I’m looking forward to the musical episode even more than before. We and the characters deserve something lighter after this week’s heavy episode.
Is SNW getting too goofy?
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Indeed. It's an interesting mix.
Everyone seemed to be on mushrooms on TOS remember. SNW is fun when it wants to be and can switch to a serious narrative quite quickly.
I have never been so vested in a crew since DS9. Love what this show is doing and hope it continues!
I have never been so vested in a crew since DS9. Love what this show is doing and hope it continues!
Exactly. It's a matter of taste. I'm a lifelong Trekkie and a horror buff, so I have a definite weakness for creepy Star Trek eps, but other people are going to have their own preferences, which is why I push back whenever folks starting getting too prescriptive about what Trek should or shouldn't be. "Star Trek is" . . . . lots of things.
(By coincidence, I've recently been fiddling around on an essay about horror in TOS, tentatively title "Scare Trek," so this has been on my mind.)
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Exactly why I’m embracing SNW so much.
Star Trek works best when it is a variety of different concepts week after week. Just look at TOS where you have a court room drama one week, submarine warfare the next, a tragic romance, light hearted fare involving fantasies coming to life and so on. SNW's approach to its storylines and ideas is perfect and the closest thing we've had to "true Trek" in a long while.
Trek can work best in any form, as long as it's well written. We've had amazing long-form serialized arcs maintaining tonal consistency on DS9, and terrible ones on STD. We've also had terrible week-to-week standalones on Voyager and the earlier seasons of Enterprise.
It's all in the execution and the people behind the work.
It's all in the execution and the people behind the work.
And you can have absolute duds at any point. Thankfully they are still Star Trek, else why would we be arguing
Why can't they just let Erika Ortegas wear Melissa Navia's natural hair style?
It's so much better than the goofy military like crew cut on the sides with the wide mohawk.
Imagine seeing Erika Ortegas with that beautiful smiling face & blonde short hair in every episode.
A heart felt, emotional interview on grief and loss and your take away is "I wish the character had a hair style I find more attractive."?
One aspect of the interview doesn't preclude another aspect of show production.
To watch an interview with someone who has so recently lost a loved one where they speak about about grief and loss... and then respond by rambling about how you find her haircut insufficiently fuckable?
That's really disrespectful to Ms. Navia.
Ok, whatever.
I'm moving on.
Different people are going to care about different things.
Learn to accept that people are going to behave and care about other things and not fall within your definition of what you find acceptable.
Don't put your values & expectations on others.
Otherwise you'll be disappointed.
It's not about "caring". It was never about the haircut.
Ortegas's haircut is great, FWIW. The hair styling on this show doesn't get commented upon as much as the other design elements, except for Pike's. But, particularly in the first season, the stylist really went for a variety of unusual and avant garde looks on Spock, Chapel, Una, even M'Benga. They've toned it down just a touch this year.
You seem to be focused on the fact that I took a screen shot from "The Ready Room" interview.
That wasn't what I cared about, I cared more about the aesthetic hair style decision and the choices they made.
Almost everybody on the cast got to look their best, hair style wise, in character
I don't think they made Erika Ortegas look her best, period.
She obviously has the potential, but the hair cut / style that the staff chose, it's not up to her best look IMO.
But that's just my opinion, and only that.
Take it for what it is.
Now lets move on.
Not at all. I don't care about the photo or it's source.
Anyways, let's move on.
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