Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Nobody in the Lower Decks crew should have made it past the academy. Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, not an extended gap year for a group so belligerent and incompetent they shouldn't be put in charge of raking leaves in autumn let alone being stationed on an intergalactic starship that a handful of safety features from going back in time and/or destroying localised space.
Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, but we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits. That's one reason why I love Attack Pattern Tuggs, it's Trek, and lovingly so, but it shows a crew of misfits and burnouts who fly those old ships that get a few seconds of screen time in the shows.
that doesn't really make sense, star trek is an automated, post scarcity, mostly peaceful world, serving in the star fleet isn't a mandatory military service where they have to accept almost anyone or people signing up for a paycheck because there's nothing else to do. burnouts and misfits have no place there, they either don't pass the initial assessments or get filterd out through evaluations later, they don't need to be there if they have no motivations to do so
Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Nobody in the Lower Decks crew should have made it past the academy. Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, not an extended gap year for a group so belligerent and incompetent they shouldn't be put in charge of raking leaves in autumn let alone being stationed on an intergalactic starship that a handful of safety features from going back in time and/or destroying localised space.
Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, but we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits. That's one reason why I love Attack Pattern Tuggs, it's Trek, and lovingly so, but it shows a crew of misfits and burnouts who fly those old ships that get a few seconds of screen time in the shows.
that doesn't really make sense, star trek is an automated, post scarcity, mostly peaceful world, serving in the star fleet isn't a mandatory military service where they have to accept almost anyone or people signing up for a paycheck because there's nothing else to do. burnouts and misfits have no place there, they either don't pass the initial assessments or get filterd out through evaluations later, they don't need to be there if they have no motivations to do so