What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[jamesteakirk]

Sounds like a sub-optimal way to appreciate fiction.

I agree with your right to express your opinion, but I disagree with your contention. I watch TOS for sheer entertainment value. Shits and giggles. Laughs. Drama. Action. This is a very unpopular notion on this web-site. I’m a casual fan. Not obsessed.

Light-speed vs. warp-speed - not important!

 

[Campe]

Sounds like a sub-optimal way to appreciate fiction.

Hard disagree. In my opinion, entertainment is there to be enjoyed. Sure, criticism is fair. But getting down to the minutiae is headscratching to me. But to each their own!

 

[BillJ]

Sounds like a sub-optimal way to appreciate fiction.

Not quite how I do it. Though everyone is going to absorb life in their own way. Not right or wrong, just different.

 

[cooleddie74]

Season 2 of PIC had a great concept and just utterly, completely wasted it on some of the dumbest crap ever hamfistedly crammed into 10 consecutive episodes of the franchise.

 

[Farscape One]

Season 2 of PIC had a great concept and just utterly, completely wasted it on some of the dumbest crap ever hamfistedly crammed into 10 consecutive episodes of the franchise.

What makes it even worse is that the first episode was actually good.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Season 2 of PIC had a great concept and just utterly, completely wasted it on some of the dumbest crap ever hamfistedly crammed into 10 consecutive episodes of the franchise.

Data's daughter is on the Pitt.

Poor girl hasn't likely found her claim to immortality yet.

 

[LadyGayle]

PIC season 2 is terrible in a way that is almost fascinating, but at least it was trying to do something, say something. It failed completely, but it tried.

Season 3 was better written in that it had a more coherent narrative, but damn, completely hollow. Nothing there but empty nostalgia.

 

[BillJ]

What makes it even worse is that the first episode was actually good.

The cruel truth of CBS Trek. First couple of episodes of a season are usually watchable, then the story goes over the cliff. In the dullest, most unimaginative way possible.

 

[cooleddie74]

What makes it even worse is that the first episode was actually good.

Yep. Episode 1 is genuinely good. Eight of the following nine are borderline atrocious or fully.

 

[jamesteakirk]

Season 2 of PIC had a great concept and just utterly, completely wasted it on some of the dumbest crap ever hamfistedly crammed into 10 consecutive episodes of the franchise.

It doesn’t really matter. No one is forcing you to watch it. It’s just mindless nonsense. Fiction.

 

[cooleddie74]

You got that third part right.

 

[Firebird]

Yep. Episode 1 is genuinely good. Eight of the following nine are borderline atrocious or fully.

I’ve always maintained there’s a halfway-decent 2.5-hour movie somewhere in that season. Take episode 1 & 10, then compress 2-9 down to the barest essentials.

 

[XCV330]

It doesn’t really matter. No one is forcing you to watch it. It’s just mindless nonsense. Fiction.

hmm... you do not like discussing the historical records?

 

[I am not Spock]

PIC season 2 is terrible in a way that is almost fascinating, but at least it was trying to do something, say something. It failed completely, but it tried.

Season 3 was better written in that it had a more coherent narrative, but damn, completely hollow. Nothing there but empty nostalgia.

yeah.

PIC S3 is some of the laziest fanfic the series has ever produced.

 

[BillJ]

Picard lost me in the first season with the death of Thad Riker. It was just lazy melodrama inserted because they had no better ideas. Talk about character assassination.

 

[Set Harth]

Shepard Book gave an intro.

Book is a shepherd, not a Shepard.

 

[Tallguy]

Book is a shepherd, not a Shepard.

Got me on that one.

 

[XCV330]

Book is a shepherd, not a Shepard.

space Shepard who was not a shepherd but wrote a book. (relevance... he's actually in Star Trek.. in the ENT opening credits)


space Shepherd who is a Shepherd but does not heard sheep and did not write a book, yet.

 

[Set Harth]

but does not heard sheep

even when they go baa?

 

[XCV330]

even when they go baa?

one should ask him. he probably could. he's enterprising. but can he translate?

interesting guy. he was lead on ISS Expedition I. He brought the ship's bell, and gave it the callsign Alpha much to the consternation of the Russians who had kept the station from being named that. they had no "Work area" when assembling the early version of ISS. He had asked for a work "table" to be sent up with the expedition or be put in place before they got there.

Didn't happen. So Bill made one out of junk metal, duct tape, cargo bag material, and as far as I know Shep's Table is still up there a quarter century later.