To use a sports metaphor, they watched the highlight reel instead of reading the stats sheet?
Kirk drift—misremembering a character…
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You're probably right.
Ironically my first experience was TWOK so I first saw the more rebellious version but even then Kirk was still spouting regulations
Probably, also the action/adventure trope of the hero getting the girl.
Ironically something SW avoided
Is it weird when I prefer the main guy not "get the girl?"
Maybe not, but if you're watching 1960s-era TV action / adventure, you may often find that preference frustrated.
Star Wars belongs to a different era (in more ways than one).
I watched a lot of old movies but not many old shows save the Star Trek shows and a few others. I like those old movies but the tropes can be annoying.
And tbh I prefer less romance in my sci fi
Depends on the story for me. In Trek, I prefer less, though that varies.
Yeah, romance and Trek don't really go together for me.
I think they probably could do romance well, but that would require actually planning for it in advance, instead of randomly deciding, "I guess it's time for these two characters who have never shown much interest in each other to suddenly hook up."
Actually, now that I think about it, Staments/Culber and Burnham/Booker both work for me, probably because both relationships were obviously intended from the start.
Actually, now that I think about it, Staments/Culber and Burnham/Booker both work for me, probably because both relationships were obviously intended from the start.
Am I misremembering, or is Chekov a bit of a doofus?
He was definitely a Designated Doofus, whenever the plot happened to call for it.
At other times, he was pretty sharp -- if the plot called for it.
Chekov was many things.
It really depended on the plot. There were times were he filled in at Spock's science station. Other times he would quip or smirk. Other times he was romantic.
Yeah Stametz and Culber were believable. And Book and Burnham surprisingly.
I definitely agree about planning, something I think DSC was pretty poor at in seasons 1 & 2. All in all, I like well done romances but I also don't really want a lot of romance in Trek. It's not really what I watch Trek for
A bit. If there is a SNW equivalent of Pavel A. Chekov it's Erica Ortegas. Although they play her for laughs differently than Chekov, usually. And she has more respect than he did.
Chekov is ALL the doofus.
Thanks all for the input!
How do you see Ortegas as equivalent? She seems far more snarky and she's a hotshot pilot. She's definitely not as naïve as Pavel sometimes was.
I see Chekov as someone who's very smart in a narrow, academic way, but doesn't have a ton of common sense. Maybe the result of being a sheltered wiz kid or something. Granted, the more likely explanation is that the writers were just making things up as they went along and used Chekov however it suited the plot, lol.
I did say "if". Both of them have a bit of an "along for the ride" thing going on. Of course Pavel is also the newbie kid of the crew and Erica is not that.
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