Star Trek

I forced myself to watch the full trailer.

Borg queen looks like a bad cosplayer from a convention. The blonde murderer from S1 is the funny quip character, don't know how that works personally. She should be in prison.

Q looks decent, but his story was pretty perfectly done in TNG, this is another story that doesn't need to be told. I know he showed up in VOY & DS9, but as far as him and Picard goes, it was tied off perfectly. But they can't leave well alone.

Overall it looks like more Kurtzman-era sentimental, melodramatic tosh. "I will get you home", "In the darkness there is always light", "To heal our future, we have to repair the past". Just garbage.

I ordered my first Star Trek novel the other day. Ghost Ship I think it's called. It's the first "numbered series", whatever that means. Apparently it was written before the show was cast and the front cover shows an upside down ship from Battle Star Galactica.

Nice one I started collecting them a couple years ago as theyh're quite cheap to buy. I only got to about 40-odd before I ran out of space on the bookshelf. I might pick it up again asm the book are usally quite fun, only had a couple of utterly duff ones.    

I was inspired by friend who bought a load on eBay.

I still haven't seen all of TNG, I'm just into series six. But I know that when it's over, I'll miss it.   I want to start reading the books now so I have that universe, those people and places, to revisit.   It's a salve, you know? When times are tough, TNG always makes me feel better.

Just clocked that Star Trek I - IV have just had fancy new 4K(han) remasters released and my Apple TV versions have upgraded to them. Sweet.

Lizard

No way! That's my favourite, I actually got him to sign my copy at a convention a few years back

I just watched the Picard season 2 trailer...

I quite liked the first season, for the most part. I did think it ended poorly and I didn't have much interest in the Romulan/Borg stuff, but it was mostly enjoyable.

Season 2 doing basically the mirror universe in a different guise doesn't look hopeful. The mirror universe works for an episode as something cheesey and fun. As soon as you try to take it seriously it just falls apart. Even DS9 struggled more and more with each return. I can't see this being any different.

I normally like timey-wimey stuff, particularly the way TNG did it, but this just looks like a straightforward present day jump. I already just from the trailer know the messaging they will be getting at with this, one that I could be sympathetic towards, but also one that I don't expect will go any deep than what we can already gather.

When it comes to Disco, I find it a deeply frustrating show. Mainly because there is something there that could passibly be good. I mostly like the characters and the general tone is normally visibly Trek. The writing is just abysmal though. With each season I warm to it, but before the end of the season that will all fall off a cliff, with each more ridiculous moment. I also just wish we could see some down time. Trek always had the characters living lives and actually socialising, which Disco never bothers showing us, too busy rushing for the next stupid plot curve. Season 3 started to show a little of it, but still not much.

Lower Decks is weird and I don't understand why they decided to make an adult animation show in the Trek universe. Watched a couple of episodes and it wasn't very funny, had uninteresting characters and stories were meh (which is an improvement on Disco).

I gave up on Lower Decks but after bouncing off it originally I’m fully onboard with The Orville now Disney+ is letting me binge it.

Its got such strong TNG dna and production values to match. Even if all the jokes don’t land.

Love that its not going all grimdark too

Totally. When Star Trek Discovery was announced while the world was going to shit, I was so looking forward to a change from all the bleakness porn of contemporary TV. Turned out DIS was just another modern TV show to make me feel worse. I was sceptical about The Orville (because Family Guy) but was pleasantly surprised that it's actually entertaining without wallowing in misery like most other shows.

I really need to give Enterprise a try at some point. VOY and TNG were very hit-and-miss, but still had a few good characters and episodes to keep things afloat and DS9 was mostly a success. From what I hear ENT started out weak and got better as it developed?

Discovery and Picard on the other hand seem to have not turned out overly well if redlettermedia can be believed. Well, obviously not just them, but they did leave and impression to be sure.

That fucking song

Yeah, be fair. Voyager wasn’t hit and miss, it was just one continual miss.

I think Enterprise’s biggest weakness is that it took itself so seriously. Which meant it never really developed the domestic warmth that the three 90s series had.

Also, that theme song.