What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
Majel's Chapel has less personality than the wall flats in the corridor sets. The writers and Jess Bush finally made Chapel into a person.
Totally agree. She may be more of a fleshed out than the TOS version but she still seems to only exist as a character on the show to give Spock someone to be in love with.
And this isn’t saying Bush has been bad. She’s been fantastic. And she does have amazing chemistry with Peck.
Well, she wasn't a character in TOS either.
TOS Chapel was far better. I'd take the 60's yearning as characterization over whatever insufferable characterization they were trying to modernize her with any day.
I love both. But Bush is a much more fleshed out and motivated portrayal of her character.
You think being fleshed out is always a good thing... unless the flesh is rotten, and then it's probably preferable to be bones.
Though Through the Lens of Time gave me some hope. I thought that was the most enjoyable she's been.
Though Through the Lens of Time gave me some hope. I thought that was the most enjoyable she's been.
(TNG) Lwaxana Troi > "Cage" Number One > TOS Chapel.
SNW Number One > "Cage" Number One.
SNW Chapel > TOS Chapel.
SNW Number One > "Cage" Number One.
SNW Chapel > TOS Chapel.
Arguing about whether Starfleet is a military feels like arguing about whether a quad bike is a car or a bike. It's a quad bike, it's its own thing.
Recumbent bike. Come on.
No. No, no, no. Spirit Halloween jokes cannot be broken out until at least August. That's part of the Geneva Convention.
That's rather unorthodox.
One dimensions are easier to navigate I guess.
Someone needs some faith.
Actually, the last few pages really drove home to me my head canon idea (I know, wrong forum topic) that there was a political/philosophical shift thinking regarding Starfleet between Kirk and Picard's time.
Perhaps in order for a new species to join the Federation there was a shift in focus. This shift in focus used new or different terms to describe Starfleet. Much how the US had a War Department that became the Defense Department that the was renamed the War Department and will likely be renamed yet again in a couple of years. Or how the Japanese do not have a military but they have a defense force that fills the exact same role.
It's all politics. Head games. Propaganda. Mental gymnastics. It's being in a committed relationship but saying "it's complicated and we don't want to put labels on it". It's describing some thing's color as "it's salmon, not pink."
Starfleet is, and has always been the weaponized arm of the Federation tasked with protecting and defending the Federation from both external and internal threats while it's stated mission focuses on scientific discovery, exploration, and humanitarian aid.
Maybe this is unorthodox: I skip almost all opening themes in Star Trek.
TOS and TAS here. SNW just doesn’t do it for me.
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