No. It's a quality vs. lesser quality thing. That it's Star Trek and Star Wars is beside the point.
Look, I am biased in being both one of the board's top Terry Matalas fans and SNW Haters... but... I'm glad to see the PS3 team get some recognition, and anything to further help the case for Legacy...I don't care who wins what.
I ask what it does and how it helps?
Because I don't understand these things. Call me dim, but the awards feel very arbitrary to me...
And, I don't care if SNW, Discovery, or Andor all win them. I'd ask the same question. Will I feel more entertained now when I watch them?
Back when it was airing, there were two major groups in opposition to PS3
Upfront, I'm not a Star Wars fan. But, I watched the trailer for Andor. It looks good. I can tell it's probably better than The Mandalorian (from what I know about The Mandalorian, I haven't seen that one either). But it doesn't look "Sooooo much better!" I stand by what I say, it'll probably win a bunch at some point.
I definitely have sensed that. I think that, since one of the things Picard season 3 is usually lauded for by the "wrong people" is fidelity to the Berman era and everything that came before it, they take praise and adulation for Picard season 3 as a tacit criticism of Discovery and Strange New Worlds. And I feel like that's where a lot of the resistance to Legacy comes from too. That if Matalas is allowed to take Star Trek in that direction they fear it will validate the criticisms people have had of both shows, and the "reimagining" of Star Trek that DSC and SNW have done will be less likely in the future.
I thought Red Letter Media's review of Picard season 3 made a great point that the season not only tries to course correct seasons 1 and 2 of Picard. It also is attempting to correct some of the choices made for the TNG movies. The most obvious way that's seen is Data, and having to find a way to bring him back that threads the needle of everything that's been done since Nemesis.
Yup. I had to deal with that when someone, I won't say who, hit me with, "I'm surprised YOU like Picard Season 3 so much!" Well, I was a fan of the TOS Movies long before New Trek existed AND I've had issues with every TNG Movie except for First Contact long before then as well. So I've wanted something like this for a long time. Plus, yes, I did watch TNG every day for a while in the '90s. Most of us did. I wasn't about to let some stupid "my side versus your side!" thing on the internet dictate what I'll like.
All of this speaks to the idea of the Silent Majority. People who are satisfied are less likely to say something than those who aren't.The weirdest conclusion I'm seeing is that if you liked PIC more than SNW, you must have hated SNW. One can be better than the other without that other being crap
Anyway, here's the detailed result counting all votes (popular instead of EC I guess
PIC S3: 8.4, 8.0, 8.8, 9.0, 9.0, 8.7, 7.9, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9 => Average: 8.58
SNW S2: 7.7, 8.8, 8.1, 7.5, 8.3, 7.9, 9.1, 8.7, 7.8, 8.5 => Average: 8.25
No matter how you look at it, on this TrekBBS as of now, PIC wins too.
Star Trek during the Berman era had the mandate to be a 4 Quadrant show (in the entertainment industry sense, although I'm sure something could be made of DS9 having the Gamma Quadrant, VGR the Delta Quadrant, and DS9 being able to expand into the Alpha and Beta Quadrants when TNG was finished...). Yes, DS9 was the "spare"... given greater latitude to be the second show on the air while the respective primary series was ship based and more episodic. But they all targeted the same broad viewership, just with different structural constraints (especially the additional layer of UPN interference for VGR and ENT, and film studio and actor interference on the TNG film side).
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Crazy that FC likely had the least amount of studio or actor interference of the four TNG films. People like to blame Rick Berman and Brannon Braga for everything, but the suits and actors ultimately did in that era. PS3 finally allowed the "Berman era" to evolve naturally into the serialized streaming era without full scale revisionism.
Has anyone in this thread "freaked out"?
Cult ... hahaha .... no, Terry Trek is an enthralling cultural phenomenon that is well on its way to solidifying a place on the Mount Olympus of Grand Science Fantasy Entertainments!
Yeah, it's real, and being hawked by the same videoblogging suck-ups who've tried to ride Matalas' coattails to some attention and easy money by launching the astroturf "give Terry the keys" movement since before the third year premiered.
Except no one has said, beyond jokingly, that Akiva Goldsman or Henry Alonso Myers should be elevated to sainthood.
Some of It's the braying of the self-perceived aggrieved seeking redress from a world that does not, in fact, owe them something.
Oh yeah. You'd think Alex Kurtzman personally punched all their mothers in the face and shit on their collection of Trek DVD's, by the way some of those idiots act.
