I always consider that the visual for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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I always consider that the visual for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
Agreed. Jammer has been an essential part of my Trek viewing experience since I was a kid. Reading his reviews went hand in glove with watching an episode, and still does. But gosh, this review makes me feel like my parents are getting divorced. Or something.
We also had Kirk and Spock being whipped in Patterns of Force.
It's funny because there's no gore or anything but when the Kelvan crushes the crewman into dust it really bothered me as a kid.None of those ever freaked me out the way that faceless woman in "Charlie X" did.
Horror has been part of STAR TREK since the Salt Vampire at least.
And launched a thousand slash fics.
And then Spock walks on Kirk's back and they play it for laughs.
No, they had to use Maddox. If the show said, "Hey, we're searching for the greatest cyberneticist in the galaxy, the only one who could possibly have created a new Data" and they DIDN'T use Maddox, then the hyperfans would be up in arms.
Besides, far better to use a character with a little bit of actual history than just inventing a new rando. Since some version of that character needed to exist for their story to work (and I use the word "work" loosely), then going with the established Maddox was the smart and correct thing to do.
IIRC, crew woman.
Jammer has always been smart, perceptive and insightful. For him to be "on board" with this show would be a crushing disappoint and would call into question his decades of good taste.
Wesley was annoying and badly written in Season 1 (as was everything else.) He got a little bit better in Season 2, then a lot better...and then he left.
In fact, the decreasing in Wesley's annoyance factor is directly proportional to the series as a whole improving.
I meant crewman as a gender-inclusive term.
Yeah you cant really say Crew person that really doesn't work well and is kind of clunky
In the eyes of the general public, TNG is still definitely the "default" version of Trek. TOS is too far in the past and the post-TNG series (whether or not they were better than TNG or worse) never had the same cultural impact.
I thought the distinction was important, given that it was pretty rare for a woman in Trek to meet such a fate.
None of those ever freaked me out the way that faceless woman in "Charlie X" did.
Horror has been part of STAR TREK since the Salt Vampire at least.
(shudder) Kirk's screams as those fingers pulsate.
Would you say it's Maclunky?
Out of curiosity, what are your Trek leanings? I'm guessing TOS, TNG, and DS9?
I would never say TOS is too far in the past. The vast majority of pop culture tributes and parodies of Star Trek use Kirk, Spock and TOS as their characters and settings. TNG is the second most legendary Trek in the eyes of the world at-large if I had to judge the relative popularity of both series based on how often I've seen them spoofed on TV, in cartoons or in comics and artwork.
Cant say for him but just so everything is in the open TNG, DS9, ENT,TWOK, SFS, TFF (just for how stupid it is and its premise in a so bad its good way) and TUC