As much as a I am a Trekkie, I’m completely with you on this. Overall these movies are great entertainment. It also helps to bring in a new generation of kids to the Star Trek worlds.
My kids (now 13 & 11) absolutely love all things Star Wars but really had no clue about Star Trek. Which is what happens when there is nothing current playing anywhere. So they’ve now seen the Abrams movies and are very excited to hear about a new movie being made.
(Meanwhile I’ll try to show them the originals but imo, they may be to “low brow” in the special effects for them .. frikkin kids these days, lol)
I grew up on TOS on RDTV in the 90s and it was totally fine for me. I totally was with the special effects of that show. Kids have more imagination than you think. Are they really that picky? I was also watching the 1960s Batman in the 90s and it was fine.
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I grew up on TOS on RDTV in the 90s and it was totally fine for me. I totally was with the special effects of that show. Kids have more imagination than you think. Are they really that picky? I was also watching the 1960s Batman in the 90s and it was fine.
RDTV....Jesus....how old are we?
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So old that on our nightly PC gaming session on Discord, instead of playing Star Trek Bridge Crew and learning how to pilot a Starship as we did the night before - we decided to play "screen share your RRSP portfolio and walk through how to set it up correctly".
Next time on Klassen Tax the Next Generation...
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Speaking of Star Trek Bridge Crew, I started playing it with FlameOn and it's a bit bland so far.
We are not playing it in VR but the missions could definitely use more Star Trek flavor and variety. The most entertaining situation so far was playing the TOS Enterprise and not knowing which color jube jube to press to warp away before a star exploded.
I'm down if anybody else wants to give it a try as it no-longer requires VR goggles and you can just mouse look around while you are controlling the ship. We are usually short one or two crewmen.
I had fallen behind a bit on Discovery. But I watched the episode from a couple of years ago where they went through the galactic barrier.
They just outright "Science" everything. We need to get trough the great barrier, lets use programable anti-matter and spray it on the hall. What's programmable anti-matter? Nobody knows.
Suddenly one of the crew members is leaving, and Saru has this big conversation with him about how valued and loved he was, and how he'll be missed. And I was like, everyone replaces a chair, we don't need a speech to make a irrelevant character suddenly relevant.
Michael makes a big speech, I tune out.
Suddenly Michael is out of ideas, and everyone has them, I guess they listened to what's left of their fan base.
Michael makes a big speech and I hear it like the adults in the peanuts cartoons. Wah wha waaah waaaah waaaah.
Just a slow episode where they talk about their feelings, and the sudden back story by scientist guy is most of it.
Just so many cringe worthy moments in this epsiode.
YES we got the rock and roll concert flame throws and pyrotechnics. Who designs a bridge with natural gas lines in the wall?
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It was pretty good. A little heavy on the pointless emotional stuff. And what was with Picard being in charge, then Rios just pushing forward and blabbing? I more look forward to what was setup than the episode itself. So hopefully it pays off. I have very little faith in anything Kurtzman being involved with turning out well.
One time, Spock acceded control to Kirk. Another time, Kirk demoted Decker. Either way, something has to happen for the Captain to lose control of his ship. Kirk was the Universal champion of taking over, but most of the time when an Admiral was on board, they never even attempted to take command away from the Captain.
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I haven't been watching this series, but in the original Trek movies even Spock had to agree to accede command to Admiral Kirk before Kirk could take over. Spock had every right to sit Kirk in a corner.
In this case, Rios already handed it over. No take backs!! It was just weird, because they made a specific point of it, and then shortly after Rios jumped in with, well, I don't remember the details, but it wasn't really consequential. Almost like the writers forgot about it when they turned the page on the script.
One time, Spock acceded control to Kirk. Another time, Kirk demoted Decker. Either way, something has to happen for the Captain to lose control of his ship. Kirk was the Universal champion of taking over, but most of the time when an Admiral was on board, they never even attempted to take command away from the Captain.
Because Captains fly ships....Admirals fly desks.
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Nope the ranking officer has command. For example a admiral on an aircraft carrier in charge of a task force doesn't have direct command of his carrier, the ranking officer (Captain has it).
Another example is lets say that a admiral gets a ride on the destroyer, the Destroyer's captain is still in command of his vessel.
Its always the commanding officer in charge not the superior rank. Which could lead to lets say a Lt in command of a frigate being the authority over an admiral that's on board, when it comes to ship operations.
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Great start to S2 of Picard IMO. Had a definite old-school Trek vibe, and I'm really enjoying these characters. Stewart was terrific as usual.
Some thoughts:
Spoiler!
That new/upgraded Borg was creepy as hell.
Picard's reunion with Guinan was well done. Funny that she's still bartending all these years later. She must really love that job.
Not gonna lie, I got goosebumps when Q appeared. He's easily one of my all-time favorite Trek characters, and I love that they've brought him back for this series.
I still have a crush on Seven of Nine.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed that episode and the story has me intrigued. Season 1 was kind of a slow build and it took a few episodes for me to fully get on board. This latest episode had me hooked right away. It's refreshing to finally get some quality live-action Trek again, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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