Once they established her character as a, well, human, she was able to actually continue with the momentum set up in Voyager.
The problem initially was that the Fenris Rangers stuff was weird random bullshit with no real explanation and effectively just made her a morally grey mercenary at best and an outright murderer at worst. I remember reading initially when she got the Picard script that she had a panic attack because she could not recognize the character at all.
I will never get the image of Icheb getting his eye ripped out and cut out of my head. Stuff like that was absolutely unnecessary and made the show weaker overall.
It was a definitely a “let’s add sex appeal” moment. I quite like her as an actual character though (besides the weird Chakotay thing), they’re lucky Jeri Ryan is a good actress. The ratings went up pretty much immediately after her introduction so I guess we played right into their hands haha.
The Chakotay and Seven relationship isn’t canon in my opinion. Seven and the EMH? Adorable! Seven and Harry Kim? Sure! Seven and no one? Even better! Just another reason to hate Berman.
I see the point of the additional plot line to Saavik, but ignoring that, is it really the only additional heft we could have added to the character? She needs to be a child-bearer, basically a container, for another Spock? That feels like it’s really backwards and lazy storytelling, and something not of that period. Also, she’s so young and he’s so damn old - it wouldn’t have been a good look then, and certainly not now. It would completely undermine his role as a guiding father-figure to Saavik in these films.
The film would bring Kirk and company from the 23rd century to the 21st, where their quest to bring two humpback whales back to the future would receive assistance from an uber-nerdy college professor played by Murphy.
Most of the characters suck. Tilly is great tho. “Spore drive”, wtf, totally idiotic. Also the red angel shit was too stupid. The tardigrade shit was stupid. I could do with never ever hearing about or seeing fucking Michael burnham ever again. Really disappointing.
Been a while but I honestly liked most of the characters. With the exception of Burnham. I also wasn’t much of a fan of a main character like that although it’s interesting that the closest thing to a main character is not the captain for once. And I like that in lower decks too. Burnham just kinda felt… I don’t wanna say not star trek but not star fleet. Just not connected properly to most of the crew. Not like the rest of them did.
Most of the overal storylines felt mediocre to me. Wasn’t much of a fan of the mirror universe.
I honestly still enjoyed watching it, and I think most complaints are bullshit.
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