Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek
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Really? What problems do you have with "Terra Prime"?
The Ready Room is a French Chateau, so it’s inevitable
What is Star Trek anyway? If it's just whatever the copyright holder (CBS) want to sell us, no matter the quality or tone, then yes, Star Trek: Picard is Star Trek. And so it Discovery, and JJ Trek. But is Star Trek more than just a brand name? Does it stand for something deeper, does it offer some vision for humanity? If it does, or ever has, then I can't see how Picard could be considered true Star Trek. It's more like the antithesis of Star Trek.
Just because they're selling it doesn't mean we have to buy it. I for one will not settle for a subpar Trek, not when we could have--no, not when we should have--good Trek instead. After all, isn't that what we deserve?
Just because they're selling it doesn't mean we have to buy it. I for one will not settle for a subpar Trek, not when we could have--no, not when we should have--good Trek instead. After all, isn't that what we deserve?
Rios' holosuite will probably become the bridge of the Enterprise-D at some point before the series ends.
Do you want the truth? No.
The problem with that argument is that most of us genuinely like the show, and think it's good Trek.
If you're up for arguing about that, this is the place. But nobody's actually saying Picard is Trek just because CBS says so.
When it wants to offer a vision, yes. Other times we get "Spock's Brain(TOS)," "Sub Rosa(TNG)," "Profit and Lace(DS9)," "Fury(VOY)" and "A Night in Sickbay(ENT)."
Do not diss "A Night In Sickbay"! Diss "Precious Cargo" that is the "Spock's Brain"/"Sub Rosa" of Enterprise!When it wants to offer a vision, yes. Other times we get "Spock's Brain(TOS)," "Sub Rosa(TNG)," "Profit and Lace(DS9)," "Fury(VOY)" and "A Night in Sickbay(ENT)."
"ANiS" is shale!
"Precious Cargo," however, is actual anus.
"Precious Cargo," however, is actual anus.
Wha? Who's talking about TNG when it premiered in 1987? This thread is about current Star Trek.
Not much between despair and ecstasy
We're just doing the breast we can.
I'm not going to agree with you that this isn't Star Trek. I think what Star Trek is has "evolved" with the current expectations from television.
I will say as someone who like you grew up on 90s/2000s Star Trek I much prefer those 25 seasons/4 movies and the two decades of novels we got satisfyingly continuing that version of Trek. Thankfully we both can continue to enjoy them indefinitely.
Now I've got that tune stuck in my head.
I'm gonna stick up for "Sub Rosa." Trek can be anything. Including trashy Gothic romance.
You're welcome.
On what basis do you think it is the antithesis? There is a society struggling to maintain and live its core value, but there is also a hero trying to remind that society of what is important. There have been times in Star Trek that the society has lost its way. There have been times when people have been less welcoming to strangers. The story has always worked to show how the things Star Trek "stands for" is restored.
From entertainment media? No.
That is up to the fans to create that more, not incumbent on CBS. So, short answer, no.
Nah...let's keep it, so in 15 years when Trek has evolved yet again, and everyone is crying and whining about it not being "real" and violating everything the franchise stands for, and ultimately being awful compared to DSC and PIC, we can point back to this and continue to laugh about how some things never change.
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