What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Didn't I hear that it's numbers when it went up (both when they put up season 1 and then subsequently season 2) where surprisingly good?
Surprisingly good is a loaded term which implies they didn’t expect it to do very well…
Forgive me. Conjecture on my part.
Despite it not setting my world on fire, I’d like it to be picked up purely on the basis that many others would be happy.
It's been a bit but I thought "Surprisingly good" was something like "In the top shows released that week" or some such.
Let's see what we can find:
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‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2 Hits Netflix Top 10 Internationally, ‘Discovery’ Season 5 On Nielsen Top 10
The latest Star Trek TV shows are making waves.
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I’ve heard the term ‘long tail’ bandied about a lot when it comes to streamers. I believe it refers to a shows ability to sustain and grow an audience after it makes an initial splash.
The creators of the show have since moved on to pastures new which kind of says it all, as does the fact that we are seven months on from when Season 2 dropped and not a peep about a renewal.
The creators of the show have since moved on to pastures new which kind of says it all, as does the fact that we are seven months on from when Season 2 dropped and not a peep about a renewal.
Sadly, I think you're right, but I continue to hope.
Anything is possible with animation. Futurama has come back from the dead twice, so your hope may not be as futile as you imagine.
I think T'Pol's catsuit is an integral part of Trek lore. Nah, I'm joking. It's highly illogical but I'm enough of a petty person to enjoy the tight catsuits and needlessly shapely stuff like that. Even if it does break things but that's just the parts of my brain fighting it out.
My big opinion is that I wish there was more of a focus on the TMP-era side of things before it got into TWOK as I very much enjoy the costumes of that film and after eating up the whole system of uniform and rankings and so on, it just hits me so much that I wish there was more for it. Hell, I even wish STO had more options for TMP uniforms like the away-mission jacket and so on. Oh and I like Profit and Lace for being utter insanity.
My big opinion is that I wish there was more of a focus on the TMP-era side of things before it got into TWOK as I very much enjoy the costumes of that film and after eating up the whole system of uniform and rankings and so on, it just hits me so much that I wish there was more for it. Hell, I even wish STO had more options for TMP uniforms like the away-mission jacket and so on. Oh and I like Profit and Lace for being utter insanity.
I totally agree! I’m a big fan of the TMP aesthetic
S31 wasn't THAT bad. Not great, for sure. A lot of empty calories. But the first 45 min to an hour were pretty good.
It did stir the pot in that it once again made the Eugenics Wars a 20th century event. If it has redeeming qualities of any kind, THAT little nugget tossed out by Alok's age and the fact he was Augmented as a young man will keep fandom arguing for years to come. 
Or the fact that the Eugenics Wars having 2x different occurance time frames that are significantly off could mean a branch in the timeline.It did stir the pot in that it once again made the Eugenics Wars a 20th century event. If it has redeeming qualities of any kind, THAT little nugget tossed out by Alok's age and the fact he was Augmented as a young man will keep fandom arguing for years to come.
Ergo, pointing to the obvious solution of "Multiple Timelines" beyond 2x that is stated by Paramount.
Monday marks 20 years since UPN announced the cancellation of Enterprise and rang the death knell of the Classic Era of the franchise. Twenty years later and that pink slip still stings.
To provide context, 20 years to the day after NBC cancelled TOS the fifth movie was already in postproduction and approaching its Summer 1989 release date.
I agree. I kind of liked Prodigy at the beginning, even though it felt for all the world it was set in the Star Wars rather than Star Trek universe. But it gradually became a fairly lame sequel to Voyager, which I still consider one of the weakest iterations of Trek and the first Trek show I ever bailed on (doesn’t help Voyager was airing the same time as Farscape, which blew it out the water so dramatically it basically ruined Trek for me for years).
I’ve never much liked Janeway or Kate Mulgrew’s performance style, so that didn’t much work for me. The animation was also incredibly mixed. Sometimes it was fantastic, but when it came to recognisable human faces, it often succumbed to uncanny valley creepiness.
Someone like Jellico, Okona or Chakotay appeared and I was really taken out of it by how LITTLE the CGI design resembled the actor. It’s almost like they should have stuck with entirely non-human characters because that’s what the animators were good at. Real faces? Forget it.
I don’t have a Netflix subscription so I’d have to get one specifically to watch season two and I’ve just not felt sufficiently motivated to do that. I’ve heard fans rave about it and the return of Wesley Crusher. But geez, Wesley is…not a selling point for me regardless of how he’s handled. (Now if we’d had some DS9 characters I’d have been there in a flash! But we all know how little regard the current era has for DS9.)
I’m happy a lot of people seem to love it though. I’m so out of step with what most fans seem to like and dislike nowadays. And that’s fine. Means I can contribute to this thread more often
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I hear what you are saying and I might even agree with the opinion, but is that really how Star Trek is today?
Were fans as divided about Trek in 1989 as they are today? Is the division fueled in part by the splintered nature of Trek today? By that I mean in 1989 we had TOS movies and TNG on television and that's it. Today we have just went through 3 live action series plus 2 animated series plus a streaming movie (plus the Abrams era) with each being pretty diverse and separated from each other.
Most people seem to find the TMP uniforms bland and boring, but personally I’m with you — it makes them look like a team of scientists and astronauts, rather than naval officers.
I love how the Classic Era is the original revival-on-TV era, rather than the actual original era.
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