No, that was Picard Season 3. Strange New Worlds Season 2 is right back to the Shit Trek adventures, with witty feminists degrading legacy male characters, and writers who have no understanding of entire cultures and why they are as they are (Vulcan emotional suppression is not genetic, they fucking TRAIN to be that way because they know how destructive uncontrolled emotions can make people)
I just pretend Star Trek First Contact is the last Trek movie. They defeat their main enemy in the Borg and both witness and enable the pivotal historical event in their society. The whole ship could have blown up a second before credits rolled, and every single character could die content knowing they preserved their entire race and civilization.
A show focused on the Maquis would have been incredible if made before 9/11. Hell maybe if they'd gotten Ronald D Moore to do it instead of BSG in the early 00's it could have worked.
Eddington's monologue against the Federation has aged like fine wine. But if made today it'd just be some #resist garbage.
Just wait a bit. It won't be long before "AI" will be able to take our favorite franchises and make whatever new TV shows or movies we want out of them with no appreciable difference from the real thing.
Before anyone asks no I don't pay for this, it's 2023 🏴☠️ and extra monitors mean playing shit like this isn't as all CONSOOMing as it could be otherwise.
Strange New Worlds, or more appropriately "Star Trek: Uhura", [because that's what the show ends up being more than anything], has more ups and downs in terms of quality than the biggest rollercoaster in the world could have, despite some almost insane moments of lucidity which probably aren't intended the way they come across. Some episodes are good, some have to have been written while on something.
The newest episode is pretty much a redo of the Buffy episode where magic makes everyone sing, except it's science that makes everyone sing this time.
Song numbers include:
Nurse Chapel, who I refer to as Nurse Homewrecker for reasons relating to other episodes this season, gleefully sings and dances while she breaks up with someone in a packed rec-room with all the other patrons joining in with the smiling and dancing while the person being broken up is in the very room watching it all unfold. If you don't know the identity of this character yet stop reading and go watch the show because I specifically mention it later. Or don't, because the show is dumb.
Doctor M'Benga, who I refer to as Doctor Murder now because of how absurdly violent the characters history has made him, sings about being happy and working together as a team, the episode after stabbing someone to death in the medbay office. The fact that M'Benga is black, as the name might just give away, seems to have completely skipped the writers mind because it now means the Chief Medical Officer is a literal "angry black man" trope. This is but one of the hilarious moments of lucidity the show comes out with which seems to be completely glossed over despite being yet another character assassination as is also the case with Nurse Chapel seeing as how both of these two are TOS characters at one point.
Captain Pike: Sings to his girlfriend while on the bridge about how he doesn't want to go on vacation with her to a resort with all the frills. The fact this sequence takes the Security Officer to walk from one side of the bridge to the other and turn off the comms highlights how disfunctional the entire crew is, specifically Uhura who is sitting at the comms desk the entire fucking time and does nothing about it!
Speaking of the Security Officer, she's one of the many Girl-Boss characters of the show and in her solo she literally sings about wanting a man who will make her feel vulnerable, because apparently this is what a strong, independent woman [of the future] really wants is to be in the end according to the writers 😂
Number One: Honestly has some of the most boring parts of the episode, floats around her room with the SecChief briefly for some dumb reason, and does little except provide a springboard for the rest of the crew to do things.
Similarly nobody really cares enough about the helmsman, Ortega, because her singing was only ever part of the ensembles and she's barely in the episode otherwise.
Spock: Has been reduced to a beta/soy male who opened up with his feelings and then gets shot down in spectacular fashion this episode, in front of a whole room no less, after his squeeze decides to go off on a 4 month fellowship instead and rather than talk to him about it avoids him, does the aforementioned song and dance number, and then wonders why she gets the cold shoulder at the end when everything returns to he status quo. His singing involves being emo about being dumped [so publicly] since actual relationship communication in the future is impossible 🙄
Kirk is also in the show now and again while still only being a Lieutenant and for various reasons keeps popping back up so the writers can try to get establishing moments such as first meeting Spock, being on the Enterprise, etc. His singing was mostly ensemble as he's only really there for drama purposes.
