That also could potentially be justified by the fact that the US still has places named after Confederate generals though it’s harder to lock down as any sort of positive thing.
Anyway, my opinion is firmly that if they’re going to make references, it needs to be about people who are already dead, whose negatives are known, and who can’t come back and fuck your reference up by becoming a horrible person as your life goes on.
Definitely. You save yourself a lot of trouble if you wait until they’re dead before you praise them, politics wise.
Because these living people keep revealing how Un-Star-Trek they are, imho.
Nothing breaks immersion more than something that is very un-Star Trek like being shown in Star Trek.
I still like the season, but some of the writing is just so weird.
Like having Tilly instead of Michael finish the race. I know its a throwback to when they practised running in the first season, but its a physical test and Michael is surely in better shape than Tilly. It would have been so easy to get around that by just making Michael drink the water because she can’t take it anymore.
And finally we see why the doc keeps talking about his abuela every second scene he is in this season. She is now a hologram. I am guessing this is setting something up, new tech that reads your mind and makes a convincing hologram of someone you know. Surely that won’t be abused.
I’m thinking this is bad for Star Trek no matter what, because the first thing these entertainment companies do when they buy each other is cut budgets and cut projects.
(Response is more about holodeck centric episodes in general).
I liked how Data would go all in on the roles he played. And Picard’s frustration at frequently getting called away from his fun time.
I didn’t like the Moriarty takes over the Enterprise ones, you’d figure they’d sandbox the holodeck environment and specifically set it up to prevent situations like that. Maybe even make them incapable of seeing through the 4th wall in fantasy/entertainment programs (though I can see the usefulness of being able to do that for engineering exploration and might have just talked myself into not hating that as much because I had forgotten about the practical uses of the holodeck).
I’ve also always found the focus on holodeck scenarios relevant to the 20th and 21st centuries culture made it harder to suspend disbelief. I don’t think our current entertainment is the peak that everyone would come back to all the time. Like you’d figure LaForge would have done the whole “help build and troubleshoot the first warp drive” on the holodeck before doing it for real in First Contact. Like I get why they focus on things we know rather than having to make up more lore, but they made up a lot of lore each time they visited a new planet.
I was fine with them. They weren’t my favorite episodes, but as @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks mentions, it offers a different facet of the character. The idea of the stern, “stuffy” Picard indulging in 1940s American noir roleplay is amusing to me. It’s one of those things that’d come up in one of those awful “two truths and a lie” icebreaker activities.
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