Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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Count me among those that enjoyed most of Voyager. Though I did see the series finale, and it did get kinda ridiculous, but then, they did have to shoehorn in "the way to finally get home now" in two episodes.
How'd you like watching Seven test out being gay in Picard? I liked the character she played on Startgate SG1. That show eluded to getting busy, and moved on. Some of the papers I read made point to say it was bathroom break long.
I haven't watched any Star Trek that came after Enterprise, except for the first two Michael Bay movies.
I skipped enterprise. How was Quantum Leap man? Did you only think of QL? It happened to come out when I just didn't watch any television.
Never watched Quantum Leap. Bakula played Captain Archer pretty laid back. I think my biggest issue with the series was how often the Time-Space Continuum was an issue, especially considering it was supposed to be the precursor to everything.
she was never in sg-1, that was a different hot 90s blonde
I can't figure this shit out. Places say yes, places say no. No wonder I'm wrong.
She was in SG1, but maybe not the person I was thinking of. I was thinking of the blond that kicked Teal'c's ass while he's learning not to have a symbiote.
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Anise
It's not as documented as star trek. I'm not sure if we're both right because I posted an interesting article on c/startrek about how many actors played multiple characters.
oh, that was t'pol.
In the not-Mirror Universe arc they did, evil Seven married a short dude and forced him to be her secretary, which is probably the most in-character thing Seven did in all of Picard.
I posted a bit in c/startrek I read nothing good about that show until season 3. What did you think?
You have opened a two-gallon can of worms, I hope you know. The only reason I don't have a blog is because I'm too inconsistent.
I have the relatively unpopular opinion of not liking Picard S3 or SNW. They're not as overtly political, and sometimes even countersignal the left, but they're still sloppily-written and acted by overgrown theater kids playing themselves, instead of career men and military officers.
Of course I get it. Picard S3 and SNW aren't nearly as overtly political, and coming from the "Make the Empire Great Again" era of NuTrek, it's a breath of fresh air. The show isn't screaming about how much it hates me. But I'm gonna largely ignore that here, because it's a subject all its own.
That said, Picard S3 might be art of a kind, even if it's not especially good as a piece of entertainment. It's just hard to parse, and I haven't spent a lot of time with it. The problem is, it's so sloppy that it's frustrating to follow. I don't know what's intentional and not, or what's entertainment, commentary, or reflection, because I have to turn my brain off to avoid getting frustrated with the writing.
There's a moment in Picard S3 that poetically illustrates Picard's writing as a whole. They end the Grody Bitch Changling arc by flushing her, and her subplot, out an airlock. As soon as she's out, the show becomes something entirely different. Now it's a Borg episode, except somewhere along the way, it completely forgot that one of the last season's shizophrenic subplots was that the chubby girl became the Borg to save them with love, or something.
Granted, chubby girl Borg was a fucking stupid subplot and we'd do our best to forget it ever happened, but making the Borg the secret antagonists of the very next season only draws attention to it.
I can point to that moment as one of the most blatant examples of the show possibly rising above its station, but it's all over. For instance, Picard and Riker play big roles as sad, frustrated old men. They're then given an opportunity to rise to the challenge one more time, as their adult children all flounder, having been raised under their substandard care, into a world they bungled.
How much of that is the plot, and how much of that is just Stewart and Frakes being sad old men? Is there some subconscious recognition of their failures? Is that why it abandoned its shitty political messaging? If so, how the hell is the actual plot, the connective tissue, so dogshit? You don't have that kind of self-awareness, and then think the shit with the red door is clever.
As entertainment, I don't have a lot to say about it. Watch Q Who, Tapestry, Best of Both Worlds, and Family instead. As potentially unintentional commentary, it might be the best finale to NuTrek (even if SNW and STD aren't over yet), if you can possibly make sense of it. I'm sure there's something of value in there, I'm just not equipped or motivated to dig it up.