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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Inspired by gregorum's post concerning issues with startrek.website, which is ironic as lemmy.world is a bit glitchy right now and isn't letting me upload and had to use my alt here.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

By the sideburns of Season 3 Kirk, just have fun with whatever flavor of Trek you have and let's stop Elaan of Troyiusing over nothing. Let's bitch about the Animated Series instead!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She’s the reason I’m gay

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

“Starfleet is weird”

— Janeway

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If THIS is Star Trek, then it's all Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does that have to be Star Trek? Can we all acknowledge that Planet Scotland was just a fever dream?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Along with planet Ireland, planet Africa, planet Capitalism? It's a slippery slope.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but none of those have a ghost sex candle.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

...terrible episode. Followed by "Move Along Home"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I appreciated how incredibly rational he was. His first reaction was, “This is all so silly, I must clearly be dreaming. I shall now scream myself awake!”

He did this again in Distant Voices. “I’m being mind-raped to death by a Lethian? Oh, I don’t think so! Take my 125 year old tennis serve, asshole!”

And again, at the near-end of DS9 with Chief O’Brien in tow when they both cybermindfucked Sloan to get the cure for the Changeling virus. (Yeah, they totally did that, and Sisko and Ezri watched at least part of it).

I also appreciated the almost hilarious irony in that he was, in an almost Doctor Who twist of fate, wrong. No, Dr. Bashir, you are, in fact, trapped in a silly alien game, and must sing and dance your way out of it.

Doctor Who, indeed.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Except the new movies.... That's not Star Trek

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I liked them. They're the first time my wife got interested in Star Trek and an appreciation for sci-fi. It's very hard getting people into this stuff using old studio shows from the 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

My first new Trek was TNG, which I enjoyed, along with DS9. Then, I just lost interest and didn't stick with anything until the Kelvin movies. That got me back in, though Discovery nearly killed it, then Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks reeled me back in.

The Kelvin movies are not the Trekkiest Trek media but they aren't horrible movies.

Of course, nothing has yet to dethrone GalaxyQuest as the best Star Trek movie of all time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard similar from others that it works as a wedge in the door. That's when you take the opportunity to slip in that DS9.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

DS9 of all things? With those exquisitely boring first three seasons? That'll get them off the hook right away!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I would recommend jumping in where Sisko and the show at large "grows the beard."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure it is. It may be flashier, have a larger budget, and largely miss the spirit of the series at that time... I had a point here somewhere.

Eh, pick and choose what bits you enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I liked the "hand held one person cross galaxy transporter that can move someone from Earth to Qo'noS that fundamentally changes all aspects of several galactic civilizations including the concept of space travel via starship, but is for some reason never used or mentioned again by anyone in the universe because Abrams clearly gave no fucks at all about the source material and just invented something so utterly 'not trek' because he wrote himself into a corner and didn't care about anything except the giant check he got."

That was my favorite part.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Figuring out a tech solution that could be applied to many other problems then completely forgetting about it in the next episode is what Star Trek is all about isn't it?

Especially when the transporter is involved. They've used the transporter to cure diseases, then forget about it later. Scotty was in a transporter pattern for decades putting him into a perfect stasis. Whey don't they do something like that for emergency situations if they're running out of air or food? Forgot about it. Riker got split into two different Rikers. Wouldn't the Dominion want to recreate this so they could quickly make millions of copies of fully trained Jem Hadar soldiers every time they rocked up to a planet they wanted to conquer? Guess they didn't think about that. That time O'Brien transported to a ship when the shields were up. Few episodes later "we can't beam over their shields are up!"

The list goes on and on.

I think it's firmly established that transporters are basically magic in Star Trek. They can do whatever an episode needs them to do and they can't do things whenever it would too easily solve a problem. If we're ten minute into an episode: "nope transporter can't do that even if it worked in a previous episode" Last 10 minutes of an episode: "We use the transporter by doing !"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And then in the next movie they cured death!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

In fairness, they did that on Voyager first.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

His favorite part was also the giant check

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

No.
You have been banned from the community: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That place looks like the Q Continuum when Q wanted to unalive himself.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Is it tho? Other than the com badges, every random screenshot I see of Discovery looks like a totally different sci-fi franchise. Especially when the characters are holding phasers.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It, like every series before or concurrently, approaches the universe differently. They all have changes in style, effects, base premise, and acting. It's Trek all the same. Doesn't mean we have to like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I can't say if I like it or hate it as a whole; haven't watched the show it yet (so please don't assume this or my previous statement are meant to disparage; that wasn't my intention). But I also haven't seen Strange New Worlds, which still aesthetically looks like Trek to me from images I have seen. The vibe and tone are way different. Discovery looks like it is trying to be dark and gritty, which isn't very trekky IMO. Which is one of the two main reasons I still haven't watched it (the other being Paramount+ fuckin' sucks)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Trek is gritty as FUCK. TOS was quite gritty with ww3, genetic wars, khan... TNG had roving rape gangs. DS9 had apartheid space nazis. Disco is quite tame compared to the darker tones of DS9 by FAR. I think even behind the comedy, Lower Decks is darker than Disco.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Here’s the thing: Trek was never gritty before. Trek acknowledged the hardships of how we got to that utopian place, but only as a… distant abstract. It was in the past. As Trek went on and new series premiered, more history was revealed. It was gruesome. WWIII.The Eugenics Wars. Khan— who we then met, twice, and, who, then became a person of galactic importance.

But it wasn’t until DS9 that we actually got a glimpse of post-contemporary Earth, but pre-WWIII. We saw San Fransisco in 2024. We saw something we had not yet, as a society, yet conceived in the mainstream: Sanctuary Districts.

Today is March 17, 2024.

I’m not gonna lie: in 1993, I was 14. Even then, I didn’t see how we could stop all this from happening.

I’ll be 85 in 2064. I really hope I live to meet the Vulcans.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

DS9 screenshots in isolation look a lot different from TOS. Things change.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Things change

I know, I've watched Picard season 3 -- everyone gets old, especially the guy watching! Oh wait ... 😕

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Now you’re just being mean 😢

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How do those guys feel when they look in the mirror?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have never considered this, and now it will always be top of mind when that episode comes up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A bit conflicted, I imagine.

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