Wild Wacky Idea: How About A Slow, Thoughtful Trek For Us Old People?

[Xhiandra]

Even with TNG, it's the action episodes that tend to top the favorite episode lists. Hell, typically Yesterday's Enterprise and TBOBW usually top the lists for TNG, action storylines where the fate of the Federation was in balance.

There's action and action, though. There's The Dark Knight and Transformers (sorry, those are the most recent movies I can conjure up - I've been out of the loop of more recent stuff): the former is an action movie with exploration of characters and themes and the latter is a bunch of explosions and giant robots.
TNG:The Best of Both Worlds is closer to the former, DSC is closer to the latter. Maybe that's why the main character is called "Michael"!

Also, while the Best of Both Worlds was great and Yesterday's Entreprise quite good, the best of TNG was episodes like The Measure of a Man, The Inner Light, ...
Hell, even action-oriented DS9's best episodes tend to be character pieces like The Visitor or allegorical fare like Duet.

Is it weird I like that episode?

Is it weird that I consider it completely "meh"? It's largely inconsequential filler, but people have started talking about it as if it was worse than VOY:Threshold or TOS:Spock's Brain. I don't get the hate for this episode.

 

[Mudd]

I'm a certifiably old person. On "my Trek," the captain got his shirt ripped in silly fist fights with some regularity.

So, "old and talky" won't really cut it. Plus, old people don't spend money in the right ways and don't represent the future of the market place. The biggest threat to Paramount+ is that the average age of CBS All Access subscribers is too old.

 

[Tracer Bullet]

They already made it, it's called Star Trek: Picard

 

[fireproof78]

Yeah, it was super slow. Especially with that gigantic explosion.

 

[Tracer Bullet]

Yeah, it was super slow. Especially with that gigantic explosion.

90% of PIC were people talking to each other, probably the same general ratio as TNG.

 

[fireproof78]

90% of PIC were people talking to each other, probably the same general ratio as TNG.

I still liked the giant explosion.

 

[Noname Given]

90% of PIC were people talking to each other, probably the same general ratio as TNG.

IDK - I thought they figured Star Trek Picard was for old people because they figured our cognitive functions were impaired to the point we couldn't follow the fact that Picard had resigned from Starfleet.. The show repeated that fact at least five times from multiple perspectives over multiple episodes.