Uhura: aka the shows Mary Sue who "fixes and helps everyone". That's literally one of the lyrics to the chorus she sings near the end as she fixes and helps everyone because she's so awesome. Episode starts with her having to do actual work for once and she looks hilariously overwhelmed but after causing the crisis of the week she also then fixes it because "Go black woman, yaaas kween!" or some other stupidity that is modern writing.
And this is just this episode! I might make a write up of the season once episode 10 is out but it will be more of the same with added examples of how Pike has more or less been sidelined or diminished, Uhura is the bestest best crewman ever, Spock is there sometimes, and the rest of the crew is sometimes in frame.
Oh and ofc the Klingon boyband scene which not only completely changes the vocal pitch of the Klingon crew heard just prior but also even causes the Enterprise crew to look on in stunned silence.
You'll have taken 4 shots within the first 5 minutes of the season 2 premier.
That scene was so fucking dumb. Enterprise is in spacedock getting refits and so tech crews are looking over things. Cue 3 male techs inspecting the bridge and Ortega, Uhura, and the other person next to Ortega all telling the techs how wrong they are.
On its own still kind dumb given the sex split, but maybe the intention is to show the techs as being stupid? 🤔
Nope, cue Pike then saying something and the one in charge of the techs giving Pike the dressing down. Ofc the chief tech is a woman so the pattern remains 🙄
The song choreography was so amateurish. There were long stretches in each song that were just the camera panning around the singer’s face while they don’t move or anything. It was like watching kids stage a musical.
Uhura’s song was all about how awesome she is because she has it sooooo hard yet still EVERYONE looks up to her to solve all the problems. My favorite part is how during the song she isn’t doing anything other than walking around, then after three seconds at a console there’s a burst of mathematic calculations in the air around her and she has figured out the solution to their problems. Which Spock wasn’t able to do after spending significantly longer.
Fuck the Klingon scene. Yet another example of lore getting shit on for a gag that doesn’t have any impact beyond the moment. They could have done something super serious and operatic which would still contrast with the rest of the episode’s music—this would be appropriate for the series since Star Trek has always leaned into more classical arts—but instead they had them sing a forgotten Earth style.
Star Trek these days is being shit out of a collective anus. Sometimes it’s almost edible, but at the end of the day even Picard season 3 is covered all over by the slimy feces that coat the entire franchise.
Your last paragraph is spot on. I watched season 1 of Discovery & season 1 of Picard and that was enough for me...but I was able to be roped back in for season 3 of Picard because I grew up with TNG in it's first run.
I will admit I did enjoy season 3...at first. What's most interesting to me in hindsight, is that as soon as it was over, I was over it. It left practically no residual impression on me. There were a lot of pretty solid guest performances (Ensign Ro's return being the standout) but in the end it did wind up being nothing but memberberries and filler. A high calorie meal with no nutrition, no real sustenance.
Contrast that to TOS, TNG, and DS9 which all still have profoundly effecting & evocative moments that I reflect on even after many repeated viewings across the last nearly 40 years. I remember how satisfied I felt in 94 after watching "All Good Things..." which was a wonderful note to leave on, especially considering in my opinion Season 7 is the weakest of TNG.
Even when Nutrek is somewhat good, and the only instance of that is Picard season 3...it is still a poor simulacrum for the genuine article. In fact Data in season 3 is a perfect analogy: a golem with every related character stuffed into one body that is less than the sum of it's parts and at it's best is still just a pale imitation of something with far more heart, soul, and staying power.
Heading out to Eden
Yea brother
Heading out to Eden
No more trouble in my body or my mind
Gonna live like a king on whatever I find
Eat all the fruit and throw away the rind
Yea brother, yea.
Amen"
Like history, bad episodes don't repeat themselves they rhyme.
