Star Trek TV

[K]

ok having finished all four seasons back-to-back, i definitely feel like Season 4 was the strongest.  It was definitely the most consistent. Maybe some of the other seasons had higher Highs, but they also had lower Lows. Season four felt consistently good. I actually quite enjoyed the Arrival rip-off ending.

For Season 5 i would quite like them to bring back the idea of an actual malevolent enemy or species. Seasons three and four were both based around a neutral or benevolent entity which unknowingly had galactic influence with a superpower it didn't know it had. They were really very similar on that level. I'd like to Discovery to find their own borg/xindi/dominion, and being 900 years in the future, with unlimited access to the galaxy, and the ability to exfiltrate through the galactic barrier, it would be pretty easy to introduce a new bad guy. I thought that's where they were going with the Emerald Chain, but displacing an existing threat feels different than overcoming a new wave of an unknown enemy.

[K]

enjoying lower decks. i think my favourite thing about it is how the people over at memory-alpha, the star trek wiki, have all these super serious articles that then segue into fuckin nonsense. i bet some of the admins over there had a fuckin shitfit when they realised they'd have to canonise all this bullshit. it's amazing.

Armus waited for someone to arrive for the rescue of the two shuttlecraft passengers, in order to sadistically torture the rescuers. After killing Lieutenant Natasha Yar with an energy discharge when she tried to walk to the downed shuttle, Armus expected to feel amusement. [...] As Armus sat, wishing it had someone to torture, it was surprised to hear a mysterious voice called out its name, then told that it looked "like a big bag of crap;" this angered Armus, and it demanded that they show themselves. 

[Mick]

Oh, Lower Decks is fantastic.

[K]

I can't believe they did a freaky Friday

[K]

i dont think i rate SNW as highly as the social media nerds who call it a return to form or whatever. This freaky friday episode was just... nothing to me. why would you freaky friday a character we know nothing about? Both of whom are just logical. surely you would FF two people with contrasting personalities? Also the manhunt thing felt weird and tacked on. the emotional resolution with the zebra aliens was also a bit of a let down.

[K]

the child murder trolley problem episode was a lot better. 

[K]

lol is that Rafi from the League doing a voice in Star Trek Prodigy

[Toe]

8 hours ago, K said:

lol is that Rafi from the League doing a voice in Star Trek Prodigy

Yes.

I actually liked Prodigy, but they had a mid-season break so I missed the second half. 

[Mick]

David Warner, who played that one dude in Star Trek V, Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI and Gul Madred in "Chain of Command" has passed away. 

[Hobo]

2 minutes ago, Mick said:

David Warner, who played that one dude in Star Trek V, Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI and Gul Madred in "Chain of Command" has passed away. 

There are four lights.

[Mick]

7 minutes ago, Hobo said:

There are four lights.

*PRESSES BUZZER*

There are five. 

[Toe]

Pretty excited for this. The first two seasons of Picard have been up and down, but I've still enjoyed them quite a bit. And of course, I'm just happy to get one last ride with the crew that I grew up with.

 

[Mick]

Cryptic Studios be like 

[K]

I'm watching the Orville for the first time. I'm enjoying it, but some episodes feel like they mirror classic star trek TNG episodes a little too closely. Like some of them are literally just the same plot but with better special effects and more dick jokes. Like i get that it's a tribute to TNG, but some of them are just copy and pastes.

The Orville's Shadow Realm, which i'm watching now, is just TNG's Genesis mixed with TNG's Identity Crisis. 

I'm not sure if it's very intentional, or if it's just that there are so many Star Trek episodes it's difficult not to mimic them.

[Benji]

I think a bit of both. It's very much a loving pastiche of Star Trek. It starts moving past the dick jokes over time. I enjoy the show for what it is, it's not going to be "the best Trek" or something, but it's sort of a "if Star Trek started today, what would it look like?"

[Hobo]

Louise Fletcher who played Kai Winn on DS9 has died.

Until today I had no idea she was in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

[Benji]

I never knew that was the same person. Damn, she played two of the greatest villains of all time, and inarguably for me the best Star Trek villain. Tremendous actress.

[Lint]

I started to watch Lower Decks, so far I'm 4 episodes in.

Does Mariner ever get less annoying?

The episode I just watched, she keeps yawning during a mission briefing.  Her entire character is "I know everything, I'm better then everyone".  I don't like her at all

[Lint]

Star Trek: Prodigy confuses me. 

Don't get me wrong, I know its mostly focused on kids, but its entirely enjoyable for adults.  But some things in the beginning confuse me

[Mick]

5 hours ago, Lint said:

Star Trek: Prodigy confuses me. 

Don't get me wrong, I know its mostly focused on kids, but its entirely enjoyable for adults.  But some things in the beginning confuse me

 

Well, because it was for kids, I just didn't bother to watch it. Unless it's "for kids" in the same sense as Clone Wars or Rebels...