That sounds more like what Meyer envisioned and brought to the screen.
What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
I'm so glad to hear this from someone who got close enough. I always thoought she was way behind the rest of the cast on acting ability. All the more credit to her fellow cast members, I guess.
Yeah, as much as I enjoy the concept of the character, the execution was less than stellar.
As for Picard/Crusher.... I like to think that thanks to Jack, they became deeply close friends. When he died, it left a wound for both. Even thought Jeun-Luc may have been in love at one point, after that, it feels like them wanting to connect more deeply because of their shared wound in missing Jack. When they finally did try, a few times according to Picard S3, it just never worked because there was never any real romantic love, just a deep platonic love. Which people can often misread for romantic love. Hence why so many men find it difficult to say I love you to friends or family, sometimes even children. They confuse love with romance. I tell my male friends, and some female friends, and my family and my little one that I love them all the time.
As for Picard/Crusher.... I like to think that thanks to Jack, they became deeply close friends. When he died, it left a wound for both. Even thought Jeun-Luc may have been in love at one point, after that, it feels like them wanting to connect more deeply because of their shared wound in missing Jack. When they finally did try, a few times according to Picard S3, it just never worked because there was never any real romantic love, just a deep platonic love. Which people can often misread for romantic love. Hence why so many men find it difficult to say I love you to friends or family, sometimes even children. They confuse love with romance. I tell my male friends, and some female friends, and my family and my little one that I love them all the time.
Here's an unorthodox opinion. The Final Frontier, at least half of it, was a good movie. The sharing of pain scene is a very trekkien troupe.
In terms of ranking the title sequences
Prodigy
Voyager
Enterprise (maybe another unorthodox opinion)
Lower Decks
DS9
Strange New Worlds
Picard
Star Trek
Discovery
TNG
Starfleet Academy
I would love for Jeff Russo to do a deconstruction of both Discovery and Starfleet Academy's sequences. Im curious to know the inspiration.
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Meyer wasn't the first one to make the Hornblower comparison. That was Gene Roddenberry, and he made it in describing the show to William Shatner.
Well, the resemblance to Hornblower specifically was oversold, no matter how often GR or Meyer made it. In the latter case, he admitted to lifting a plot element from the Peck movie; that and imitating the style of some similar sea movies are about it.
There is the general resemblance of evoking the ranging independence of the Age of Sail, and it works for Trek. But the milieu of the ship and service are modern American.
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McFadden could smash it out of the park when they gave her decent material to work with, which was almost never.
Blazin' Bev has entered the chat but quickly forgotten where she is and fallen asleep on the sofa.
When you get one episode per year focused on you, if that, might as well get stoned out of your mind the rest of the time.
I liked her too, even though she was basically a McCoy clone, more or less. There was good character evolution with her over that one season, especially between her and Data. I wouldn't have minded if she came back for a guest shot or two over the seasons or in the movies, but apparently she didn't get along with the rest of the cast much and the feeling was mutual.
Always hard to be the new kid.
They always said that, but only the occasional story (like “Balance of Terror” or The Wrath of Khan) felt like it.
Likewise (more so) with the other supposed model of “Wagon Train to the Stars” — whatever Roddenberry said to get the show sold, Trek’s never been that. (Galactica was, both versions.)
Did this meme originate from somewhere? I've seen this many places, but I feel like I missed something.
Facebook Groups like Star Trek Shitposting.
A glorious place, by the way.
A glorious place, by the way.
That wasn't about the literal format of the show but it was TV shorthand for quality writing and of having guest stars whom the stories would revolve around. On Wagon Train you'd meet different people in the train or at a stop for an episode, much the way the Enterprise crew would meet people from different planets and ships, etc.
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The problem with Pulaski (besides being the aforementioned McCoy clone) was that it was completely unbelievable that a 24th century Starfleet doctor would have some kind of problem with thinking that Data was not an actual life form, despite the fact that he’s a Starfleet officer. It made Pulaski look like a bitch right out of the starting gate, and no amount of getting to know Data better was going to fix that, because she was never depicted as being believably repentant for her behavior.
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