiled down to gimmicks, Kirk in TOS regularly demonstrates frequently the virtues of a good leader. The films have him being closer to a parody of himself, Spock frequently behaves the exact opposite of who he was in the series. And the plot to 'Into darkness' was bordering on incomprehensible. I really want the new film to ground star trek back in its roots, but it probably isn't going to happen.
>> No. 20478 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 10:50 pm
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SISKO = GOD.

Literally.

I know, DS9 is just a rip off of Babylon 5, but that's no bad thing. TNG and Voyager were cryptofascist fables about the glory of the federation. DS9 shows the ragged edges of morality, the gray areas nobody really understands. Everyone has blood on their hands, everyone has dirty secrets.

Spoiler warning on the following clip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YyL7X4CWw
>> No. 20479 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 10:51 pm
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>>20478

Also, Nana Visitor is the best name ever.
>> No. 20480 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 11:08 pm
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>>20478

Janeway is morally bankrupt. She kills a guy just so she can get her besto back and Kate Mulgrew was such a total cow in real life the mere memory of her made Garret Wang cry at a con.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-w7Fat3sM
>> No. 20481 Anonymous
8th March 2016
Tuesday 11:30 pm
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>>20476
>Speaking of Voyager, that was the last proper Star Trek we got really

The last two seasons of ENT weren't bad aside from the last episode of course. Its a shame that it got canned as soon as it was finding its feet despite most Trek needing 3 seasons to find its feet.

The Romulan war would've been decent television and had a 'Space: Above and Beyond' vibe.

>>20478
Honestly (and I know this is controversial) it should have stuck with the grey area being heavily implied. The root beer scene was brilliant along with anything else with Quark but dragging the Romulans in felt like deus ex machina after one was already pulled with the Klingons.
>> No. 20482 Anonymous
9th March 2016
Wednesday 1:37 am
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1. DS9
2. ENT
3. TNG
4. TOS
5. VOY

Enterprise gets the worst rep but that's because people are stupid morons and don't consider how well it had improved. The Temporal Cold war was brilliant, the Xindi arc was fascinating and it had all the intrigue of DS9 with the comfy feelings that TNG had induced. Can anyone imagine what it would have been like if everyone had dropped TNG or DS9 by season 2 and formed a fanbloc against it?. Anyone who badmouths ENT deserves a phaser blast at the highest setting to the face. There are asteroids named after the actresses who played Jadzia and Kira, dunno why Kira got one, she's a ham faced lesbian who walks around as if she's Jumja stick up her arse.
>> No. 20483 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 2:55 am
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>>20478
> DS9 shows the ragged edges of morality, the gray areas nobody really understands.
Enterprise had Captain archer torture a terrorist to get answers.
>> No. 20484 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 3:42 am
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>>20483
Don't you feel that all sci-fi during the noughties had some aspect of space laplanders, from the Xindi attack on earth being a parable to 9/11 to BSG playing out a terrorism campaign against the Cylon and even V having some kind of human resistance group launch attacks against the supposedly benevolent aliens.

What major theme is being explored through new sci fi, and what would the new trek series go for?
>> No. 20485 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 9:48 am
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>>20482
>dunno why Kira got one, she's a ham faced lesbian who walks around as if she's Jumja stick up her arse.

You sound like one of those lads who isn't really into girls but you try and guess what is supposed to be desirable. Kira is top-tier in the show.

>>20484
Not him but I have trouble seeing how Star Trek would work in our cultural climate for this reason. Despite the absence of Germans due to nuclear war the world it presents is one of a bright future whether it be 60s futurism or 90s teleology which is something we just don't have any more.

This is what makes DS9 such a poor fit for the rest because it has an undercurrent of cynicism as you head into the 2000s. The Federation is a dystopia if you don't drink the kool-aid and I'd rather the franchise be left alone.
>> No. 20488 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 12:37 pm
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>>20483
Don't forget the episode where they forcibly board another ship and steal their warp coil at gunpoint leaving them more or less stranded.
>> No. 20489 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 2:17 pm
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>>20488
Just had a look at the Trek Wikia, it says they were stranded "three years from home". That doesn't sound as bad.
>> No. 20490 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>20489
Waking up every single morning for 3 years of what should have been a 2-week journey, remembering what the humans did to you and plotting revenge.
>> No. 20491 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 3:56 pm
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>>20484

Science fiction always reflects the time in which it is written. That's the real interest of the genre - our imagined futures speak volumes about our cultural assumptions.

I think that the predominant themes in recent SF are confusion and fear. Nobody really understands what's happening now, let alone what might happen in the future. We're seeing neither the shiny utopias of TNG, nor the outright dystopias of Orwell and Huxley. With the notable exception of The Martian, mainstream science fiction is focussing on natural disasters and zombie apocalypses - random, incomprehensible events that are nonetheless devastating. As a counter-reaction, we're seeing a lot of nostalgic and meta work like the recent Hugo winners Redshirts and Among Others.
>> No. 20495 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 8:59 pm
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>>20489
Speaking of which, has anyone else noticed the trend to host on Wikia? http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Main use to be hosted at http://memory-alpha.org why the change? It's not as if running costs would have been high, bandwidth for text based sites are relatively low.
>> No. 20496 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 9:21 pm
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>>20491
>With the notable exception of The Martian, mainstream science fiction is focussing on natural disasters and zombie apocalypses - random, incomprehensible events that are nonetheless devastating.
No mention of Interstellar which deals with a man-made disaster, or works like Atwood's Oryx & Crake trilogy or The Colony or Mr. Robot, Elysium or the works of Hannu Rajaniemi which deal with technology, corporate-run worlds, police states, immigration and income inequality? What about Transfer? Transcendence? Accelerando? The Circle? Ex Machina? Her? Black Mirror? The Road? No-one has ever understood what's going to happen in the future, but The Martian is hardly a notable exception. I think the nostalgia hype machine is just being fuelled by Hollywood, etc, trying to bank on what they know sells.
>> No. 20497 Anonymous
10th March 2016
Thursday 9:30 pm
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>>20495
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Memory_Alpha:History

Why pay for hosting and probably more relevantly, learn all the technical skills involved in maintaining MediaWiki, when someone else will do everything for free?
>> No. 20498 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 2:28 am
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>>20497
> MediaWiki,
Fuck that buggy piece of crap. Last time I ever have anything on a website I've not written myself.
>> No. 20499 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 8:50 am
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The Federation was always an analogue for the USA. Before the turn of the century, American Exceptionalism and the American Dream had yet to be discredited, and the Federation's mission to moralise and civilise the universe by bringing it under Federal protection seemed genuine and even plausible.

Within two decades, the USA has pissed away all its good will internationally, and been exposed as rotten to the core. The Federation can't escape its status as an analogue of the USA... people can accept a squeaky clean picture of humanity, but no longer, I think, an authoritarian one.

Federation crews are always overworked and have unshakable faith in authority. At the time, we just accepted this. Looking back, do we really believe that a thousand PhDs locked in a tin can are going to be so blank-facedly comfortable with working flat-out for days at a time, simply following orders, often being sent to their deaths for trivial reasons?

You could bring Star Trek back. But, it would have to present a world that has dealt, or is dealing with, the Federation's flaws. DS9, Voyager and Enterprise showed us the flaws, but didn't really overcome them. That's what's needed.
>> No. 20500 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 10:41 am
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>>20499
Great, I love dark and gritty reboots. Love them.
>> No. 20501 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 11:06 am
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What's all this about the Federation being fascist? I thought it was a democracy. Just because all you see are Starfleet officers working within a hierarchical, militaristic organisation, doesn't mean the entire society functions in the same way.
>> No. 20502 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 11:57 am
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>>20501

Star Trek deliberately shied away from revealing too much about the political and economic structure predominating amongst humans or across the Federation as a whole, but there are worrying signs that not all is well. For instance, Starfleet is Earth's space navy, but it has the authority to dispossess or relocate any Federation citizens. Unless there is any paperwork that identifies a human as not being a Federation citizen, Starfleet is allowed to presume that all humans are Federation members and therefore treat them according to Federation law. It's actually quite racist, when you think about it.

Yeah, there are lots of very dodgy little features of the Federation that you only notice when the Fridge Logic kicks in.

As to whether the Federation's fascist, well, I don't know about that, but contemporary representative democracy borrows heavily from fascism. There's no sign that any of the flaws inherent to representative democracy have been solved in the Federation's time, other than that there's likely no corruption any longer as it's a post-scarcity society.
>> No. 20503 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 3:23 pm
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>>20490
Well the Enterprise crew were doing it in order to save their entire species and by extension the whole galaxy but still they made sure to put in the dialogue that they were cramming the ship with valuable materials and science.

>>20491
>I think that the predominant themes in recent SF are confusion and fear. Nobody really understands what's happening now, let alone what might happen in the future.

I dunno about this. In my mind the themes coming up these days revolve around terrorism (A Scanner Darkly, general government evilness) and the rising power of China (The Expanse, echoes of Japanese rise in Blade Runner). Since 9/11 we've had a pretty good idea of what to be afraid of.

We've always been confused and afraid for the future to some extent, its just the fear is different depending on the era. Look at how science fiction operated in the 90s for instance with a wave of films dealing with existential fear from Dark City to Existenz due to the lack of cold war antagonist and therefore political grounding.

>>20496
I thought Interstellar was just potato famine 2.0?

>>20499
>Federation crews are always overworked and have unshakable faith in authority. At the time, we just accepted this. Looking back, do we really believe that a thousand PhDs locked in a tin can are going to be so blank-facedly comfortable with working flat-out for days at a time, simply following orders, often being sent to their deaths for trivial reasons?

Well we've been doing it for centuries now on and under the oceans. Yeah Roddenberry deliberately avoided personal tension but there was also allot of experience that shone through in TOS of what military service is like.

>>20502
This is what I liked about Quark, as an alien culture he was able to give you an opinion of the Federation as an outsider. I love the root-beer scene because it included what is very much a critique of globalization today made at a time when it seemed stronger than ever.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhSm6G7cVk
>> No. 20504 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 6:33 pm
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>>20501
Starfleet is in no way a militaristic organisation, it's more akin to a mixture of a science and charity organisation. None of their capital ships have ever been specifically designed with military might in mind until the Defiant. Although these ships have offensive capabilities, they were built for the purpose of scientific exploration, Starfleet didn't even have dedicated fighter ships until they faced a serious war against the Borg. This is a stark contrast to the highly martial militarised cultures such as the Klingons and Cardassians who had very clear divides between their science ships and military bird of prey.

The show puts focus on the exploration side of things but much of Starfleet is comprised of engineers and botanists and things of that nature.
>> No. 20505 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 6:42 pm
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>>20499
You make it sound like Roddenberry was waxing lyrical about various nations whilst he attacks the idiocy of old earth countries over and over again. There's a rather striking scene in which Picard and Riker talk about which variant of red, white and blue their respective countries had as their flags, they poke fun at the idea and it's always been about the singular nature of humanity rather than continuing on old conflicts. Whilst Enterprise did have their bumder sailor soldier go on about his relatives in the British navy, there's always been a multinational aspect to Trek. Chekov was a Russian officer at the height of the cold war. All characters aren't even speaking English, that's just the universal translator.

I also don't think fed crews have ever been truly obedient, we know this with the Starfleet officers who defected to the Maquis, the numerous times PIcard has bent the Prime Directive and the many times that central command has either been ignored or not followed to the letter. You paint Starfleet as a bureaucratic organisation when each captain of a capital shit has always had a degree of autonomy that isn't anything like how our current militaries are, there have been many situations which would have required central oversight if it was today on earth and that just did not happen in space.
>> No. 20506 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 8:20 pm
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>>20504
>Starfleet is in no way a militaristic organisation

Or so they tell you, have you never asked why federation ships carry photo torpedoes or why they can stand toe-toe with alien warships? Notice how mirror universe ships are the same despite having the job of conquering worlds.

Think about this while the heavily armed federation flagship sits in orbit telling you about this great organization they come from.
>> No. 20507 Anonymous
11th March 2016
Friday 10:08 pm
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>>20506

>or why they can stand toe-toe with alien warships?

I'd say that's more down to the writing.

Think about it, every major story arc shows the federation massively out-gunned by foes with superior armies and technology, the federation almost always succeeds only due to luck/flukes and ingenuity. Think about it, the Romulans are more powerful, the Klingons are more powerful, the Borg are more powerful, the Dominion are more powerful, a vast number of monster-of-the-week races are more powerful.
>> No. 20511 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 8:31 pm
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This thread promised me continual TNG and Voyager. The channel is currently off-air. I would like to put forward the suggestion that the OP is a bollock.
>> No. 20555 Anonymous
19th March 2016
Saturday 9:25 pm
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>>20495
>>20497
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page has transferred too.

