Pinterest Mom posted:

I definitely felt like the actress was distractingly bad.

Timeless Appeal posted:

I also don't like how Picard quit so easily after being fired. Like, the Picard I know would have convinced the Klingons to rescue the Romulans because being rescued by their enemy instead of dying bravely is the ultimate defeat or something like that.

cheetah7071 posted:

Still laughing that the excuse for not calling up any of the Enterprise crew was that Picard didn't want them to risk their lives for this, so he immediately calls up a different former subordinate whose life he is apparently okay risking

HD DAD posted:

Basically, you have Kurtzman helming two novelists and dune-buggy Stewart, and it’s all coming off super awkward.

That said, I don’t hate it, but it’s not what it could be.

zoux posted:

Oh for sure, I'm sick of every genre thread in this forum getting poo poo up by hate watchers, I just want a place to have fun posting about ST

Timby posted:

So at some point, the board's chief decided, after much discussion in the mod forum, to split the political discussion into two forums. The Neutral Zone was replaced by The Demilitarized Zone, and it would be much more heavily moderated. And then a second forum, The Briar Patch, was added, and that was essentially completely mod-free with the exception of death threats or illegal behavior.

Tighclops posted:

Yep. Hugh being cool was almost a relief, I was half expecting him to pull a Lando on Picard. Rios is pretty swole swell too and it's nice that he's seemingly actually nice and not just a tough guy.

marktheando posted:

Why would they make Rios be a secret hologram lol

piratepilates posted:

Boy that sounds real dumb! Thanks for the recaps.

It's like a sickness among writers and producers that they have to keep creating bigger and bigger stories with even bigger scopes that Change Everything We Know.

piratepilates posted:

Was the Simpsons movie about the fate of the world? That's the only tv show to movie that popped in my head and I think they actually did the reverse, where Springfield was hosed but the rest of the world was fine.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

Tonight on "sci-fi plot or acid trip": an alien wearing sunglasses made me hallucinate by touching my face and then told me to eat a glowing blue tablet

e: actually I'm pretty sure this happened to me at a festival once

PostNouveau posted:

Pretty much nothing happened in this episode except for the evil Romulan lady killing people, and that was super loving dumb like CW superhero show level of villainy.

So edgy. Real fun to watch Hugh watch all the people he cares for die and then get killed himself. Thanks, Star Trek!

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

This is an excellent post.

"Soothing pablum" is the perfect description for what Trek was to the people who actually enjoyed the formulaic reconstitution of plots down through Voyager and Enterprise. And honestly I'd extend that to what I perceive Orville to be.

Arglebargle III posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesKS-bCDbo

istewart posted:

Isa Briones does a really good job here as Soji's evil twin. I agree they're leaving way too much to wrap up in the final episode, though. With Chabon gone as showrunner next season, I wonder if they will have learned any lessons with regard to pacing. Have they announced his replacement yet?

Tiggum posted:

My question is, why are all these people going to stay together? That seems to be the implication; that they've become a team somehow. But they barely stayed together for two seconds at a time in this season, and now they don't even have the vague sort of mission that kind of almost brought them together to begin with. So why wouldn't they all just get on with their separate lives now?

revwinnebago posted:

It's clear Patrick Stewart never understood what made Picard a great character. Or at least, given the choice, he doesn't want to expend the effort to do the hard work of actually acting the role. The movies let the actors pick whatever they wanted to do, and after being locked in a room with Frakes for a few years, all of them just said gently caress it we want holodeck episodes and none of us are going to bother acting:



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Retrowave Joe posted:

Picard is an xMan now, so maybe he’ll start a school for gifted xBs

xerxus posted:

The royalty thing keeps getting brought up but both were staff writers and wouldn't get residuals.

Senor Tron posted:

Not Trek, but Let's Go To Golgotha.

The_Doctor posted:

This is much larger than The Thing lead me to believe.

Khanstant posted:

i got a feeling the next season of Discovery will be the Good one, all the haters are going to memory-hole s1-3 and become straight up fanatics for season 4, tightclops straight up cries at the season premiere holy poo poo

Taear posted:

TNG is a cultural staple because it comes from a time (at least in the UK) where there were very few channels and TV was a universal experience almost.
Fragmentation has meant there's just no way at all Discovery is ever, ever going to be seen by as many people.

Taear posted:

He still had a show in that era though, he's totally correct.

I feel like you're arguing with me here even though I'm agreeing with what you've said?

The_Doctor posted:

Why would his memories be from this 3rd person perspective?

Grand Fromage posted:

Brawnfire posted:

avec glaçage à la menthe

mmm trek cakes

tarlibone posted:

I just saw the latest Short Treks.

If you didn't like the first two and are worried that this one will be just as bad, don't worry--it' snot.