Star Trek

Its just annoying that almost every episode has a 'leave him in an easily escapable room with some lightly armed guards' scene from Austin Powers. Usually facilitated by that fucking goomba insisting 'I know she has shot everyone but let me deal with it. I can talk to her'

Yeah I'm watching it, it's shit but still watchable in a have it on whilst cooking way.

I’m holding off on Disco 5 until I can binge the whole thing.

I’m ready to feel frustrated though. I think overall its been getting steadily better as its gone on (with some seriously big missteps along the way) but it does have a consistent habit of setting up stuff that could be interesting Trek premises then completely fluffing them.

I have a feeling they won’t top the ‘Arrival’ arc from season 4 though and they’ll continue to not recognise which parts of the show work best and focus on the weaker parts instead, again.

Its the weirdest episode. Its a throwaway bit of fluff to hand wave why all of the alien species look the same but with a slightly different nose ridge but actually has the most far reaching consequences of pretty much any episode in the show. Its absolutely inconceivable that Picard, who has a well established archeology boner, would just let that drop. If they were going to go back to the well, they should have done it for Picard S2 and saved us all from the shite they actually dished up.

And, man, the 'archive footage' is hilarious. Moon faced, changling-esque plasticine people, softly lit on an obvious sound stage super imposed onto the harsh 4K CGI Discovery sets looks so weird. Its always jarring when they use show footage as in-universe documentary but that just looks odd.

But, yeah, the concept is fine. I'm not against them exploring that further. I think its fairly fair game as it should have always been a bigger deal. Its just that the antagonists are so lame it just kills me.

I can't even bring myself to hatewatch Discovery.

I'm kinda glad some people found something interesting in it.

My problem with it is what it says about evolution. It's actually a general problem of Star Trek where whenever the topic comes up it shows the writers' pre-Darwin "understanding" of evolution and it makes me want to throw my shoes at the screen.

And here's TNG again, you know that TV show that's supposed to be about science and stuff, and establishes that mankind is the product of guided evolution/intelligent design, that it is the end goal of evolution... I just can't... gah!

I'm trying to watch Picard, but it is soooo boring. Flashbacks galore.

I fell asleep during the last episode of Discovery. My Paramount subscription has ran out, and I cannot be bothered to renew it yet. And I think I can live without knowing how it ends.

Perhaps my favourite episode, Garak just elevates everything.

TIL Mila Kunis as Deanna Troy looks a lot like Lt Savik.

A racially insensitive Bajoran caricature by Avid Merrion

That AI loves overly wrinkly plastic faces.

I think there's a universal law that Alan Tudyk as anyone in anything would be great.