>>20511
Apologies, try http://vaughnlive.tv/noahbody instead.
>> No. 21509 Anonymous
18th April 2017
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>20473
>> No. 21510 Anonymous
19th April 2017
Wednesday 6:42 pm
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>>21509

Well, since you've mysteriously bumped the thread, I'd like to follow up one year later to say: the stream was indeed back up. The OP is not a bollock.
>> No. 21511 Anonymous
19th April 2017
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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The 420Chan stream is still up and running if anyone is looking for a Trek fix. Personally I never watch the live stream but instead click on the episodes from the playlist to watch.
http://taima.tv/r/1701
>> No. 21523 Anonymous
18th May 2017
Thursday 7:06 pm
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Is it just me or does Star Trek: Discovery look awful?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4GWs_CrsvA

If you need something to wash the bad taste out a few days ago someone released an edit of TMP cut to the Tron soundtrack and it's something else:
http://vimeo.com/217336882
>> No. 21524 Anonymous
18th May 2017
Thursday 7:43 pm
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>>21523

It's not what I was hoping for. It doesn't look much like Trek to me, too flashy. Although possibly somewhat more believable in this day and age.
>> No. 21525 Anonymous
18th May 2017
Thursday 8:10 pm
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>>21523

>Ten Years Before Spock
>Spock allegory introduced immediately after

Hmm... Also it looks a lot like Mass Effect, in terms of the aesthetics and the lighting I mean.

What I'm saying is it looks a touch derivative and that's probably not a good sign.
>> No. 21527 Anonymous
18th May 2017
Thursday 9:13 pm
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The world seems to not be willing to make star trek.

Oh they can brand things as star trek sure, but star trek has a cerebral tone and philosophy to it all, that seems to be completely missing from the reboot. I hope that this trailer is just hype and nothing like the real show, and in the first episode they spend an hour debating the ethics of the trolley problem with an energy cloud in space with god like powers.
>> No. 21528 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 4:17 am
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>>21523

>Is it just me or does Star Trek: Discovery look awful?

Yup. Despite all the cinematic camerawork, it looks cheap and charmless. The uniforms look like a half-arsed knock-off, the sets are utterly forgettable, the soundtrack is totally inappropriate. It looks and feels like an unfinished pilot, not a trailer. It's all sizzle and no steak. Pure melodrama, and not in a good way.

At its best, Trek is subtle and quiet. It's not gratuitous space battles, it's someone in a room saying something important. It's Picard's speech in The Drumhead or the opening debate from A Matter of Time, it's Sisko's monologue from In The Pale Moonlight or Benny Russell's breakdown in Far Beyond the Stars. It's the little throwaway conversations between minor characters that tell the whole story. This trailer gives no hint of that subtlety, or even the possibility of it.
>> No. 21529 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 7:02 am
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>>21528

I've seen nothing like any of that in any of the Trek fan films. I'm not sure Trek fans know what they want.
>> No. 21530 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 7:21 am
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>>21529
I think there is a selection bias for the kind of people who make fan films that means they aren't masters of the subtle nuance.

Most people don't really understand why they like things anyway, it is considered design 101 to ignore the feedback 90% of people give you with an unfinished product, because they usually don't understand what is wrong and what they want. Humans are ultimately irrational creatures who don't understand themselves. The only real useful data you can get from most of them is if they like, or don't like a thing.
>> No. 21532 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 10:46 am
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>>21529

Diehard trekkies are the last people you should ask. People with a rounded cultural diet rarely dress up and go to comic book conventions. Star Trek attracted a fanatical audience, but it was never for them. Gene Roddenberry was a screenwriter, not a science fiction writer; ToS was conceived as a western that happened to be set in space. Trek is always at its worst when it's trying to appeal to the diehards.

A lot of people involved thought that the whole enterprise was rather silly. In spite of that, they approached the work with utmost professionalism. It's immediately obvious that Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks are trained Shakespearean actors. It's obvious that Rene Auberjonois and Colm Meaney are immensely talented and versatile character actors.

Just look at the physicality of Auberjonois. Revel in his ability to turn a completely featureless face into something deeply expressive. Marvel at how he can portray the same character as childishly naive and utterly world-weary, without any sense of contradiction. That has nothing to do with science fiction and everything to do with human insight.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T31Mb_dGhQM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZKHKDGQ7co?start=66

That second clip is just beyond belief. How is it possible for someone wearing a lifeless rubber death-mask to convey shame, regret, grief and resignation in a single glance? All that in a daft TV show about spaceships and aliens.
>> No. 21537 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 12:03 pm
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>>21532
>Gene Roddenberry was a screenwriter, not a science fiction writer; ToS was conceived as a western that happened to be set in space.

I think you have fundamentally misjudged Gene, he was above all else an idealist.

The reason the motion picture is the snail paced slog that it is, is because it was his 'vision'. They had to promote him to get him off the project for star trek 2 because he was actively sabotaged Nicholas Meyer (the director of 2 and 6 and writer of 4) because he didn't like what he was doing to his 'vision'. You know how Valeris in 6 is the exact same character as Saavik in 2, that’s because Gene decided to have a piss and a moan and go over Meyer's head to stop him using that character, despite Gene having had no creative input in that character (a character Meyer had made), because ultimately gene didn't like the idea of a story where everybody isn't squeaky clean nice people.

And if you ever though Wesley Crusher was a pain in the arse Mary Sue, you'll never guess who he was a Mary Sue of...
>> No. 21539 Anonymous
19th May 2017
Friday 5:05 pm
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All I have to add to this conversation is that Kira has the most incredible hip-waist-navel ratio. This picture really doesn't do her justice. Ezri Dax is pretty cute, too.

Oh, and Siskos emissary arch is confusing a fuck. I can only watch the show on 5STAR and they've stopped playing it.
>> No. 21540 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 11:50 am
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Seth MacFarlane is also making a Star Trek parody show which looks like it will try to imitate Galaxy Quest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0

It looks slightly terrible but it could be a surprise given MacFarlane is a hardcore Trekkie.

>>21528
>It looks and feels like an unfinished pilot

Going by all the production delays it might well be.

>>21532
>Star Trek attracted a fanatical audience, but it was never for them.

Don't go crazy now. Trekkies are weird but they're a loyal fanbase which translates into being big earner with letter writing campaigns twice having saved the show from cancellation.

From what I hear merchandisers are none too happy about the new series being set in the JJverse which also led to Bryan Fuller quitting the show. This will be a problem because of how important the fanbase (and their wallets) is.

>>21539
>I can only watch the show on 5STAR and they've stopped playing it.

There are other ways to watch the show >>21511
>> No. 21541 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 12:46 pm
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>>21540
There was only one thing in that trailer that was funny and it was the only joke that was really a Trek joke (the Krill standing off-centre in frame). Everything else could just be transposed into something else. Oh the small woman is strong. Oh it's a divorced couple arguing. Oh you have to pee a lot. Oh you're not really qualified.
>> No. 21542 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 1:19 pm
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>>21540
Has Seth done anything good in the last decade?
>> No. 21543 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 1:20 pm
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>>21542
Has Seth done anything good?
>> No. 21544 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 1:22 pm
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>>21540

Why can't Americans write a comedy without that faux-awkward stutter speaking? I don't know how else to describe it, but regardless, it proper does my head in. No one bloody talks like that!
>> No. 21545 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 1:42 pm
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>>21540
This is straight-up parody, while I'd argue Galaxy Quest was satire. By making the protagonists themselves actors from a Star Trek parody they were able to deconstruct the show's tropes.

>>21543
He worked on some of my favourite Cartoon Network cartoons.
>> No. 21546 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 3:46 pm
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>>21543

Family guy had its moments and so did American Dad. Not that it's fashionable to opine that anywhere online these days.
>> No. 21548 Anonymous
20th May 2017
Saturday 4:01 pm
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>>21545

>worked on

That's the point I don't think he was the driving force behind those, American shows have collaborative writing rooms of close to 10 people, and I think the poor quality of children's cartoons is sometimes washed over by your naivety at the time and your nostalgia now. That isn't to say they are entirely devoid of merit there are a few amazing Dexter's lab episodes that I still laugh at now.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yg9a3

>>21546
I might be being a little cruel in saying there was no merit but the best jokes in family guy were re-used ad-nauseum and the story structure was frequently awful. I think Seth never advanced his craft, he just got lazier. You listen to Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk about early South Park and they are disappointed with it because they felt if they did it now they would do better. I think Seth uses up his best material early and then doesn't know where to go.
>> No. 21549 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 12:07 am
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>>21548
South Park is one of the few programmes that keeps on getting better with time and is continually on point. And whilst I'm not a swivel-eyed goose-stepping kipper it's nice to see a rare right-wing-ish comedy for a change.
>> No. 21550 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 12:23 am
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>>21549

I don't think it is right wing it is just anti-moralising censorship/moral panic groups and pro freedom of expression ('liberal' in the true sense of the word if you will).

If you look at the earlier episodes there is plenty of criticism of the right, what has happened since the 90s though is that all of those things they hate used to be the trappings of the right (various parental and religious groups), but over time that kind of moral policing has become the territory of the left.
>> No. 21551 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 2:14 am
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South Park just takes the piss. I don't think it's politically motivated, nor do I think it's right wing, just that unlike most it's not left wing.
>> No. 21552 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 9:01 am
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>>21551

That's one of the things I don't like about South Park, it just sneers at everything and if you have a problem with that you're just a lame-o. And the last two episodes I've caught on TV had the central jokes that in one all the characters had learning disabilities, and in the other Cartman had a group of super heroes that he called the "Coon Squad". I was like, yeah, haha, and then... ?
>> No. 21553 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 10:36 am
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>>21552
Lame-o.
>> No. 21554 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 5:14 pm
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>>21552
Satire transcends finding a political solution and just helps us laugh at the absurdities of life. When South Park does get political however it's libertarian in outlook which doesn't need to justify itself so much as point out the solutions are all awful and poke fun at the kinds of people who want to impose their vision on others.
>> No. 21555 Anonymous
22nd May 2017
Monday 5:32 pm
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>>21554

Yeah, I know. I just find it rather vapid and pointless, and the satire's only going to make me laugh if it's actually funny.
>> No. 21656 Anonymous
23rd July 2017
Sunday 8:47 pm
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A new trailer has been released for Discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnYtyNKPsA

At least they have distanced themselves from the godawful ship design.
>> No. 21657 Anonymous
23rd July 2017
Sunday 9:41 pm
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>>21656

It's less dismal than the previous trailer, but I can't say that I'm particularly excited.

Also, have they rebooted the Klingons again? They must evolve faster than MRSA.
>> No. 21805 Anonymous
11th September 2017
Monday 7:55 pm
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Orville didn't actually have that bad a first episode. I don't know how long this parody series can last but I think it captured some of the old magic of Star Trek and was played much straighter than the trailers showed.

At the very least they used science to defeat their enemy rather than punches. Maybe STD won't be so bad either.
>> No. 21818 Anonymous
23rd September 2017
Saturday 4:06 pm
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>>21805
The last episode was actually really good Star Trek with a court trial, themes of cultural relativism and exploring whether surgery on babies for cultural reasons is ever okay.

It's sad that the ratings have dropped out after the schedule got moved around it seems like the sensitive subject has pissed off a whole bunch of reviewers.
>> No. 21819 Anonymous
3rd October 2017
Tuesday 9:45 pm
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>>20478
> SISKO = GOD.
Couldn't agree more, lad. Best, most rounded Captain we've had on the best, most rounded series we've ever had. Enterprise could have got there too, but got canned just after it found its feet.

>>20504
> None of their capital ships have ever been specifically designed with military might in mind until the Defiant. Although these ships have offensive capabilities, they were built for the purpose of scientific exploration
Definitely they built them for exploration but they also armed them to the fucking teeth. Starfleet's capital ships are just brimming with weapons and routinely hold their own against warships of other races. The real difference is that Starfleet's ships have a shitload of science and exploratory gear onboard in addition to bonza weaponry.

>>20507
> the federation almost always succeeds only due to luck/flukes and ingenuity. Think about it, the Romulans are more powerful, the Klingons are more powerful, the Borg are more powerful, the Dominion are more powerful, a vast number of monster-of-the-week races are more powerful.
I disagree. The Federation is generally more technologically advanced than all the other Alpha and Beta Quadrant races it comes across, and leverages that technological lead to its advantage. The Borg, and later Dominion, are two enemies they *aren’t* technologically ahead of and it causes the Federation real problems.
>> No. 21820 Anonymous
3rd October 2017
Tuesday 9:47 pm
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How is it that we're onto episode 3 of Discovery and there's not a single post about it?!

I quite enjoyed it so far. It's not really properly 'Star Trek' the way I was hoping, and the dialogue was quite heavy on exposition in the pilot episodes, but overall I'm enjoying it so far.

The new Klingons don't phase me and I actually quite like them, but they seem to speak a bit slowly.

