It really is skin-suit Star Trek, with momentary glimpses of what it could have been.
It's remarkable to note that by removing every single last overweight female character they would have greatly improved the episode. Even the new-age hippie captain would be tolerable, if she wasn't surrounded by female dumplings.
It really is astonishing that they insist on including all of these 'Silly Tilly' effigies. As if 'Silly Tilly' from Discovery wasn't bad enough.
It's also funny that you kind of/sort of want to watch Star Trek Discovery after watching this episode. Just to see what caused this 'Burn', but then you remember all the trender stuff and you instantly lose all interest.
And then you remember Stacey Abrams as 'president of earth' and all the other horrid stuff comes rushing back.
Feels like drinking from a poisoned well.
Edit: Also, fun fact. Andor season 1 episode 1 autoplays after this Star Trek episode. Apparently, you can watch the first season (or first couple of episodes) of Andor for free on Youtube.
There's been five seasons of STD, three of SNW, three of Picard, two of the gay adult cartoon, two of an actual kid's cartoon, the Section 31 movie...surely you've seen enough by now to not inflict any more on yourself. I know I have.
Jesus, that's debatedly as much as there was 'good' Star Treks.
There have been six Terminator films, two of them good.
There have been eleven Star Wars films, about two and two halves were good.
We're drowning in shit.
I thought you wrote "Tremors film" and not Terminator. I got mad for a second because every last goddamn Tremors movie is gold.
No debate there.
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith, and Rogue One.
I - VI, half credit for Rogue One
The prequels are highly flawed, but accomplished a lot at the same time. To this date, no one has created a standalone world in cinema like the prequels did. Return of the Jedi was clearly half-baked, but still has a lot of important stuff in it. The Disney mainline sequels are all farces obviously.
Rogue One has good qualities but it fundamentally undermines the Rebel cause. In the end, only movies from the creator of Star Wars are truly Star Wars.
I liked Rogue One because it was an old-school World War II movie.
Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, and half credit for ESB and RotS each.
Why a half credit for Empire? It’s usually regarded as the best of the bunch.
It doesn't have an ending and the set pieces suck.
ESB has a lot of pathos, but it's got a very serialized, "coming next week" kind of ending. ANH and ROTJ both have real endings.
The Bespin saber fight is neat, particularly the silhouetted portion in the freezing chamber. But Hoth is ugly and boring, Dagobah is ugly and boring, Bespin City is sterile and boring. There are no star wars in Star Wars V. Compared to the kino of duel and battle in ROTJ, ESB gets credit mostly for effort but not result.
As many seasons but not as many episodes. TNG had 176 episodes on its original broadcasts. STD has 65 and Picard 30. It’s all to obfuscate information to share holders and normies.
I've not watched the overwhelming bulk of that, though.
IIRC when looking it up an alien was sad near some dilithium which for some reason made all dilithium explode.
Any sane spacefaring empire would ensure such a threat would be wiped out, the Klingons (lol this autocorrected to "Clinton's") especially since they literally went to "war" against the Tribbles already.
Any species or entity capable of doing that to dilithium, or any similar situation, would be at best contained forever and otherwise flat out exterminated to ensure it never happened again.
I love it when inexplicable magic is forced into my hard sci-fi. Who doesnt?
Star Trek always had science fantasy stuff like the TOS episode where they meet Apollo, Q, etc, but that's not what they did with the crying alien destroying warp travel.
Those are generally given a fantastical explanation, seems like this is just random nonsense.
That would be mean.
I'd rather watch a video of a Spock action figure sitting on a chair.
I'm not going to defend this but, what did you expect?
We are 10-15 (maybe 25 if you're really cynical) years into Garbage Trek. Whatever they call "Star Trek" today actually sucks ass and has done so for a generation. Watching it, even to mock it, is like dunking on Hallmark movies.
Now I want to have a "Bad Hallmark movie night" with the guys for a few laughs.
I expected an improvement, actually. After so many abortive projects, and a new president in the White House, it's usually the time to chance course. But unfortunately it was just the latest double-down on feminist-DEI garbage.
The amount of "I watched gay porn and I'm very disappointed it wasn't filled with beautiful women having heterosexual sex" type of posts I see here and in social media, is really weird.
I've mentioned it before but we call this cinemasochism.
Glad you survived, OP!
Well, the producer is Alex Kurtzman. Were you expecting mineral water? Maybe enough figi for a mikvah?. Poisoning wells is their thing. They're the Tom Brady of well poisoning.
Kurtzman was also the director.
They should have fired his ass a long time ago.
if you havent realized by now, any main stream media made from 2015 onwards is most likely going to be garbage
Preaching to the choir.
They are shitting on White culture in every way they can.
I prefer Old Trek, Star Trek: Online, and the Star Trek Novelverse.
I'll save you the trouble. An alien child cries when his mom dies and it causes all of the dilithium in the Universe to explode, making warp travel impossible. Yes, it really is that stupid.
The problem with having fat people in Star Trek is it completely destroys the idea of a better sci-fi fantasy for me. Why would I want a future with fat people? Gross. Might as well nuke us all now.
They were also the most obnoxious characters, which couldn't have been a coincidence.