Werthead Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifth Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I feel like I say this every week, but I'm still shocked how much I've been enjoying Lower Decks. Out of all of the newer Trek shows, it's easily been my favorite and just makes me feel happy watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 They've recast the Borg Queen for season two of Picard: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 That makes 3 actresses now, Voyager already recast her. And then un-re-cast her when Alice Krige was available for the finale. Was never particularly interested in the character so I remain pretty tepid on Season 2. Also, Lower Decks: I laughed an awful lot at ‘tractor factor’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Mugato, gumato, mugutu - did I get that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Season 2, in which Q pulls a ‘Yesterday’s Enterprise’ and so they have to ‘Star Trek IV’ their way out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Also, Strange New Worlds cast announcement that includes a new Uhura and a new Christine Chapel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 Of all the Treks, Voyager has the worst pilot. Like DS9 I missed a lot of the later seasons, and my rewatch/first watch of that came away with a much better impression of the show than I did 20+ years ago. Will a rewatch/first watch of Voyager produce another winner? A half hour in to it and this Array sucks the life out of me. I don't know if I will have the strength of will to make it to any episode I haven't seen before in season 3 or 4 and later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 I rewatched Caretaker a few years back (intending on a full watchthru of Voyager that never materialized) and... while it wasn't as good as Emissary, it was certainly better than Farpoint and Broken Bow at least. I think my response at the time was that it was just kinda dull and boring. Nothing egregiously stupid or bad like the aforementioned other two pilot episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 6 hours ago, Durckad said: I rewatched Caretaker a few years back (intending on a full watchthru of Voyager that never materialized) and... while it wasn't as good as Emissary, it was certainly better than Farpoint and Broken Bow at least. I think my response at the time was that it was just kinda dull and boring. Nothing egregiously stupid or bad like the aforementioned other two pilot episodes. Yeah, it got better. I had just stopped 30 minutes into it to come bitch here, then returned to it and it improved. I just hated the farmers holograms. Logically, if the point was to make the crew feel comfortable and not freak out, the one thing most of them had in common was attending Starfleet Academy. They could have had scenes from their past playing out and actually taught us something about their characters. Perfect way to add more depth in a pilot episode. The next two episodes both have to do with cause preceding effect temporal anomalies. Fairly good episodes but weird they didn't spread that out in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 On to season 2 Voyager... Kes hits puberty and there are space sperm swarming outside the ship........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifth Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Man the last two episodes of Lower Decks have been great. This show really has grown on me. It's basically become my favorite New Trek series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippounet Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Lower Decks is the best Trek show right now -imho. It's basically old-style Trek with humor and lots of easter eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 I do enjoy it, although ‘best of the New Trek’ is really a statement about the disappointing other series. It leans a little too heavily on the crew’s incompetence for my liking, but it is funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Corvinus85 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 4 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: Same stuff as before. I'm sure there will be some really good episodes, but it will all finish into one giant clusterfuck yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Corvinus85 said: Same stuff as before. I'm sure there will be some really good episodes, but it will all finish into one giant clusterfuck yet again. Hard to say from the trailer. It does seem equally bombastic to the prior seasons, though. The maroon outfits as some sort of dress/away uniform is a nice homage to the Star Fleet uniforms of Star Trek II and on, but the maroon pants to go with them are a big fashion faux pas, IMO. 32nd century seems to lack fashion sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toth Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 What did I expect when I clicked on the trailer? It... really looked like the usual bullshit, so I guess no reason for me to acknowledge Discovery's existence... Meanwhile yesterday I inexplicably binge watched Lower Decks. Season 1 often didn't quite felt right to me. Yes, it was already better than the other drivel nowadays, but to my liking they far too much leaned into the nostalgia overload and being Rick and Morty in the Star Trek universe. And while the ending was great, the Titan blasting enemies to the TNG theme seemed jarring, because this is the theme for a show that was never about combat. All in all the show, while having some genuinely good ideas, didn't quite have its own leg to stand on. Therefore I was all the more fascinated how season 2 seemed quite a lot more character focused and made me seriously like the cast. It's still horribly reliant on nostalgia, but the show now very much succeeded in being its own thing and I can fully understand the praise. I especially liked Boimler, what with him being the representation of old-school Picard style philosopher captain Starfleet and its fans and the stories starting to keep rewarding him for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 The most important part of that trailer... was there a Ferengi in there??? Give me them rules of acquisition, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, Caligula_K3 said: The most important part of that trailer... was there a Ferengi in there??? Give me them rules of acquisition, please. Definitely looked like a Ferengi to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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