r/startrek: The Next Generation
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| Date | Episode | Title |
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| 11-28 | LD 5x07 | "Fully Dilated" |
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| 12-12 | LD 5x09 | "Fissure Quest" |
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Thats good. That it ends that is.
Riker probably wouldn't be able to hear Burnham whisper yelling at him, anyway.
Homie I'm 37 not 50.
This hurts my head
Meh. Looking forward to this show dying and making way for the good, new Trek shows, like LD, SNW, and Picard's Season 3 (sorta).
So tired of Michael Burnham and her stupid "Magical Burnham Problem Solving Mary-su Solution Express". Really too bad, because Saru, Tilly, Georgiuo, Staments, Adira, and basically all of the other characters are REALLY interesting in this show. Unfortunately, they didn't relegate Burnham's character for being a "get out of writer's block free card" to the background and that basically doomed it.
Prodigy too, first season was fantastic.
You’ve described precisely how I feel about Disco, Trek is supposed to be about the whole team solving problems but somehow in any century…the destiny of the universe is all about her. Remove deus ex Burnham from the show and it could be so much better. Saru, Stamets and all are great, they’re just background to the Michael story.
I'm sorry but... I'm particularly offended by you pointing out numbers here. 50 years? Fuck you. Just.. fuck you.
TNG aired in 1987, so it's only 37 years. Whomever it was that wrote that headline stretched a bit to generate some extra clicks. Yeah, TAS ended in 1974, but there's still 13 years in between where there was no Star Trek, which is apparently getting lumped into the Star-Trek-that-Riker-has-shown-up-in bundle.
I mean, that's technically correct then. The last time there was a Trek Show without Frakes was 1974 (50 years ago)
The last year there was a star trek show without frakes was the year before tng was released...
Technically correct is the best kind of correct!!
They are counting the time spent as a twinkle in his mom's eye.
Well, I don’t necessarily need Riker, but then I never thought Disco was really Star Trek. It could stand on its own feet perfectly fine but shoehorning it into TOS killed it for me. VOY and DS9 were great and showed that you could do different and still fit well.
I always felt like they stretched a Star Trek skin over another IPs pilot in season 1
It should end with Riker and Deanna on the holodeck
No it’s a cgi aged-down Wil Wheaton, and Riker barges in to tell him he’s late for his shift at navigation or whatever.
I'd actually be ok with this.
And Picard.
Retcon them both.
Relying on cultural hot topics rather than real character building killed this show. The spore drive was also kinda "out there" though interesting. I wish the best for the cast.
Relying on cultural hot topics
I might regret asking this, but what "cultural" topics are you saying Discovery "relied on"?
It's not that they're the topic of an episode, but that the show is RELYING on the basic drama of the cultural topics.
Trek is supposed to make allegory for cultural issues, not just blandly do the cultural issues.
The show has one non-binary character and a gay couple and suddenly they're relying on "cultural hot topics".
Please.
Disco had a lot of flaws, and most of them were the same flaws we saw in Picard: the writers just couldn't write full season plot arcs that were satisfying and believable. This is made worse because each season had to raise the stakes, to the point where it just got kinda exhausting. Meanwhile the show just took itself way too seriously, without really earning my emotional investment.
The show has one non-binary character and a gay couple and suddenly they’re relying on “cultural hot topics”.
the gay men brushed their teeth wont somebody think of the children
No, it's the modern, basic portrayal of those characters and their issues that's the problem.
Star Trek is supposed to reflect on human problems and foibles with allegory. Not just slap you across the face with, "see, gays are normal, too!" Yes, we watch Star Trek. We know. Make it more interesting with an allegory tied to a other characters that aren't supposed to be professional officers from a species that's prescribed as already past these issues.
By putting so much basic and direct human drama in STD, they bastardized the entire bluepeint of the show.
I agree with the original post. It's what also killed it for me. Felt like the writers went for the lowest hanging fruit.
I mean it's Star Trek, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, nobody cares about that. Be whoever you want to be, you will be accepted. To me that's what Star Trek has always been about, you will always be included.
Don’t even remember when I stopped watching it, I tried a few episodes each season and I just gave up. Burnham has such a great smile but in all episodes she has a nervous breakdown and is always sad. At least that's how I remember the series in my head. Everybody's depressed. Don't remember anything else.
I mean it’s Star Trek, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, nobody cares about that.
You're implying that Discovery showed characters giving a shit about someone's skin color, gender or sexual orientation?
The show wrIters OBVIOUSLY cared. So much so it shined right through the writing.
The depression and other emotional issues is what got me. It's supposed to be Star Fleet, yet every character is like 12 flavors of drama that should be seen as unprofessional. I enjoy diversity, however Discovery constantly used it in a way where the characters are either struggling with their identity or have practically made it their entire personality, which is stupid because ST has made clear that in its future, no one gives a shit about that stuff because everyone is free to be who they are.
I mean, they even ran out of oppressed minorities and had to start making up their own like Saru's struggle with being a prey species. Or the fucking ship having an identity crisis.
Honestly, the alien stuff is exactly where there is most fertile soil for allegory there. That's what killed it for me, too. They're all unprofessional drama queens from the 21st century. Not space exploration officers from centuries in the future.
Pretty mean thing to say about Jonathan Frakes...
I enjoyed the wackiness that the spite drive introduced.
spore drive
I could get down for a spite drive too.
It would work thousands of years off of one drop of League of Legends solo queue.
It's what you do, when you left your lover because they did something unforgivable.
didn't he play grudge
I am so sorry but I cannot give you the point. You forgot to say "umm...actually".
well I'll be