• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    “Nu Trek”, ie. Star Trek: Discovery and maybe Strange New Worlds depending on how deranged the person whinging about “Nu Trek” is.

    edit: oh look, proof in the comments

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      Everything Alex Kurzman touches turns it to a steaming pile of shit.

      SNW has been OK, so far and i have a hunch that Alex has been in the sidelines, but the newest season has started to smell like him.

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      15 hours ago

      Disc didn’t grab me, SNW started off solid but man, now it just seems to be shitpost eps. Lower decks had more coherency than the last two s3 offerings.

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      Oh yeah, all nu trek shield just burn in a big fire

      Wanna make sci-fi? Go ahead, I’ll wait, all fine

      Wanna make shitty sci-fi? Sure, go ahead. I won’t watch it but you do you

      Wanna take a 50 year old franchise, with endless amounts of information and events to adhere to, a show with a certain mind set… You wanna take that, and change everything about it, change the feel good into a gritty everything sucks and everyone is horrible, change the nicely well lit and shot Show to something with only flashy dutch angles and flares and glares? Wanna change the interesting gripping stories into dull pew pew we all are traumatized now? Wanna make your show using people who either don’t know or hate the show? Wanna make that show and use it’s popularity for your own political bullshit messages?

      Yeah, please don’t?

      Watch the Orville instead. Anyone that loved TNG and DS9 will see within two episodes that this show is he teal successor to star Trek, made by people who love trek.

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      Discovery had some good episodes, but a lot of the writing was terrible, like the season with the ship that had all knowledge that they couldn’t get away from, they wrote themselves into a corner and then the resolution was nonsense

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        they decided the future was escape from the bad writing, of the klingons, cloaking tech, and instantaneous teleportation, they toned down the spore drive teleportation by the end because it was getting too much negative attention .

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      Discovery is fine, but it is the worst of the Star Trek series. It’s not bottom of the barrel TV, but it’s weak. It does some fun things, but it has a lot of episodes that just drag on.

      That being said Strange New Worlds is excellent. It does have some weak episodes but when it’s great, it’s fantastic.

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        STD, AND picard were pretty bad, but snw is only so-so, lower decks is much better than the 3 though. prodigy might have more praise if it lasted longer as a series.

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        Totally agree. Discovery definitely had some fun cool things, especially in the early seasons. Unfortunately I think it got kind of sanctimonious as it progressed and that made a lot of the episodes kind of tedious.

        SNW is sooo good, though. Still mad that Lower Decks was cancelled, too.

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          The only thing terrible about Enterprise is the opening song. The show itself was competent if a little campy trek. Discovery and Picard are just dramafest crap in comparison.

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          Personally, I hated Picard a lot more than Enterprise. The first season was fine. But it was all kind of confusing after that.

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            OK yeah to be fair I did think Picard was way worse than Enterprise. I watched all of ENT but couldn’t get more than a few episodes into Picard, it was just ehhhhh

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            picard was wierd bad at the same time, 1st season romulan threat, dropped in the 2nd season, which had borg and potential invasion of time traveling borg, immediately dropped the 3rd season with no explanation until the very last few episodes, and the wierd changeling arc?. this is all kurtzman’s doing for all 3 seasons.

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              Because kurtzmann just cherry picks the high notes and stuffs them in devoid of context

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            Picard gets a pass because season 3 was a love letter to 90s Trek. It’s a 10 episode reunion episode.

            I had fun with season 2. If you look at it as a mirror universe or holodeck program going wild, it’s fun. But also it’s sorta just a weird fanfic of a season.

            Season 1 exists.

            Maybe Picard is worse than Discovery, but Discovery also wasted a lot more of my time, but also Discovery gave us Strange New Worlds.

            The biggest disappointment of Enterprise is that after all the 90s Trek build up, we go back to the start of the Trek timeline. We build a fun new Next Generation era and then just drop it for the Beginning Generation.

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      It’s actually all garbage but at least the movies were better than whatever Marvel slop is being churned out these days. It’s just a gigantic drop in quantity if you compare it to the previous shows that were written by literate folks with at least secondary education and not whatever free LLMs that Kurtzman guy and friends are using to write their shows, lol.

      I don’t even care because I understand IPs and titles can be easily bought, I never expected any quality just because the shows share the same name. 🤷