I'm sure everyone there would be super cool and normal with ensign Balzac and lieutenant Philips.
Yeah, I'm also not sad that they removed a bit of backstory about a woman being killed causing Worf to revaluate his life and motivations.
Neat!
I am a bit disappointed that these are going to be explicitly non-canon, though.
Man, I am sick as a dog right now, I didn't need to find out about a chess-like game that I'm in no condition to actually be able to learn the rules.
Whelp, time to find some tutorials.
I feel like Sisko would be having more fun than that. Seems like a dude who'd be down with a log flume.
Yeah, there's a lot of little touches in there, like the "Delta Flyer 3" on the car that really elevate it beyond the standard slapdash meme. I prefer to post my own OC, but when I saw this one, I knew it had to be shared.
You're commenting this on a Star Trek discussion forum. A show that was founded on the idea that diversity is a strength. Gene Roddenberry specifically cast women in positions of authority, and non-white actors to be the crew of the Enterprise because he wanted to portray a future where humanity had moved beyond such petty bigotries.
A franchise which has persisted for 57 years, and is recognized the world over, founded on the "diversity first" approach you're lamenting.
We’ve also seen Mariner do it on the Cerritos.
That was Boimler. Mariner just appropriated his program for her own purposes. She even initially objects to the fact that he based the characters off the logs of the crew.
I like more new Trek than I dislike. Hell, I like SNW well enough.
I’m just opposed to the idea that because I’m in a specific age demographic that this particular iteration of Trek should be particularly special.
As a fellow Gen X, I feel like SNW is...perfectly fine. If you went to the Star Trek store and walked up to the counter and said, "One Star Trek, please," SNW is what they would give you wrapped in brown paper and tied with string. Star Trek as you like it! It's a solid C+ for sure. And there are even some really good episodes, too!
But man, do I wish it wasn't trying so hard to be Star Trek, and was actually doing something new and interesting. I grew up watching reruns of TOS before TNG was on the air, and then TNG was appointment viewing in my house. And I love those shows. I have those shows an I can rewatch them any time I want.
This second season has been better than the first, and I've enjoyed it, but there still hasn't been much to really get me invested. There's no hook. None of these episodes are threatening to break into my top 50. Which, granted, there is almost 900 episodes of Star Trek, so there's a lot of competition.
I just want to be excited about Trek, and SNW is not doing that for me.