Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy Gets Fewer Views Than Old Men Talking About Deep Space Nine
As part of their bid to get people interested, Paramount released the first episode of its new Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy, for free on YouTube. At nearly the same time, as counter-programming, the YouTube channel Red Letter Media released a video...
RLM are the poster boys of "I can tell that everything has turned to shit, but I refuse to acknowledge why". Leftists, women, and minorities were put in charge of every franchise RLM hold dear, and all of those franchises immediately imploded. But you will never catch the Milwaukee boys badmouthing their own side of the political aisle. In fact, they go out of their way to minimize the obvious impact of leftism on media while mocking the creators who are brave enough to call a spade a spade.
From like 2016-2018/19 they were on of the few non right wing people I would watch cultural stuff about because they weren't obnoxious about their politics and came across fairly apolitical. But after a while I got bored of their channel because it's like watching someone with a huge elephant in the room complaining the room is crowded but not addressing the elephant. And more than that, once in a while taking shots at people who do mention it.
I honestly kind of enjoy that this type of 40s something man child white guy has to watch all of their favorite things be destroyed over and over again while they defend the people destroying it. I think they deserve it and I can't wait to see how miserable they are after another 10-15 years when they're old and alone and all the media they loved and defined themselves with sucks balls. A personal hell
I would find it funny too if a bunch of their favorite things that got destroyed weren't also my favorite things. The big difference is I'm retarded enough to defend those who break my toys.
I'm not into Trek specifically but I know the feeling and I've honestly spent the last decade plus getting mad about my favorites and on behalf of real fans of things I'm not into.
But in general I've finally found a sense of acceptance and some emotional distance after years of them raping the corpse of every IP. So with stuff like this I'm mostly just looking at the bright side. Cause I honestly kind of hate the normie/apolitical/NPC like default left of center people who defend this bs or pretend not to notice even more than our explicit enemies. So Im starting to enjoy their suffering.
Auron Macintyre did a great segment on this and the people who make a career out of complaining that the bread and circuses are now gay, and wanting better quality bread and circuses.
They're the leftist rearguard.
Whether they're aware of it or not doesn't matter.
Yeah, even in this DS9 vid they instantly started bitching about Bashir approaching Dax in a romantic way. "Dude dont do that! It already wasnt okay back then!".
They are supporting the same people who destroy their favourite franchies.
Holy God, look at those comments!
Yahoo's comment section is still as surprisingly right-wing as it was 15 years ago!
Of all places!
People in general are right wing. Don't let the Internet censorship machine fool you.
Men are, when surrounded by other men. Women are the exact opposite.
Women on their own are left wing. Married women are whatever their husbands are
This is why many of the articles don't have comments.
Screenrant did a good job with Picard. I haven't taken the time to read all the articles they had on this one. Yesterday I looked, and I wasn't interested in the middle of the first article I had clicked. If you use it, tell me your results.
The purpose of these reboots aren't actually to make quality entertainment, it's to try to destroy the franchise you hold dear.
That was accomplished by 2020; I think this is obviously just money laundering from government grants and loans at this point.
Let's compare how DS9 handled emotional trauma. In one episode, Chief O'Brien was convicted of a crime he didn't commit on an alien world, and on that world punishment was given by implanting memory engrams of having served decades in a gulag rather than going through all the trouble of building and manning actual gulags. So by the time the Federation got involved, it was too late. The rest of the episode was Miles dwelling on what he was made to believe he went through. Miles tried to power through it, like the old war veteran he was. When that didn't work and he almost struck his daughter in a fit of rage, he ran off into an empty storage bay, stole a phaser from a security locker, and had a breakdown while sticking the phaser in his mouth. The kind of shit where you see a grown man cry and think "...damn", not roll your eyes and call him a faggot.
How will Academy handle emotional trauma? Have the character break down in tears at every little inconvenience, like the past two modern Trek shows? Red-Letter Media were right in calling old Trek 'competency porn', where the characters are meant to represent the best of the best humanity has to offer, so when they fail it's because they either didn't live up to that standard, or their circumstances were far beyond what a human should reasonably be able to endure. We don't get that with fat cadets who swallow their own com badges.
