The Star Trek Thread

[Büge]

[Friday]

thanks I just spit my fucking cereal milk on my shirt and now i have to change it THANKS BUGE

[Esperath]

metaphorical cereal milk or real cereal milk

[Friday]

100% real it was frosted mini-wheats

[JD]

Enterprise being chronologically the earliest means that in the first two seasons they get to do a lot of stuff for the first time.

Tactical officer Malcolm Reed is grumpy a lot, I guess because they figure he has to be Worf, but he's a short not-very-threatening British guy who just goes around trying to invent impractical ways to make the ship like 0.3% better in combat. He comes up with a tactical alert system (a clear precursor to TNG's "red alert") which nobody likes until it saves the ship in an unlikely scenario, so it becomes a standard thing and they never mention it again.

They don't know what to call it, so Trip suggests "Reed Alert". REED ALERT

After 9/11, Enterprise pivoted to a plot about chasing down space terrorists who killed civilians on American soil, and Archer does way more interrogation and punching.

[Friday]

Yeah "after 9/11" changed a lot of things

The Xindi arc/season was the highest rated season of ENT's four seasons, and in my opinion it had some good episodes still when it wasn't being about how being a nice person is bad and actually shooting people is the right thing to do.

ENT probably IS, overall, the weakest "old" Trek, but it still manages to be Trek and not fucking entirely about lasers and killing and someone staring into the camera and saying the words "faith", "family", and "love" while saccharine music plays.

THAT'S THE POWER OF -SCIENCE-

[Büge]

They kept going!!

[Mongrel]

Saw this bit further down



Ahahaha

[Büge]

I like this one

[JD]

This video posits that nearly everything bad about Star Trek from mid-TNG onward was actually producer Rick Berman's fault, and everything good was achieved in spite of him.

[Friday]

yeah, I watched that a few days ago.

fucking enraging how much of a piece of shit Berman is.

[Brantly B.]

What is it with Ricks?

[Thad]

Watched the first two episodes of Disco Season 3.

I did not care for the Blade Runner episode.

I thought the Firefly episode was actually pretty solid TV in a vacuum, but it's still not Star Trek.

One of the really frustrating elements of Discovery, and especially Picard, is the amount of time they've spent telling us that the world being shit is all the more reason we need optimism like classic Star Trek, and it's like...you guys know you're making Star Trek, right? You're the ones making it like this. If you think we need classic Star Trek instead of just nonstop misery and cynicism, you are actually in a position where you could, y'know, make it so or whatever.

Does Georgiou being in the future mean that the Inspector 34 spinoff is canceled? If so then that's a win at least.

Also I caught Catspaw on broadcast TV the other night; MeTV ran it on Halloween after Svenghoolie. It was pretty silly and I miss Star Trek being silly.

[Friday]

Trek being silly is Trek at its best. Well, aside from Best of Both Worlds.

[Niku]

but imagine if the best of both worlds was ALSO silly

i bet that’d be .. something

[Thad]

Hermaphroditic porn?

[Friday]

I was being glib, there are some other very good serious eps. TOS has City on the Edge of Forever as probably it's best serious ep, but everyone loves Tribbles better.

TNG has a lot more serious stuff, of course, and Brentai probably could name some other TOS good serious eps.

[Mongrel]

One that's both very silly and serious at the same time is the one where they visit the Actual Nazi Planet.

For sheer ridiculousness though, I'm not sure anything beats "Spock's Brain".

[Mothra]

Discovery is causing me massive psychic damage, four episodes in, in the only way Disco knows how: Episode 1 was great, episode 2 was unimaginably shitty, episode 3 was great, episode 4 was unimaginably shitty.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Thad]

See, I liked 2 a lot better than 1, though I would have liked it a lot better if it had been an episode of some other series that wasn't trying to pass itself off as Star Trek.