I have never been a huge fan of Star Trek comics to begin with, but I am just not a fan of this. Especially when they usually have to come up with a pretty convoluted reason for why those two universes crossed paths when they definitely should not have. But mainly, it just feels like a lazy way to avoid coming up with more stories that are just Star Trek stories.
After all, it’s much easier to come up with “what happens if Spock fights Wolverine” than “what happens when the crew go down to a completely unexplored alien planet and encounter a problem they haven’t encountered before, so it takes an effort to fix it.” But the latter is Star Trek.
I guess to me, it feels like they’re doing it because they can, not because they should.
Two things. The first is something that I posted a week or so ago to my Mastodon.
So I just had a realization.
My entire life I’ve known what’s going to happen in Star Trek. I started with TNG but by the time I was actually invested it was off the air and Enterprise was limping off screen itself.
Lower Decks is amazing and I love the characters. If one of them dies I’ll be upset and if the Cerritos is destroyed then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on.
Strange New Worlds is amazing and I love the characters. Most of them we know the trajectory of but some we don’t. If one of them dies then I’ll be upset but its Starfleet. It’ll carry on and with TOS specifically.
Discovery is amazing and I love the characters but it was a prequel. As with SNW, we know what’s going to happen so the threat didn’t feel as severe to me. It was the same as Lower Decks and SNW. If someone died I’d be upset but it was Starfleet. I’d carry on. I was upset at Culber but carried on. Upset with Ariam but carried on. Even when they went to the future things didn’t change much for me. Sure I didn’t know what was going to happen anymore but it didn’t seem to the click.
But this fucking [trailer] and the realization that this is the final season? I am actually scared and really uncomfortable now and I don’t quite know how to process this. Like I started to have a minor panic attack. I don’t think it was until this moment I realized the show is ending and I have no idea how it will…
The second is something I have been realizing about myself a lot lately and I’m not sure what it says about me. But I’m more concerned for the ship than I am for the crew. I don’t really know why. Like don’t get me wrong, I’ll be upset if someone dies, as I said in that toot, but I am going to be devastated if the ship is destroyed. I don’t know why. Every other hero ship has been either destroyed or battered and it stung but this would kill me. I keep staring at my Discovery model on my desk (I really need to eventually get that Refit model) and panicking. She’s my ship. Not my first. Won’t be my last. But she’s my ship.
The intro song takes time but if you listen to it fully and don’t just skip it you’ll find that it grows in you. Trust me it isn’t easy, but if you keep at it you’ll enjoy it. I used to be where you were, firmly in the stance that it wasn’t good, but now I’m of a different opinion.
That thing everyone hates isn’t really horrible, at least not if you brainwash yourself into liking it. You’ve just gotta give your brain Stockholm syndrome and suddenly it’ll actually be good.
I really liked the episodic concept of the first two seasons and how Starfleet started exploring space. Plus there were some great characters like Shran.
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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