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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Cage is peak trek

Never accepted Kirk and those after as real trek

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You better be referring to the original broadcast recorded to magnetic tape and not the abomination that is the DVD release

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What about the option of the original black and white recording of ‘The Cage’ with the colour portions from ‘The Menagerie’ spliced in, as released to videotape in thr 80s?

That was the real Star Trek. Roddenberry even took it to cons in the 70s and 80s to let fans know what he really wanted to put on the air.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

You're fooling yourself if you don't want to see the sharp decrease in quality post DS9. The best Trek series of the last 25 years is Orville ffs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd give strange new worlds a pass as being better than Orville, but yeah, it's definitely the exception to the rule.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fair, Strange New Worlds is great

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I don’t mind the Kelvin films. Karl Urban as Bones makes it all worth while.

They’re just popcorn flicks. Watch or don’t watch and it’s not like the Star Trek Universe is altered in any way. (Also, those movies are better than everything after Wrath of Khan, movie-wise)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Also, those movies are better than everything after Wrath of Khan, movie-wise

boo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I used to think Chris Pine Kirk was better than Shatner. I now kind of feel like Pine’s the best Captain, but SNW Kirk’s the best gentlemanly lady killer kirk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I'd argue they are better than anything after The Undiscovered Country. But yeah otherwise I agree, 2009 is one of my top trek films, and I'd rather watch it over any of the TNG movies. Sorry, not sorry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Largely agree, with a couple exceptions: Undiscovered Country and First Contact are good; Into Darkness is bad.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've taken to the term 3rd-wave Trek for the 2010s-present shows to identify the stylistic differences in production compared to shows made in the 80s-90s or 60s.

Each era is molded by the media conventions of it's time. And there I go reinventing Marshal McLuhan again: "the medium is the message"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's the face for anyone who remembers that by TOS canon, the greek god Apollo is real and just got bored of Earth and fucked off to another planet?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If it doesn't have 20+ episode seasons it's nutrek

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

NuTrek apparently began in 1973.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So season one of DS9 and voyager?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't really like any Trek past DS9 Don't hate me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is the good take. Star Trek peaked at DS9 and there's yet to be a good reason to continue past it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never liked VOY, writing is poor.... Not interesting sci-fi like TNG, not a captivating story like DS9...
The Doctor is essentially the only good part. Maybe Seven of Nine, Jery Ryan is a great actress, despite the embarrassing clothing.

SNW is good, DIS is whack. PIC essentially crapped all over the past series' development, killed Hugh, Ro, Icheb, made the Federation grimdark... Monk Worf was cool tho.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Voyager's writing is inconsistent. There's some fantastic episodes... and then there's salamanders.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As long as you don't take every available opportunity to steer every single online conversation towards how you don't like a tv show then we're cool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"You are allowed to have your opinion so long as you don't share it"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

"I wish they hadn't gone and made Star Trek political!"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (38 children)

It's a massive, massive red flag when someone goes the "Terran Empire/Section 31 did nothing wrong" route.

It's very common in zone chat on Star Trek Online. Some fascists just hang around Earth Spacedock all day there, posting nonstop fascist screeds, and if they're ever actually out in their ships, without fail it's "ISS" prefix with names like "AYN RAND."

Disclaimer: Yes some people play bad guys in their games, but I don't think just playing the part involves hours-long rants about why the (slurs here) need to be wiped out in zone chats.

EDIT: I think I'll add "fervent Discovery apologists, especially ones that stan for space fascists after contrived apology arcs," if only because of their repeated tendency to feel very smart to the point of undue arrogance about contrived "what if mass murdering dictators... actually good once the protagonist buddies up with them?" bad writing cliches.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nu Trek is, to me, just the kelvin shit. The new shows on CBS are legit, especially lower decks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

maybe I've consumed more and more scifi over the years to compare to or maybe the later releases of trek have lowered the average in my mind but I can't help but see trek in general as solidly mid now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I hadn't watched any Trek in a while and in Picard there was a scene where their ship was hit and started listing like a boat and I was like "that's not how space works!", then remembered that's the thing with Star Trek.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Based on a real situation I encountered once: Normal Star Trek Fan: Yeh, I like Seven of Nine.

“Red flag” Star Trek Fan: I like Seven of Nine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What if I say all trek is both NuTrek and OldTrek because accidental time travel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Creative fun in-universe answers are always:

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I like NuMetal tbh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (21 children)

I mean, technically everything from TNG onwards would be NuTrek and Kelvin-stuff would be NuNuTrek, or rather Re-Trek, since it's a reboot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (11 children)

NuTrek started when they did a full visual reboot, including completely changing the look of the Klingons: TMP.

Then it got worse, when they followed that up with a grimdark shoot-em-up that felt nothing like Trek. These people aren't even fans of the show!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Both panels are acceptable and objectively correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Broke: Discovery is NuTrek

Woke: Voyager is NuTrek

Bespoke: TNG is NuTrek

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I will always have a special place in my heart for the Kevin timeline because it was my gateway drug to the good stuff. I wound up watching all of Star Trek in chronical order enterprise to Voyager.

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