Hands down my least favorite TOS episode. The only redeeming quality is that the episode thoroughly shit on the stupid hippie characters and hippies in general.
Remember that Dave Cullen suddenly decided that it was worth going back to Trek, and it had nothing at all to do with the fact that Paramount treated him well and gave him advance access to the first episodes. How many idiots followed him and dropped the cash for Paramount+?
I thought they could not be trusted and, well, looks like I'm unfortunately right again.
It's one of the reasons I unsubbed and stopped trusting Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Az, and the rest of that culture war sphere. They're entertaining right wing normies, which is why I watched them for so long, and for being right wing normies, it seemed like they had some self respect, principles, and were trustworthy. However, that illusion was quickly shattered when they ALL started shilling for Picard season 3, at the exact same time, after years of justifiably shitting on what the entire franchise had turned into.
There was a Critical Drinker live stream, several months ago, where Dave Cullen and one other right wing normie pundit (can't remember the name) were thoroughly shitting on all Star Trek fans if they refused to watch Picard Season 3. It was unfair, hypocritical, and really off putting.
I've always loathed Nerdrotic and pretty much anyone that is an adult, especially a middle aged "man", who makes videos in a room surrounded by goy toys. He also pinged my sonar as an (((inconspicuous fellow scifi geek))) from the first time I saw him.
I did like Critical Drinker for a while, until I realized that like all of the rest of the "acceptable" supposedly right wing/non-woke youtubers: he nose exactly the topic and group to stay far away from. Just like all the others, he feigns ignorance/confusion at the state of hollywood like it's just poor decisions made by individuals working without coordination instead of intentional destruction of all properties that had some decent message or displayed actual virtue & inspiration. And even when he does stray towards acknowledging coordinated effort, it's in a manner meant to lead the viewer away from the actual culprits.
And as you said, it's very suspicious that every single one of them loved Picard season 3. They are all pied pipers who are happy to cash out acting as controlled opposition and endlessly rehashing the same talking points. If they had the balls to actually confront the real issues and source of the problem in entertainment: their platform would disintegrate overnight.
I've always loathed Nerdrotic and pretty much anyone that is an adult, especially a middle aged "man", who makes videos in a room surrounded by goy toys. He also pinged my sonar as an (((inconspicuous fellow scifi geek))) from the first time I saw him
I gave him a mild pass because of what he'd collect running a comic book store, and that I don't require all hobbies to be 100% productive. We're all allowed a little leeway. However, it's definitely a warning sign, and a huge red flag for anyone wanting to avoid needless consumption.
Just like all the others, he feigns ignorance/confusion at the state of hollywood like it's just poor decisions made by individuals working without coordination instead of intentional destruction of all properties that had some decent message or displayed actual virtue & inspiration. And even when he does stray towards acknowledging coordinated effort, it's in a manner meant to lead the viewer away from the actual culprits.
Yeah, that was another big reason I unsubbed and stopped watching all of them.
While I don't need to agree with someone 100% to appreciate some of their opinions, it became a bridge too far. They all attributed the modern state of the world to greed and incompetence, and not what it actually is: malice. They have example after example after example, of directed and repeated """mistakes""", all to achieve the exact same thing, all being done by the same people, all targeting the same people, and they somehow still can't figure it out, or have the guts to speak the truth. In either case, they can't be trusted. It got to the point that they avoided talking about certain things, to such an obvious extent, I could only surmise it was because they didn't want the gravy train to stop, for fear of getting censored or banned and having to move to a smaller platform, and making less money.
I cancelled cable many years ago because it was worthless and damaging, to my time and money. I have no qualms about doing the same to anything or anyone else. The only reason I stuck around that sphere as long as I did was because they discussed the culture war stuff, things I liked when I was a kid and didn't know better, things which are being further corrupted and displayed to the public as demoralization, which those "right wing" normies can't seem to understand.
