Exactly.
Why is the "feel" of the show so different compared to TNG/DS9/VOY?
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It was the intent of the show that it be different. Personally, I loved Picard seeing the flaws in the system he spent his career upholding and believing in. Each to their own, though.
LCARS is laughably primitive compared to computers of today, so there's no way a Trek series set twenty-thirty years after TNG/DS9/VOY wasn't going to update its computers accordingly.
LCARS is not realistic?
And since when do they update computer systems? My Windows 2000 copy still runs.
I forgot Leroy Jethro Gibbs posts on this forum.
Appropriately enough, my wife and just watched the episode where Gibbs shoots a computer to solve the problem. Good times.I forgot Leroy Jethro Gibbs posts on this forum.
I really don't get the "Star Trek: Picard is pessimistic" thing.
Are people THAT traumatized by the Federation briefly banning synths and not helping the Romulans after losing an entire planet?
They turned it around at the end.
Are people THAT traumatized by the Federation briefly banning synths and not helping the Romulans after losing an entire planet?
They turned it around at the end.
I cringed a bit at the Win2k reference, but a utility client of mine is still running a few Windows 95 machines because the vendor of some critical hardware never updated their drivers, and it won't run correctly in compatibility mode.
That’s what they wanted to do. Plus, it makes the show more contemporary by giving it a different feel from TNG/DS9/VOY.
If you still want that feeling that PIC doesn’t provide, watch Lower Decks. Or The Orville.
If you still want that feeling that PIC doesn’t provide, watch Lower Decks. Or The Orville.
PIC doesn't feel like TNG/DS9/VOY for the same reason TMP-TUC didn't feel like TOS. They were made much later, by different people, in a different medium.
Had the TNG Movies not started immediately after TNG ended and weren't made by the same people, they would've been different too; as in actually different instead of trying too hard to be.
SNW feels more like TOS than TNG, but still a modernized version of TOS instead of TOS itself. Which tells me that if they ever did a TNG-style show in the TNG Era, it too would also feel like a modernized version of TNG instead of TNG itself.
People who want TNG/DS9/VOY back as the way TNG/DS9/VOY were are going to have to let it go. It's not going to happen. Eventually you're going to learn what TOS Fans did. But, based on how things played out before, it's going to take a while until you get there.
Had the TNG Movies not started immediately after TNG ended and weren't made by the same people, they would've been different too; as in actually different instead of trying too hard to be.
SNW feels more like TOS than TNG, but still a modernized version of TOS instead of TOS itself. Which tells me that if they ever did a TNG-style show in the TNG Era, it too would also feel like a modernized version of TNG instead of TNG itself.
People who want TNG/DS9/VOY back as the way TNG/DS9/VOY were are going to have to let it go. It's not going to happen. Eventually you're going to learn what TOS Fans did. But, based on how things played out before, it's going to take a while until you get there.
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The big problem is, in this epoch of DVDs, Netflix, and omnipresent internets, we've got guys like Major Grin who got tremendous encyclopedic knowledge of the TNG to ENT period, but wilfully lacking in intelligence and the ability to adapt to how TV shows and movies change after twenty years.
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Plus I love that it gave more context to Nero's ranting and raving in the 2009 Star Trek movie. At the time we assume he's just being crazy, but it turns out the Federation REALLY did nothing while Romulus was destroyed.
They did something but it sadly wasn't enough (and it was the fault of a Romulan faction sabotaging the rescue attempt).
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I view Nero as basically the ultimate conspiracy theorist shooting up a pizza parlor.
Only if that theorist had a psychotic break first.
We have 600+ episodes of Berman-era Trek. As much as I like it -- and I really do! -- I'm happy that the newer stuff feels different, both in tone and content.
He wasn't right but the Federation scaling back on the RSE evacuation and its emerging neglect of Romulan refugees added fuel to his fire.
As well as Spock's promises.
And you are a lone or rare voice. You need to to take the merit in which it's meant It's not like someone saying "I'm so OCD" which is potentially abusing a medical condition. To be depress is literally to push something to a lower position, which is what the implication of this use is for.
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