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[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 24 points 11 months ago

Valid Criticisms:

Max drama deviates from star trek standard format

non episodic / arcs within arcs make it hard to jump in and follow

Everyone talks too fast (lampooned on SNW | LD crossover even!) Deus Ex (Time Travel | AI | Etc.)

MultiLithium gets really explody if you cry hard enough.

Not Valid:

Everything is too (Gender | Sexual Preference | Skin Color) for ST (these people have a vacation fuck planet, and regularly bone holocharacters, get over it we all know if Kirk had a holodeck he would have died in that thing).

Mushroom warp is stupid (fuck you I loved mushroom warp).

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 23 points 11 months ago

You just reminded me of a bingo card Reddit Risa had during Disco S1:

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

ha! That's excellent. I was not in a position time-wise to watch DSC S1 when it actually aired, so I missed all these shenanigans. In retrospect it's probably the best trek to binge (which I did) since many episodes feel more like parts of a movie instead of being self contained. I'm a fan of all trek, even Enterprise. :D

[-] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Do people genuinely not like ENT?

[-] BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The consensus leans to it being not that great.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

The consensus has definitely changed with time.

Granted, that has happened to literally every iteration of Trek, except TOS.

(and TAS I guess considering that it remains an underrated gem)

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

I think it was the first truly disappointing ending for a trek show, and that kinda sours the whole thing a bit.

[-] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I agree the ending wasn't great.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I think that was mostly when it came out. (Along with voyager) Over the years it is seemingly more appreciated.

[-] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

Oh man do they. The years since it aired have been kinder to it but hot damn did it get a lot of hate online while it was fresh.

[-] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

From my perspective, I didnt start to appreciate it until the final season and then I wasnt even that bummed because I knew I wouldnt have to hear budget rod Stewart sing over an old Timey map with crew member power point transitions

[-] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I think this song was kind of annoying.

I don't know I'm not really into TOS, it was too campy for me. I liked TNG just fine, something about ENT really had like a rough, we're doing real first time exploration kind of vibes to it which I really enjoyed.

[-] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

I laughed at michael is a boys name.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Let's see, which ones could apply to me..."CBS All-Access sucks," "Ugh, another prequel?", "The Orville is real Trek," "Mary Sue." No bingo from me.

Mushroom warp invalidates warp drive as a travel method, that's a fundamental part of the setting here

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This conversation is too Daystrom for Risa. I'll agree to disagree :old man shakes fist at clouds:

because I can't stop me:

Mushroom warp was "bat shit crazy" to pretty much everyone.

the last ship that tried it disappeared, presumed lost with all hands.

Section 31 probably has the whole story locked in a cabinet next to Mirror Universe Spock's Goatee.

I think there was a whole plot about how using it hurts the thing that is the mushrooms? So like, ethically, that's a no go.

By the end of Voyager, the Federation is beginning to understand how to build trans warp gateways (Borg tech) which is, at least practically, close enough to mushroom warp that it's good enough.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Why is that not valid though? It's shoved in people's faces. Why can't they just have a normal relationship? Why bring it to the front and center?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

I genuinely don't understand this question. What "that" are you referring to, what "it" are you referring to, who's "they", what's "normal" for "they"?, and what "it", again.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

You don't understand what that term means. You might think you do, but you don't.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Okay. If you say so 😂

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay so you'll notice I didn't have any specific criticisms of discovery listed, and people in this thread are calling me a bigot, dismissing my opinion, and being general assholes to me.

There also is someone who comes in, implied that the legitimate criticisms that have nothing to do with identity politics are BS and the real reason OP doesn't like Discovery is that they are a bigot.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

wanders into a thread to defend bigots

wonders why everyone assumes they're a bigot

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh fuck off. You are blatantly just an asshole using social justice as an excuse to justify your cruel behavior.

50 years ago you'd be the type of person saying DnD players are satanists and bullying them in the name of Jesus.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 15 points 11 months ago

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE RACISTS

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

They aren't racists any more than DnD players are satanists. You just want targets.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago

THE RACISTS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT RACIST

[-] TwoCubed@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Mushroom warp is so dumb, I don't even know where to start. Disco is shit. Wokeness isn't the problem though.

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