Year of Trek

wordsmythe wrote:

We're on Enterprise now, having started watching Trek together a number of years ago streaming TNG. It's ... ok?

Enterprise took a long time to find itself to be honest and have some of the courage of its convictions, and just when it was settling into its own skin got cancelled.

It has the worst final episode of any TV series ever seen.

ENT also had the disadvantage of trying to get a foothold during a busy era of space sci-fi. Farscape, the Stargate franchise, BSG.

ENT had some cool ideas. I thought it was super interesting seeing humanity deal with the paternalism and mild but troubling colonialism of the Vulcans, for example. And it did a great job of making space feel like a frontier again.

Unfortunately, coming directly after several series' worth of the franchise making great strides in representation and diversity, its Bland White Guy Quotient was disappointingly high.

ITS BEEN A LOOOOONG ROAD...

NSMike wrote:

ITS BEEN A LOOOOONG ROAD...

No. Stop it. Get some help.

Veloxi wrote:
NSMike wrote:

ITS BEEN A LOOOOONG ROAD...

No. Stop it. Get some help.

We all need help, getting from here to there.

Critically under-discussed. https://genius.com/Russell-watson-fa...

Damn. RIP Nog.

Well f*ck, that's a shock.

Veloxi wrote:

Well f*ck, that's a shock.

Tell me about it. Didn't even recognise him under all that makeup.

Dang....certainly not one of the cast you'd expect to have already gone. ...and married not that long ago, too. So sorry for his family and friends.

He's the fourth to go as far as I know. Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Brock Peters (Sisko's father), and Barry Jenner (Admiral Ross) all went before him.

I can't remember, kazar, if you said you were planning to watch The Star Trek Animated Series? I recently watched the whole thing for the first time and wowza, it can get pretty bad at times.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I can't remember, kazar, if you said you were planning to watch The Star Trek Animated Series? I recently watched the whole thing for the first time and wowza, it can get pretty bad at times.

I watched it after the original series.

kazar wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

I can't remember, kazar, if you said you were planning to watch The Star Trek Animated Series? I recently watched the whole thing for the first time and wowza, it can get pretty bad at times.

I watched it after the original series.

The season 1 finale "Jihad" was so very very terrible. Nothing made any sense.

Week Twenty Five

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June 16th - June 22nd

Being behind by so much I have decided to focus on watching the content over writing about it, at least until I catch up. So this weekly summary was written in September. But regardless of the written part, I have still been watching 2-3 episodes a day.

This week I was able to get through 16 episodes.

Recommendations
Phantasms: Data starts having dreams. Fun episode, though at times kind of weird.
Dark Page: Lwaxana Troi is on a diplomatic mission when she starts suffering a form of mental breakdown, and the reason is heartbreaking. Kirsten Dunst guest stars in the episode.
Rules of Acquisition: Introduction of Grand Negus Zek, portrayed by Shawn Wallace (inconceivable).
Inheritance: Data meets Dr. Noonian Soong's wife, effectively his mother.
Sanctuary: A nomadic people from the gamma quadrant show up looking to settle on Bajor.
Parallels: Worf "slides" between alternate realities.
Rivals: An El-Aurian (same species as Guinan) shows up to compete with Quark, and changes the luck of the entire station.
The Pegasus: A mystery is revealed about Riker's first assignment.

Red Shirts
No identifiable fatalities this week.

Episodes
TNG S7E6: Phantasms
DS9 S2E6: Melora
TNG S7E7: Dark Page
DS9 S2E7: Rules of Acquisition
TNG S7E8: Attached
DS9 S2E8: Necessary Evil
TNG S7E9: Force of Nature
DS9 S2E9: Second Sight
TNG S7E10: Inheritance
DS9 S2E10: Sanctuary
TNG S7E11: Parallels
DS9 S2E11: Rivals
DS9 S2E12: The Alternate
TNG S7E12: The Pegasus
TNG S7E13: Homeward
DS9 S2E13: Armageddon Game

Week Twenty Six

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June 23rd - June 29th

Caught up one more day this week. Watched 17 episodes, 5 of which are in my recommendation list (less then usual). There were some episodes where I feel are some of Star Trek's worse, like Sub Rosa where Doctor Crusher gets involved with a ghost, Masks where Data gets possessed by a ghost and Journey's End where Wesley Crusher continues to be annoying.

Recommendations
Whispers: Returning from the gamma quadrant, Chief O'Brien notices that everyone on the station is conspiring against him.
Lower Decks: A story about four junior officers trying to get promoted to the helm position. The inspiration for the upcoming animated comedy by the same name.
Shadow Play: Dax and Odo visit a planet in the gamma quadrant and help in an investigation on why people are disappearing.
Genesis: The crew of the Enterprise begin de-evolving. The episode is ok, but worth watching for suspense.
The Maquis: A terrorist organization the Maquis forms in the demilitarized zone to try to remove the Cardasian presence.

Red Shirts
This week 3 gold shirts died. This includes ensign Sito Jaxa who first was on the episode First Duty where Wesley Crusher and his squad mates were being questioned about the death during a flight exercise. Even with this strike on her record, Captain Picard still accepted her onto the Enterprise. She died during a covert mission into Cardassian space.

One red shirt died too. We see it in the episode Genesis when Captain Picard and Lt. Cmdr. Data return to the enterprise to find everyone de-evolving.

Episodes
TNG S7E14: Sub Rosa
DS9 S2E14: Whispers
TNG S7E15: Lower Decks
DS9 S2E15: Paradise
TNG S7E16: Thine Own Self
DS9 S2E16: Shadowplay
TNG S7E17: Masks
DS9 S2E17: Playing God
TNG S7E18: Eye of the Beholder
DS9 S2E18: Profit and Loss
TNG S7E19: Genesis
DS9 S2E19: Blood Oath
TNG S7E20: Journey's End
DS9 S2E20: The Maquis, Part I
TNG S7E21: Firstborn
DS9 S2E21: The Maquis, Part II
TNG S7E22: Bloodlines

Man, TNG had some wonderful eps in season 7. Pegasus, Parallels, Lower Decks...

Then you have Masks and Sub Rosa. What a weird season.

I rewatched "Evolution" from TNG's Season 3 to commemorate its 30th anniversary recently and saw something I haven't see in the 30 odd years I've seen it. In the scene where Dr. Stubbs re-enacts The Shot Heard 'Round the World in his head just before the nanites zap him, as he falls asleep, he mouths "The Giants win the pennant:"

I’ve been doing this too... only it’s yearS of Trek. Prior to starting I’d only seen scattered TNG episodes after school. I recently picked the project back up in season 5 of TNG. Also just watched Star Trek VI for the first time and really liked it.

Pegasus is one of my favorite episodes. Good weird science, good suspense, good character conflict.

The Pegasus always reminds me of this gem:

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trichy wrote:

The Pegasus always reminds me of this gem:

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This sums up star trek. Amazing.

Hahahaha.

That is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Never thought about it like that before!

Genesis is one of my favorites because Broccoli turns into a spider.

If anyone is watching the current shorts make sure to keep watching after the credits for The Trouble with Edwards episode.

That wasn't... half bad!
Though it wasn't quite the same without also seeing the teaser trailer release date pre-teaser, official teaser trailer, official trailer release date teaser, the official trailer release date announcement trailer, and then the international and red band trailers.