Iffy about the new grimdark Captain we've just been introduced to. I'll see where it's going before passing too much judgement.
>> No. 21826 Anonymous
4th October 2017
Wednesday 12:01 am
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>>21820
I've found the show is much better if you just pretend that it is an unrelated franchise with lots of homages and a cameos. It's worth a watch but if you think about it in the context of the Star Trek universe or in what it is trying to do you start to have a bit of an internal meltdown. For example:

1) Fucking space gulags?! Never mind the supposedly enlightened state of post-nuclear humanity, even the ECHR would be writing angry letters about this shit.
2) Third episode has superhero bullshit and the alien is a clone from Doom.
3) We know how this technology won't amount to jack shit. Put the Alice and Wonderland book down.
4) Why is Barclay in this dressed as a ginger woman...Oh right she is supposed to be the cute autism girl for the fans. I hope she dies.
5) The gay character is gay like Rick Berman would do a gay character "oomph you silly goose, no lurking!"


This has very much been a 3 episode pilot though. Maybe things will improve like how most Star Trek has rough early seasons. I hope it does because cultural historians have been known to use Star Trek as a measure of the society it was written in and in that sense things aren't looking too good.

>How is it that we're onto episode 3 of Discovery and there's not a single post about it?!

I assumed nobody here was interested given the Orville posts didn't get any replies.
>> No. 21827 Anonymous
4th October 2017
Wednesday 1:54 am
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>>21820

I haven't said anything because I thought the pilot episodes were awful And I wanted to see how it developed, and now that I've seen the third episode it is even worse.

If it didn't have the brand name Star Trek on it I probably wouldn't watch anymore of it. And it is just the brand name. They could have called it anything else really there is nothing in the tone or the visuals that is Star Trek. And nearly every character is an unlikable arsehole, with the exception of the painfully cringey character who seemed tonally out of place in the world of super competent arseholes, and Saru, Saru seems cool.
>> No. 21828 Anonymous
5th October 2017
Thursday 2:17 am
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>>21820
I can't bring myself to watch it, I had very little interest before it aired and even less now. I'm re-watching DS9 then I'll try Voyager again.

Why the FUCK can't we get a proper continuation instead of another prequel? ENT was alright, shame it was never given a chance, but that was enough to bridge the gap between TOS and TNG. After TNG found it's footing was there a single person pining for a return to TOS? The lack of imagination is astounding, there is so much potential for a post DS9/VOY series but we're stuck referencing a show which ended in the fucking 60's. The least they could do is admit this is an Abramsverse show so I could think about watching it without getting unfathomably angry.
>> No. 21829 Anonymous
5th October 2017
Thursday 2:11 pm
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>>21820

I realised that it was mostly the visuals that were updated, and I definitely felt it was just as Star Trekky under the surface. The main difference is that it's mostly focussed on a single character's journey, rather than the ship as a whole, and that there is a strong focus on the series arc rather than (apparently) self-contained adventures. That's fine in my book.

We're seeing a dark side of the Federation because the Federation was always supposed to be an idealised, elevated version of liberal America. That was at a time when people still viewed America as the Land of the Free. Now, that vision is frayed and failing. Consequently we're seeing a hard look taken at Starfleet's authoritarianism, and its relationship to the civilian population. I like that.
>> No. 21830 Anonymous
5th October 2017
Thursday 10:09 pm
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>>21828
I agree entirely with the need to stop making prequels and other nonsense.

However:
>but that was enough to bridge the gap between TOS and TNG

Actually ENT was set a hundred years after First Contact. TOS comes much later with a season being planned in ENT for the Earth-Romulan War referenced in 'Balance of Terror'.

>>21829
>We're seeing a dark side of the Federation

I hate this meme and yes, I used the term 'meme' because STD is just a simulacrum. The charm and uniqueness of Star Trek is it's brightness where everything works out and that vision adds a unique spin that keeps Trek iterations relevant even when they look dated owing to context.

"but what about DS9?" I hear you say.

Well, DS9 was a series that put the federation ideals under pressure but I think they won out. The best criticism always came from outsider perspectives that you never saw in the show or those who lost the faith. Sisko's father is a perfect example where despite his pessimism of space travel he was a model federation citizen who worked his restaurant simply because he loved cooking for people.
>> No. 21858 Anonymous
26th October 2017
Thursday 1:31 am
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>> No. 21859 Anonymous
26th October 2017
Thursday 9:12 am
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>>21830
>We're seeing a dark side of the Federation

>I hate this meme

This just struck a note with me. It is the post-modernist obsession, 'I'm going to remake this much beloved classic, but I'm going to change it so that good is now evil and the evil is now good, I’m so clever and subversive'.
>> No. 21945 Anonymous
9th December 2017
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>Quentin Tarantino is getting all set to direct a Star Trek movie, and if the film materializes then, it will venture into a territory uncharted by any previous Star Trek movie: an R rating. J.J. Abrams the producer, as well as Paramount, have agreed to this stipulation. We had come to know earlier in the week about Tarantino’s pitch for Star Trek going to the writers’ room, and now the Deadline has reported that Tarantino met Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer and Drew Pearce and Smith (The Revenant) is likely to be the scriptwriter.
http://thegeeknerdom.com/it-is-confirmed-star-trek-by-tarantino-will-have-an-r-rating/

Why?
>> No. 21946 Anonymous
9th December 2017
Saturday 9:15 pm
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>>21945

Is he a Trek fan? I can't imagine him watching it.

I think there's definite promise in an R rated Star Trek, but you'd have to be very intimate with the whole idea of the show to do it any justice.
>> No. 21947 Anonymous
9th December 2017
Saturday 9:44 pm
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>>21945

I look forward to seeing how he manages to sneak in his foot fetish.
>> No. 21948 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 1:41 am
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>>21947

It's bizarre that people are fine with him spending a day or two filming Uma Thurman's feet on every production. I'm incredibly surprised he hasn't been Wenstiened by anyone.
>> No. 21949 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 11:18 am
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>>21947
It never occurred to me before but you are right. The man spends a lot of time focusing on feet in his films.
>> No. 21950 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 12:37 pm
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>>21949
Joss Whedon does too.
>> No. 21951 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 12:44 pm
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>>21950

Does he? I struggle to think of examples for Joss. But in retrospect there are loads in Tarantino.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCO-SBPTF5E
>> No. 21952 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 12:54 pm
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>>21951
Tarantino's famous for it, I'm more surprised you hadn't seen people discussing it than that you didn't notice it yourself.
>> No. 21953 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 12:54 pm
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>>21951

In From Dusk till Dawn, Tarantino sucks Salma Hayek's toes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-SAbcyco0o
>> No. 21954 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 4:30 pm
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>>21953
I saw this film recently and this ruined an otherwise sexy scene.
>> No. 21961 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 6:58 pm
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>>21953
I'd not seen that in HD before. The neon's pretty impressive. Any guesses as to whether it's real or painted on in post?
I always fancy making neon tubes, or otherwise dicking about with glassblowing.
>> No. 21964 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>21961

It looks real to me. In 1996, it would almost certainly have been cheaper to commission some neon signs than to do it in post.

Lampwork is surprisingly accessible - you don't need anything more than a cheap MAPP torch, some glass rods and a few basic hand tools. A proper Bethlehem or Nortel torch will cost you a cock and a bollock, but a Rothenberger or Bernzomatic will do the job if you're just getting started.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj1Oy0W3CbE
>> No. 21965 Anonymous
10th December 2017
Sunday 7:53 pm
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>>21964
There is a matte-painted scene at the end with the slow zoom out and it's visibly a painting, so I'm guessing you're right.
>> No. 22050 Anonymous
25th January 2018
Thursday 12:08 pm
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So STD Post midseason has been alright right? Almost makes me want to take back all the horrible things I said about it.
>> No. 22051 Anonymous
25th January 2018
Thursday 4:34 pm
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Aye, it's not been bad. The thing is mirror universe episodes are always good clean fun and so far I think they've made a number of stupid decisions that have only detracted from that. Where is all the sexy PG eroticism for a start! It's been replaced by costumes from 40K and weird lines you hear now and again such as the empire being racist, Burnham being groomed by Lorca etc. that remind you that it is super-serious now.
>> No. 22052 Anonymous
25th January 2018
Thursday 5:17 pm
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>>22051

They aren't clean or good and you know it. And that's why they are fun.

I'd put up a picture of gimp garrek or the first tv lesbian kiss, to demonstrate, but I care about not spoiling the mirror universe thing.
>> No. 22053 Anonymous
25th January 2018
Thursday 7:01 pm
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>>22050

It may just grow the beard yet. New ST series are never very good to start with.
>> No. 22054 Anonymous
27th January 2018
Saturday 2:45 pm
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>>22052
I'm confused, is the episode with Dax kissing her/his ex-wife not counted because it was the symbiont acting?
>> No. 22055 Anonymous
27th January 2018
Saturday 6:57 pm
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>>22054

You are right, I knew it was DS9 but I forgot which episode it was.
>> No. 22056 Anonymous
27th January 2018
Saturday 7:52 pm
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I watched a couple of episodes yesterday and I'm curious, where should I start watching ST from and in what order?
>> No. 22057 Anonymous
28th January 2018
Sunday 10:59 am
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>>22055
I would never have pointed it out but RLM used it as well so I was wondering if some new classification was going on what with us living in the future and all.

>>22056
If you can stomach mid-60s sci-fi on a shoestring budget then do the release order (it helps to warm up with the 1959 Twilight Zone):
http://startreklist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted_05.html

Otherwise start on TNG. Most people (wrongly) suggest doing it by series which is simpler but forgets that the broadcast order exists. This looks complicated but things will never be as good again:

1) Start with the TNG episode 'Darmok' to give you a taste of peak Trek because the first season or two is going to be a struggle.
2) Watch solely TNG from the pilot* until S6E11 (the second episode of Picard talking about lights) and then alternate episodes with DS9 starting with the pilot.
3) TNG will end. Watch the VII movie Generations and continue DS9 up until the episode where Quark finds a baby then alternate with VOY episodes.
4) Before S5E6 of DS9 watch the TOS episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles' then watch the episode - trust me it is a really cool episode and I can't think of any other franchises that have done what this does.
5) After S5E8 of DS9 watch the VIII movie First Contact (important for main plot).
6) After S7E9 of DS9 watch IX movie Insurrection (movie plot motivation improved)
6) DS9 will end, VOY will end. Watch the X movie Nemesis then ENT from the pilot onwards. Feel a void in your life and start watching TOS.

*The movies can generally be watched at your own leisure up until VI and all aside from V and maybe I are high-quality (VI may seem essential but Roddenberry didn't consider it rigid canon). I'd recommend watching all the movies up to VI before S6E4 of TNG but I understand it is a tall order.

Note: Aside from TOS all series of Star Trek start pretty bad; TNG gets good when Riker grows a beard, DS9 gets good when Sisko loses his hair, VOY gets good when you meet 7of9, ENT gets good when American elections become more unpredictable. Keep the faith.
Note 2: There is an animated series but its not canon. Watch it after TOS if you want.

Games: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and it's sequel Judgment Rites are legitimately good games and nicely conclude TOS. The last mission (if done right) perfectly sums up the message of ST come to think of it.
>> No. 22058 Anonymous
28th January 2018
Sunday 12:33 pm
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>>22057
I've seen the Darmok episode and all of the original TZ run so I'll go with the release order, thanks for the tip.
>> No. 22355 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 5:22 am
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So I tried bumping this thread the other day and messed it up, but here goes nothing.

Isn't Star Trek Discovery fucking grim. It's like a bad acid trip, space looks like Dadaist nightmarescape and everyone's a prick, what happened to the Federation's utopian society? And now there's terrorist Vulcans?! It's so depressing. Was watching TOS in the sixties this upsetting?

Careful on any spoilerino's, I'm only on episode six.
>> No. 22356 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 5:55 am
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>>22355

Your spoiler text is definately the most offensive point of the whole series paticularly the label they are given. I found discovery more indearing in the secound half but I might have been punch drunk from how awful the first half was I'd be willing to accept anything that was remotely reasonable.
>> No. 22357 Anonymous
18th June 2018
Monday 3:11 pm
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There's so much cannibalism.
>> No. 22358 Anonymous
19th June 2018
Tuesday 1:12 am
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>>22355
It's all... "gritty". If you pretend it's not Star Trek it's a resonable SciFi series but it does lack the promise of utopia, there within grasping distance even if enternally out of reach, that the series up until ST:V had.
>> No. 22359 Anonymous
19th June 2018
Tuesday 3:57 am
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>>22358
That's my big problem with Discovery, it's "not Star Trek", which is fine, except they call it Star Trek so I'm constantly second guessing it against my own expectations. Maybe they should have done a Mass Effect TV show or something, then you can be as bleak, sleezy and sarcastic as you want. Michael would have made a good Renegade Shep, to be honest.

