So you're commenting on something you only have second hand knowledge of?
The only thing I can do since I don't want to watch it. But I still find the destruction of Romulus stupid and unnecessary.
There is no time travel involved in Sherlock or Elementary. Both versions of Holmes were born and raised in the 2oth/21st Century. Though there is a cool "dream"" episode of Sherlock that takes place in the the 19th Century. Again, you seem to be commenting on things you have no first hand knowledge of.
So now "Sherlock" was born born in the 20th/21st century. What happened to the Sherlock in the 19 century then?
Not sure if you lived through the 60's or where you lived if you did. But in my country, young men were being drafted to fight and die in an immoral war in a foreign country. Some fled the country to avoid service. Others protested against the war and were beaten, assaulted, arrested and killed for doing so. Others marched in support of equal rights and were also beaten, arrested and killed, often by those in charge of "keeping the peace". Our leaders were assassinated. And the man at the top compiled an "enemies list" and used the power of the government to strike at them Not mention the crimes he committed in the next decade. It was a violent decade marked by a sharp divide between young and old, black and white and left and right So take off the rose colored glasses and maybe take a history class or two
Star Trek took an anvil to the head approach to social commentary. It was rarely well done.
Well, when it comes to the war, why don't you blame the North Vietnamese who started it?
However, I actually agree with you on most of what you have written above. Still, the 60's was a happy decade for many people back then.
A lot mor funny, entertaining and hopeful than the dystopian 2020's.
oh, wait, no. Actually, ENT gives us a genetic engineering solution to that. So, that explains all variants of Klingons. So, not horrible at all. Just another variation that looks closer to TMP style than anything else.
But nothing in ENT explains the "Turtles".
Here's the thing. They were totally different from TOS too. Why isn't that an issue? Why is the 24th century the gold standard for behavior? Culturals change and shift and adapt to new behaviors, especially after a horrific event or catastrophe. So, expecting them to behave like the above characters is nonsensical at best.
Because in the 24th Star trek series most of the continuity errors from TOS were sorted out or at least explained. So why create even more contradictions and continuity erroris just for the sake of cheap effects?
No, it isn't
[/QUOTE] To make them look more alien. The exact reason why they were changed for no reason in TMP.[/QUOTE] Which was downright ridiculous since the Klingons were as good and fearful as they were.
If they wanted horrifying aliens, why not create new ones? Lack of skill?
This is just painful. Lynx, you haven't seen DSC, except for the first three episodes, and you keep going on and on, acting as if you know the show. You don't, it shows, and you can't hold up your end of the argument.
You're way out of your lane. It's like talking about TNG in 1992, when you haven't seen anything past "The Naked Now".
It was actually 5 episodes.
Yeah, the episode was pretty bad. But the ideas behind the reunification were great. As often is with Discovery, they have some real potentially fantastic ideas that they totally botch in the realisation (see adira, for example, which is a character that could go in an incredibly number of direction but instead has been barely there once they found Starfleet).
Good ideas which are botched makes a bad series.
ah, yes, that was pretty bad.
I'm really happy that we agree on that one!
there is no “some half-a**ed, light-beer version of the previous species”: the Vulcans are still the Vulcans and the romulans are still the romulans, but they now share home planet again. And of course living together brought to life a third group: people with parents from both.
Yes, and all that will create a new species, The Romulcan whic will become the half-a**ed, light-beer version of the previous species" which I fear it will be and goodbye to two of Star Trek's most interesting and iconic species.
I don’t think when the reunification was completed, but it started decades before the destruction of Romulus and for sure was brought to term way later. Destroying Romulus happened in Star Trek 2009 and had nothing to do with the reunification.
But if not some stupid producer had come up with the destruction of Romulus, then the possible reunification had taken much longer time and the Romulans would still have had their empire anfd their homeworld.Now they are reduced to just some ordinary uninteresting species.
Good luck “fighting” against paramount.
Well, at least I have the courage to stand up for what I think instead of being a coward standing on the knees, bowing and accepting all crap throwed at me. I can at least look in the mirror without being ashamed.
[/QUOTE]no.[/QUOTE]
Yes!
I hope that they could time-travel themselves out of the Star Trek Universe and screw up the Gray Universe instead. Oh wait, not necessary. That's already done.
wrong. It happened in the late 24th, way after the last tng movie.
Which will affect every single 24th century series and book which will be released in the future.
No use in buying books then? And just when I discovered Una mcCorkacks excellent books about Cardassia.
it hasn’t. And hybrids are usually stronger anyway, not weaker, as Spock used to point out in TOS.
Spock is wrong there. Just look at certain mergers between sports teams and such which mostly fails.
It’s literally the same one.
No it isn't which I had described in some comment above.
If it had happened without the destruction of Romulus, the unification may have taken longer time and the Romulans would still have had their empire and their homeworld. Now they have been turned into a third-rate minor species and will perish, becoming "Romulcans".
/QUOTE] what can I say? I didn’t particularly enjoy it in my last rewatch.[/QUOTE]
It's still great to watch despite dated special effects.
