“Jean-Luc Picard is back”: will new Picard show eclipse Discovery?
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I guess "corporate networking brunches" would be a burden though....
One thing is for certain..: I sure as hell do not tune to my favorite sci-fi adventure show to see people sitting around a conference table talking and debating.
I get enough of that all week at work.
Nope. Build another strawman.
I'm "Generation X", and all I want is a good story. I don't care if it is like Star Trek Into Darkness or Star Trek: The Motion Picture (my top two Trek films), I just want to be engaged.
And thanks to advances in subspace communications, Picard can sit in virtually on conferences hundreds of light years away!
"This generation thinks this and that generation thinks that" is too easy of a trap to fall into. Just broad generalizations. There are fans new and old who like DSC, as well as fans new and old who don't.
Being born in 1979, I sit right on the border between being Generation X and being a Millennial. I don't feel like I fully fit into either one. But theoretically, Berman-Era Trek would be my favorite if we went by generational stereotypes. Obviously it's not. I like TOS and DSC better than any of those series.
Then you have the old-guard who can't stand "STD" but they love the Abrams Movies. So it's not entirely a generational thing. It's a matter of what they like. I just disagree with them, but that's as far as it goes.
I prefer to go person-by-person, not make broad sweeping generalizations. I didn't like it when they were leveled towards me when I didn't like whatever the newest Star Trek was and I'm not going to level it towards them just because the tables have turned.
Being born in 1979, I sit right on the border between being Generation X and being a Millennial. I don't feel like I fully fit into either one. But theoretically, Berman-Era Trek would be my favorite if we went by generational stereotypes. Obviously it's not. I like TOS and DSC better than any of those series.
Then you have the old-guard who can't stand "STD" but they love the Abrams Movies. So it's not entirely a generational thing. It's a matter of what they like. I just disagree with them, but that's as far as it goes.
I prefer to go person-by-person, not make broad sweeping generalizations. I didn't like it when they were leveled towards me when I didn't like whatever the newest Star Trek was and I'm not going to level it towards them just because the tables have turned.
I always find it amusing that somehow generalizations and stereotypes based on generation seem acceptable.
Because getting old, or being young is something everyone experiences, its not unique to any group - race, ethnicity, tribe, gender or sexuality.
On another note: not Rambo Picard with Safety Goggles. I came up with something even better earlier today. It just hit me at random.
Picard on the Dune Buggy is... Nascar Dad Picard!
I think the whole Dune Buggy sequence is one of the weirdest things that we've seen in all the movies... I mean Picard driving around like a madman while Worf was shooting the natives... Seriously!!! That's SOOOO star trek... NOT!
Kirk: It seems impossible. A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
Picard: Hold my beer.
Picard: Hold my beer.
Beer. That's how out of character the buggy scene was.
He must've been having a Mid-Life Crisis, pining for his days he before got stabbed through the heart...
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Pretend I never said that. There's no two ways about it. He was out of character.
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... No.
Pretend I never said that. There's no two ways about it. He was out of character.
But Kirk was the one that was more laxed about the rule than Picard.
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