• doleo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.

    This season, we’re going to have had: Spock’s comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.

    We’ve gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy’s name was did.

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      Are you forgetting you’re talking about the series where:

      • Humpback whales were a central plot point in one of the movies
      • Dr. Crusher had a sexual relationship with a ghost
      • Paris and Janeway were mutated into lizards, had sex with each other, and gave birth to babies
      • It’s canonical that people need to clean up the bio-filters for holodecks (leave that one to the imagination)
      • Data, a robot, manages to get laid a couple of times
      • Q’s method of testing humanity is basically trolling the entire TNG crew every single time he appears
      • SNW had a literal fantasy episode in S1
      • Fucking James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes was a recurring villain in TNG enough times to show up in Picard

      Like… my guy, Stark Trek has always had an element of camp and being a goofy-ass series. It has a lot of thoughtful and contemporary dialogue in a lot of the episodes, yes, but you can’t say stuff like the SNWxLD crossover (which, as somebody who has never watched LD and grew up with TNG & DS9, I thought was pretty good) and the next couple of episodes are straying from Star Trek as a whole. Why do you think a lot of Trek fans would consider GalaxyQuest as an honorable Star Trek film?

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        When Galaxy Quest came out, Wil Wheaton called Patrick Stewart and told him to go to the theater and see “the best Star Trek movie ever made.”

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      Spock’s comedy capers was tonally different from data’s day… how?

      You’re acting like goofy shit is not an intrinsic part of trek’s charm

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      Yes, I too want the same old rehashes of 60s and 90s Trek plots so we can have full series burnout in record time.

      Star Trek is a place to tell stories. Some of those stories involve weird shit. “Weird,” as Janeway says to Kim after he comes from a cloned version of the ship where everyone he knows and loves just died in a self-destruct explosion, “is part of the job.”

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        1 year ago

        So the only options are: rehash old Trek plots or rehash wacky American TV tropes?

        Has chatGPT really run dry this quickly?