| 12 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I was letting you know how utterly unconvincing your argument is considering what I said. I don't care to convince you of anything. You can believe whatever you want, and I'm free to think of you as an idiot.
Ta-ta! by  Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonereason: Be nice |
| 15 days ago | mod | Banned  JasSmith@sh.itjust.works from the community reason: |
| 15 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Because the franchise wouldn't exist if it weren't for my preferences you pathologically obnoxious twit. I mean seriously do you actually think that anyone outside of the fandom cares about what happens here?
Our opinions are the only valid opinions.
Which of course rather invalidates your position since the majority disagree.
Hence the down votes by Echo Dot@feddit.uk reason: Be nice |
| 15 days ago | mod | Removed Comment no one watched that crappy show so maybe? by Jamablaya@lemmy.world reason: Be constructive |
| 16 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Wasn't that arc about a lesbo character, in fact, becoming binary? They had to merge two to save one. by Skv@lemmy.world reason: Be welcoming |
| 16 days ago | mod | Banned  Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works from the community reason: Bigot and/or troll, don't care which |
| 16 days ago | mod | Removed Comment TNG's naysayers in the 80's were upset they weren't going to get to see more of their favorite characters. Imagine being told now in 2026 that they're gonna reboot Friends with none of the original actors. It almost doesn't make sense because the six friends WERE the show; just make another sitcom. And the first two seasons of TNG were pretty bad; in 1989 it was pretty easy for those naysayers to say told ya so.
The thing is, TNG had a solid premise, which was broadly the same premise as the proven original series. There were glimmers of greatness, diamonds in the rough, like Picard proving in court that Data is a person. It just had to exhaust obsolete old plots and executive producers and find its footing as its own show; by season 4 they had made some of the best television ever broadcast.
ENT had a different problem. It was the fifth series made in the franchise, fans were used to meeting new crews in new situations by now. But ENT came out and told us it "wasn't our father's Star Trek." For the first two seasons, the show was just titled "Enterprise" and not "Star Trek: Enterprise." It eschewed the traditional orchestral intro music for a pop ballad with vocals. And...the show's values are worse. I think I just convinced myself that they set it as a prequel so they had an excuse to make the crew worse people. Archer would definitely have killed the Gorn. Could you imagine on TNG Geordi and Worf sitting around in a damaged shuttlecraft drinking whiskey and discussing how hot Troi's ass is? That happened on ENT. Not only did they bring on another hyperintelligent but emotionally stunted hot chick with huge tits in a catsuit having learned the wrong lesson from Seven of Nine, but the entire crew spent at least some time in their skivvies, often rubbing baby oil on each other.
So ENT declared an intent to return the franchise to its classic premise after DS9 and Voyager in one hand, while masturbating half erect in with the other. Trek fans who watched the show for Kirk refusing to kill the Gorn, or offering his hand to the Klingon Captain on Genesis, or...list two Picard speeches here. Weren't going to get it from Enterprise. You'd get Hoshi holding her tits in her hands though.
TNG had naysayers before it launched, who were proved wrong. ENT started out with the audience on board and lost people along the way.
So now we arrive at the present and they're canceling Starfleet Academy. Trekkies seem torn into two factions about this:
There's the diversity fetishists who are angry that a demographic list show was canceled. I remember once upon a time how, gay people for example, would ask to see more realistic, positive, nuanced gay characters in media and not just Straight Female Protagonist's Flamboyantly Gay Friend. Now there is media made to pander to that audience, and it boils down to "there's a woman and a gay and a brown and a fat and an autistic and a..." Elsewhere on Lemmy there was a thread about how mecha anime tended to feature gay characters and about half of the thread was like "What? GAY? WHERE?!?! I want to see gay!" Them. The people who do not care if there's a story or not, they just want to have the colors of the pride flag listed out loud.
