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CountBezuhoff
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Nihil sub sole novum
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posted November 21, 2021 10:47 AM |
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New Star Trek
Is it worth watching? I've seen the new movies and the first season of Discovery, but I found them... lacking.
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Gnomes2169
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Undefeatable Hero
Duke of the Glade
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posted November 21, 2021 01:37 PM |
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It's... a lot more spectacle, and a lot less substance. A lot more putting faith in things turning out well, a lot less creativity and resourcefulness being used to overcome problems. If you're looking for another episodic sci-fi thriller like Next Generation, it's not here. There's a long-running plot that impacts every storyline. If you're looking for a deep story, cutting commentary and well developed characters like in DS9... you'll get lip service to all three.
It's not great. It's pretty dumb. But it's something to watch and you could do worse, I guess.
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phe
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Life and Freedom
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posted November 21, 2021 02:03 PM |
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But there is several new Star Treks:
Discovery (each season quite different)
Piccard
Lower Decks
Prodigy
Short Treks
Strange New Worlds...
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Ghost
Undefeatable Hero
Therefore I am
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posted November 21, 2021 02:55 PM |
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Retro Jim Kirk TV series + movies.. Today young Jim Kirk movies.. Future Jim Kirk returns back.. So Star Trek story! Then different events are plot.. Movie is summary.. My Star Trek freak guy told me..
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Kipshasz
Undefeatable Hero
Elvin's Darkside
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posted November 21, 2021 06:21 PM |
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stick to a good Sci-Fi show, like Babylon 5. speaking of, it's rumored reboot will suck just as much as every other western show these days.
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"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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Kayna
Supreme Hero
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posted November 22, 2021 02:23 AM |
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Star Trek, lower decks
Star Trek, latrines in the sub basement
Star Trek, between the hull and the fuselage
Star Trek, janitors cleaning toilet bowls used by various aliens
You have an amazing list to choose from
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Gnomes2169
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Duke of the Glade
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posted November 22, 2021 02:59 PM |
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phe said:
But there is several new Star Treks:
Discovery (each season quite different)
Piccard
Lower Decks
Prodigy
Short Treks
Strange New Worlds...
I've actually seen most of these, and my original assessment is pretty much true of Discovery and Piccard.
Short Treks are, admittedly, much less in that "Shallow, style over substance and overreliance on action" camp, mostly because they're just... a bunch of shorts. Mostly disconnected, working as setting background or expansion on parts from Discovery and Picard, sometimes as cartoons.
The Lower Decks is probably the most worth it if you are into star trek, since it's an episodic series that's pretty much meta jokes about the various series and sci-fi tropes in general, doesn't take itself seriously AT ALL, and has callbacks and cameos galore. It's also a cartoon, so they're able to get away with some things that would just be janky with a real life cast.
Prodigy and Strange New Worlds I haven't seen at all... and I don't really have any desire to. Prodigy is very much a children's show, while Strange New Worlds is a continuation of Discovery in tone and story line, making it a bit of a revisionist series for the Original Series. I don't hold the OS as sacred by any means, but... it's still not interesting for me.
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