It's more than that. Shows used to write aspirational characters. They could still be relatable, but they were something you'd strive to be, not something you already were. And certainly not "he's literally me!" for some Reddit mod who stumbled into a studio writing gig.
But that seems to be a lost skill. The lack of characters like that in kids' shows is going to be especially disastrous in the long run.
Aspirational implies a higher standard, and having standards has long since been decried as problematic. Modern writing is all about validation, so the characters are all as debased as the writers and their intended audience.
I'm rewatching TNG and this rings very true but, additionally, it's about cohesion.
When Picard gives an order, it gets done. Sometimes he just has to look at the person because they're so in sync that they both know what needs to happen next without having to express it explicitely. There's no sassy quips, no back talk, not even questioning of orders unless stuff has gotten really crazy and those cases usually result in a private discussion once the crisis has passed. You get the impression that not only is everyone on the ship really good at their job, but that they're all on the same team strengthening each other, which makes the challenges they face feel that much more impactful.
Modern writing instantly takes me out of immersion because it's impossible to believe that these idiots could successfully pilot a ship out of dry dock, let alone handle any sort of unexpected event.
Especially on the Enterprise, Starfleet's flagship. It was meant to be the best of the best of the best, and supplemented by those who had the potential to rise to that standard and just needed to be mentored. Their job was to best represent what the Federation has to offer be it scientifically, diplomatically, or militarily. There was an earned respect, even among the rivals and enemies of the Federation. Who the hell respects anyone in new Trek?
Like that one episode where Picard kept ordering the Enterprise to be flown closer and closer to a star. Riker effectively committed mutiny, but it was to save everyone's lives. And it was all just a test. They can't write stuff like this anymore.
Edit:
The ending had an example of exactly this concept
Great scene about this, regarding Worf and Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdiQhMPt1Zo
Did you see Ro was on Picard?
You know what DS9 needed? More musical and muppet episodes.
I would’ve loved a spin off show about DS9’s humble promenade tailor.
Their secondary characters are light years better than slop treks entire cast.
I'm curious what the streaming numbers really are... if you go to the StarTrek subreddit and see all the sycophant bots you'd think it's the most popular show ever made and watched.
Reddit is completely compromised. Do not use "reddit engagement" as a barometer of anything in CURRENT YEAR, it's bots and turbofaggots all the way down.
Seems legit. Outside of Sisko's very rare delusions of being an oppressed 20th century comic book artist, DS9 was the best.
Come to Quark's! Quark's is fun! Come right in, don't walk, run!
Vulcan Love Slaves is now available in the Holodeck
I'd take TNG any day of the week, but I can see good arguments for DS9. Neither are even comparable to anything made in the last 20 years.
Hey, not that old! 🤣
Anyway with streaming services like Netflix, wouldn't be surprised if more are currently WATCHING TNG and DS9 than this.
Pretty sure Paramount refused to renew Netflix and Amazon's longstanding licenses in favor of only streaming from Paramount Plus. May have changed in the last few years. They still have digital purchase on Amazon though.
Good thing piracy is no longer a thing...
Deserved, but how many of the intended viewers knew this was going to happen? Normies are retards and need these things shoveled down their throats.
One glorious effect of the disintermediation of media distribution is that it significantly reduces the size of the shovels the globohomo Hollywood fuckwits have access to.
If Riker hadn't taken over Season 2 and 3 of Picard, it would have been shit. It was being boycotted, and there was a petition to make it non canon. They fucking knew exactly how to chase the audience away.
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-picard-jonathan-frakes-director-episode-response/
https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/02/interview-jonathan-frakes-on-revisiting-riker-and-directing-himself-in-star-trek-picard-season-3/
Something about an "official" news outlet calling the RLM boys "old men," in the headline no less, is very funny.
The ship and the comm badge look like a pussy
the thing is... good shows subsidizes bad shows ;. its communism for entertainment
Compare these 2 shows that released their first episode on Youtube for free -
Starfleet Academy - 82,000 views in 24h.
Cobra Kai - 5.4 million views in 24h.
No one gives a fuck about this show.
Deep Space Nine's constant aggression against the space time continuum is what created all the new Star Treks.
The free episode is region-locked to the US, though.