I hear you. I too don't need to fully agree with someone to appreciate them or get along with them...because frankly that just isn't going to happen in the real world. Not today, anyway. I'm happy if people are somewhat onboard with about 25% of what I believe... for most normies the opinions we hold are a bridge too far, but only because they fear to peer into the darkness that we have seen. And they should be scared; what we have seen is terrifying. Doesn't change the fact that any man of honor & integrity has a duty to do exactly that, but I digress.
I cancelled my cable several years ago too, and tangentially to what you are talking about I've lost more than a few relationships over the years that were deeply important to me. Some I cut off, even more cut me off. Especially during the (((pandemic))) where a lot of people showed their true character, for good or ill. Some are still "friends" but I will never trust them again. Point being: I've gotten quite comfortable with walking away from people that once mattered, so walking away from some shabbos goy profiteer "entertainer" pretending to be based means nothing to me.
And just so this post doesn't end on a sour note or end overly negative, I've also been pleasantly surprised to find some people that I misjudged display far more character than I thought they had. Not nearly as common as the above, but then I've always valued quality over quantity. In things, ideas, and people.
Especially during the (((pandemic))) where a lot of people showed their true character, for good or ill. Some are still "friends" but I will never trust them again.
That was the worst part of it, for me. Not the tyranny, insanity, and stupidity, but learning how many people would go along with it, even people I thought knew better.
For me as well. A line from the Game of Thrones books has always stayed with me, even though it's been many years since I read them. I suppose the truth of it was solidified in those dark days in 2020 and beyond.
Maester Aemon: A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.
Fine, give me a couple of hours. How these writers have wasted Anson Mount is a crime. I even like the other bridge crew and their actors, but the writers keep working hard to make me hate them. I know the "talent" all approve, but to quote Hitchcock: "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
This makes me fear the fourth season of Lower Decks.
Lower Decks, while certainly nowhere near the level of TNG and DS9, was far better than I ever expected...once I got past the first two episodes, which really did suck.
I can make a post reviewing every single episode and giving my thoughts, if people want it.
Really? The LD crossover did nothing but cement my absolute loathing of that show because the characters were so unprofessional any one of them should have been shot for insubordination, treason, attempted highjacking, attempted grand larceny, and attempted interference with the timeline.
And those were just from that episode.
The show comes off more like hipsters larping in Star Trek than what a functioning spaceship crew should be.
The thing that makes lower decks tolerable is the idea that it is basically non-canon. It makes the joke that Starfleet has minor expendable ships with crews that are routinely unprofessional, violent and given the lamest assignments (because the federation high command knows they suck) somewhat tolerable.
It's shame they're taking way too long to make Mariner actually tolerable as a character especially since its only in the later half of season 3 that she actually starts to face repercussions for her constant need to show off. Because if she wasn't in the show or was less obnoxious, a lot of the show's issues would simply evaporate.
Mediocre writing on Strange New Worlds has always kept it from being great, but the spirit of the show is usually enough to make up for that. This episode though, you could tell that next to nobody outside of one or two actors had any sort of experience with musicals and the surrounding framework was pretty flimsy.
The handling of the Klingons in this episode pretty much sums up this show in its entirety. Some okay ideas, but still far short of where they could and should be.
The first season was OK, the spok personality switch up was a feminism/gender ideology promotion but was at least a bit subtle about it so I forgave them.
Season 2 started OK again but then they showcased an obvious faggot genderambiguous actor in the beginning of the ep and I noped out.
Isn’t strange new worlds supposed to be them going back to what makes Star Trek Star Trek?
It's going back to what millennial TV writers think Star Trek was.
No, that was Picard Season 3. Strange New Worlds Season 2 is right back to the Shit Trek adventures, with witty feminists degrading legacy male characters, and writers who have no understanding of entire cultures and why they are as they are (Vulcan emotional suppression is not genetic, they fucking TRAIN to be that way because they know how destructive uncontrolled emotions can make people)
Gotcha. I do plan on seeing Picard season 3
If you're a TNG fan it's a pretty nice send-off for the characters. Some enjoyable nostalgia moments in there, too.
