What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Paul755]

I suppose part of that might be because the series hasn't caught up to what we know from the trailers yet. People have already spent weeks speculating about the story and we haven't been given much more to talk about yet.

yeah, there was a lot of good stuff in ep1 as far as catching up with the gang. But not a whole lot in terms of actual plot to speculate on. I’m sure stuff like ships, uniforms, etc.. will fade more into the background once the plot really kicks into high gear.

 

[fireproof78]

The fact that an entire MMO VideoGame surrounding the entire cast of StarShips called "Star Trek Online" has survived since 2010 and is still active even now is a testament to the fanbase within Star Trek that loves "StarShips".

This misses my point entirely.

 

[1001001]

Gentle reminder: let’s not drift into spoilers.

 

[JesterFace]

Gentle reminder

If a gentle reminder won't work, I wonder what will become of it....

 

[plynch]

I now can’t remember the plot.
Ok, remembered the main plot just now. Yes, many of the ancillary bits were cooler.
I just showed my wife Donny’s model in the show and had to explain to her how ship-mad many ppl are. Well, I’m crazy about TOS tunic colors, so to each their own! I should pay someone on fiverr to tweak the color of avatar’s hideous brown tunic there.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fans seem to be more excited about new starships in the background of a space scene and the dedication plaque of the new Stargazer than the actual story content of the show.

This franchise is doomed.

People fan in different ways. I'm not into ship porn myself. Copy paste fleet or special snowflakes fleet it just doesn't matter to me. But if that gets someone's Trek juices flowing, more power to them.

 

[tesral]

People fan in different ways. I'm not into ship porn myself. Copy paste fleet or special snowflakes fleet it just doesn't matter to me. But if that gets someone's Trek juices flowing, more power to them.

Love me my ship porn.

 

[Phil123]

Here's another possibly controversial opinion as he's been brought up with the Excelsior plaque:

I don't like Sulu as a captain. He was okay in VI but not very convincing at all in Flashback. I never saw leadership qualities in Sulu and feel it was only done to make the actor happy. I actually think Chekov would have made a better captain.

And although I would have loved a series set post VI as TOS movie era is possibly my favourite, I'm glad we never got a captain Sulu show.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Rewatching PIC Season 1, I feel they could have got out of that fucking chateau a lot earlier…

I’m really enjoying a rewatch, but I am struck (and I say this as a person who likes the more glacial, ponderous instalments of Star Trek. I’m a TMP Man…) that I find it a bit too slow. By the end of episode 4, roughly three hours of story, Picard is still taking on new band members.

 

[gweeps]

Here's another possibly controversial opinion as he's been brought up with the Excelsior plaque:

I don't like Sulu as a captain. He was okay in VI but not very convincing at all in Flashback. I never saw leadership qualities in Sulu and feel it was only done to make the actor happy. I actually think Chekov would have made a better captain.

And although I would have loved a series set post VI as TOS movie era is possibly my favourite, I'm glad we never got a captain Sulu show.

Sulu's never been one of my favourite characters. Not because of Takei's acting - he's great - but because the role just gave him so little to work with.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I never saw leadership qualities in Sulu and feel it was only done to make the actor happy.

This is literally the reason.

I like George Takei, but I also don't see Sulu as a Captain, except in some circumstance where anybody who's been in Starfleet long enough can be a Captain... Which is probably a thing.

 

[Takeru]

Here's another possibly controversial opinion as he's been brought up with the Excelsior plaque:

I don't like Sulu as a captain. He was okay in VI but not very convincing at all in Flashback. I never saw leadership qualities in Sulu and feel it was only done to make the actor happy. I actually think Chekov would have made a better captain.

And although I would have loved a series set post VI as TOS movie era is possibly my favourite, I'm glad we never got a captain Sulu show.

I agree, Sulu as captain didn't work and a Captain Sulu series would have been a disaster which is probably why it was never considered despite George Takei pushing for it.

 

[Phil123]

Turns out not as controversial as I thought! So much the better.... as Khan would say.

 

[plynch]

Sulu seems more solid and captainy than Chekov, who is kinda goofy.

 

[The Knappos]

The Captain Chekov bit in Final Frontier is gold!

“Wait! Come back!!”

 

[Farscape One]

Chekov doesn't get enough credit. He is actually the most versatile officer of that group... he has been in navigation, security, engineering, science, and has been an XO. I'd bet he worked in communications off screen at some point, too, which I think is the only position other than medical that we never saw him do.

 

[cooleddie74]

He also got an in-universe ship named for him before Sulu did since the Chekov was listed as one of the 40 starships at the Battle of Wolf 359, and that was more than thirty years ago.

 

[Kor]

This is literally the reason.

I like George Takei, but I also don't see Sulu as a Captain, except in some circumstance where anybody who's been in Starfleet long enough can be a Captain... Which is probably a thing.

If TOS movies are any indication, just about everyone seems to get bumped up to Captain at some point. Well, Scotty and Spock, anyway.

And TOS had that desk jockey Commodore Stocker who didn't even have any starship command experience.

Kor

 

[Henoch]

I'd bet he worked in communications off screen at some point, too, which I think is the only position other than medical that we never saw him do.

In ST:II TWOK, he handles communications with Regula One quite well. In ST:GEN, he seems to act like Dr. McCoy...

 

[fireproof78]

Chekov doesn't get enough credit. He is actually the most versatile officer of that group... he has been in navigation, security, engineering, science, and has been an XO. I'd bet he worked in communications off screen at some point, too, which I think is the only position other than medical that we never saw him do.

He did medical in "Generations."

He was Tom Paris before there was a Tom Paris.

Edit: Ninja'd by @Henoch. Yeah, Chekov gets sent to deal with the medical side of the refugees.