And then blew it up.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I don’t know that this is controversial or anything, but the current ads for Strange New Worlds where Spock reports on something, La’an asks if he ever speaks in plain English and Una laughs at it annoys the hell out of me. He’s doing his job and they’re being uncharacteristically immature jerks to him about it.
Imagine how relieved he was when they all left. Hey, there's a new Chief Medical Officer reporting in today...
"I'm Leonard McCoy. I just transferred here from a posting on Capella IV."
"Welcome aboard, Doctor. Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel will be eager to get to know you."
"Vulcan, huh?"
"I am half-Vulcan, Doctor McCoy, my mother is human."
"I can already see I'm gonna have a LOTTA fun here."
"Welcome aboard, Doctor. Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel will be eager to get to know you."
"Vulcan, huh?"
"I am half-Vulcan, Doctor McCoy, my mother is human."
"I can already see I'm gonna have a LOTTA fun here."
McCoy:
Which half? Your tests results say Half Romulan.
Is that even in the same scene? Sometimes they cut different scenes together in the trailers that have nothing to do with each other.
I love TNG in general, but there is an episode where Crusher asks Data for 'English, please.' It takes me completely out of the scene because Crusher is literally an MD commissioned in Starfleet, as demonstrated in many episodes, and should have more than enough vocabulary skills to understand Data's explanation!
She'd rather not waste time trying to parse it.
Chakoteya says it's "All Good Things":
To be fair, that'd sound like gibberish to anyone.
Chakoteya says it's "All Good Things":
To be fair, that'd sound like gibberish to anyone.
Crusher may be very well versed in medical vocabulary, but not as good with temporal vocabulary.
Just because someone is an expert in one branch of science doesn't mean they can fully understand all other branches.
Just because someone is an expert in one branch of science doesn't mean they can fully understand all other branches.
^ In her defense, even Starfleet medical databases do that:
EMH2: Doctor, something just went offline.
EMH: Specifically?
EMH2: The secondary gyrodyne relays and the propulsion field intermatrix have depolarised.
EMH: In English.
EMH2 I'm just reading what it says here.
EMH2: Doctor, something just went offline.
EMH: Specifically?
EMH2: The secondary gyrodyne relays and the propulsion field intermatrix have depolarised.
EMH: In English.
EMH2 I'm just reading what it says here.
My dad has a degree too. He has 40 years experience in his field. He gets confused by my mom and I talking the specifics of medicine and side effects from our fields. It happens.
I think it's also a tired and worn out joke line that even the Big Bang resorted to.
No! Not the Big Bang! How dare they...*looks up Big Bang* tell jokes on a sitcom...!?!
I use the joke on a monthly basis. Yes, only I laugh, but really I like it.
Or how about actually having a Star Trek show divorced from any major callbacks/relation to TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY, etc? Create a series set a few decades after Archer. Call it "To Boldly Go" or something.
Star Trek cannon became a labyrinth they couldn't escape. TNG looked like Trek but the ship was ran like a corporate operation. the Borg were corporate raiders, Q the all knowing, all seeing IRS. No kids on the bridge unless they are the son of an old flame. DS9 had The Maquis, (IBM"S Apple) Upstart competitor using innovative disruptive tactics.
All things relevant to the day but didn't work well cloaked in Trek Cannon. If Paramount sees an Orwellian future ahead, they should just go with it and stop beating around the bush. It could be fun!
Captain Musk, we're out of power and it's 40 light years to the next EV charging station.
I think part of the problem is there's a very vocal subset of the fandom that is more interested in the minutiae and connecting the dots of the "Star Trek Universe" than the stories taking place. They're noisy enough that it scares CBS/Paramount from doing anything terribly different.
This is my view as well. Regardless of what people actually like or watch, the vocal pushback will make Paramount more skittish. It's actually closer to radio stations and how they play very familiar popular songs. It's so people don't change the channel on them. Paramount is fearful that negative pushback will lead to unsubscribing. That's a tenuous position to be in.
That doesn't change anything. ENT included the Borg, Ferengi, orion slave girls, Section 31, the mirror universe, Romulans, Brent Spiner as a Soong creating an explanation for 'Trials and Tribbleations' using augment blood and even Will Riker in person.
Your best shot is to just fully reboot and say the new timeline is completely unknown and can be whatever we want it to be. But the modern film series already proved that even that isn't a real defense against obsessive nostalgia bait.
Ultimately the only thing can actually stop it is if the people making Trek consciously and consistently choose not to do it, either because fans finally got tired of it or because the creators have enough backbone to not give in to the inevitable early backlash and enough talent to win people over in the end.
Yep. They rebooted the James Bond film franchise back to his origins as a Double-Oh agent and still couldn't resist keeping Dame Judi Dench as M, recreating M's old office from the first 25 years of the franchise and bringing back the Aston Martin DB-5 not just once but a minimum of three times. Even when you tell the audience to ignore the events from all the earlier canon content because "WE'RE NEW AND SETTING OUR OWN COURSE WITH THE CHARACTER" you frequently can't help but dial down on the callbacks to what came before.
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