You should use reverse psychology instead, tell them its rubbish and they will watch it
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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"
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40. Fell in love with TNG. I really loved the optimism and humanistic message that the show brought forth.
Star Trek encouraged me to pursue a career in engineering even though I could have gone a different route and played baseball at a Division 1 college level for Old Dominion University. But, after experiencing the loss of my brother, I knew that I wanted to change things for the better (and it is also really hard to make a career out of baseball).
I took a job working for the US Navy and worked my way up. I now have the privilege of working on the USS Enterprise CVN-80 ensuring that it is structurally sound and in accordance with US Navy technical specifications.
Not quite the career path I envisioned, but I am happy with the way things turned out and it is funny that a tv show may have had something to do with it.
Star Trek encouraged me to pursue a career in engineering even though I could have gone a different route and played baseball at a Division 1 college level for Old Dominion University. But, after experiencing the loss of my brother, I knew that I wanted to change things for the better (and it is also really hard to make a career out of baseball).
I took a job working for the US Navy and worked my way up. I now have the privilege of working on the USS Enterprise CVN-80 ensuring that it is structurally sound and in accordance with US Navy technical specifications.
Not quite the career path I envisioned, but I am happy with the way things turned out and it is funny that a tv show may have had something to do with it.
Well, if everyone is doing this, 33, started watching Trek when I accidentally stumbled upon a rerun of Our Man Bashir at age 12. I've been a diehard DS9 fan ever since (and Garak's tuxedo gave me a lifelong fascination with aliens wearing human clothes), and I always felt disappointed whenever the local cable channel ended its ongoing rerun of TNG and went on to Voyager or just circled back to Encounter at Farpoint. Not that I didn't like them too, but as Star Trek was mostly broadcast on weekend mornings, TNG and Voyager quickly became my lighter, "comfort-watching" Trek as I was going about my morning routine, especially with Voyager that felt closer in tone to the standard '90s action-adventure shows that we've also watched. Still, I greatly enjoyed the stories of Data and Seven as I've always been drawn towards outsider characters and, to quote Tyrion Lannister, "cripples, bastards and broken things", due to how alienated I've felt from my peers throughout my childhood (gender dysphoria, as it turned out). Picard was someone I admired a lot as a kid because of how wise and stoic he was, how he always seemed to have all the answers and how he could always convince people to see his side with his speeches, something that appealed to me a lot as a kid who was generally not taken seriously by others. However, I've come to see him as haughty, arrogant and emotionally far too repressed as I've grown up, and I welcomed Star Trek: Picard revisiting and deconstructing his hubris.
I've practically always been an outlier among the already few Hungarian Star Trek fans from my generation who were always TNG or Voyager fans first and foremost and would go on to complain about the new shows by mindlessly parroting the most common culture war talking points. I myself remember feeling incensed at the 2009 movie for "shitting on canon" and changing how everything looked, then I promptly went to the premiere, loved it and realized that visual continuity didn't matter to me at all, an attitude I've thankfully brought with myself to the new era. Incidentally, the friend I can share my love for Trek the most is in their late twenties, with the Kelvin movies being their first foray into the franchise before getting hooked on Discovery. I introduced them to DS9 and they like it, but they found it too much to marathon through, especially when there's always something new with 8-10 episodes coming out, so they got stuck halfway through Season 3. But at least they understand the memes I'm sending
I've practically always been an outlier among the already few Hungarian Star Trek fans from my generation who were always TNG or Voyager fans first and foremost and would go on to complain about the new shows by mindlessly parroting the most common culture war talking points. I myself remember feeling incensed at the 2009 movie for "shitting on canon" and changing how everything looked, then I promptly went to the premiere, loved it and realized that visual continuity didn't matter to me at all, an attitude I've thankfully brought with myself to the new era. Incidentally, the friend I can share my love for Trek the most is in their late twenties, with the Kelvin movies being their first foray into the franchise before getting hooked on Discovery. I introduced them to DS9 and they like it, but they found it too much to marathon through, especially when there's always something new with 8-10 episodes coming out, so they got stuck halfway through Season 3. But at least they understand the memes I'm sending
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Disagree. There will just be one hallway.
There is that aspect. I know of a few younger folks, in the late teens to early 20's age range that are into Star Trek..they just don't use message boards like us oldsters
Rewatching this and picked up on a similar sound design for life signs with Vadic's scanner as Chekov's on Ceti Alpha V.
It will be one hallway redressed to represent three hallways.
That’s almost like…the Holy Trinity. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy CONFIRMED 11!!!1!!!!!
These days you might be right, he’s rebelling against the orthodox teachings. I fear he may turn to stargate when he’s older.
I'm 55 and have a co-worker in his mid to late twenties who is very into Star Trek (the influence of his father). We compare notes on each new episode of Picard after we've both seen it, after making promises to each other not to provide spoilers to the other.
As for me, I'm not quite old enough to have seen the original series when it originally aired, but my mom watched it when she was pregnant with me. I got into Star Trek during the big syndication craze of the seventies and have seen every single movie in the theater during its first theatrical run.
Nah, it won't be redressed, they'll just shoot it from the other angle.
We're also in the Picard forum, which I'd bet skews slightly older than DIS or SNW.
I've had this running through my head since I saw the episode title.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Did you know that the Sisters of Mercy were going on their first US tour in almost 15 years?
https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/sisters_of_mercy_announce_first_us_tour_in_over_14_years
As long as there is a red wooden door at the end of the hallway.
OMG! No I did not!
Then the young one is wise...grasshopper.
Then the young one is wise...grasshopper.
I only accept Stargate the movie as a gateway to classical history and antiquity, and the franchise as a gateway to Farscape…. XD
