I don’t recall anyone complaining about Sam Jackson as Fury. Marvel’s Ultimate series of comics specifically imagined Sam Jackson as Fury long before the movies came out, and he quickly became the best incarnation of the character.
The song choreography was so amateurish. There were long stretches in each song that were just the camera panning around the singer’s face while they don’t move or anything. It was like watching kids stage a musical.
Uhura’s song was all about how awesome she is because she has it sooooo hard yet still EVERYONE looks up to her to solve all the problems. My favorite part is how during the song she isn’t doing anything other than walking around, then after three seconds at a console there’s a burst of mathematic calculations in the air around her and she has figured out the solution to their problems. Which Spock wasn’t able to do after spending significantly longer.
Fuck the Klingon scene. Yet another example of lore getting shit on for a gag that doesn’t have any impact beyond the moment. They could have done something super serious and operatic which would still contrast with the rest of the episode’s music—this would be appropriate for the series since Star Trek has always leaned into more classical arts—but instead they had them sing a forgotten Earth style.
Star Trek these days is being shit out of a collective anus. Sometimes it’s almost edible, but at the end of the day even Picard season 3 is covered all over by the slimy feces that coat the entire franchise.
Mediocre writing on Strange New Worlds has always kept it from being great, but the spirit of the show is usually enough to make up for that. This episode though, you could tell that next to nobody outside of one or two actors had any sort of experience with musicals and the surrounding framework was pretty flimsy.
The handling of the Klingons in this episode pretty much sums up this show in its entirety. Some okay ideas, but still far short of where they could and should be.
Too much is done in the name of not hurting people’s feelings. Nothing will get better if our society doesn’t stop putting people’s feelings— especially those of criminals and other unsavories—above what actually matters.
That movie could have done two things and been successful. It could have taken the plot threads from the first movie and expanded upon them while introducing some new supportive elements, or it could’ve gone all Temple of Doom and just been a random-ass adventure while Rey goes around on some Jedi spirit quest or something.
It’s a loaded question that doesn’t account for civilizations between now and thousands of years ago being different. The answer is no, a Christian would not sacrifice their child if God commanded them to, because God wouldn’t command them to in the first place.