The main cast, sure. Anyone else that was in an TNG episode who comes back for a cameo generally ends up dead in PIC3 🙄
I always wanted a send off for them the way Star Trek Undiscovered Country had a great send off for the original cast
I just pretend Star Trek First Contact is the last Trek movie. They defeat their main enemy in the Borg and both witness and enable the pivotal historical event in their society. The whole ship could have blown up a second before credits rolled, and every single character could die content knowing they preserved their entire race and civilization.
Not a bad way of seeing things. I used to want a Deep Space Nine movie but not in the times we live
A show focused on the Maquis would have been incredible if made before 9/11. Hell maybe if they'd gotten Ronald D Moore to do it instead of BSG in the early 00's it could have worked.
Eddington's monologue against the Federation has aged like fine wine. But if made today it'd just be some #resist garbage.
This comes close, though I doubt anything will ever match the perfection of the end of Undiscovered Country.
Just wait a bit. It won't be long before "AI" will be able to take our favorite franchises and make whatever new TV shows or movies we want out of them with no appreciable difference from the real thing.
That is true
Before anyone asks no I don't pay for this, it's 2023 🏴☠️ and extra monitors mean playing shit like this isn't as all CONSOOMing as it could be otherwise.
Strange New Worlds, or more appropriately "Star Trek: Uhura", [because that's what the show ends up being more than anything], has more ups and downs in terms of quality than the biggest rollercoaster in the world could have, despite some almost insane moments of lucidity which probably aren't intended the way they come across. Some episodes are good, some have to have been written while on something.
The newest episode is pretty much a redo of the Buffy episode where magic makes everyone sing, except it's science that makes everyone sing this time.
Song numbers include:
Nurse Chapel, who I refer to as Nurse Homewrecker for reasons relating to other episodes this season, gleefully sings and dances while she breaks up with someone in a packed rec-room with all the other patrons joining in with the smiling and dancing while the person being broken up is in the very room watching it all unfold. If you don't know the identity of this character yet stop reading and go watch the show because I specifically mention it later. Or don't, because the show is dumb.
Doctor M'Benga, who I refer to as Doctor Murder now because of how absurdly violent the characters history has made him, sings about being happy and working together as a team, the episode after stabbing someone to death in the medbay office. The fact that M'Benga is black, as the name might just give away, seems to have completely skipped the writers mind because it now means the Chief Medical Officer is a literal "angry black man" trope. This is but one of the hilarious moments of lucidity the show comes out with which seems to be completely glossed over despite being yet another character assassination as is also the case with Nurse Chapel seeing as how both of these two are TOS characters at one point.
Captain Pike: Sings to his girlfriend while on the bridge about how he doesn't want to go on vacation with her to a resort with all the frills. The fact this sequence takes the Security Officer to walk from one side of the bridge to the other and turn off the comms highlights how disfunctional the entire crew is, specifically Uhura who is sitting at the comms desk the entire fucking time and does nothing about it!
Speaking of the Security Officer, she's one of the many Girl-Boss characters of the show and in her solo she literally sings about wanting a man who will make her feel vulnerable, because apparently this is what a strong, independent woman [of the future] really wants is to be in the end according to the writers 😂
Number One: Honestly has some of the most boring parts of the episode, floats around her room with the SecChief briefly for some dumb reason, and does little except provide a springboard for the rest of the crew to do things.
Similarly nobody really cares enough about the helmsman, Ortega, because her singing was only ever part of the ensembles and she's barely in the episode otherwise.
Spock: Has been reduced to a beta/soy male who opened up with his feelings and then gets shot down in spectacular fashion this episode, in front of a whole room no less, after his squeeze decides to go off on a 4 month fellowship instead and rather than talk to him about it avoids him, does the aforementioned song and dance number, and then wonders why she gets the cold shoulder at the end when everything returns to he status quo. His singing involves being emo about being dumped [so publicly] since actual relationship communication in the future is impossible 🙄
Kirk is also in the show now and again while still only being a Lieutenant and for various reasons keeps popping back up so the writers can try to get establishing moments such as first meeting Spock, being on the Enterprise, etc. His singing was mostly ensemble as he's only really there for drama purposes.