Anyway, I liked the mirror universe and the characters are mostly quite good. It just rang very, very hollow when they decided genocide against the entire Klingon homeworld was not-exactly-cricket as far as the Federation was concerned, and I can't see that lady Klingon lasting long in charge, "holding the planet hostage with a bomb its enemies put there" isn't a win for the ideas of Klingon Jesus.

Lense flares and dutch angles aren't my idea of great cinematography either. THERE'S SO MANY LIGHTS EVERYWHERE IT HURTS MY POOR BRAIN!
>> No. 22360 Anonymous
20th June 2018
Wednesday 9:52 pm
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>>20481
>Its a shame that it got canned as soon as it was finding its feet despite most Trek needing 3 seasons to find its feet.

I think all Trek seasons have their good and bad episodes, season 2 of Voyager simultaneously has both my favourite (Death Wish 9/10) and most hated (Twisted 1/10, Threshold 1/10) Voyager episodes.
>> No. 22361 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 9:53 pm
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>>22359
>Lense flares and dutch angles aren't my idea of great cinematography either.

Speaking of cinematography, why are the ships in Discovery so blue?
>> No. 22362 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 10:22 pm
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>>22361
I'm not sure, but in fairness they did mention that the Terrans are photosensitive and prefer the dark.
>> No. 22363 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 10:23 pm
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>>22361
The alternative is orange, and who wants to work in an orange ship?
>> No. 22364 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 10:30 pm
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>>22363
The alternative is normal just like in TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT.
>> No. 22365 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 11:02 pm
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>>22364
Those were all made back in the days when colours other than orange or blue were still acceptable.
>> No. 22366 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 5:44 pm
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http://www.startrek.com/fan-films

CBS and Paramount Pictures have unreasonable restrictions on fan fiction.

>The fan production must be less than 15 minutes for a single self-contained story, or no more than 2 segments, episodes or parts, not to exceed 30 minutes total, with no additional seasons, episodes, parts, sequels or remakes.

>The fan production must be family friendly and suitable for public presentation. Videos must not include profanity, nudity, obscenity, pornography, depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or any harmful or illegal activity, or any material that is offensive, fraudulent, defamatory, libelous, disparaging, sexually explicit, threatening, hateful, or any other inappropriate content. The content of the fan production cannot violate any individual’s right of privacy.
>> No. 22367 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 6:16 pm
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>>22366
In what way do you consider those particular clauses to be unreasonable?
>> No. 22368 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>22367
Because it ruins his idea for a story, where Troy and Crusher are beamed down to a planet to provide medical aid and counselling to some stranded chaps, but get brutally gang raped.
>> No. 22369 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 6:59 pm
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>>22368
>Because it ruins his idea for a story, where Troy and Crusher are beamed down to a planet to provide medical aid and counselling to some stranded chaps, but get brutally gang raped.
You missed the part where the gang-rape takes 19 minutes.
>> No. 22371 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 8:01 pm
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>>22369
I'm not sure anyone's ever produced a 19-minute gang-rape scene before, on video or in animation. At least, based on what I've been told.
>> No. 22372 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 8:08 pm
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>>22371

I have a collection that would disprove this greatly.
>> No. 22373 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 9:28 pm
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>>22372

Ah! I see you are well versed in Japanese culture.
>> No. 22427 Anonymous
1st September 2018
Saturday 2:31 am
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Does anyone want to watch and rate TNG with me? I've just started season 6, they're all on Netflix.

I am disabled and have no friends so it would be much appreciated. I've been through and rated all of Voyager so we can discuss those, and I might re-watch and rate all of DS9.
>> No. 22428 Anonymous
1st September 2018
Saturday 9:13 am
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>>22427
Sort a way for us to watch and I will.
>> No. 22429 Anonymous
1st September 2018
Saturday 12:10 pm
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>>22428
There's an app for that.
>> No. 22430 Anonymous
2nd September 2018
Sunday 2:50 pm
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>>22427
I'm just doing a TNG rewatch at the minute actually. I know every episode back to front but I've not actually seen the blu-ray edits before and I'm totally blown away by how bright and clear everything is.

I'd definitely be up for some kind of discussion (here or elsewhere) about any episode of Trek (except Discovery) whenever really. I have a lot of free time and I ate, slept and breathed my old VHS tapes of TNG in particular from as far back as I can remember.
>> No. 22476 Anonymous
29th October 2018
Monday 12:03 pm
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This is what Jake Sisko looks like now. Bit weird, innit?
>> No. 22477 Anonymous
29th October 2018
Monday 12:28 pm
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>>22476
Not really, but he does look like he's trying to be Avery Brooks Jnr, but I can't think of a good reason not to.
>> No. 22479 Anonymous
29th October 2018
Monday 1:56 pm
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>>22476

Only in that he is immortalised as a teenager in my mind.
>> No. 22531 Anonymous
19th January 2019
Saturday 12:03 pm
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So has anyone else been watch watching STD lately or are we collectively ignoring it?
>> No. 22532 Anonymous
19th January 2019
Saturday 5:10 pm
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>>22531

Everyone in that series is awful, except for T'kuvma.
>> No. 22533 Anonymous
21st January 2019
Monday 2:50 pm
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>>22531
Why watch it when the Orville is so much better?
>> No. 22534 Anonymous
21st January 2019
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>22532
Why T'kuvma? Initially his motivations were coherent but his whole arc became horribly convoluted.

>>22533
Because I can watch both. This season of Orville hasn't been good either for that matter.
>> No. 22538 Anonymous
29th January 2019
Tuesday 4:13 pm
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>>22531

Season 2 is creating yet more inaccuracies as far as canon is concerned - I wish CBS would just admit that it's a separate continuity instead of stubbornly insisting it's Prime Universe and randomly throwing in elements from TOS as if that fixes everything. Burnham is still the absolute worst character, I'm genuinely struggling to understand why she is still wearing a uniform when she is STILL regularly disobeying direct orders. Tilly is the only highlight for me, especially now she's put a bit more weight on, but even her appeal is waning. There's a rumour going around the show has been cancelled, I for one am hoping it's true. Star Trek? Shit Trek.

The Orville, however, continues to excel.
>> No. 22539 Anonymous
29th January 2019
Tuesday 4:57 pm
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>>22538
Other than the spore drive being retarded, annoys me greatly, what else breaks canon? I'm struggling to think what you mean, but at a guess.

The Enterprise went on at least two 5 year missions before Kirk even set foot on board and Pike is the 3rd person to captain her, so it appearing is fine.

The event which altered Klingon DNA and made them all homogeneous hasn't happened yet, which is why they're so varied. Prime timeline Klingons do appear in the rear of several scenes in season one though.

Uh, mirror universe? Regardless, there has never been a series of Trek with a good Season 1. Hopefully it turns things around, as every other Trek has turned it around by the end of Season 2 and are well loved. Even Enterprise.
>> No. 22540 Anonymous
29th January 2019
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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>>22539

Spock never had an adopted human sister. Season 1 showed a 'D7 Battle Cruiser' which looks nothing at all like the established one from TOS, Season 2 trailer showed the ones from TOS so that's going to confuse things even more. Pike and co have shown upnin the red, blue and yellow uniform scheme whoch they shouldn't have at that time - Kirk, Spock and co still had the uniforms from The Cage in the firat Kirk episode. Discovery herself is wayyyy too big or advanced for a Starfleet ship of that era. I won't go on.
>> No. 22541 Anonymous
29th January 2019
Tuesday 7:24 pm
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>>22540

Honestly, for me at least, almost everything there is forgivable or ignorable. The one thing that isn't is the Discovery being so advanced. It's like watching Les Miserables but they keep stopping to check their smart phones, it simply doesn't gel.

Oh, and the entire show is pig ugly.
>> No. 22546 Anonymous
1st February 2019
Friday 5:53 pm
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This week, Captain Pike heroically threw himself on a Phaser set on overload AND LIVED. It should have blown a hole in his chest. Seriously, this show is a joke
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1st February 2019
Friday 6:01 pm
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>>22546
Oh Captain Pike. I was confused there for a second.
>> No. 22548 Anonymous
1st February 2019
Friday 7:34 pm
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>>22547

Stupid boy.
>> No. 22549 Anonymous
1st February 2019
Friday 11:55 pm
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>>22546

I haven't been watching but that sounds like the writing has crossed the threshold of not just being insulting to the dedicated star trek fan but insulting to everyone.
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2nd February 2019
Saturday 12:23 am
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I really liked this weeks episode of the Orville. Maybe it was just a rehash of when Data got a girlfriend but it explored the idea much further and I found it very touching how they went about it.

It could just be that I'm completely powerless over against a love-story though.

>>22546
Next week you'll make a discovery of just how bad things can really get. Then you'll remember the episode is a set-up to it's own spin-off series that you'll have to watch.

I didn't even mind the Space-Unitarians because at least the episode had some perspective to it and we got to see another crew member out of a bridge chair. There was even some mild pondering over ethical questions which more than forgives a nitpick about phaser explosions.
>> No. 22551 Anonymous
2nd February 2019
Saturday 1:02 am
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>>22550

>mild pondering over ethical questions

Ah yes, General Order One. Which actually ceased to apply the moment they discovered that the population were not indigenous to the planet and did have knowledge of technology, yet Pike and co were still trying to act like it still applied after that point.
>> No. 22552 Anonymous
2nd February 2019
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I realise I'm late to the party but is The Orville literally a funny cover version of TNG?

I think I'd enjoy that, but I sort of hate Seth McFarlane, is he alright in it?
>> No. 22553 Anonymous
2nd February 2019
Saturday 9:26 am
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>>22552
He doesn't try to be funny much and the show is generally much less about him than it is other characters, especially compared to family guy where he voices everyone.
>> No. 22554 Anonymous
2nd February 2019
Saturday 10:21 am
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>>22552

He said it would be a comedy just because that was a requirement for him getting the show made. He really just wants to make tng and hired a load of the old writers.
>> No. 22555 Anonymous
2nd February 2019
Saturday 4:02 pm
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>>22553
>>22554

I'm not a huge fan of Seth's solo work since I think he's a bit one-dimensional and is an amateurish director (A Million Ways to Die in the West was a mess) but the fact he's taken more of a back seat and made this out of affection gets me really interested. I too absolutely love TNG. Gonna give Orville a go, lads.
>> No. 22556 Anonymous
3rd February 2019
Sunday 12:32 am
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>>22551
I don't see why being native would change the calculation. The Prime Directive relates to pre-warp cultures which they had become a distinct example of and their knowledge was at that point a religious myth.

Obviously their culture had already been influenced to its core by contact with a (presumably) warp civilization but after hundreds of years does that change? And what could Discovery realistically do if it did decide to intervene somewhere so far removed from the Federation beside leave shed-loads of technology and let them have at it? I think it's a judgement call and Pike was right to play it safe.
>> No. 22821 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 10:26 am
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I've watched the first and a bit of the second episodes of Discovery series two, and one of the most annoying, borderline maddening, things about the show is the perpetual, droning, epic soundtrack. Two people can be stood in a room talking and the music's still going on like they were dogfighting a whole fleet. This is part of a bigger problem the show has where it needs to make everything as kinetic and momentus as possible, but it just makes me feel complete sensory overload for whole episode, and undermines anything actually exciting that happens.
>> No. 22822 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 10:43 am
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>"Say my religion is science..."
>> No. 22823 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 11:12 am
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I assume from the complete lack of mention of the Picard trailer that everyone was as put off by all the the running, punching and young people as I was.
>> No. 22824 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 3:57 pm
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>>22823
When I heard it was about the Borg my expectations dropped massively, because that's the enemy that gives the writers and producers the biggest licence to make it about explosions and brainless action. Then I watched the trailer which appears to have some kind of blue tinged Borg cube in it, and lots of silly karate kicks; none of this changed my initial impressions for the better. I'm predicting lots of overacting and melodrama, just like Discovery, and some kind of "nano-Borg" or Borg evolution type plot. Borg 2.0! And much like Web 2.0, it will probably be really popular, but ultimately quite vapid and completely miss the point of the original thing. Checking the comments on the trailer was uniquely depressing, as most people still haven't wised up to the fact that Star Trek's been MIA for some time now, and the only dissenting opinions were coming from anti-SJW types whose only exposure to Star Trek seems to have been Picard Tommy Gunning a Borg that one time. But maybe not even that because there was a black lady stood right next to him. Maybe they just saw the .gif version, I think she's cropped out in that.

