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It’s alright so far, I really like the TNG cameos and Stewart is making a serious effort. Could live without the JJ Abrams action scenes. So far they haven’t brought back Section 31 again so that’s a plus. Wish they’d have some DS9 cameos, maybe drop by O’Brien’s engineering classroom. Wish they’d have mention of the Dominion War, even a quick “we rebuilt this part of starfleet HQ after the Breen Attack.” Dunno why Romulans needed starfleet help to evacuate their home system from a supernova. They have a large fleet and an empire, just pay the Ferengi to make nonstop flights on space cruise ships. Tal Shiar a major plot element, no mention they were nearly annihilated in a Dominion trap.
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Haramstufe Rot posted:One of the things they get right is Ah, that makes more sense, thanks! For a TNG series they may be taking the approach that starships are rare and large fleets uncommon, with the loss of 39 ships at Wolf 359 a crippling blow that left earth undefended, as opposed to DS9 where losing a hundred ships to the Dominion in a week was bad but recoverable. Glad there is a coherent explanation in universe, I was worried it was like starkiller base destroying a handful of planets and apparently the entire new republic fleet had been parked there.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:11
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olives black posted:I recently listened to an interview with Brent Spiner about the making of the Star Trek movies, and the first thing he recounted was that the catering was better than on the show. Really drove home to me how important it is to keep actors on as short a leash as possible. That’s interesting, yeah I heard Michael Dorn talk about how his make up first season was so bad for his skin and he had so little to do other than get tossed around that he almost walked. Fortunately they listened and got better make up and scripts so he stayed, but we could have lost one of the best characters if the producers hadn’t cared.
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Feb 16, 2020 23:01
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That episode was dire. Kept expecting someone to walk up and try to sell Picard deathsticks. The bar standoff was pathetic. Subdue these three guards and have the crime boss at your mercy indefinitely. She will stand in place and make no attempt to escape, even after everyone leaves.
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Feb 21, 2020 23:35
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Delthalaz posted:Need more funny hats and wacky aliens in my body horror, eye gouging, human vivisection, and cold blooded murder star trek show Yeah no kidding. Probably idiotic notes from upper management demanding it be more like game of thrones. Measure of a Man, Inner Light, The Visitor, In the Pale Moonlight, Lower Decks, Trouble With Tribbles, all fantastic and had near zero on screen violence.
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Feb 21, 2020 23:52
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I don’t think they’ve said latinum once this whole series in their discussions about space money. No way these screenwriters are gonna resist having Section 31 show up, being run by, oh, let’s say Tom Paris.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:51
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Shaocaholica posted:Lizard guy didn’t get to do much for all the hyping. Did he even get a shot off? There are 2 distinct disruptor reports but you only ever see the one hit lizard man. Did he get popped twice? That guy was badly written. He’s ugly and big, so he’s evil. He can smell lies but this potion neutralizes that. He’ll just stand there until someone stuns him. Why not make him a Gorn, that’d be something.
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Feb 22, 2020 18:58
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Watched the newest episode. Slightly better than the last one? They finally mentioned latinum. Question: Borg ships have standard issue portals that can move people 40,000 light years?!? And the only limitation is that it takes a few minutes to power up? And they only use it as a backup life raft for a queen to escape? Can’t they just... park a cube on the edge of a civilization and march endless drones to assimilate every planet they find? That’s like having that dumb galaxy spanning transporter from Into Darkness and only using it for Admirals to go to Risa. Heck, I’d watch a one season show of a small group of Borg conquering the Theta quadrant. Why not.
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Feb 28, 2020 04:51
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Rutibex posted:to be fair this is less overpowered than the standard issue time machine that each borg sphere is supplied with That’s my favorite Trek film but yeah never understood why they didn’t go back in time near Pluto then fly unopposed to Earth rather than fight a giant fleet. Thanks for sharing I hadn’t seen that one, I thought they made up the Sikarians for this episode. But even if they couldn’t use it for ships, if it works for individuals seems like they could still send individual drones? Argh I wish the Borg would grab Picard and bring Locutus back. Take a dang risk.
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Feb 28, 2020 06:22
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I wish their ship were more interesting, just generic space freighter.
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Mar 7, 2020 03:40
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Dammit, you think Rios might be having an existential crisis? A slow pan over his bookshelf showed a level of contempt for the audience... well not really out of place in modern trek. He doesn’t seem like a old fashioned guy, with casual use of EMHs and replicators, why does he have actual books? At least put the titles in Spanish. Also, this has by far the worst ship designs in a Trek. Discovery has issues but the slim, rotating saucer is pretty cool and other Federation ships look fine. If I saw Rios’ ship in a Mass Effect cutscene I wouldn’t think twice about it, and the Romulan designs are dull as dirt CGI copy pastes. The show teases Rios’ old Federation ship, or that we’ll see a Star Fleet task force... nope! My lovely doomed FTL ships had better interior design. His dining tables wouldn’t be out of place in a city park, complete with perforated benches to be hosed down.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:21
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oh but seriously I posted:lol the borg are even more bitchmade than in voyager I wanted at least one romulan getting nano injected and transforming. Or anything.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:22
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Well that was trash. I’d be ok with no more new Star Trek, they have no clue what they’re doing and the last kinda ok thing was Beyond and maybe two Discovery episodes.
