What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

The perfect video to link this with Trek.

 

Definitely one of the few shows of the time that paid attention to ongoing continuity. Episodes were definitely not completely stand alone.

 

I've never seen The Waltons. It's probably pretty good, and I don't doubt the people who say it's worth checking out, but it doesn't really sound like my type of show.

 

The laser battles were pretty good for the 70's

 

Ike Godsey blowing away that space cruiser was the best scene in Season 7.

 

Ah. That's why I love Red vs. Blue.

 

C'atsuit-Wan Plomeek.

 

The fights over the Baldwin sisters jars of "The Recipe" were brutal. , but Grand-pa always won.

 

Jerry Goldsmith did The Waltons theme.

 

Heh, not everyone is American. Many of us come from a culture with a gendered language. Here, a woman called "Michel" would be confusing, as would a man called "Michelle". Same with translations, obviously.

No reason to start launching into conspiracy theories about the person's genitals, but still confusing.

(not considering the existence of non-American cultures seems parochial as well, by the way)

 

I'm not American and I have no problems accepting a female character with a traditionally masculine name.

Plus since you mentioned French...what of the old French (and German) custom to name a boy, for example Francois-Marie (Or Markus Maria in German)? Or French names that have traditionally been given to both men and women, like Claude or Camille?

From that basis it would be easy to extrapolate that in Burnham's time and culture, Michael has simply become a unisex name, even if you don't know that there are already women named Michael in America.

 

I grew up with girls named Jamie. I'm sort of used to women with men's names.

 

Not sure it this opinion qualifies as "controversial" for purposes of this thread, but I've yet to hear from anyone else who shares it, so here goes: I didn't particularly want Voyager to make it home by the end of the series; it seemed obvious and predictable. I wanted them to adapt a little more to their situation (perhaps consider becoming a generation ship? The dearth of pairings-off and the lack of children suggested that they were not at all considering that the journey might take a while), and embrace the journey more. I wouldn't have objected to the last scene being a shot of the ship traveling through Delta space, with the words "and the adventure continues" across the screen.

 

The crew of Voyager could have used a long session with T'Hain and the Vulcan Dictates of Poetics. A lot of things that the characters did (and failed to do) didn't make sense. A few off the top of my head...
Janeway was all across the board. One minute she's separating Tuvix by force and demanding that the Doctor use Evil Cardie medical knowledge to cure B'Elanna over her protests. The next, she's letting the Doctor experience memories that could kill him (and indirectly the rest of the crew).
Harry is home on Earth, engaged, and this close to early promotion. What does he do? Risks life and limb to return to eternal ensignhood on a stranded tin can 70 years from home.
You're really going to tell me that not one, NOT ONE member of the crew chose to stay on the relatively safe 37's planet, opting instead for a very long, very dangerous journey through the Delta Quadrant? This included pregnant Ensign Wildman, passed-over Lt. Carey, and the Maquis crew who weren't adjusting to Starfleet life that well.
And yes, there was no pairing off, even though they were proceeding on the assumption that their journey would take decades instead of years.

 

The bridge from "The Cage(TOS)" is better-looking and more advanced in appearance than the regular series bridge.

 

Hmm. I'd have to think about what I think of that one.

BUT

I can see visually going straight from the bridge in "The Cage" to the bridge in TMP with no problem at all. The aesthetic of "The Cage" with the silver-interiors and the blue/gold/tan uniforms makes it look a lot closer to TMP. It makes me think this is the color-scheme Gene Roddenberry really wanted to go with before NBC said, "add some color!" Granted, I prefer colorful TOS, but it's easy to connect the dots with his preferred intentions here.

 

Especially with the Vulcans. It's only logical to figure that, even if it is super private, still requires consideration, instead of "Oops, Vorik went in to pon farr! Who knew?"

 

And Alexander Courage wrote incidental music for it.