Then there's the folks who liked old Star Trek. Who remember Starfleet Academy depicted as a prestigious military academy that expected excellence in all fields out of their students. Wrath of Kahn opens up with Lieutenant Saavik being taught a lesson about facing death at Starfleet Academy. As a cadet, Wesley Crusher is involved in a fatal accident flying a banned maneuver and a cover-up about said accident, and he receives a strong dressing down, not only about the importance of following regulations but about integrity. The graduates of Starfleet Academy are not only extremely capable military officers, technicians that can operate and maintain the highly advanced systems of a starship, are adept at combat at any scale from hand to hand to theater naval engagement, they're accomplished athletes, published scientists, many are classically trained musicians, they spend their free time playing 3D chess, cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes and putting on stage plays.
And then here comes the new TV show where a fat young woman walks up to Robert Picardo and sheepishly admits to having *swallowed her combadge,* and he replies "What, already?!" and you think "Oh, this is a show made by retards, about retards, for retards." by Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works reason: Be welcoming (slurs, body shaming) |
| 16 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Is that why nobody watched the damn show? Potential for what? Propagandising your prefered worldview? by minorkeys@lemmy.world reason: Trolling |
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| 16 days ago | mod | Removed Comment The show sucked dog balls and we’re glad it’s over. And it didn’t suck because it was “new” or “different”. It sucked because it sucked. The show sucks. Now I have to go because I think I swallowed my comm badge. by Skeezix@lemmy.world reason: Be constructive |
| 20 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Nice, going back through people's comment history to neg on them? Reported, blocked. by  haverholm@kbin.earthreason: Orphaned comment |
| 20 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Being fans also means you're more likely to accept a lower bar, or to watch with rose tinted glasses. Basically you'll all accept any old bollocks. unfortunately ever review site says the same and match the 1.7 metacritic user score of 1.7 "overwhelming negative", the people watching it just don't like it, no matter what the paid critics say. This show like all the others, isn't long for this world I suspect. by Tmiwi@lemmy.world reason: Thinly-disguised personal attacks |
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| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Discovery was utter dog shit for sure.
Strange new worlds is decent though, a few misses but worth watching.
Lower decks is fantastic, a real love letter to fans.
Academy I expected to be just as shit as discovery but was pleasantly surprised. It's definitely the weakest of the above with quite a variety in quality, but has its moments. I don't hate it (so far). by  Kushan@lemmy.worldreason: Off-topic |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Yes, sounds plausible by SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social reason: Off-topic |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment How was that not on topic? I'm totally fine with love for whomever you love, in fiction and in real life. The writing is my issue.
Then a wild mod appears without warning, adds "keep on topic" and deletes.
What is the topic? I thought it was Star Trek and the acceptance of differences. by SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social reason: Meta |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Fair, but I'm not giving them my money anymore. I'll stick to rewatching the old stuff and curse the young people in front of my window. /s by SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social reason: Orphaned comment |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment What about the masterpiece where the babies shoot asteroids over and over? by  RamenJunkie@midwest.socialreason: Orphaned comment |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment At the same time, it was also good enough that it made Paramount want to pop out more shows.
SNW couldn't exist without DSC giving us a taste of Anson Mount as Captain Pike, for example.
If people had left it, chances are, they'd have left it buried for a few more years.
> DIS was shit but the worst thing about it was really that it was the first thing after the pause.
Honestly, I don't think it was that, as much as its production was just a mess. Showrunners and writers were consistently fired partway into the season for at least the first two, and it shows, because the plot would just suddenly fly off in another direction mid-season, which doesn't exactly work well for a serialised show.
Past that, it basically turned into an experimental testbed for show ideas, and never really seemed to find its own identity before it ended (though it came close in its last season). by T156@lemmy.world reason: Orphaned comment |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment After watching like all the new stuff: DIS was shit but the worst thing about it was really that it was the *first* thing after the pause. If the first would have been SNW (best case) and then DIS came out: people who dont like it would have just stopped watching it and hoped for the next banger(?) instead of quitting nutrek by  Little8Lost@lemmy.worldreason: Orphaned comment |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment I stopped watching Star Trek after the finale of Discovery. I've been a fan for decades, but... oh my god.
I don't care how flamboyantly gay those Klingons are. I want good writing. by SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social reason: Keep on-topic |
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