Uhura: aka the shows Mary Sue who "fixes and helps everyone". That's literally one of the lyrics to the chorus she sings near the end as she fixes and helps everyone because she's so awesome. Episode starts with her having to do actual work for once and she looks hilariously overwhelmed but after causing the crisis of the week she also then fixes it because "Go black woman, yaaas kween!" or some other stupidity that is modern writing.
And this is just this episode! I might make a write up of the season once episode 10 is out but it will be more of the same with added examples of how Pike has more or less been sidelined or diminished, Uhura is the bestest best crewman ever, Spock is there sometimes, and the rest of the crew is sometimes in frame.
Oh and ofc the Klingon boyband scene which not only completely changes the vocal pitch of the Klingon crew heard just prior but also even causes the Enterprise crew to look on in stunned silence.
Wow. I think I’ll just re-watch old Trek. I have a ton of Trek books to read as well
If you want to die a quick death make a drinking game out of SNW and take a shot every time a male character gets talked down to by a female one.
You'll have taken 4 shots within the first 5 minutes of the season 2 premier.
That scene was so fucking dumb. Enterprise is in spacedock getting refits and so tech crews are looking over things. Cue 3 male techs inspecting the bridge and Ortega, Uhura, and the other person next to Ortega all telling the techs how wrong they are.
On its own still kind dumb given the sex split, but maybe the intention is to show the techs as being stupid? 🤔
Nope, cue Pike then saying something and the one in charge of the techs giving Pike the dressing down. Ofc the chief tech is a woman so the pattern remains 🙄
The song choreography was so amateurish. There were long stretches in each song that were just the camera panning around the singer’s face while they don’t move or anything. It was like watching kids stage a musical.
Uhura’s song was all about how awesome she is because she has it sooooo hard yet still EVERYONE looks up to her to solve all the problems. My favorite part is how during the song she isn’t doing anything other than walking around, then after three seconds at a console there’s a burst of mathematic calculations in the air around her and she has figured out the solution to their problems. Which Spock wasn’t able to do after spending significantly longer.
Fuck the Klingon scene. Yet another example of lore getting shit on for a gag that doesn’t have any impact beyond the moment. They could have done something super serious and operatic which would still contrast with the rest of the episode’s music—this would be appropriate for the series since Star Trek has always leaned into more classical arts—but instead they had them sing a forgotten Earth style.
Star Trek these days is being shit out of a collective anus. Sometimes it’s almost edible, but at the end of the day even Picard season 3 is covered all over by the slimy feces that coat the entire franchise.
Your last paragraph is spot on. I watched season 1 of Discovery & season 1 of Picard and that was enough for me...but I was able to be roped back in for season 3 of Picard because I grew up with TNG in it's first run.
I will admit I did enjoy season 3...at first. What's most interesting to me in hindsight, is that as soon as it was over, I was over it. It left practically no residual impression on me. There were a lot of pretty solid guest performances (Ensign Ro's return being the standout) but in the end it did wind up being nothing but memberberries and filler. A high calorie meal with no nutrition, no real sustenance.
Contrast that to TOS, TNG, and DS9 which all still have profoundly effecting & evocative moments that I reflect on even after many repeated viewings across the last nearly 40 years. I remember how satisfied I felt in 94 after watching "All Good Things..." which was a wonderful note to leave on, especially considering in my opinion Season 7 is the weakest of TNG.
Even when Nutrek is somewhat good, and the only instance of that is Picard season 3...it is still a poor simulacrum for the genuine article. In fact Data in season 3 is a perfect analogy: a golem with every related character stuffed into one body that is less than the sum of it's parts and at it's best is still just a pale imitation of something with far more heart, soul, and staying power.
The musical episode?