My favourite episode in all of TNG would probably be "I, Borg", because there's a lot of soul-searching, contrasting opinions and ambiguity. This new series looks like it could be borrowing elements from that, what with the girl who's both Hanna and the last pregnant woman from Children of Men, and maybe she's a kind of super-Borg or something, but I don't expect to be as thoughtful, exciting or dramatic as any of those things I mentioned. Picard himself looks like he could be a bit tacked on, relegated to saying "engage" and highlighting other TNG references, and I'm not especially looking forward to seeing Patrick Stewart act alongside a cast of LA yahoos whose characters are written with the emotional maturity of twelve year olds. People don't act like grown-ups with genuine personalities in too many TV shows right now, something that's going to stick out all the more in a world where humanity is supposed to be far closer to its apex than it is today. There ain't no Judge Rinder in the 24th century.

I know this post has more negativity than a suicide note, but I will watch the show with an open mind and hope for the best. I'm just so tired of seeing the same things in films and shows, and I don't just mean Star Trek media. Same spaceships, same sound design, same superheroes, same constumes; it's all so familiar to begin with and then some dafty exec decides test audiences will like it more if it's more like x and y. The cinematic universes are colliding and forming a cinematic stew! Someone call Jean-Luc out of retirement! Oh, wait.
>> No. 22825 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 4:53 pm
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>>22824
>Checking the comments on the trailer was uniquely depressing, as most people still haven't wised up to the fact that Star Trek's been MIA for some time now
I'm guessing "real" trekkies have their own communities where they're bitching about the same things you are, or simply pretending that these new additions aren't happening. Everyone getting excited about the new films/shows are just the same old consumerist drones with their Marvel t-shirts and funko pops getting excited about the latest thing that's still got the remnants of the "nerd" label as though they're part of some exclusive club.
>> No. 22826 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 6:00 pm
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>>22824
>Checking the comments on the trailer was uniquely depressing

That's just the nature of youtube comments isn't it? I think if you wanted to check the pulse on how Trekkies feel then RLM have been pretty consistent in pointing out what is wrong with the whole STD era. They even had a good idea of what a new Star Trek show should be:



I'm planning on doing my usual strategy of torrenting the show even though I have Netflix until I start seeing Star Trek.
>> No. 22827 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 9:14 pm
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>>22825
>Everyone getting excited about the new films/shows are just the same old consumerist drones with their Marvel t-shirts and funko pops getting excited about the latest thing that's still got the remnants of the "nerd" label as though they're part of some exclusive club.

Right the issue seems to be that what makes star trek, star trek isn't very vogue with marketing people. They assume people will immediately stop watching when you cover a topic maturely, with mature characters, (to them mature topics means talking about fucking and mature characters just means tits and bonking everywhere).

I guess we need to just put all of our faith in the Orville, the alternative is there, and handled much more lovingly. And if the Orville becomes a money spinner and out lasts all of their wizz bang tripe they might start copying it. (although I feel like the Picard show is their attempt to cash in on the obvious nostaligic sucess of the Orvile but looks like they missed the point of what people wanted anyway).
>> No. 22828 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 11:00 am
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>>22827
>They assume people will immediately stop watching when you cover a topic maturely, with mature characters, (to them mature topics means talking about fucking and mature characters just means tits and bonking everywhere).
They're not wrong though. There's still a massive market for that sort of shite.
>> No. 22829 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 11:50 am
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>>22827
Unfortunately Orville has lower viewing figures and season 3 will move to Hulu for 2020. While it will go on I'm a bit concerned that the show has just had its second office bonking debacle with Palicki and Grimes divorcing.

I think it was noticed that STD copied many cosmetic elements of Orville for season 2 but only on an extremely superficial level. I wouldn't hold out hope.
>> No. 22830 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 12:45 pm
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>>22828

Yes but not everything should have the same elements. I like ben and Jerry's ice cream but that doesn't mean I want it as every meal and and that my pie and mash would be improved by making ice cream the filling.
>> No. 22831 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 10:23 am
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>>22827

>Right the issue seems to be that what makes star trek, star trek isn't very vogue with marketing people.

The ToS/TNG thing of one-off episodes doesn't really work today, but DS9 was massively ahead of its time in having complex plot arcs that spanned across series. I think the problem isn't Star Trek, but the Federation, especially the Alpha quadrant - it's just too shiny and utopian for contemporary tastes.
>> No. 22832 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 6:14 pm
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>>22831

>The ToS/TNG thing of one-off episodes doesn't really work today,

It works fine. Rick and Morty that thing people spaff their pants over it. Doctor who is still going and they dont even have the resemblance of a coherent cannon.

What is more of a problem is the writers themselves said the well dried up. They played that format (not including dS 9 but including Enterprise which did have a season long arch) for 3 seasons of ToS, 2 of TAS, 7 of TNG, 7 STV and 4 STE 23 seasons most of which are 26 episodes each. They ran out of stories to tell that didn't feel like repeating themselves.

What is more an issue really is that they done want to make something with the tone of star trek as you put it. "it's just too shiny and utopian for contemporary tastes" I don't think it is, but I think marketing people and 'critics' think that it is. The only thing I can say is look at the orville there is clearly an audience for this sort of thing if someone can succeed in a version that doesn't even have the licence.

I'm sure today you could make TNG on what would essentially be a shoe string budget. Special effects have dropped massively in price. And 3d modeling and printing means bespoke props and prosthetics can be churned out for a lot less.

There is most certainly enough of a market to support 'that' show as long as they take the attitude that they aren't going to screen it on TV where it has to compete for ratings, but stream it.

The issue at the moment is that star trek is being used as the flagship product for a streaming service that has fuck all else so they feel it needs to have the whizzes and bangs that the retards want. The brand is being milked for familiarity at the cost of the value of the brand itself.
>> No. 22833 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 7:36 pm
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>>22832

Doctor Who does have a canon, or at least it did until they decided Time Lords could change gender
>> No. 22834 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 9:07 pm
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Quiet, Whovian cretins, this is a grown up thread.
>> No. 22835 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 9:12 pm
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>>22833

Even TNG had canon, Q stuff, Borg stuff, developing crew romances and relationships, it was all in the lore, despite the show not paying a huge amount of attention to it on a per-week basis.
>> No. 22836 Anonymous
10th August 2019
Saturday 10:10 pm
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>>22833

If you think that is the first thing to ever violate previously established doctor Who lore then you have not been watching or not paying attention. It breaks and changes what was established previously constantly. Because no one on staff actually cares about preserving it and not contradicting it. They assume you will only have a vague memory of the beginning of a season and beyond that you will have forgotten. It will occasionally dredge up the cybermen or the daleks but all qualities other than their appearance won't matter and will probably change from episode to episode.
>> No. 22837 Anonymous
11th August 2019
Sunday 12:20 am
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>>22832

>It works fine. Rick and Morty that thing people spaff their pants over it. Doctor who is still going and they dont even have the resemblance of a coherent cannon.

They are both comedies to some degree - Rick and Morty is overtly a sitcom, while Doctor Who is at the very least camp and slightly self-parodying. We're used to sitcoms that just reset at the end of every episode, but we have higher expectations of serious drama due to the HBO/Netflix revolution.

>The only thing I can say is look at the orville there is clearly an audience for this sort of thing if someone can succeed in a version that doesn't even have the licence.

The Orville is just barely hanging on by its fingernails and will be very lucky to get a fourth season.

>I'm sure today you could make TNG on what would essentially be a shoe string budget. Special effects have dropped massively in price.

Expectations are higher these days; good TV is just inherently expensive to make. Killing Eve cost about £1m per episode and the last season of Game of Thrones cost $15m per episode.

Personally, I think there's loads of mileage in the Star Trek franchise that would work for contemporary audiences, they just require a bit of bravery. There are so many stories that aren't about ubermensch in pyjamas, so many bit-part species and planets facing struggles that don't involve epic space battles or the bloody Borg.
>> No. 22875 Anonymous
30th September 2019
Monday 6:55 pm
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>>22833 is correct. Doctor Who DID have a coherent canon, whenever it introduced new elements such as the Time Lords being named for the first time, Gallifrey being named for the first time etc it rarely contradicted anything that had already been stated. Even the solution to the regeneration limit when Matt Smith turned into Peter Capaldi, ie that the Time Lords granted him a new life cycle, was in keeping with canon (they offered the Master a "complete new life cycle" in The Five Doctors).

There was never any hint of Time Lords changing gender in the original series, and the New Adventures novels specifically stated that it doesn't happen. The NA novels may not be considered canon by some, but they're a damn sight better written than the current series.
>> No. 22876 Anonymous
30th September 2019
Monday 6:57 pm
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>>22837

>>The Orville is just barely hanging on by its fingernails and will be very lucky to get a fourth season

Err, no. It has moved to Hulu where Seth and co can do more with it. For starters they are no longer constrained by a 45 minute run time.
>> No. 22918 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 1:35 am
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I thought I was going to hurt myself again but the short with Tribbles was legitimately fun. The other one out right now was terrible as usual and doing some digging its because they brought on board a comedy writer from the US version of the Office for the episode.

Worth a watch.
>> No. 22919 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 2:39 pm
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>>22918

Sadly it once again contradicted canon - Tribbles have ALWAYS multiplied rapidly, Phlox even mentioned them in Enterprise. This episode's attitudes towards peiple with mental health weren't great either. Also, the black/blue haired Tribbles were created by the TribbleToys website yonks ago, they're called Black Alert Tribbles. Nice idea for a variant plush, but actually adding them into an episodes is fucking ridiculous.
>> No. 22920 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 2:47 pm
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>>22918>>22919
Personally I just have no interest in engaging with what appears to be vapid nostalgia bait. It looks like the show's becoming branding over everything and if people recognise the Tribbles then by God they'll do an episode with the Tribbles. If the lesson they learnt from the lukewarm reception of their original ideas was "people don't like original ideas" and not "our original ideas were bad" then the creative heads beyond this show are damned.

Who am I kidding? They'll probably get a spin-off film trilogy.
>> No. 22921 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 5:42 pm
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>>22919

I haven't seen it but I'm not too concerned with the canon. Tribble multiplication rate in the presence of abundant food was simply a MacGuffin in TOS, as were most canon items self professed Trek nerds hold dear.

Star Trek was always about exploring and discussing themes relevant to mankind and our development, our attitudes, values, beliefs, even what makes us human. Every episode of TOS made the viewer think about the kind of person one is and aspires to be. TNG covered topical issues which was a downgrade but still useful I guess, DS9 was just a soap opera that I didn't finish watching while VOY seemed to be a long running Big Brother-esque experiment to discuss the long term relationships of an isolated group which was cool. VOY seemed to be scared of exploring its deeper theme though so just had a Borg battle every other episode. AND FUCK WHICHEVER VOY WRITER DECIDED THAT ADDING THE PREFIX BIO TO EVERY TECH SOUNDING WORD MADE IT GOOD.

I haven't had chance to watch the newer Treks yet. Do they still try to carry a social message or is it just pew pew space action now?
>> No. 22922 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 7:37 pm
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>>22919
In fairness, I doubt the episode ever set out to be canon. It even has an absurd post-credit advert.

>This episode's attitudes towards peiple with mental health weren't great either

Dumb people?

>>22921
>I haven't had chance to watch the newer Treks yet

Don't. There is no Trek, it's pew-pew wars where the main character is so ridiculously a fan-insert that she's the adopted sister of Spock.
>> No. 22923 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 7:40 pm
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Any opinions on the Star Trek: Picard trailer?

Personally the plot also strikes me as a bit action-focused. It seems to miss the parts of TNG I most enjoyed, which was about philosophical/ethical questions and humans striving to achieve a higher moral standard.
>> No. 22925 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 7:48 pm
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>>22922

Adopted sister of Spock where she discusses how her upbringing and heritage affected her resultant personality and the daily struggles she faces while using those revelations to solve a thrillingly intense challenge the crew were facing that week or adopted sister of Spock where she acts autistic for no reason other than to act autistic?
>> No. 22926 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 8:18 pm
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>>22923
It looks awful. Everything wrong with STD all over again and the inclusion of an American pitbull tells me Patrick Stewart has gone on another ego-trip.

>>22925
Try it if you really want. Just don't watch it over Netflix or they might keep making it.
>> No. 22928 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 8:35 pm
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Did the the Star Trek ever actually get into trouble?

One reason i never got into the series is because of my perception of the ship and its crew, particularly captain, as unshakeable paragons of humanity - which i suppose they would be to command such a position on their civilisations first universal exploration vessel. What's the point in watching if they never have to surmount anything?

Ofcourse i mean the USS Enterprise thanks to Google.
>> No. 22929 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 8:45 pm
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>>22928

The Enterprise was often in pants shitting if-i-didn't-know-this-was-a-tv-program-i-would-shit-myself trouble in TOS, TNG and VOY. VOY not so much as they made it obvious that it was a TV thing throughout the episode. In both TOS and TNG if you're willing to suspend disbelief you will be presented with situations in which it could literally be the end.

