Year of Trek

It was also WAY too spoilery.

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Figured this thread would appreciate this more than the funny images one.

Haha

NSMike wrote:

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Figured this thread would appreciate this more than the funny images one.

HA! I actually just watched this yesterday. Patrick Stewart’s performance was fantastic.

Here's an interesting short biography of the "Native American" consultant that Rick Berman hired for Star Trek Voyager:

I am going to go into my spreadsheet this weekend and put up some more week summaries. But just a general update. I am on Star Trek Enterprise Season 2. I have 84 hours of content left and am officially 8 days ahead of schedule.

So I’ve been slowly making my way through various Star Trek series since 2014 or so.
I can’t handle the camp of the original series, but at this point I’ve seen TNG, DS9, and Voyager; although it’s worth noting I’ve skipped episodes that have less than 1.5 stars on Jammers Reviews, which I’ve generally found to be a pretty good indicator of quality.

I’ve started in on Enterprise now and am about 4 episodes in...and I’m not really digging it. I get that this is supposed to take place way back when starfleet was just getting started, but the repeated bad decisions and gung ho attitude of the captain and crew are really rubbing me they wrong way.

Does this dynamic change at all as the series progresses, or is it just constant repeats of “hotheaded humans continually ignore Vulcan pleas to slow down and think their actions through”?

WellAdjusted wrote:

So I’ve been slowly making my way through various Star Trek series since 2014 or so.
I can’t handle the camp of the original series, but at this point I’ve seen TNG, DS9, and Voyager; although it’s worth noting I’ve skipped episodes that have less than 1.5 stars on Jammers Reviews, which I’ve generally found to be a pretty good indicator of quality.

I’ve started in on Enterprise now and am about 4 episodes in...and I’m not really digging it. I get that this is supposed to take place way back when starfleet was just getting started, but the repeated bad decisions and gung ho attitude of the captain and crew are really rubbing me they wrong way.

Does this dynamic change at all as the series progresses, or is it just constant repeats of “hotheaded humans continually ignore Vulcan pleas to slow down and think their actions through”?

There are some good episodes, but there are a lot of meh in there too. I am on the second season which is better then the first. The third season goes in a completely different direction which I did not like but at least it is a change of pace. I did love the 4th season though which is unfortunate since it got cancelled just as it was getting good.

One of my biggest gripes with Enterprise was the casting of Bakula. Don't get me wrong, I like him, and he fills the role of idealistic, kind explorer well. The writers just don't actually keep him there. He is the least intimidating captain ever. Every time he gets angry and yells at people (this ramps up a LOT in season 3) I just can't take it seriously. Bakula is too nice.

So next month we get two new animated Short Treks and... wow, if you're like me and discovered TAS on Nickelodeon back in the day, this invokes all the nostalgias:

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But TAS was so terrible....

There were a few good ones.

Tonight's the 40th anniversary of the premiere of TMP and I had to dig through a few boxes to find my copy of the Director's Cut because there's no way I'm sitting through that movie with no background noises on the bridge.

Edit: Okay, you know the TMP Director's Cut is old when on the back of the box they advertise a trailer for the "new Star Trek series: Enterprise."

Ugh is the directors cut shorter? Less starship porn and more actual movie?

The Sex Trek movies have a lot less starship porn but a lot more human and alien porn.

I'm an open-minded guy, but a cruiser fornicating with a runabout is just a bridge too far IMO.

Odo!

R.I.P. Odo. You were one of my favourites.

f*ck, me too. f*ck.

Oh god now Marina Sirtis' husband passed away today as well. Geeeeezus.

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I watched part one of "In a Mirror, Darkly" last night. Since I had not seen most of the original series when I first watched this episode, I didn't realize the connection. Even though it has been almost a year since watching "The Tholian Web", the moment the Tholian's started creating an energy web I realized the connection. In The Tholian Web they find a Constitution class ship the "Defiant" being raided, probably by the Tholians. Kirk and the ship vanish into a parallel universe and at the end they were able to get Kirk back, but the Defiant was lost.

This episode is in the mirror universe and Archer captures the Defiant since it is 100 years ahead of it's time. The Enterprise gets destroyed and now they have a new ship. I did some digging and the corpses they find on the Defiant were meticulously placed on the bridge to match how they were found in the TOS episode.

So I am coming into the home stretch. I haven't been posting much mainly due to a rough second half of the year IRL. But I have still been watching regularily and went from being 30 days behind to being almost 2 weeks ahead by October. Since then I have slipped a bit and am now pretty much back at even putting my on track to completing on schedule.

Last week I finished Enterprise. It was pretty much as I remembered it, a mediocre first two seasons with a bad 3rd season but a really strong 4th. I think there were only two episodes in the final season that I didn't particularly care for. Most of the episodes were two or three part episodes and had a real impact on what we know from the other series. It explains why the Klingons in TOS didn't have ridge lines. There was an episode that explains the change in the Vulcan culture to support things like mind melds. They even through in a decent Mirror Mirror episode.

Last Saturday I watched all three of the reboot movies in the Kelvin timeline. Overall I don't much like the reboots but they are at least fun action flicks.

But that brings me to Discovery. I am 8 episodes into Season 1 (about halfway) and so far I find it almost unwatchable. They pretty much threw canon out the window, added a way to travel using spores (what?), completely reworked the Klingons (they look a little bit like the Kelvin timeline Klingons). I haven't been impressed by the characters with a few minor exceptions. It just feels like they cherry picked from Star Trek's lore stuff to say "Yes, this is Star Trek" but then tried to make their own thing. I still have another 24 or so episodes to watch so hopefully it improves.

I was annoyed with the concept of Discovery. Not another damn prequel, please do something post-Voyager original timeline.

And from what I've heard of the basic arc of the first 2 seasons it gets better, and might be very interesting going forward. Only watched the pilot myself, but going to try to catch up soon.

Stele wrote:

I was annoyed with the concept of Discovery. Not another damn prequel, please do something post-Voyager original timeline.

Well, Picard is post Voyager timeline. I don't mind if they tell the story in a non Star Trek way, but if they butcher lore/canon like Discovery does, I will be disappointed.

Personally I thought Discovery is by far the best star trek has ever been overall.

Have you noticed how talky-talky Klingons are in Discovery? I mean, the old Klingons loved a good monologue now and then, but these Klingons just... won't... shut... up!

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Personally I thought Discovery is by far the best star trek has ever been overall.

I concer. For cure Discovery takes a lot of Star Trek lore and bends it almost past breaking point - but it is consistent with what has gone before and does so with the right amount of reverence without bogging itself down.

It does take a while to get going and yeah, the kingon mythology stuff is too stodgy for it's own good but the show does get past that and starts to have a lot of fun. Stick with it.

I am looking forward to a season of stability on the creative side for Discovery. Maybe I am being too kind by letting the blame for the issues fall on some rough patches behind the scenes, but both seasons 1 and 2 had some writers' room disasters befall them. This shows MUCH more prominently in season 1 than 2, but 2 was still not exactly the best.