Star Trek: Discovery
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Siliconemelons
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WE ALL OBTAIN THINGS FROM PROPER CHANNELS STOP GETTING ON SCREAMCO'S "LIST"
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Screamfeeder
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Azrayne
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Feels like Mass Effect 3 with a thin Star Trek veneer.
I do like the credit scene though, and the special effects are pretty. But holy shit every episode just feels like they're ticking off a virtue signalling checklist.
And I know that among everything else this probably shouldn't bother me, but why is Ms. Mary Sue called Michael? (Michael Sue?) Have they offered any kind of explanation, or is it just "chicks with dude names, progressive n shit."?
As for "honorable Klingons," that's always been a bit of a joke imo. Even at TNG/DS9 peak-Worf the klingons basically operate like gangsters - they talk a big game about honor, but when it came down to it they did whatever the fuck they wanted and occasionally bothered to come up with a justification for it otherwise. You had the straight up slimy types like Gowron, but even the "honorable" Klingons like Martok didn't seem to hold to any particular code, they just stuck to being total assholes to their enemies, instead of everyone.
I do like the credit scene though, and the special effects are pretty. But holy shit every episode just feels like they're ticking off a virtue signalling checklist.
And I know that among everything else this probably shouldn't bother me, but why is Ms. Mary Sue called Michael? (Michael Sue?) Have they offered any kind of explanation, or is it just "chicks with dude names, progressive n shit."?
As for "honorable Klingons," that's always been a bit of a joke imo. Even at TNG/DS9 peak-Worf the klingons basically operate like gangsters - they talk a big game about honor, but when it came down to it they did whatever the fuck they wanted and occasionally bothered to come up with a justification for it otherwise. You had the straight up slimy types like Gowron, but even the "honorable" Klingons like Martok didn't seem to hold to any particular code, they just stuck to being total assholes to their enemies, instead of everyone.
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Vaclav
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Re the Michael name, my feeling is that it was her adopted name from the Vulcans, who might not have understood gender being important for naming.
If they were trying to push it as "normal" all the exposition about her being "the only female Michael in Starfleet" plays against that.
If they were trying to push it as "normal" all the exposition about her being "the only female Michael in Starfleet" plays against that.
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Lanx
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That was also, the only female Michael I know... Is the one that started the war.
It could also mean, it's an old time name... Like, do you know any ediths, or Gretchen's, that aren't slowly dying in a nursing home?
Siliconemelons
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The "odd girl out" asking her about her name being a "boys name" is exactly why this trek is branded SJW - and not like the other treks.
In the other treks it would never have been mentioned in show - it would be assumed that "humanity has grown beyond such things" and it would be left for the audience to care or not care and discuss.
But no...gatta hit you in the face with it if you didn't already get it.
In the other treks it would never have been mentioned in show - it would be assumed that "humanity has grown beyond such things" and it would be left for the audience to care or not care and discuss.
But no...gatta hit you in the face with it if you didn't already get it.
Lanx
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Lol, like how they explained how spore drive worked, verbatum eps3 then exactly the same eps4
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Grim1
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I would be if Gene were still with us. Then again even TNG was unwatchable the first couple of seasons. I didn't get into that show until the Borg came around.
I haven't seen any of the Discovery episodes but not in any hurry to even care. Star Trek isn't what it use to be and hasn't been for a long time. Didn't like DS9 and Enterprise was just bad. I did like Voyager though. The movie reboot is fun, but it's not the same trek.
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Frenzied Wombat
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I honestly liked Voyager. It had the "exploration of the unknown" we hadn't seen since TOS, and the Doctor and 7of9 are honestly two of the best characters in Trek history. It got a lot better after they dumped Tess, which was Voyager's version of Wesley. Sure, Janeway sucked, but the former two and a general favoritism towards "action" based episodes made it enjoyable.
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You'd have to remove a good portion of the episodes in Voyager to be left with a bulk of half-decent episodes. Leave out anything involving Kess, the Kazon, the little girl Naomi, and any episode that focuses on Chakotay - his episodes were like the Klingon ones in TNG. Just don't find his shitty acting and spiritualism all that insightful or interesting. TNG Klingon episodes are the hardest to re-watch for me. Seven developed into a very interesting character who was initially fairly flat. Heh, and Janeway preceded Lorca in making rash, immoral decisions because the scenario dictated it.