You don't recall Picard rapping about the science conference? Or Data singing about scanning for lifeforms?
Some other favorites
A British Tar (Data/Picard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kXyLMWdqw
Abdul Abulbul Amir (Data/Lore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS543JUiPeA
Somewhat similar vein...
Ode to Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4
(I have not seen SNW, so no idea what the musical episode or what not is. I do want to see the Lower Decks crossover.)
OK you have to watch this Ode to Spot remix
Those wonderful life forms.
I swear I can hear Kryten singing the same song.
Like history, bad episodes don't repeat themselves they rhyme.
Hands down my least favorite TOS episode. The only redeeming quality is that the episode thoroughly shit on the stupid hippie characters and hippies in general.
At least Spock's Brain was a commentary on and warning of feminism.
Space Hippies can just fuck off.
In song and dance. Watch out for the flowers that turn spock into a hippy.
Remember that Dave Cullen suddenly decided that it was worth going back to Trek, and it had nothing at all to do with the fact that Paramount treated him well and gave him advance access to the first episodes. How many idiots followed him and dropped the cash for Paramount+?
I thought they could not be trusted and, well, looks like I'm unfortunately right again.
It's one of the reasons I unsubbed and stopped trusting Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Az, and the rest of that culture war sphere. They're entertaining right wing normies, which is why I watched them for so long, and for being right wing normies, it seemed like they had some self respect, principles, and were trustworthy. However, that illusion was quickly shattered when they ALL started shilling for Picard season 3, at the exact same time, after years of justifiably shitting on what the entire franchise had turned into.
There was a Critical Drinker live stream, several months ago, where Dave Cullen and one other right wing normie pundit (can't remember the name) were thoroughly shitting on all Star Trek fans if they refused to watch Picard Season 3. It was unfair, hypocritical, and really off putting.
I've always loathed Nerdrotic and pretty much anyone that is an adult, especially a middle aged "man", who makes videos in a room surrounded by goy toys. He also pinged my sonar as an (((inconspicuous fellow scifi geek))) from the first time I saw him.
I did like Critical Drinker for a while, until I realized that like all of the rest of the "acceptable" supposedly right wing/non-woke youtubers: he nose exactly the topic and group to stay far away from. Just like all the others, he feigns ignorance/confusion at the state of hollywood like it's just poor decisions made by individuals working without coordination instead of intentional destruction of all properties that had some decent message or displayed actual virtue & inspiration. And even when he does stray towards acknowledging coordinated effort, it's in a manner meant to lead the viewer away from the actual culprits.
And as you said, it's very suspicious that every single one of them loved Picard season 3. They are all pied pipers who are happy to cash out acting as controlled opposition and endlessly rehashing the same talking points. If they had the balls to actually confront the real issues and source of the problem in entertainment: their platform would disintegrate overnight.
I gave him a mild pass because of what he'd collect running a comic book store, and that I don't require all hobbies to be 100% productive. We're all allowed a little leeway. However, it's definitely a warning sign, and a huge red flag for anyone wanting to avoid needless consumption.
Yeah, that was another big reason I unsubbed and stopped watching all of them. While I don't need to agree with someone 100% to appreciate some of their opinions, it became a bridge too far. They all attributed the modern state of the world to greed and incompetence, and not what it actually is: malice. They have example after example after example, of directed and repeated """mistakes""", all to achieve the exact same thing, all being done by the same people, all targeting the same people, and they somehow still can't figure it out, or have the guts to speak the truth. In either case, they can't be trusted. It got to the point that they avoided talking about certain things, to such an obvious extent, I could only surmise it was because they didn't want the gravy train to stop, for fear of getting censored or banned and having to move to a smaller platform, and making less money.
I cancelled cable many years ago because it was worthless and damaging, to my time and money. I have no qualms about doing the same to anything or anyone else. The only reason I stuck around that sphere as long as I did was because they discussed the culture war stuff, things I liked when I was a kid and didn't know better, things which are being further corrupted and displayed to the public as demoralization, which those "right wing" normies can't seem to understand.