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Mar 27, 2020 03:20
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Blistex posted:/\ Belay that order. Oh for sure, a fun part of DS9 fleets was spotting the variety of federation ships like Mirandas and Excelsiors. It was great when that carried over to First Contact when fighting the Borg cube. Fleet of the same lame ship was frustrating, especially as they immediately left after the Romulans bailed. The whole series would have been redeemed if twenty of the warbirds decloaked and wrecked the planet, roll credits.
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Mar 27, 2020 05:24
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infernal machines posted:We took an hour to visit with Riker, your suburban dad, as he learns to use his pizza oven. Don't worry, it all pays off when he sits in front of a green screen for the climactic finale And that was the best episode! They should have had the whole series be “Picard visits old friends” Ep 1: Checking in with engineering professor O’Brien at an Irish pub Ep 2: visiting Dr Crusher on the moon Ep 3: doing a favor for Starfleet by dropping by DS9 to check on something And so on, final shot Picard enjoys wine at his vineyard with his good dog
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Mar 28, 2020 00:49
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ILL Machina posted:Deserved a repost, I think: Hahahahahaha oh wow I already didn't like the show, but this is just wow. Cutscenes from Alpha Centauri still look better. Hell, cutscenes from Command & Conquer when they pushed random programmers in front of cameras at least had heart.
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Apr 29, 2020 21:07
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doctorfrog posted:You are, right now, putting more thought into the last episode about this, than the writers, including Michael "Wrote some novels that NPR liked" Chabon, did. Yeah agreed. I think this is the first Trek series that hasn't cared about Federation ship designs with the least excuse in the age of CGI and big budgets. The final shot of Voyager arriving home had more care and attention to the fleet, and that was only like six ships. Hell, organize a fan contest to put together 10 new ship designs to appear in Riker's fleet, fill it out with some Galaxys, Miranda, and Excelsiors, boom looks great problem solved.
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Apr 29, 2020 22:09
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Captain Hygiene posted:I started liking Enterprise more when I gave upon going straight through and just started skipping around. Season 4 is what really made me think it was killed too soon. There some dumb spots and the ending is astoundingly ill conceived, but otherwise it's generally a good time that feels like they're finally on track for the series. And then it died. Oh yeah I had checked out but was informed that season 4 had "Twilight" and "In a Mirror, Darkly," and dang those are some great Star Trek. I wish Enterprise had taken a Mass Effect route, in the way that Earth without the Federation is the new weak kid in a dangerous neighborhood (not in the robot space tentacle way). Have Earth try to colonize a new sector, have a more powerful civilization like the Cardassians wipe them out, and let Earth conclude that there's nothing they can do about it. Ferengi pirates show up and start mining the moon and Earth is too weak to stop them and has to pay an embarrassing bribe. An Earth ship goes missing in an unexplored area and Enterprise can't find them and get no closure. No need for it to be grimdark and there could still be plenty of optimism and exploration, but a cool emphasis on the universe being very different without the Federation and letting it gradually develop would have been interesting.
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May 4, 2020 18:07
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Captain Hygiene posted:I liked the Harry Mudd time loop episode and the one where Pike & Co beam down to an unknown human colony. Either standalone or early enough in the S2 story that it was practically a standalone space mystery that just happened on the way of the main plot. Otherwise they often blend together in the larger arcs. Yeah those episodes were standouts. If they'd stuck with an episodic format with only small arcs, instead of immediately leaping into Space War or whatever was happening with that angel thing, it would have been a drastic improvement. Especially as that would give us a chance to know the bridge crew.
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Why’d they use the romulans as a main plot point anyway? “Uhhh yeah you know that race you’ve seen tons of times? Well it never came up before, but they don’t have Simplest explanation is someone wanted space elf sword fights and adopted the pointy eared guys because why not. Their entire culture is based on destroying synthetic life, uh, but for some reason they never had an issue with Data or took a shot at Dr. Soong but are now willing to risk war over this. Romulans are good as a TV show villain and when written well we get In the Pale Moonlight, but aren't interesting enough or sufficiently well developed to be movie villains or to sustain a whole season. Nemesis was trash, Star Trek 2009 was ok but they were pretty much space pirates, and Picard was nonsense.
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