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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ummthatguy@startrek.website to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

Inspired by gregorum's post concerning issues with startrek.website, which is ironic as lemmy.world is a bit glitchy right now and isn't letting me upload and had to use my alt here.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

If THIS is Star Trek, then it's all Star Trek.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Does that have to be Star Trek? Can we all acknowledge that Planet Scotland was just a fever dream?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Along with planet Ireland, planet Africa, planet Capitalism? It's a slippery slope.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Yes, but none of those have a ghost sex candle.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

...terrible episode. Followed by "Move Along Home"

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

TNG Sub Rosa is a remix of TOS Metamorphosis.

Fight me.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

I agree with you, I just didn't want you to go unfought for so long.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 16 points 9 months ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago
[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No.
You have been banned from the community: Risa@startrek.website

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 18 points 9 months ago

That place looks like the Q Continuum when Q wanted to unalive himself.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is it tho? Other than the com badges, every random screenshot I see of Discovery looks like a totally different sci-fi franchise. Especially when the characters are holding phasers.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 31 points 9 months ago

DS9 screenshots in isolation look a lot different from TOS. Things change.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 21 points 9 months ago

Things change

I know, I've watched Picard season 3 -- everyone gets old, especially the guy watching! Oh wait ... 😕

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

It, like every series before or concurrently, approaches the universe differently. They all have changes in style, effects, base premise, and acting. It's Trek all the same. Doesn't mean we have to like it.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can't say if I like it or hate it as a whole; haven't watched the show it yet (so please don't assume this or my previous statement are meant to disparage; that wasn't my intention). But I also haven't seen Strange New Worlds, which still aesthetically looks like Trek to me from images I have seen. The vibe and tone are way different. Discovery looks like it is trying to be dark and gritty, which isn't very trekky IMO. Which is one of the two main reasons I still haven't watched it (the other being Paramount+ fuckin' sucks)

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 10 points 9 months ago

You're kind of right. Discovery S1 was trying to be a dark, prestige drama. It felt a lot more like BSG than Trek. I haven't watched it since it premiered but I don't remember hating it, though I didn't love it either.

They fired their show runner pretty early, so there is another tone shift from S2 onward. The tone becomes a lot more like the new-Trek movies, and later much more like Strange New Worlds. Take a look at screenshots from Season 4 compared to Season 1 to see just how much it shifted stylistically.

The real issue isn't aesthetic or tonal, it's that the writing is excruciating.

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[-] DODOKING38@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Na fuck discovery specifically

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

And it's always Discovery when these posts are made, isn't it. Because Discovery never tried to be Star Trek in anything but name and when fans backlash, it's always the fans' fault, not the show's fault (Paramount/CBS astroturf the shit out of this online, imo). Picard sucks too for similar reasons, and I just said so on an internet forum. So what?

Maybe I wish these shows hadn't got made because they were a giant waste of resources, but at the end of the day, I'm still enjoying LD and SNW. But no, I can't tell the world what a pile of dogshit Discovery is, oh no, that makes me a shitty fan who deserves to be banned.

Speaking of which, let me tell you about /r/startrek - those assholes can fuck themselves and if startrek.website is infected with that particular mind virus, it can fuck itself too. Being intolerant of opinions about a stupid tv show is far worse than any particular opinion could possibly be.

[-] zaphod@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know the old saying: you're not wrong, you're just an asshole.

Hint: you can have a differing opinion without being a dick about it.

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[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

This is the kind of thing that kept me out of the fandom for years. I have zero interest in hearing how bad you think Discovery or Enterprise or whatever is, but by God you and everyone else will be sure to explain it to everyone repeatedly. It's tiring seeing it time and time again. I've enjoyed the shows, you didn't, that's fine. At least you aren't belittling the people that do like it, but that happens, too.

It reminds me of the Simpsons fans and their weekly discussions about which was the last great season. Who cares? It's just an opinion. Can't we just enjoy things we like?

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

I like how your comment is getting simultaneously up voted and down voted

[-] preludeofme@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Except the new movies.... That's not Star Trek

[-] ummthatguy@startrek.website 37 points 9 months ago

Sure it is. It may be flashier, have a larger budget, and largely miss the spirit of the series at that time... I had a point here somewhere.

Eh, pick and choose what bits you enjoy.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I liked the "hand held one person cross galaxy transporter that can move someone from Earth to Qo'noS that fundamentally changes all aspects of several galactic civilizations including the concept of space travel via starship, but is for some reason never used or mentioned again by anyone in the universe because Abrams clearly gave no fucks at all about the source material and just invented something so utterly 'not trek' because he wrote himself into a corner and didn't care about anything except the giant check he got."

That was my favorite part.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

Figuring out a tech solution that could be applied to many other problems then completely forgetting about it in the next episode is what Star Trek is all about isn't it?

Especially when the transporter is involved. They've used the transporter to cure diseases, then forget about it later. Scotty was in a transporter pattern for decades putting him into a perfect stasis. Whey don't they do something like that for emergency situations if they're running out of air or food? Forgot about it. Riker got split into two different Rikers. Wouldn't the Dominion want to recreate this so they could quickly make millions of copies of fully trained Jem Hadar soldiers every time they rocked up to a planet they wanted to conquer? Guess they didn't think about that. That time O'Brien transported to a ship when the shields were up. Few episodes later "we can't beam over their shields are up!"

The list goes on and on.

I think it's firmly established that transporters are basically magic in Star Trek. They can do whatever an episode needs them to do and they can't do things whenever it would too easily solve a problem. If we're ten minute into an episode: "nope transporter can't do that even if it worked in a previous episode" Last 10 minutes of an episode: "We use the transporter by doing !"

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

And then in the next movie they cured death!

[-] eva_sieve@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

In fairness, they did that on Voyager first.

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

His favorite part was also the giant check

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[-] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

How do those guys feel when they look in the mirror?

[-] ummthatguy@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago

A bit conflicted, I imagine.

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[-] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

By the sideburns of Season 3 Kirk, just have fun with whatever flavor of Trek you have and let's stop Elaan of Troyiusing over nothing. Let's bitch about the Animated Series instead!

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago
[-] N_Crow@leminal.space 5 points 9 months ago

The new movies aren't star trek. It's bang bang pew lazers in space.

BUT that's fine, I just think it's such a waste that corporate did the space action shooting movie in the star trek universe instead of mass effect.

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