Mileage will vary. It struck me as no worse than First Contact body horror, or the awful transporter death in TMP.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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Next generation, so Data is Spock's kid, right?
Honestly, back when it was on the air, I had a conversation with a guy who watched Voyager every week. He was telling me that his favorite character was "the bald chick". It took me a while to realize he was talking about B'elanna.
but most of those were characters with no real back story glorified extras
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, that is what Icheb has been relegated to.
Very much like the way David was disposed of during the Genesis Incident.
Such is life in the Star Trek Universe.
That was dumb also and had no real build up and i have everyright to complain about a bad decison thats out of my control
I never get this. They are supposed to be humans having real human experiences. It's still horrific.
Ok, how about Tasha Yar's backstory of her mom being killed and rape gangs a threat?
Not horrible enough? How about O'Brien being punished by imprisonment, where he becomes so paranoid he kills his friend?
Trek is full of darkness. Them being unnamed characters doesn't make it less dark. It makes it worse for me.
Is that the Mexican chick?
The reboot movies were subject to diminishing returns and have already largely been forgotten in a pop cultural landscape that movies faster and faster every day. Not a day goes by where there isn't a new movie, a new hit show, a new nostalgia-baiting reboot...
Picard won't get much of a foothold for much of the same reason. It's frankly not good enough to cut through the noise.
The nostalgia factor is high, but the quality isn't high enough to truly make a lasting impact.
yeah but they alot of that the either never show or it has a point to them this is just classless this is nothing buch fridging to get some shock
No, i suppose not. But so what? Bad things happen to people sometimes in the Star Trek universe, just like in this one, although somewhat less frequently. If there's a particular reason why this stuff has to be hidden offstage in Trek, I don't know what it is.
A 21st-century audience has to be able to get the visual references. Just think of it as the output of a visual universal translator.
Weaker scene, but he could have. Why should he have?
I didn't say you shouldn't, I was merely pointing out the folly of becoming too attached to minor characters in the Trek Universe.
I too was very disappointed with my namesake (David) being killed, but I also saw the value of the powerful significance in how it affected the main character of the story.
Agree to disagree. Star Trek has done it before, will do it again. Doesn't make it less Star Trek, or optimistic or whatever.
3 movies later
We'll circle around back to this in 10 years.
yes it has but i see no balance to this its so one sided
That's a horrifying scene. I skip that because it will make me cry.
Happy to!
Story isn't over yet. Of course it's one sided. That's like being mad at Empire Strikes Back for being not happy enough.
Balance? I don't see how the concept applies.