Wasn’t this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.
This season, we’re going to have had: Spock’s comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.
We’ve gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy’s name was did.
Are you forgetting you’re talking about the series where:
Humpback whales were a central plot point in one of the movies
Dr. Crusher had a sexual relationship with a ghost
Paris and Janeway were mutated into lizards, had sex with each other, and gave birth to babies
It’s canonical that people need to clean up the bio-filters for holodecks (leave that one to the imagination)
Data, a robot, manages to get laid a couple of times
Q’s method of testing humanity is basically trolling the entire TNG crew every single time he appears
SNW had a literal fantasy episode in S1
Fucking James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes was a recurring villain in TNG enough times to show up in Picard
Like… my guy, Stark Trek has always had an element of camp and being a goofy-ass series. It has a lot of thoughtful and contemporary dialogue in a lot of the episodes, yes, but you can’t say stuff like the SNWxLD crossover (which, as somebody who has never watched LD and grew up with TNG & DS9, I thought was pretty good) and the next couple of episodes are straying from Star Trek as a whole. Why do you think a lot of Trek fans would consider GalaxyQuest as an honorable Star Trek film?
Yes, I too want the same old rehashes of 60s and 90s Trek plots so we can have full series burnout in record time.
Star Trek is a place to tell stories. Some of those stories involve weird shit. “Weird,” as Janeway says to Kim after he comes from a cloned version of the ship where everyone he knows and loves just died in a self-destruct explosion, “is part of the job.”
Personally, I think SNW doing all this stuff is more Trek than we’ve seen in a while. Most inventive and creative live action series since Enterprise ended.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.
This season, we’re going to have had: Spock’s comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.
We’ve gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy’s name was did.
Are you forgetting you’re talking about the series where:
Like… my guy, Stark Trek has always had an element of camp and being a goofy-ass series. It has a lot of thoughtful and contemporary dialogue in a lot of the episodes, yes, but you can’t say stuff like the SNWxLD crossover (which, as somebody who has never watched LD and grew up with TNG & DS9, I thought was pretty good) and the next couple of episodes are straying from Star Trek as a whole. Why do you think a lot of Trek fans would consider GalaxyQuest as an honorable Star Trek film?
When Galaxy Quest came out, Wil Wheaton called Patrick Stewart and told him to go to the theater and see “the best Star Trek movie ever made.”
For real! Like, how can you be a Trek fan and not like SNW?? It’s fantastic!
Spock’s comedy capers was tonally different from data’s day… how?
You’re acting like goofy shit is not an intrinsic part of trek’s charm
Yes, I too want the same old rehashes of 60s and 90s Trek plots so we can have full series burnout in record time.
Star Trek is a place to tell stories. Some of those stories involve weird shit. “Weird,” as Janeway says to Kim after he comes from a cloned version of the ship where everyone he knows and loves just died in a self-destruct explosion, “is part of the job.”
So the only options are: rehash old Trek plots or rehash wacky American TV tropes?
Has chatGPT really run dry this quickly?
@doleo TOS had a gangsters comedic episode, and a cutesy animals comedic episode.
And Tribbles!
Personally, I think SNW doing all this stuff is more Trek than we’ve seen in a while. Most inventive and creative live action series since Enterprise ended.