In TOS the crew has to surmount themselves regularly. Their own inadequacies as men and humans, their own failures as crew or prejudices affecting the species. In TNG there are countless technical challenges for the crew to overcome and sometimes even personal challenges to surmount.

I can't comment beyond TOS and TNG though.
>> No. 22930 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:04 pm
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>>22928
Broadly speaking it's about how they try to remain "unshakable paragons of humanity" (or perhaps even decide what that actually means) while encountering situations were it might be easier to do as your picture suggests and just blow things up, or not give in to fear, panic, loathing or arrogance and cease being paragon-like in their mission.

For example, the picture you posted would never happen, because if a poorly armed, ill-defended ship of negligable danger began firing at the Enterprise Picard would make every attempt to communicate, try to understand and otherwise diplomatically resolve the situation before deciding to just blow them up. Watching how that plays out and the differing opinions on how to deal with it from amongst the crew would be the interesting bit. In fact even he couldn't resolve the situation he might just message Star Fleet Command and tell them there are a load of angry weirdos calling themselves "The Empire" and to be careful in that particular system, rather than kill a bunch of maniacs of limited capabilities.

You may also have struggled to get into it because the first couple of series aren't quite up to the same quality of what comes after.
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12th October 2019
Saturday 9:04 pm
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>> No. 22932 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:13 pm
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>>22930

Everything you said to that guy is right but I want to argue with you as a Trek nerd and thus undermine your authority.

There was a TNG episode in which Picard and crew sole up with no memories to find themselves fired upon by a much inferior opponent. Think Mega Watt lasers vs Terra Watt shields. Picard was initially resistant about returning fire until his 1st Officer reminded him of Starfleet orders involving destroying these rebels. An alien had implanted himself within the crew as the 1st Officer, replacing fat Riker by erasing the crew's memories.

After blowing up a few tiny ships Picard decided the discrepancy was too great to be legit and followed a number of interesting channels to deduce the shenanigans. He did so successfully as your post suggested but it seemed like you were unaware of this episode so I wanted to remind you of it.

I would also like to concur that the first few seasons are terrible, just like the first dozen episodes of TOS.
>> No. 22933 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:26 pm
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>>22932
Did you disagree with me? It sounds like you agreed with me. I do remember that episode, it was really good, I liked it a great deal and it seems to support my thesis entirely. I'm no Trek nerd, but that was one of the reasons I prefaced my post with "broadly speaking", thus ensuring that it was impossible to prove me wrong because I had not committed to any specific worldview the show may or may not expresss and/or support. I'm a man-weasle and I won't be pinned down, don't even try, nerd.
>> No. 22934 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>22933

I genuinely don't know if I'm disagreeing with you. I'm just so excited to meet another Trek nerd who isn't a trek nerd because life forced him to be that I'm sex weeing my pants a little bit because of this conversation.

Aha, you say you won't be pinned down, so feel free to run away from the following statement without a stain on your Trek character.

"Charlie X was legitimately the worst thing ever aired on TV."

Discuss.
>> No. 22935 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:40 pm
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THE BORG ARE COMMUNISTS
>> No. 22936 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 9:47 pm
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>>22935

BASE LEVEL UNDERSTANDING ALERT.
>> No. 22937 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 10:47 pm
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>>22934
I hate to let you down so quickly, but I've never watched a single episode of TOS.
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12th October 2019
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>>22936

SET PHASERS
>> No. 22939 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 12:12 am
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>>22937

At least you didn't cocktease me. Now if you'll excuse me I have a date with a toaster and a bath.

The episode Duality is worth more than your life despite being hamfisted enough to constitute an entire pig.
>> No. 22940 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 12:20 am
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>>22935

They're transhumanists.
>> No. 22941 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 12:50 pm
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>>22925

Burnham is a truly awful character, and tbere is no WAY she should still be in a uniform after some of the shit she's done.
>> No. 22942 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 8:57 pm
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No episode of TOS or TNG is skippable.
>> No. 22943 Anonymous
16th October 2019
Wednesday 11:04 am
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>>22942

I respectfully disagree.

TOS - any episode with Harry Mudd

TNG - any episode with Lwaxana Troi

If I put Star Trek on and it's a Mudd episode or a Troi's Mum episode, I instantly switch channels.
>> No. 22944 Anonymous
16th October 2019
Wednesday 12:10 pm
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>>22943
>TNG - any episode with Lwaxana Troi
I really like that character though. She's irritating but there's heart and purpose behind it.

And she's well fit.
>> No. 22945 Anonymous
16th October 2019
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>22943

Lwaxana even appears to fuck up a few DS9 episodes, though strangely the character seems to work slightly better in that setting.
>> No. 22946 Anonymous
17th October 2019
Thursday 9:24 am
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Not as fit as her daughter though. Christ, can you imagine Deanna when she's going through that thing where a Betazoid's sex drive quadruples or even more?
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17th October 2019
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>22945
Well, at least we can agree she felt better in DS9 where she served a purpose and had good chemistry. Much like the poster above you, I actually quite like her though. She feels like a real person, a big kid and hopeless romantic who is the stern silent types worst nightmare (Worf/Odo). I've known plenty of women like that, albeit it is the childless 30-50 something with unicorn shit all over the place.

I still think that it would've been better for Worf and Troi to end up together and for Mr. Woof to suffer an in-law who torments him but is good for his son. Worf in DS9 wasn't my cup of tea if I'm honest, he abandoned his kid and everything. What the fuck.
>> No. 23007 Anonymous
23rd January 2020
Thursday 11:39 pm
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It's like they composed a list of all the things wrong with STD and decided to keep doing it. Nothing that made Star Trek good is present, you just have more dumb fight scenes and more boring characters. I don't know what I was expecting, probably explains why nobody is talking about it, "Star Trek" Picard is just bad and not even in a novel new way.
>> No. 23008 Anonymous
24th January 2020
Friday 12:52 am
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So there was a massive explosion on the roof of the Starfleet Museum involving the most famous living Starfleet Captain and the coppers just sent him home and filed a report? Seems a bit laissez-faire, even by utopian society standards. Loved that scene at the end too, where the obviously-lying Romulan bloke came across like a buck-toothed saddo and still pulled. Nothing gets you a girlfriend quicker than guilt tripping her for thinking her sibling's still alive and not taking the obvious hint she's too busy to talk to you; works every time, especially if you look like you might cry at any moment.



"Bastards!
>> No. 23014 Anonymous
24th January 2020
Friday 3:38 pm
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I still have faith in it but there were some really contrived dumb shit. The one >>23008 says stands out. It is a problem that could have so easily been avoided with very simple directorial choices, but now we just have to assume everyone in the universe is an idiot and press on like no one noticed it happened.
>> No. 23020 Anonymous
24th January 2020
Friday 7:04 pm
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I'm going to the Wrath of Khan screening + William Shatner thingy on 16th March.

Either of you lads going so I can avoid you?
>> No. 23022 Anonymous
24th January 2020
Friday 9:59 pm
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>>23020
Will you be dressing up?
>> No. 23023 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 10:21 am
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>>23008
Poor Louise. He cries every time he watches Picard join the poker game in All Good Things... and says watching repeats isn't the same, because "it's like being in the holodeck with the safety protocols on".
>> No. 23024 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 1:44 pm
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>>23022

Partner wants to wear vulcan ears, I'm not too fussed.

I mainly want to try and ask him about/demand his next spoken word album.
>> No. 23025 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 1:51 pm
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>>23024

>Partner wants to wear vulcan ears

Is this the one that wears cat ears to work?
>> No. 23026 Anonymous
26th January 2020
Sunday 3:49 pm
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Star Trek: Picard left a bad taste in my mouth so I decided to start rewatching Enterprise. I'm certain it would've lasted for more than four seasons if they stuck with a more traditional orchestral opening theme instead of the soft rock they went for.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWT-H3XQGI
>> No. 23028 Anonymous
26th January 2020
Sunday 3:56 pm
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>>23025

Nah, she refuses to wear them outside the bedroom. Same with the pigtails.

>>23026

Fuck me. I mean, it's not amazing but it's infinitely superior.

So presumably if you can timestamp the intro sequence for each episode, and knew what you were doing, you could replace the current intro with this one?
>> No. 23029 Anonymous
26th January 2020
Sunday 5:23 pm
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>>23028
>So presumably if you can timestamp the intro sequence for each episode, and knew what you were doing, you could replace the current intro with this one?

You could do it with the Matroska Container's segment linking feature, but I remember it being a lot of work.
>> No. 23030 Anonymous
27th January 2020
Monday 6:40 pm
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>>23026
I always thought this was the best intro Star Trek had. The soundtrack didn't fit but the video captures the essence of Star Trek as a future where everything is going to be okay well, maybe not for us given WWIII and the tyrannical rule of genetically enhanced Mexican supermen.
>> No. 23031 Anonymous
27th January 2020
Monday 6:59 pm
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>>23030

Visually? Yeah, I love it, especially due to ENT being the earliest instalment and Archer's dad being involved in the development of the warp drive. It's thematically perfect.

But that fucking song, man.
>> No. 23032 Anonymous
28th January 2020
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>The 79-year-old actor leans in and clasps his hands when recounting his upbringing in the North of England. He stands and paces when a subject such as Brexit or Donald Trump aggravates him
>“The Next Generation” presented a humanist future in which issues like poverty, race and class have long been sorted out, and conflicts are more often resolved through negotiation and problem-solving than at the point of a phaser pistol.
>Stewart had no desire to go there again.
>“I think what we’re trying to say is important,” he says. “The world of ‘Next Generation’ doesn’t exist anymore. It’s different. Nothing is really safe. Nothing is really secure.”

Wonderful. I've always hated the boring idealism and forward-thinking of Star Trek and thought it would be better if it focused around our immediate political problems.
>> No. 23033 Anonymous
28th January 2020
Tuesday 5:07 am
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>>23032

TOS was forward thinking and idealistic. TNG did cover immediate political problems. The futuristic humanist element of Roddenberry's vision was all but abandoned in TNG. Stewart is a fucking idiot not even understanding the show he was in.

I'm sure I'll be challenged but I have no desire to preemptively go through every TNG episode to prove my point, there were rather a lot of them. Instead let's have would be challengers pick out a humanist episode and I'll either explain why they're wrong or present two political episodes. They'll run out of episodes before me.

Really Roddenberry's Grand Idea was mired in misunderstanding from the start. TOS was premised on perfect people being perfect, to the point where the entire Enterprise NCC-1701 crew was by definition multi-racial and multi-gender, huge back in the 60s. No mention of the Enterprise's associated faction, United Federation of Planets was present. Presumably it was forced on Rodders by the studios as a way to ground the show to the viewer, along with removing the woman and the latino. The show was supposed to be perfect people behaving perfectly, it only became a communist utopia because Rodders was forced to think up a convincing backdrop for the actions of the ship.

TOS never strove to bring up current political problems because it didn't need to, Rodders had existential ideas to deal with. God (literally every fucking episode), gods (Who Mourns For Adonais?), our relationship with god (The Squire of Gothos) and gods (Where No Man Has Gone Before), our relationship with those who saw us as gods (too many to fucking count, Miri, A Piece of the Action), our relationship with those who act like our gods and for all intents and purposes have the power of what we would call gods (The Cage, The Menagerie). Rodders really fucking loved exploring god like relationships. More importantly though and more persistently he explored the human aspect itself, emotion vs logic, compassion vs pragmatism, leadership vs anarchy, duty vs hedonism. I'm really understating how much of the human condition is explored by Rodders in TOS. It's not forward thinking humanism, it's WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE AND WHY ARE WE? I remember one episode where the crew goes a bit insane (The Naked Time) where a crew member holds a knife at his comrades and demands to know what humans are doing in space, claiming we weren't designed for it and we have no business being here.

I think the one thing Roddenberry loved more than god was psychology. All of TOS is an exploration of psychology, about a third of it has god themes in there as secondary to the psychology and the remaining two thirds are divided across various interesting subjects. I always recommend The Enemy Within to budding or aspiring Trekkies as the epitome of Roddenberry's fantastic dissection of the human mind in to its component parts as he understood them. TOS is actually a trinity of trinities and I'm going to stop there.

My overall point is Star Trek was never about whatever stupid twats say it was about. It was a psychological exploration of humanity, not a political one. Then P-Stew came along and made it all a thinly veiled analogy on the American wars of aggression or some such bullshit.

I don't mind Trek as focused on immediate political problems, it would be a novel and exciting adventure, contrary to what P-Stew believes. (I haven't seen DSC or ENT but I assume ENT was pew pew and DSC was identity politics which hardly counts.)
>> No. 23034 Anonymous
28th January 2020
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>>23033

You're right about the thematic differences about TOS and TNG, but I personally found TNG far more interesting for exactly that reason.

Thinking about it, the explorations of psychology versus the 'space western' element in TOS never really gelled together for me as a viewer -- but I understand the action element was also kind of forced on Roddenberry.

