Star Trek to return to the small screen.

[The Axe of Druss]

Nothing wrong with establishing a link to previous works. When done right, which isnt hard, it adds to bother the old and new etc

If done wrong however, it just feels cheap and lazy

 

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Nothing wrong with establishing a link to previous works. When done right, which isnt hard, it adds to bother the old and new etc

If done wrong however, it just feels cheap and lazy

When it was done in previous shows it was usually the main focus of the episode, like the tribble episode of DS9 or when Scotty and Spock showed up on TNG, and it was usually done pretty well.

In Discovery it is all just throwaway lines and comes across like the memberberries from South Park. I forgot they also had the USS Janeway and a new USS Voyager in addition to all the other stuff I mentioned in my last post. It's so f**king ridiculous... 1200 years of space exploration and apparently the only ships that encountered a subspace rift were Enterprise and Voyager...

 

[bileduct]

Ok, I can't really complain about that episode (4x07.) Sure, Michael still sucks huge dog turds and she's as annoying as ever in this, but it was a pretty decent mid-season cliffhanger.

 

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lol @ Patrick Stewart saying he wouldn't have gone back to playing Picard if they were just going to retread old ground.

Season two opener is pretty much the definition of retreading old ground.

 

[jargan83]

Spoiler

Oh look, the Borg are back. Again.

 

[Eelectrica]

Unpopular opinion I know, but I didn't mind the first episode of Picard S2. They're tugging pretty hard at the nostalgia strings, but it works.

Also the last episode I'll be watching for a while as I'm not keeping Amazon going for 3 months while they slowly get the episodes out.

 

[Timbo]

I really enjoyed it to be honest. Hit all the right notes for me.

 

[jargan83]

Just to be clear, I didn't hate it and though it was alright.

However the Borg as the bad guys again? Right down to the the potential time travel theme we've seen in the trailers? Hopefully it's a deliberate misdirect.

 

[bileduct]

Are we f**kin' really doing this again?

Mirror universe, alternate timeline, I don't give a f**k, as far as I'm concerned they're both the same thing when the end result is Evil Picard.

Like, f**k off...

 

[Captain Apollo]

New Star Trek series coming this May -

 

[bileduct]

Not even 10 minutes into the Discovery S4 finale and one of the dumbest things I have seen on this show just happened. This is going to be a cracker.

Edit: Well, that was the most boring pile of shit I've watched in a long time and that's pretty much all I have to say about that.

 

[Timbo]

I can’t believe you stuck with Disco. I’ve given up on the Michael Burnham Super-Fun Happy-Time show.

I am unreasonably excited for Strange New Worlds despite the fan service of the casting. Anson Mount is awesome.

And I had to chuckle - Lorraine McFly directing a time-travel episode of Picard. About going back in time to repair the future no less.

 

[bileduct]

I can’t believe you stuck with Disco. I’ve given up on the Michael Burnham Super-Fun Happy-Time show.

I am unreasonably excited for Strange New Worlds despite the fan service of the casting. Anson Mount is awesome.

And I had to chuckle - Lorraine McFly directing a time-travel episode of Picard. About going back in time to repair the future no less.

The second half of Discovery S4 was probably one of the better runs they've had, to be honest. Episodes 11 and 12 were like old school Star Trek, but once again they dropped the f**king ball in a major way with the season finale.

Anson Mount playing Pike is the only good thing that has come out of Nu Trek, but you know they are going to f**k it up.

Picard is the one I have negative interest in watching. Q, Borg, mirror universe, time travel. It's like the quadfecta of everything majorly overdone in the Star Trek universe. 21 minutes into the second episode is as far as I got.

 

[Timbo]

I am enjoying this season - what's interesting to me is, Q has a different angle than he used to back during the TNG days.

It was always styled in TNG as Q teaching humanity a lesson and that Picard was, for lack of a better way of putting it, his best friend who he wants to learn and grow. This season Q seems genuinely pissed off with Picard and he's f**king with him intentionally as some sort of revenge. I'm curious to discover what the angle is moving forward. Q's powers also seem a bit on the fritz - isn't there a throwaway line in S4 of Discovery about there being no contact with the Q Continuum for the previous 800 years? Wouldn't that be at about this time?

Also this season is absolutely littered with DS9 easter eggs which I'm loving. Especially given that the time they are visiting is the exact same time as Sisko, Dax and Bashir during 'Past Tense'. They're just down the road in San Francisco from Picard's team in Los Angeles.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Latest trailer for Star Trek Strange New Worlds dropped yesterday -

 

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Latest trailer for Star Trek Strange New Worlds dropped yesterday -

What the f**k is with Pike's hair?

 

[Timbo]

I’m starting to go a bit soft on this season of Picard. That’s about the third episode in a row where nothing has happened.

 

[bileduct]

I haven't watched it past where I left off ages ago. I saw Brent Spiner is playing yet another Soong character, so I'll add that to the list of nope. I have been watching the RLM reviews though.

Also, what's with these Noonien-Singh characters in Strange New Worlds? What the f**k is it with these Nu Trek writers mining the shit out of the old shows for ideas?

 

[Captain Apollo]

Opening intro for Strange New Worlds -

 

[Captain Apollo]

Sneak peak intro for Episode 1 of series 1 -\