Win/Win.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Win/Win.
I can only handle up thru season 2 of Angel. After that it went off the rails for me. But Buffy is golden.
Let's bring this back to Trek. Which Trek character do you think is also the Slayer?
Ro Laren - end thread
K'Ehleyr would disagree.
Well, after a Slayer dies another one is called.
And that's just if no one's used CPR. Or a magic axe. So while I agree with Ro, she's definitely not the end of the discussion, either.
Honestly, I'd probably also nominate Seven, Uhura, Una, L'Rell, Princess Po, Jadzia Dax, Leeta, Seska, B'Elanna, Jaylah, Tasha Yar, Anne Mulhall and I know I'm surely forgetting a bunch of others.
I second Uhura and Dax. It seems like just the sort of thing Dax would do, and she has the right personality too.
I've been mostly positive on New Trek. Even the stuff that's not a favorite of mine, it's been more of a case of I'm just not into it. just wanted to get that out of the way before I say: I think Very Short Treks is total shit. It's complete trash and I don't know how it was approved. What it thinks is funny isn't what I think is funny. I saw part of "Worst Contact" and couldn't even get through it. I thought, "Fuck this!" and give it a 0.
I don't know where else to put this post, but I'm sure having such a negative opinion about Very Short Treks will be seen as "controversial" by at least someone.
I don't know where else to put this post, but I'm sure having such a negative opinion about Very Short Treks will be seen as "controversial" by at least someone.
I think the VERY SHORT TREKS thread is in the TOS section of the board.
"Worst Contact" isn't TOS-related, it's TNG. And I'm not going into the forum just to start a thread about it. I don't normally post in the TNG Forum but, if I did, it would be for something better than that.
I watched the first VST, skipped the second one, and caught a very small part of the third. Won't be watching the rest. I don't think it's a good way to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of TAS, and it sells short what that series was.
A live-action Trek sitcom would be viable.
Controversial implies somebody out there agrees with it.
Turtletrekker seems to agree.
I think it's possible, but it has to feel organic, it has to feel unforced, and whoever's doing it has to fully commit to the idea. And it has to be a half-hour!
There is no strong reason it couldn’t work. A halfway house between SNW and LDS.
Yes.
Moving on. One not so controversial, the second, maybe.
Controversial Opinion 1
TNG Is Not A Dumpster Fire
The TNG crew and TNG itself are as much an important part of popular culture as TOS. It’s still possible to see TNG broadcast somewhere, every day, all over the world. It has endured.
As these things do, favour seems to have waned for it in recent years in fan circles. But on the whole, it’s a brilliant show. It may be of its time, but as far as TV sci-fi goes, it is the best of its time by far.
Controversial Opinion 2
Star Trek No Longer Sits On The TV Sci-fi Throne
(and it hasn’t done for quite some time).
Star Trek really struggles for relevancy in the present TV landscape. It has spent the last 20+ years adjusting to the idea of no longer being the biggest sci-fi game in town. Time was, TOS/TNG were the best in terms of spaceship-bound TV science fiction, but since… oooh… around the late Nineties onwards, TV sci-fi has blossomed.
In the 80s/90s, something like SNW would have been the science fiction show on TV. These days SNW is just one of many excellent science fiction shows on TV, but it’s far from being the most popular or even the best.
Same goes for the cinema. Not that many good space-movies in the 1980s. Less for something like say, TVH to compete with, so boom, profit! These days, Star Trek is a small fish in a big pond as far as the Box Office goes.
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In the '00s, my go-to sci-fi series of the time were Farscape and Battlestar Galactica.
Until Discovery came along, I didn't really watch any new sci-fi series in the '10s. Picard finally prompted me to go back to watch The 12 Monkeys, which I'm working my way through right now and I'm enjoying it. The Expanse is another one I want to see. I've heard about how good it is from people who I'm more inclined to agree with.
The less I say about cinema, the better. Not much from the late-'00s right up until Barbenheimer really interested me. I'm really hoping Barbenheimer is the game-changer I'm hoping it'll be. Sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes, comic book movies, and a non-stop onslaught of PG-13 movies turned me off from a good decade-and-a-half of movies. As far as I'm concerned, Streaming TV has been where it's at. TV has been better than movies for quite a while now.
Even with Trek. I preferred the Streaming Series to the Abrams Films. Though, once again, the bubble is bursting even there. The stuff I liked better is ending. The stuff I'm not that interested in is continuing. My time is just about up. At least for the Kurtzman Era. Even SFA, if it wasn't for the Disco connection, I probably wouldn't even be bothering with it.
I’ve been saying this for years now. TV offers long form storytelling opportunities that the cinema just can’t match. I’m interested to watch Oppenheimer, but I’d be more interested if it was a six part mini-series because I’d just get more out of it.
ETA - There have however been many good movies over the last 15 years. With respect, I think it’s a bit silly to say otherwise.
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