Star Trek: Picard

Lanx said:

TOS sucks

mostly all trek sucks

you really have to grow up w/ it and have memberberries to appreciate it

could i watch this garbage now? hell no, but 14yr old me remembers fondly

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I rewatch each series every couple of years. My wife rewatches almost every year. She's indoctrinating our daughter. Watched Enterprise when she was in the womb, then again just recently (a little over two years old). Voyager when she was breastfeeding, and again about 6 months ago. She's watching TOS again currently.

After re-watching them all multiple, multiple times, I've grown to really appreciate Voyager the most. Picard (TNG) is still my most beloved character, mostly because as you say its what I grew up on, but also because I look a lot like him. Though meeting him in person made me realize he's got a huge fucking head. DS9 would be my favorite, but season 7 left a really bad, rotten flavor in my mouth. Voyager is just TNG with a little more attitude. I have zero fucking interest in watching Discovery again. I might watch Picard again, but it'll be a while, or at the earliest before Season 2 comes out.

None of the old series spend entire 15-minute segments bullshitting you on the sci-fi. It's, "Have you tried reversing the polarity?" That does or doesn't fix the problem and they move on. When it's an engineering issue, it's all about "getting it fixed and get back to me we're dealing with talking to these fucks before they blow us up".

TOS science was mostly rooted in real, actual science, so they didn't have to dissect or explain it. Or the shit was brand new, so they couldn't explain it. Transporter techno-gibberish creates two Kirk's. Well... let's talk about it philosophically. When Evil Kirk ripped up wiring to the transporter, it was a one-line throw away by Scotty in what he actually destroyed.

It's correct that the gibberish became more and more present as time went on. Enterprise has a lot more than any prior show. Discovery dips itself in a vat of gibberish. And prances around in it, "Look how cool my gibberish is!" Instead of sticking to a plot, concept, idea, story. In Discovery, the all-knowing planet, evil AI, and time travel suit concepts weren't new, and the way they told those stories sucked. It was about the McGuffins, not the impact those things would make on the universe, the ship, the crew - save Michael and fuck Michael, I hope she gets tossed out an airlock in season 3. They were told how most video game movies are presented.

Ezri was fine, but the whole season was about her. It's sort of what makes me hate Discovery and similarly Picard. That and the absurd Dukat storyline. And the last episode where basically the entire cast leaves the station for one reason or another for the sake of being somber was retarded. But obviously not as retarded as the last episode of Enterprise.