I get the joke, but I honestly don’t think Jellico is a jerk. He’s a military man. He wants his ship run in a military manner. Captains like Picard, Kirk, Janeway, etc. are not especially interested in a ship being run that way despite being in the military. I am guessing they are more the exception than the rule. Maybe that explains their success, but Jellico was also a successful captain. He just had a different way of running a ship, a more traditional way.
See also: Shaw on Picard. I know he was portrayed as an asshole (until the end), but he was clearly a very good captain.
I hated them. I also hated the Chaotica/Captain Proton episodes on Voyager. I’m sure they were fun for the people involved, but I got second hand embarrassment trying to watch them.
I found his raspy, gravely voice unbearable. I can’t stand to hear him sing. I fast forward though it every time.
Ironically, I rather liked his acting and enjoyed his character otherwise— although I think the writers relied a bit too much on his character/the Vegas lounge program schtick, and “Mirror Vic” was an absurdity that should never have existed.
Well, the death of Phase II gave us the movie series and The Next Generation. Short term loss translated into long-term gain, which led to the golden era of Star Trek.
It remains to be seen if this door closing opens other, better doors.
Paramount had previously announced setting a trend with 1 Trek movie per year. Beyond Section 31, I know of no others specifically mentioned. Keep hope alive that the concept gets retooled. And perhaps… some holo logs of Captain Shaw.
I only clarified because there are still plenty of Mark I’s out there scrubbing plasma conduits. Only 1 sang opera and daydreamed about being a captain.
I really want an update on that story, like did it spark something in the Mark I’s, did they form a union? Overthrow their owners? We’re there poets or philosophers because of what they learnt from The Doctors holonovel?
Seriously though, that fourth Kelvin movie is actually still alive and Chris Pine is still signed to it. After all the dead horses Paramount has thrown in front of it, they should just let it through and see how it does. I think it’ll be good and actually make money, like all the other Kelvin movies did. Especially if Simon Pegg gets to write again.
Maybe all the salamanders want to go to a planet ASAP, and then no one would be piloting the ship to home, no captain doctor yet. They tried it a few times and it ended the same
OR: they realized the bio-neural gel packs on the flyer were also turning into salamanders/ something else? They were only used for the uh, door controls on the flyer, no major systems? They noticed right before they were going to go to warp 10, and saved the crew.
Truly, if Neelix didn’t cook those fancy mushrooms from that random off-screen world, they might have gotten home faster.
I’m thinking that with him no longer needing to control the pattern buffer in medbay and the mental/emotional toll of the war and his experience on the Enterprise, Dr. M’Benga is lining himself up for retirement. This includes him voluntarily letting other peers become the CMO over him, so that he can phase out his responsibilities without significant disturbance after he leaves.
My initial reaction was it was not star Trek, but game of thrones in space with over the top emotionality and focus on individual power struggles. Like, Star Trek at it’s best is about how people of limited power organized to understand and coexist in the universe. This has nothing to do with that, but was all there is an evil universe and it’s all or nothing to survive.
I liked the actual spoken klingon-- a technical feat of bringing a new language to life.
It was really beautiful
I was weirdly uncomfortable but also ended up really liking the red headed engineering lady’s character and role-- something actually kind of new for Star Trek, I think.
Reason I stopped watching, apart from disinterest in an arching plot that’s more like medieval warrior king business, was the focus on a tear jerking character that in any other series would get a couple one off episodes, but here was supposed to be driving the main plot and was just way to much of her.
It could just be me: the expanse annoyed me the same way after a while with the scruffy captain guy crying and doing dumb emotional things every episode. I get that that’s the point of a lot of plots tragic flaw that’s actually a strength because love wins or whatever, but the melodramatic representation… I guess I’m looking for short form thought experiments, not the fate of humanity and everyone you love rests on the knife edge of one character’s emergency therapy session.
Star Trek is supposed to explore the structures we build to prevent the need for emergency therapy in spite of the fact that we are all just weak emotional people.
I like Saru. I like the show’s aesthetic. That’s about where it ends. May as well do the dislikes as bullet points for readability.
The tie-in of Michael being Spock’s never-before-mentioned adopted sibling just feels like bad fanfiction.
Most of the crew is so neglected that I didn’t even know their names in Season 2. This came to a head when in one episode they were going to kill a bridge character and had to spend 20 minutes at the beginning of the episode highlighting her life so that when they did kill her, the audience would actually care.
I dislike the constantly very high stakes. The series feels like an extremely long action film.
Trill lore changes
Season 1 Klingon design choices. Besides the hair thing, I also think a lot could have been done to flesh out the culture and highlight differences between the various houses’ traditions besides basically assigning them colour differences.
I’m sure there was a lot more that bothered me, but it’s been so long since I stopped caring enough to watch that I’ve probably forgotten.
I hate watched this last season. I just don’t care what happens to that crew, which is a first for Star Trek. I’m hoping for a Newhart ending and the whole series is a dream Spock is having.
I think your opinion relfects mine the most so I just piggyback on your comment.
Maybe I’d go one step further with your second point that specifically giving Michael Burnham the spotlight 95% of the time has been a bad decision. On the hand the series relies on all of the crew, on the other hand it is almost always Michael who is involved in finding the solution or making the decision.
I don’t follow celebrity news or anything but I adore Patrick Stewart. I grew up watching him as Captain Jean-Luc, and now I get to laugh at his absurdly ridiculous lines in things like American Dad. I love when actors don’t take themselves too seriously
Don’t know if he’s my absolute favourite, but I love Timicin from TNG’s S04E22 “Half a Life”. He’s a good, dedicated and kind man who would have been a great long-term partner for Lwaxana Troy, but for the fact that he is about to commit ritual suicide as he’s about to turn 60 as a part of a culturally enforced practice called The Resolution.
Played by David Ogden Stiers, he has great chemistry with Majel Barrett, and their relationship is a believable one. He’s a man torn between challenging his society for the chance to keep living in order to save it (he’s the lead scientist trying to stabilise their sun) while finding love with Lwaxana, and not rocking the boat and simply doing what’s expected of him.
It serves a double purpose of eliminating competition. They’d rather not share resources, negotiate treaties, or justify their actions. They have a singular focus, and anything getting in the way of that must be eliminated. Also, because they’re a great villain for the stories as they’ve been written.
startrek
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.