I hear you. I too don't need to fully agree with someone to appreciate them or get along with them...because frankly that just isn't going to happen in the real world. Not today, anyway. I'm happy if people are somewhat onboard with about 25% of what I believe... for most normies the opinions we hold are a bridge too far, but only because they fear to peer into the darkness that we have seen. And they should be scared; what we have seen is terrifying. Doesn't change the fact that any man of honor & integrity has a duty to do exactly that, but I digress.
I cancelled my cable several years ago too, and tangentially to what you are talking about I've lost more than a few relationships over the years that were deeply important to me. Some I cut off, even more cut me off. Especially during the (((pandemic))) where a lot of people showed their true character, for good or ill. Some are still "friends" but I will never trust them again. Point being: I've gotten quite comfortable with walking away from people that once mattered, so walking away from some shabbos goy profiteer "entertainer" pretending to be based means nothing to me.
And just so this post doesn't end on a sour note or end overly negative, I've also been pleasantly surprised to find some people that I misjudged display far more character than I thought they had. Not nearly as common as the above, but then I've always valued quality over quantity. In things, ideas, and people.
That was the worst part of it, for me. Not the tyranny, insanity, and stupidity, but learning how many people would go along with it, even people I thought knew better.
For me as well. A line from the Game of Thrones books has always stayed with me, even though it's been many years since I read them. I suppose the truth of it was solidified in those dark days in 2020 and beyond.
Picard season 3 was good but that's it. I tried to watch Strange New Worlds but it's just not a good show.
Didn't realise Dave Cullen was a shill; thanks for the heads-up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP562IHk8D0
He was given hope by one good season of Picard. They betrayed him.
I suffered through two full seasons of Star Trek Discovery and one of Star Trek Picard.
Strange New Worlds is just more of the same garbage.
The franchise is dead. It became a rotting cadaver and the feminist parasites are now animating its corpse in a grotesque stilted manner.
Destiny?
Fine, give me a couple of hours. How these writers have wasted Anson Mount is a crime. I even like the other bridge crew and their actors, but the writers keep working hard to make me hate them. I know the "talent" all approve, but to quote Hitchcock: "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
He ded.
This makes me fear the fourth season of Lower Decks.
Lower Decks, while certainly nowhere near the level of TNG and DS9, was far better than I ever expected...once I got past the first two episodes, which really did suck.
I can make a post reviewing every single episode and giving my thoughts, if people want it.
Really? The LD crossover did nothing but cement my absolute loathing of that show because the characters were so unprofessional any one of them should have been shot for insubordination, treason, attempted highjacking, attempted grand larceny, and attempted interference with the timeline.
And those were just from that episode.
The show comes off more like hipsters larping in Star Trek than what a functioning spaceship crew should be.
The thing that makes lower decks tolerable is the idea that it is basically non-canon. It makes the joke that Starfleet has minor expendable ships with crews that are routinely unprofessional, violent and given the lamest assignments (because the federation high command knows they suck) somewhat tolerable.
It's shame they're taking way too long to make Mariner actually tolerable as a character especially since its only in the later half of season 3 that she actually starts to face repercussions for her constant need to show off. Because if she wasn't in the show or was less obnoxious, a lot of the show's issues would simply evaporate.
The live-action crossover should not have happened, no.
LD should remain its own thing.
Mediocre writing on Strange New Worlds has always kept it from being great, but the spirit of the show is usually enough to make up for that. This episode though, you could tell that next to nobody outside of one or two actors had any sort of experience with musicals and the surrounding framework was pretty flimsy.
The handling of the Klingons in this episode pretty much sums up this show in its entirety. Some okay ideas, but still far short of where they could and should be.
The first season was OK, the spok personality switch up was a feminism/gender ideology promotion but was at least a bit subtle about it so I forgave them.
Season 2 started OK again but then they showcased an obvious faggot genderambiguous actor in the beginning of the ep and I noped out.