I watched the TrekCulture video on it because the title made it sound like even those wokies hated it too, but 2/3 of them liked it and the one who didn't still said he liked how it was being a comedy which is NOT Star Trek- it has funny moments at time but not slapstick or cursing to be cool garbage. And the woman said fat people would totally exist in the future and attacked Elon Musk.
I used to engage with the WhatCulture media a lot. I was initially a fan of WhatCulture Wrestling, but branched out to all their other branches. But sadly like so many sites they drastically shifted in 2020 during the Floyd nonsense. It became super left-wing and unwatchable. They even put in an ugly fucking tranny as a presenter.
Preferring Star Trek be a throwaway comedy over a smartly written and acted show that encourages you to explore the possibilities of existence and the human condition? People like that shouldn't be anywhere near the franchise.
Trek Culture can go and find their Lucky Charms. That Sean guy royally pissed on fans of Trek proper and so he can sink in the cesspit he calls home. Ellie, over on WhoCulture, at least saw the flaws as they surfaced and let fans have their uncertainty and unease, maybe even agreed with them while maintaining a professional abstract capacity to their news coverage.
That all said, it's not the worst Trek out there. It's a state of ongoing repair which is still wanting to keep the canon established by NuTrek, so it will fail. But it does a punch to the right arm and says "Remember what Trek was about, back when it was good?" and so knows going in that it's not a winner. I think the humour is what it will be remembered for, the Jem'Hadar/Klingon teacher and the holographic student are both hilarious in their roles.
For a teen coming of age story akin to Disney's Aladdin set within the Trek universe, it works. I'd not say it's anything beyond that, now whether it keeps to that is another story.
clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZozc3tgAPM
I watched the TrekCulture video on it because the title made it sound like even those wokies hated it too, but 2/3 of them liked it and the one who didn't still said he liked how it was being a comedy which is NOT Star Trek- it has funny moments at time but not slapstick or cursing to be cool garbage. And the woman said fat people would totally exist in the future and attacked Elon Musk.
I used to engage with the WhatCulture media a lot. I was initially a fan of WhatCulture Wrestling, but branched out to all their other branches. But sadly like so many sites they drastically shifted in 2020 during the Floyd nonsense. It became super left-wing and unwatchable. They even put in an ugly fucking tranny as a presenter.
Preferring Star Trek be a throwaway comedy over a smartly written and acted show that encourages you to explore the possibilities of existence and the human condition? People like that shouldn't be anywhere near the franchise.
Trek Culture can go and find their Lucky Charms. That Sean guy royally pissed on fans of Trek proper and so he can sink in the cesspit he calls home. Ellie, over on WhoCulture, at least saw the flaws as they surfaced and let fans have their uncertainty and unease, maybe even agreed with them while maintaining a professional abstract capacity to their news coverage.
That all said, it's not the worst Trek out there. It's a state of ongoing repair which is still wanting to keep the canon established by NuTrek, so it will fail. But it does a punch to the right arm and says "Remember what Trek was about, back when it was good?" and so knows going in that it's not a winner. I think the humour is what it will be remembered for, the Jem'Hadar/Klingon teacher and the holographic student are both hilarious in their roles.
For a teen coming of age story akin to Disney's Aladdin set within the Trek universe, it works. I'd not say it's anything beyond that, now whether it keeps to that is another story.
The Klingon teacher is great. I would have enjoyed her in the better seasons of modern dr who.