TNG seemed more of a sincere attempt to imagine a future society, plausible in a (slightly) less abstract way. It's a setting which allows humanity to flourish, something really interesting in and of itself.

I also can't stress how important it is to have that vision broadcast in the mainstream, and how uniquely relevant that could have been for television right now. We've had years of:

- The Walking Dead and various zombie based horrors, which seems to one predicated on fear of the Other and survival at all costs in a hostile environment
- Game of Thrones, which I seems to be some sort of grand Machiavellian story about quasi-medieval politics
- The return of stories like Blade Runner, maybe one of the defining dystopian sci-fi films
- Black Mirror, which admittedly can be thematically mixed, but built its foundations on fucking terrifying and plausible ideas around technology/social developments
- Loads of young adult fiction like Hunger Games

I don't think this is what the previous poster meant, but just to point out the obvious: it's possible to tackle immediate political problems in a utopian way. If this series is going the way I think it's going, it's going to be embarrassing to look back at episodes like TNG's The Drumhead, or DS9's Past Tense and Paradise Lost.

A new Star Trek series could have provided a much needed counterpoint, provided a different perspective on political problems, offered something to aim for, all in the center stage of pop culture. And at a time when television viewers are used to heavily serialised fiction, it could have built up a very sophisticated world.

I haven't watched any of Picard, yet, but I suspect it's a missed opportunity.
>> No. 23035 Anonymous
28th January 2020
Tuesday 8:58 am
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>>23030

That's actually the thing I dislike most about Star Trek's timeline. The idea that we need some massive setback in order to "shock" us
onto the right path seems uncharacteristically cynical. Probably just a bit of lazy writing.

I think Devil's Due is an underrated episode, about the planet that completely changed their society for the better based on a centuries-old agreement with an alien impersonating the devil, until Picard reveals her as a fraud.

I can't find a clip of it, but I love the scene where Picard points out it was their hard work and courage that created the society, not their fear of or imagined debt to "Ardra".

Plus Ardra herself is a definite would.
>> No. 23036 Anonymous
28th January 2020
Tuesday 9:19 am
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>>23035

Pedantic note but Picard reveals her as somebody using technology to emulate powers normally attributed to deities like the devils she claimed to be. He didn't expose her as a fraud, he simply proved that she had a knowable method of expressing natural disasters and personal forms. For all we know after the Enterprise sailed off she went full on horned entity of old and collapsed the planet from within for their insolence.

You also seem to overlook the fact that what the inhabitants of the planet believed to be the literal fucking devil showing up was a bit of a shock which prompted them to do all the hard work to improve their planet. If some big red horned bloke turned up on Mount Sinai today and started bellowing at the gathered news media to sort it the fuck out, then suddenly everyone went local vegan and stopped flying abroad on holiday would you attribute that to us making the necessary changes or to the big red horned bloke shit scaring us in to improving ourselves?

Whichever way you look at it that planet rightfully belonged to Ardra, fraud or not. Contracts were signed and the Federation had no galactic police powers in that region of space during the time of the agreement, or even after the Enterprise, an exploration ship, arrived. It's entirely possible that the Federation got their way through the right of might as the Federation often did, but I want to challenge your assertion that the Federation were morally justified in their actions in this case.
>> No. 23037 Anonymous
28th January 2020
Tuesday 9:36 am
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>>23036

I understand the point you're making, but I disagree. For one, I think it's heavily implied in the episode that Ardra had no real power beyond illusion, with the exception of the quakes being somewhat destructive. It's also implied that the planet is advanced enough technologically to defend themselves, and it was mainly a genuine belief in her supernatural ability that stopped them fighting her.

Beyond that I think the whole point of the episode is that the people on the planet realised their success was the result of their own effort, even if it was spurred on by an earlier belief in something false. They were left to their own devices for centuries, effectively with no external influence other than their own beliefs about what happened.

About the planet rightly belonging to Ardra, as I understand it, this Ardra was actually a con-artist and was likely not even the same entity they originally signed the agreement with, she just learned mythologies and exploited these beliefs. Even if that weren't true, it is not a morally defensible position to lay claim to a whole species.

The Federation being a "might is right" organisation is an interesting discussion though. I'm fairly sure the Federation was meant to have been all peaceful agreements and negotiations, unless they've rewritten the history. That's the idea I find most compelling, at least.
>> No. 23038 Anonymous
28th January 2020
Tuesday 9:45 am
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>>23037

The might is right argument is a finicky one, it comes down to whether you have an open mind about morals or not. The Federation in TNG prided itself on making the morally right choices when measured by the 90s zeitgeist, except when it would lead to their annihilation (the blue guy who blew up an entire species for killing his lover). The problem is the future galaxy isn't and shouldn't be measured by that standard. Who are we (the 90s earth people watching) to say the contract was invalid? If it's invalid shouldn't we also be clamouring for the raid and shut down of Risa as essentially a brothel? I'm sure there were other "futuristic" moral things that slipped by because we were all too busy cheering the downfall of what we perceived to be evil, even though we didn't have the right to bring about their downfall. Similarly I'm certain (blue guy) there were morally objectionable factions we didn't bring to our zeitgeist conceived notions of justice because they would have simply blown us out of the sky.

The Q were originally designed to address this disparity between thought, right and behaviour but they got diluted as the series went on. Perhaps it was too intellectual for audiences who just wanted to see Fat Riker condemn bad men with a haughty righteous tone at the time.
>> No. 23069 Anonymous
2nd February 2020
Sunday 10:47 pm
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Picard episode 2 is so dumb I was put off watching after 15 minutes. It is one thing to have a reveal that there is a double secret tal shiar as a bad twist, that's corny writing, but to have someone blurt it out as the first piece of dialogue of episode 2 makes me think a child wrote the story.

We then proceeded to have someone say "ha that's what we wanted you to think" and use technology that is indistinguishable from magic, and talk about wibbly wobbly timey wimey using words I understand in context that make no sense.

If I wanted that kind of lowest common denominator "the audience doesn't really care anyway" writing I'd watch Sherlock. This is not the saviour we hoped for just another dumb 24 knock off.
>> No. 23070 Anonymous
2nd February 2020
Sunday 11:54 pm
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>>23037

>The Federation being a "might is right" organisation is an interesting discussion though. I'm fairly sure the Federation was meant to have been all peaceful agreements and negotiations, unless they've rewritten the history.

DS9 explores the limits of that argument. The Maquis were Federation citizens, but their planets were handed over to the Cardassians as part of a peace treaty. Bajor wasn't *forced* to co-operate with the Federation, but they didn't have a lot of choice either; if Bajor eventually became a Federation member, they would be "freely" choosing to join under threat of Cardassian/Dominion invasion.
>> No. 23071 Anonymous
3rd February 2020
Monday 6:50 am
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>>23070
>Cardassians

Can't even escape them in space?
>> No. 23072 Anonymous
3rd February 2020
Monday 11:41 pm
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So I'm halfway through the second episode and the Lady-Admiral just said "fourteen species threatened to pull out of the Federation", but then heavily implied the Federation is made up of thousands of species, making the fourteen sound completely insignificant.

Writing's just so shite, it's horrible, car crash stuff, no weight.
>> No. 23073 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 8:35 am
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>>23072

I had a similar reaction in the crime scene where they kept on having a charter say, "doing x will be impossible" then 2 minutes later saying "I can do a super verion of X" it happens maybe 4 times in a row.
>> No. 23074 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 9:27 am
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>>23073
Yeah, that too, it was so obvious it was going to play out like that as well. I wrote notes during the first episode, but for the second one the disappointment piled up so fast I didn't bother. It seems like every other scene I was laughing a little at the dogs dinner dialogue or I was able to finish a character's sentence owing to how predictable it all was. Questions: Why was Astrogirl shagging the creepy Romulan man? Why are the Federation pro-genocide now? Did Picard's dog die? Did it commit suicide to get out of this boring TV show? Did the Dominion War happen in this timeline? Hey, yeah, it did! So did everyone forget about the Romulans helping? Or that film where the Lady-Romulan was nice, did Picard not tell anyone? Is everyone acting weird and stupid because those brain worms from TNG series one finally came back? Didn't we already see what happens when Starfleet's pushed to its limits in DS9? Hmm, this mystery box is looking an awful lot like a portable toilet filled to the brim with terrible ideas, lads! I think perhaps we ought to drop it down that well in Russia that went all the way to Hell and let the Devil have it back.

That's just the crap I remember too, despite what this post suggests I'm not even that big of a Trekkie. STP is shaping up to be a bad show by any metric.
>> No. 23075 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 10:40 am
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>>23074

Well it was clearly going to be dumb as soon as that fuck off explosion happened and no one seems to have noticed or care. I hoped that was a single contrivance to get the plot moving turns out that was just the vanguard of contrivance.

Picard talks like a child, he is either spelling out what the plot point you are supposed to take away from the most recent incoherent dialogue, or he is asking questions in profoundly naive one dimensional ways. About the only characterisation he has is that he likes earl grey tea, but they've turned it into an obsession.
>> No. 23076 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 11:54 am
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>>23075

I think the best thing is just to treat this series as a continuation of the films.

As Martin Scorsese mentioned about the MCU films, they're a bit like theme park rides -- and I have a feeling that the studios working on the current wave of comic book films probably lump Star Trek and Star Wars in with those, in terms of demographics. Anything with any vaguely "nerdy" pop culture credit has and will be mined for cash. All of these films and series are starting to look and sound bizarrely similar.

The more I think about it, the more I realise that actually TNG was the exception. The organisations and economic incentives that make up the film/TV industry simply aren't geared toward making thoughtful, hopeful visions about the future of humanity, particularly ones that get into the mainstream.
>> No. 23077 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 11:53 pm
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Shooting stars in space, aye, yeah, whatever.
>> No. 23078 Anonymous
12th February 2020
Wednesday 11:41 am
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I mostly don't really like Star Trek Picard, but it got me watching DS9 (from the start), and I liked it more than I was expecting to.

Sisko is much more relatable than Picard, and Major Kira is much more wankable than Janeway.
>> No. 23079 Anonymous
12th February 2020
Wednesday 12:19 pm
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>>23078

DS9 has aged better than any Star Trek franchise IMO. It was way ahead of its time in having a massive ensemble cast and long multi-series plot arcs. If you enjoyed the first season, you're in for a treat - a lot of people complain that it doesn't really get going until the start of season 3, which isn't wholly unfair.
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12th February 2020
Wednesday 12:21 pm
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>>23079

>It was way ahead of its time in having a massive ensemble cast and long multi-series plot arcs.

You might also enjoy...
>> No. 23081 Anonymous
12th February 2020
Wednesday 1:04 pm
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>>23079

I am definitely one of the people who finds before season 3 there are a few too many lazy B-plots about Quarks latest wacky scheme. There are some great episodes and moments in there still but it definitely feels weaker overall compared to where it is going.
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13th February 2020
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>>23079
It's a good thing DS9 nicked so many of J. Michael Straczynski's ideas for Babylon 5 when he pitched his show to Paramount, otherwise it might've been a pile of wank.

The actors in DS9 really elevate the show. For example, the guy who played Garak got so invested in the character that he started writing a journal from his perspective, which he eventually released as a book. The guy who played Gul Dukat talked about playing him not as a villainous antagonist for Sisko and The Good Guys to foil, but as the hero of his own story. His approach was so effective that it made the writers turn him into a cartoonish villain in season seven because Dukat was so popular.
>> No. 23083 Anonymous
14th February 2020
Friday 2:27 am
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>>23082

>>DS9 ripped off B5

This guy gets it. Hell, they only made the decision to set the next Trek on a space station when they heard B5 was actually going to air.

B5 was always the better of the two shows. DS9 was a fucking snooze-fest for the first two seasons. You'd watch B5 and they were setting up not one but TWO major wars, and then you'd look at DS9 and it was yet another "Constable, it's all kicking off on the Promenade!"
>> No. 23084 Anonymous
14th February 2020
Friday 5:43 pm
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>>23080

We were having a fun conversation at work today about what if Corrie went on a mad one, and had a year long plot arc about the bombs dropping and Ken Barlow and the gang surviving in a post nuclear Salford. Then they wrap it all up with an arc about David travelling back in time to prevent it all, thus reverting the show to the status quo as if nothing had ever happened.
>> No. 23085 Anonymous
24th February 2020
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*inspiring music swells*

You ever think you'd see someone get off their face on bennies in a Star Trek show?
>> No. 23086 Anonymous
25th February 2020
Tuesday 12:03 pm
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>>23085

Nothing about the idea of star trek is sacred now so they are honestly capable of anything. It is well within the realms of possibility by the end of this season Picard ends up on the run from the police after someone plants a dead hooker in the boot of his car to stop him getting somewhere in time to stop the bomb going off, whilst trying to attend both his wife's birthday and watch the big game with his boss at the same time with hilarious consequences.
>> No. 23087 Anonymous
5th March 2020
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>23085

McCoy dosing himself up on something (admittedly by accident) was basically the whole reason for City on the Edge of Forever
>> No. 23117 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 10:08 pm
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Can someone explain why I really don't like Voyager? I just find it very, very dull. My current theory is that I don't like the characters/actors or that it all feels a bit aimless. Sure, they're trying to get home, but I've been watching the beginning of series 2 and there's so much pratting around. Even Next Generation had more focus than this and their whole job was to bumble about the galaxy looking for things to do.
>> No. 23118 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 11:26 pm
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>>23117

Did you like Enterprise? Voyager was objectively the worst series prior to Enterprise.

