No. People regard the ship as a character and want to see a favorite character more
What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
One thing I will credit Picard for is he is quite the defender of a crewman's right of personal choice, probably more so than any other captain. "The Measure Of A Man", "The Enemy", and "Ethics" all highlight this trait well.
Years have passed in the story, and the bureaucracy has moved on. Not seeing this as a qualification for the art, either good or bad. Things do go obsolete, sometimes quickly, or get considered to be so. Why do people trade in perfectly good cars?
It's a matter of timing. It's not like we see these things progress. We get one story promising more adventure and then it's over.
It's doing what everyone yelled at Rian Johnson for doing with The Last Jedi.
I would say it’s the series’ frequent moral smugness that’s aged badly. That sense that, rather than “We are uncomfortably trying, but trying” in TOS, “We are right, and we hope you catch up soon” in TNG.
I'm glad DS9 and VOY ignored that and ENT was a prequel that didn't even have to pretend it was a thing.
It just feels like Picard is the nexus of that smugness.
Which I adored as pretty much the best Luke Skywalker story ever made, precisely because it didn’t do the “Luke grows up to stay badass and right” story that everybody wanted. This was a hell of a lot more meaningful than that would have been.
In The Fifth Element, the protagonist and antagonist famously didn't even know who each other were, and only missed meeting face-to-face by a split second.
Back to Trek though...
IMO The Inner Light and The Visitor are extremely boring and are definite skips when rewatching.
I enjoy the film too but it's treatment of the lightsaber from TFA was strange.
Same with the ENTERPRISE in the films.
Some will like it, others will hate it. But, I'm art, when you hold on something then there is an emphasis expected. TMP emphasized the ENTERPRISE.
"THE VISITOR" is about something everyone has gone through or will go through: grief and the pain of losing a loved one. It's universal. It's not just one of the greatest episodes in the franchise, it's one of the greatest episodes of television. Period.
It was done at the perfect time in DS9, too. Because we got to see the great bond between Ben and Jake over those previous 3 years. Those emotions you feel throughout the episode are earned. It wasn't a cheap gimmick.
I have never been able to watch it without crying. Even the first time it aired. In fact, the crying gets even harder with each viewing.
It was done at the perfect time in DS9, too. Because we got to see the great bond between Ben and Jake over those previous 3 years. Those emotions you feel throughout the episode are earned. It wasn't a cheap gimmick.
I have never been able to watch it without crying. Even the first time it aired. In fact, the crying gets even harder with each viewing.
TWOK is an okay Star Trek movie but an awful film if one were to scratch off the serial number.
I also think TMP is flawed but awesome, don’t find TNG to have aged well and think Picard season 3, while a lot of fun, loses any coherency once you even start to look at it with the smallest bit of logic.
I also think TMP is flawed but awesome, don’t find TNG to have aged well and think Picard season 3, while a lot of fun, loses any coherency once you even start to look at it with the smallest bit of logic.
I would like to know what was in the draft/outline of the proposal that Gene Roddenberry wrote for a potential Paul McCartney and Wings sci-fi movie and if it is in the Roddenberry Archives.
I am firmly convinced that, with regard to Sarek's surgery in "Journey to Babel," Nimoy was not butchering the pronunciation of "cryogenic," but rather, the procedure was serogenic, i.e., involving unusually large amounts of body fluids in general, and blood plasma in particular. Hence the need for a large reserve of blood.
What does the script say?
This is probably just my age talking and I grew up with TNG, DS9, and VOY, but I find Star Trek (The original series) average at best. The movies do a better job with the whole crew than the TV series did and the reason I like that crew is mainly for the Movies. I found Season 2 kind of repetitive, and actually find a lot of the ideas in Season 3 a little more interesting with thier "Out there"-ness, if that makes any sense.
I would settle for a less genocidal interpretation.
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