“This is becoming a speech.”

No. It’s 100% on point. The films are often too focused on pew-pew space battles and big-budget VFX...often to the detriment of what makes Star Trek, well, Star Trek — exploration, character relations, the human condition, etc, etc.

Yeah, this is why I’ve not gotten around to it. But as a Trekkie I am bound by sacred oath to watch it. Or not. I'll play it by ear. 

Man, I've got to actually watch Discovery before everything gets spoiled for me in advance. Not your fault of course - my bad for not getting around to it.

“Those moments thankfully didn’t stop me from finishing.”

It is interesting how different shows approached that. I am rewatching Battlestar Galactica right now, and they have some great nuance written in about power and insurgency. It aged very well considering the first couple seasons are basically one big Bush-era allegory.

One of the things I liked about ENT were the MACOs.  Actual soldiers rather than regular Starfleet types in their standard Starfleet PJs fighting on the ground.  

That’s the opposite of the point. The point of the Xindi arc was that the fear and anger resulting from the probe laser attack were causing the people of Earth and especially of Enterprise to go in a xenophobic, militaristic, Jack-Bauer-style the-ends-justify-the-means direction. And the point of this is that it’s…

Season 3's Xindi arc is more sophisticated than I remembered when it aired, but it’s post-9/11 sensibilities have not aged well at all. Lots of “Archer has no choice but to torture this alien” and “It’s okay that they kill all these aliens because Trip’s sister died!” But The Xindi were a fun group of aliens to follow…

I’m going through a rewatch now and have stalled on “Alien Nazi time travel.” I need to skip to “Home” and finish.

I’ll stand by that Enterprise was much better than most people give it credit for, especially with it no longer being tainted as the show that killed the franchise on television. I like the characters and while the first two seasons were definitely slow, I think that’s the direction the show intended to go until they…

Up to that point in the canon, they didn’t. It was something Vulcan males went through.

Surprising omissions here from Enterprise, the show that invented an underwear-only room where characters had to rub each other with lotions.

syfy went through a phase (not sure if it ended) where all their mini series/movies had a weird extended version with nudity... not sure why, but like the 1st episode of Stargate and the plan BSG come to mind with this... it’s also weird because the first time I watched the dune mini series (VHS) it was what played on…

Same thing with LEXX. Its because most of the time these shows were sold to foreign markets where cultural differences would allow those scenes to be shown. This was very common for shows that were made to be sold purely through syndication. I believe The Highlander TV series is an example of this.

I can’t remember if it’s the unrated version, or just like an extended version, but many, many years ago, I found the first mini-series on DVD at Blockbuster (in their new sales racks, which were always hit-or-miss). It’s one of those goofy boxes with like the cardboard covers and the individual plastic inners for…

Damn. Well, I guess I’m hopeful that whoever they cast as his replacement establishes a quick and easy chemistry with the other cast members.

Barda being one of my favorite DC characters, I do NOT trust them to do her right.

James is wrong. Thank you for coming to my TEA-Talk.