Personally I like, but I understand that this is due to nostalgia more than anything else.

Maybe use the attached infographic to pick and choose episodes that appeal if you want to stick with it.
>> No. 23119 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 11:33 pm
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>>23118
That image is a level of autism i wasn't prepaired for.
>> No. 23120 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 11:45 pm
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>>23119

Sorry lads. I posted it before I had looked at it properly. The TNG, and DS9 are both useful, the guy has serious beef with Voyager.

Wired has a guide also:
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/binge-guide-star-trek-voyager/

I stopped watching Picard 7 or 8 eps in. It was OK, but not really in the spirit of Trek. It also retconned a lot of stuff. The Orville is a better spiritual successor to Roddenberry Trek than the grimdark stuff that has been coming out.

I quite enjoyed Avenue 5 also, which is Armando Iannucci writing a show set on a space cruise ship.
>> No. 23121 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 12:19 am
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>>23117

>Can someone explain why I really don't like Voyager?

It's just not very well written. Far too many of the main characters are two-dimensional, nothing substantial is made of the tension between a Starfleet and Maquis crew and the journey home seems like an inevitable sequence of ex machina events.

The core story concept of being hopelessly lost in the arse end of space just isn't manifested in the vast majority of the scripts. The ship is supposed to feel claustrophobic, the crew are supposed to be wavering between hatred, terror and despair, but it never quite comes together. Weirdly, I think that Red Dwarf actually did it better (until the piss-awful VIII) by making it explicit from the outset that there was no hope and these characters really were doomed to drift through space.
>> No. 23122 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 12:25 am
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>>23117
>Can someone explain why I really don't like Voyager?

Pick one of the 4 bellow.

The characters are almost universally unlikable and only one has any development (the doctor), Kes almost has a character arch but then they fired her from the show for being too interesting and emotionally intelligent. Chakotay isn't a fuckwit, but as a result they run out of things to do with him very quickly.

The writers got so obsessed with 7of9 that she is shoehorned into every scenario to the point that it is exhausting.

The plots start becoming insulting to your intelligence the borg for example go from this high concept cold systematic machine in TNG to being Saturday morning cartoon villains who get very close to yelling "I'll get you next time Janeway!", contrast that with TNG where the drama almost always comes from a problem solving process, or a philosophical debate.

They get bored of their own premise about 2 seasons in and stop worrying about the attrition or consequences of their situation.

>>23118
>did you like Enterprise? Voyager was objectively the worst series prior to Enterprise.

Enterprise started bad, really bad, but the last season might be the best star trek Season. You have to imagine that holodeck episode never happened and then the end of the show is superb.
>> No. 23123 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 10:33 am
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>>23120
Picard was disappointing for a number of reasons, the least plot spoilery of which would be the inclusion of the boss-eyed Madchester Romulan, which had me rolling my eyes, tutting and imploring if that's really where things are going.

I think the worst bit was how the entire premise of the show, Picard's main spur into action, surrounding the legality of androids in Federation space gets brushed under the carpet in the last couple of minutes. We hear the crew going on like "Ahhh, thank god androids are legal in Starfleet now, phew!" - no defence of the ethics of synthetic life and no exploration or resolution of the supposed Starfleet conspiracy to get androids banned in the first place. Of absolutely anything related to Jean-Luc, and how in Picard he never shuts up about how great Data was, why was this fundamental plot point completely ignored? Was it oversight, or did the showrunners really not bank on people being interested in what made TNG great?

I have lost any good will towards new Trek now.
>> No. 23124 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 10:48 am
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>>23123
I also have to add I haven't seen Discovery, I was warned to it being a complete mess with absurd school drama lesson plot twists every other minute.
>> No. 23125 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 11:26 am
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>>23124
If you can imagine this, Picard was sold as a deep-character study for those who wanted something deeper than STD. There's one legitimately fun Short Trek (The Trouble with Edward) which isn't connected to the series and is just a piss-take.
>> No. 23126 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 11:39 am
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>>23125
Before watching Picard, I saw that clip where Patrick Stewart gets on stage at some comic con and promises that Picard will be like TNG. He admits they didn't have anything written at that stage and it was an ongoing process to ensure that only the best aspects of TNG will make the cut.
It now feels like either his contribution was saying how all the women's clothes fall off, and before they could get their knickers back on he's seen it all, or that tv shows have been ruined by the utter fucking trash that was Lost and Kurtzmann is going for that lazy style of writing where everything is a plot twist with Patrick Stewart having no say.
>> No. 23130 Anonymous
11th April 2020
Saturday 12:20 am
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>>23118
I think I've seen a single Enterprise episode in it's entirety, so, who knows? I think the main reason I can't get into Voyager, as others have touched upon, is the characters/actors. I wouldn't call them unlikable myself, they're mostly really bland. Janeway and the EMH are the only two I enjoy, everyone else is quite dull, with the exception of Neelix who I'm thinking of prosecuting under the coervice control legislation that came into effect a few years back. Having just finished DS9 recently perhaps doesn't help as the level of acting was really a cut above in that series. However, that's really the culmination of not only good actors, but proper direction and writing too. The only intriging thing about someone like Ensign Kim is how someone so boring got such a fit girlfriend, and you can't pin that all on the actor.

I also have things to say about Star Trek Picard, but I'll boil it down to the following because no one cares enough to read my PhD dissertation on the matter: it's utter shit and it has poisoned the Star Trek well truly and completely. You can't row back up the waterfall.
>> No. 23131 Anonymous
11th April 2020
Saturday 1:11 am
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I think my relationship with my ex started to fail when we ran out of TAS TNG ENT and DS9 to watch and moved on to VOY. She doesn't like when yell at TV shows and I yelled a lot during VOY, and STD.

Maybe things would be different if we had picked TOS instead, but that was going to be the reward for making it through VOY, I guess it would have been borrowed time, watching both Voyager and Picard would have ruined it eventually.
>> No. 23156 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 9:53 am
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A new New Trek has been announced: https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-anson-mount-rebecca-romijn-ethan-peck-cbs-all-access

The premise is ST:D Pine and Spock go off exploring, because "these iconic characters have a deep history in Star Trek canon," which may be true for Spock, but Pine? Pine was just the guy whose face got melted in the pilot and couldn't be bothered doing morse code.

Can you blame me for being cynical if Kurtzmann is still at the helm with some of the same team who worked with him on Picard? ST:D and ST:P were atrocious to the point they'd practically wink at the camera and hint there was something original and Trekky about the plot just to rub it in, so I aren't really holding my breath they'd be able to actually make a good episodic series.
>> No. 23157 Anonymous
16th May 2020
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>>23156
>but Pine? Pine was just the guy whose face got melted in the pilot and couldn't be bothered doing morse code.

Pike was the captain in the pilot and survived the episode unharmed. Nobody here is watching this rubbish anymore and you will notice from the lack of Star Wars threads that it's not the place to circlejerk endlessly.

I'd even hazard that 'online discussion' is what keeps all this going. There's no other way to explain it.
>> No. 23158 Anonymous
16th May 2020
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>>23156
Could nae give a shite.
>> No. 23159 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:32 am
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It is amazing how quickly they were able to burn through our good will. From being excited that star trek was comming back. History will forever be tained by this. And like the star wars prequels before in 20 years you will get a bunch retards insisting these new shows are some how as good or better. As the song goes "if you tolerate this then your children will be next".
>> No. 23174 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 2:40 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3RkBKedKWw

Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror.
Horror and moral terror are your friends.
If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.
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23rd July 2020
Thursday 3:49 pm
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>>23159
>History will forever be tained [sic] by this.

I know you personally might be being facetious, but the strange culture of seething outrage around shit like this bothers me and I can't place why.

I suppose it's because it's people getting furious over something which barely matters, but that happens all the time. I think it's just the utter pointlessness of it all, when it comes to media like this - people furiously saying they are going to boycott $media, but then as soon as it comes out, they are playing it or watching it.
>> No. 23176 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 3:56 pm
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>>23174
I'm not really a Star Trek-head but this just looks like Rick & Morty with a Trek skin. Reminds me a bit of the recent Thundercats show, modern lolsorandumxd humour applied to a well loved and respected franchise.
>> No. 23177 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 5:29 pm
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>>23175

> but then as soon as it comes out, they are playing it or watching it.

All I can tell you is I personally stopped watching, and I loved Star Trek. It won't stop my love of the originals but without some major shift in creative control I am not interested in doing anything other than complaining that it isn’t how it should be, unless someone whose judgement I trust tells me otherwise.

I think the inertia will carry people to watch these shows with hope for a while, this isn't a case of this being 'bad star trek' this is a case of a brand being cheaply milked. This is the equivalent of all that silly Cthulhu crap you get that has nothing to do with the original books, only it has the stamp of authenticity on it.
>> No. 23178 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 6:58 pm
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>>23175
I've not seen massive angry reaction against nu-Trek really. Many people seem to enjoy it, well, not "many", but some. I've never really seen a boycot movement either, but if there were one it's easy to make a bunch of folk on the internet seem like a Mongol hoard, trampling across all before it, when in reality it's just a few dozen angry weirdos. I think what you've done is take a few disparate things and turn them into a big thing that doesn't exist in reality.

Also I know it's not strictly Star Trek related but I think I saw Mike Stoklasa nearly cry earlier and I'm forever changed by it.
>> No. 23179 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 7:14 pm
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>>23178

I've just watched that. What a bizarre saga. The rumour is that the Shatner twitter account is actually run by one of his daughters, which probably explains a lot.
>> No. 23180 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 10:23 pm
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>>23178
> I know it's not strictly Star Trek related but I think I saw Mike Stoklasa nearly cry earlier and I'm forever changed by it.


For the uninitiated who are curious


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF28Zednl10

for the uninitiated who are curious with short attention spans 19 mins in.
>> No. 24453 Anonymous
29th May 2022
Sunday 11:19 pm
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Kind of amazed this thread as been inert for almost two years.

Anyway, as part of my years long quest to enjoy Voyager I jumped back in where I left off watching it on Netflix. It's not really helped though because the episodes about mystical Native American stuff and why space aliens gifted this knowledge to the Native Americans, with a B plot about the EMH having a cold. It's really shit, like really, really rough stuff.
>> No. 24454 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 12:50 am
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Chakotay gets milked in the following episode! What am I supposed to do with this show!?
>> No. 24462 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 1:18 am
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I liked the new episode of Orville: Next Generation where you got to see Worf win a fight. It's well and truly given up on all pretences of being a parody at this point and the switch to properly hour-long episodes has allowed them to put in some great moments. You can tell the writers have sat around and thought about how to make a great one-off TNG episode.

You'll just have to deal with a dark first episode to the show where data decides to kill himself.

>>24453
Voyager is one of those shows where I really recommend just following the guide. It's not like TNG where you have a bumpy start but more like the quality is all over the place.
>> No. 24463 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 11:12 am
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>>24462

To what guide are you referring?

It's been on my mind for a while now, just as a personal project, to edit the very best episodes of TNG, DS9, and VOY respectively to make a series of good feature length films.
>> No. 24464 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 4:52 pm
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In the States Star Trek has been taken off Netflix and put on Paramount+ or whatever the fuck. Hasn't happened here yet but it's only a matter of time.
>> No. 24465 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 7:43 pm
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>>24464

>> No. 24466 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 8:11 pm
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>>24463
Scroll up the thread.

>>24464
If you're relying on streaming to watch a famous tv franchise from the 80-90s then really I don't know what to tell you. You're certainly not getting more of the product by watching it legitimately.
>> No. 24467 Anonymous
12th June 2022
Sunday 9:24 pm
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>>24464
Could be worse. They decided, very shortly before release, to move Disco over to P+. Which might have been forgivable had it been available anywhere outside the US at that time.

>>24466 is right. I've downloaded stuff that's been available on services that I was paying for precisely because they keep pulling this kind of shitfuckery. At this stage I'm down to just Prime, and the only reason I haven't ditched it is the delivery.
>> No. 25099 Anonymous
29th November 2023
Wednesday 12:32 am
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Just getting into The Next Generation, really enjoying it so far, but what's with Rikers smarmy grin all the time?

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