We'll call it a draw. There is a lot to like in both."The Enterprise Incident" is also WAY better than The Last Jedi.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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The I wish I'd seen the version of The Last Jedi you saw.
Indeed.
Or they were ejecting live rounds.You'd sometimes see a character with a pump shotgun, who would pump it every time he needed to emphasize how cool he was. Since nobody on the staff seemed to understand that each pump is to eject a spent shell and load a new shell, pumping it multiple times without seeing a shell fly out just meant the goddamn thing wasn't even loaded in the first place.
They would if it was loaded, but you never see one flying out!
"Did I empty two phaser power packs or just one? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I lost count...."
That's dirty.
There's a scene from one of the Man/Kzin Wars novels where the human has a depleted rifle. Anyone can tell the rifle is empty because there is a red indicator light on that signals empty charge. To fool his Kzin opponent, the human covers the light with mud so that it's not visible.
Also dirty.
Picard was right about 20th and 21st century humanity.
Probably. He was just wrong about 24th century humanity.
^ Those two posts sum up why I really like the early TNG tone - the sneering they do at the 20th/21st century is enitrely justified and very cathartic at times, but Picard's such a hypocritical weirdo himself that the message you come away with is "he's right about us... but let's try not to end up too much like him", which is a pretty unique tone for a sci-fi series.
He's a cautionary tale of putting work ahead of everything else. Of course, he ends up with a kid without having to be a father until the kid is fully raised. Sometimes sci-fi doesn't work for character development, and this is one of those cases.
Picard looked like an ass when he criticized the 20th century military uniform that Q wore in "Farpoint" as a "costume" while wearing a service uniform himself.
Picard also looked like a smug asshole when talking to Ralph Offenhouse.
Let me repeat that. Ralph. Offenhouse.
Let me repeat that. Ralph. Offenhouse.
But Starfleet isn't the military of course. Not like he is criticizing a fellow Solider or anything.
Except Starfleet is a military.
A military that likes to pretend it isn't because, well, a post-scarcity future.
Gene Roddenberry described it as "quasi-military," which I guess works. It is clearly the Federation's military, but it is also more than that.
As for Picard and controversial opinions, let's face it, he's a pompous ass (Captain Louvois called it) and oftentimes says things about humanity and the Federation that are just not true in order to stay on his high horse.
As for Picard and controversial opinions, let's face it, he's a pompous ass (Captain Louvois called it) and oftentimes says things about humanity and the Federation that are just not true in order to stay on his high horse.
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