I still get confused every time “Start of Something” comes on in one of my playlists. It’s always, “Huh, I don’t remember this Smiths song. Ohhh.”

Discovery turned Section 31 from “Sinister secret organization that everyone who knows about it is appalled that it exists” to “Sinister organization that everyone knows about and is fine with.”

They’ve aggressively retconned Section 31 from the amoral “ends justify the means” agency in Deep Space Nine to not all that bad in Star Trek Enterprise to whatever they were supposed to be in Discovery. I imagine they’ll destroy my fun fan theory that connects the three shows.

Why is it so damn hard to make a new Trek show? The only one that’s come close isn’t even official Trek—The Orville—and even they’re saddled with a lame “dick jokes in space” concept that they can never quite escape.

True, I’m just thinking in terms of when I was Navy and deployed on an aircraft carrier (the Enterprise, oddly enough.)
I met the Skipper once. I met the XO once. If they even knew your name it was most likely because you fucked up hard.
Everything else was handled at a far, far lower level along the chain of command.…

So.... not a biopic of mid-oughts minor indie sensation Voxtrot? That’s a shame.

The main way these adaptions normally fall down is dystopias are meant to be a downer. The main theme is that a future society is so broken that there is no “revolt”, there is no “change” possible. Once they change this central theme, it is no longer really a dystopia, but really just star wars of any other story with…

I mean granted, “brave new world” can be used as a general phrase and Shakespeare quote, but saying “Even in a Brave New World systems are violence” is like saying “Even in 1984 the government oppresses.”

I always loved the running gag that Morn was chatty as hell whenever he wasn’t on-screen, and was also some kind of sex machine.
But yeah, the different perspectives on Starfleet from a bunch of people for whom being a Starfleet officer isn’t their whole life could be a lot of fun. 

Totally agree. Picard was awful. Too much. Shit. It was as if someone threw a bunch of random TNG concepts into a blender and hit puree. “Romulans. Plus Borg! And, uh, androids! What’s it all mean?? Nothing!  Who cares!”    

Fool me once, CBS All Access, shame on me. Fool me twice? Nah.

Please stop trying to tie this horseshit to the Prime universe. The one good thing JJ Abrams did was put all his stupid fuckery in an alternate universe I can ignore as non-canonical.

Just as a starting-point, you can imagine, “why would being a junior officer on a starship suck.”

I fucking hated Discovery at the start but it won me over, I think Picard was better than it was given credit for, but it was kinda scattered and they borked the landing bad.
A lot of the complaints were centered around how the shows didn’t have the Star Trek optimism, but I think that criticism was ultimately…

There is an interview with Frakes on the DVD of Nemesis where he says "I think what people want most of all from Star Trek is lots if good action". All I could do was sigh and shake my head. Even the people who were involved in great Trek don't seem to get what made it special. I'm starting to really think that the…

I get the distinct impression that they fall prey to the most common misconceptions that most people who didn’t watch much Star Trek seem to: That TOS was actually “The Wild Wild West,” only set in the future, i.e. a show about guy who was constantly screwing, getting into fist fights, and finding himself in…

I think I was really just hoping that it might share a little more of the anarchical tone of Rosencrantz (or rather lamenting that it probably never would). Like maybe they don’t all have to be so gung-ho and competent.

Did it really? What was it like? I am pretty sure the Orville still hasn’t figure out what it is exactly. I liked it better then Discovery but its really has as lot of tonal issues. Its clear McFarlane gets Star Trek better then anyone at CBS does but I feel like he pitched the Orville as a comedy sci-fi first so any…

I dislike Discovery but the thing that is worse, for me, is that Picard was just so very disappointing.  It had a few high points but way to many lows.  Also it felt like they wanted to stuff way to much shit into a the show.  The androids, the Borg and the Romulans, it was all to much shit.  

The trailer was enough for me know that I wouldn’t like this. When I initially heard they were going to make a show about the lower deck ensigns, I naturally thought back to the TNG episode. The reason why that episode worked so well was because we already knew the upper decks so well. So when I thought they’d maybe…

I was hoping for something along the lines of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Redshirt and Geek Ensign Are Dead?).