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Star Trek: Alpha to Delta Quadrants & Everything In Between

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So sad

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obeygiant said:


The Kobayashi Maru Test, old and new.
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The Wrath of Khan version, Dr. McCoy being on the bridge is understandable; he spends half his time aboard NCC-1701 on the bridge.😁

Having "Bones" on the bridge in the JarJar Abrams version wouldn't be so bad if--*IF*--he didn't sit at a workstation. Have him standing around being snarky, awesome. McCoy manning the tactical station? Why?😕😕 Dammit Jim! He's a doctor, not a tactical officer. In no versions of Star Trek does the CMO have a workstation on the bridge. Ugh.
 
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Mousse said:
The Wrath of Khan version, Dr. McCoy being on the bridge is understandable; he spends half his time aboard NCC-1701 on the bridge.😁

Having "Bones" on the bridge in the JarJar Abrams version wouldn't be so bad if--*IF*--he didn't sit at a workstation. Have him standing around being snarky, awesome. McCoy manning the tactical station? Why?😕😕 Dammit Jim! He's a doctor, not a tactical officer. In no versions of Star Trek does the CMO have a workstation on the bridge. Ugh.
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The Enterprise D would go into battle and Beverly would sit at Picard's side. Um, shouldn't you be in sick bay to handle potential casualties? Actually, Beverly could hang out with me any day :)

Geordi was on thee bridge a lot too, but at least he could transfer engineering to a bridge station, which kinda makes sense for him to be there.
 
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Rafterman said:
The Enterprise D would go into battle and Beverly would sit at Picard's side. Um, shouldn't you be in sick bay to handle potential casualties? Actually, Beverly could hang out with me any day :)

Geordi was on thee bridge a lot too, but at least he could transfer engineering to a bridge station, which kinda makes sense for him to be there.
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B'Lonna did that as well on Voyager.. in fact, ST's Wiki said that the Constitution class Enterprise had an engineering station that was always manned, but I don't ever remember seeing Scotty sitting at it.

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The Enterprise D would go into battle and Beverly would sit at Picard's side. Um, shouldn't you be in sick bay to handle potential casualties? Actually, Beverly could hang out with me any day :)
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Dr. Crusher on the bridge, while unusual, isn't as far fetch as McCoy being on the bridge. McCoy was only on the bridge to make snarky comments at Spock.🤨 Crusher is a certified bridge officer and command qualified. She was in command of Enterprise-D during the renegade Borg incident (TNG: Decent parts 1 and 2). She commanded the night shift on a few occassions (TNG: Thine Own Self).
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Geordi was on thee bridge a lot too, but at least he could transfer engineering to a bridge station, which kinda makes sense for him to be there.
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This makes a lot of sense.
 
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cwerdna said:
https://trekmovie.com/2023/02/10/wa...neak-peak-see-photos-from-hollywood-premiere/ has a few more pics, a special ready room ep and a promo video in a tweet.
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Really nice to see them together smiling like that. I grew up with TNG. The Picard series was hard to watch from a Trekkie standpoint (for me) - I only got through the first season (barely). But it is nice to see them on TV again and it's something I can watch someday. Q is one of my favorite characters so hopefully I can summon the courage to get through Picard again - I hear he came back.

Data and Spock were my childhood heroes. ......
 
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Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them

Unfortunately, while we have the other TNG stars, the creative team of Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman and showrunner Terry Matalas didn’t bother to grab any of that show’s lightness of tone. Picard remains a grimdark slog, shot on perpetually underlit sets and featuring a succession of increasingly-bleak setpieces. The plot is stretched so thin that the first four episodes turn out to be little more than an extended prologue for the rest. A prologue that could, I should add, have been an efficient, and possibly more enjoyable, hour. The story is so obvious, too, that you’ll be ahead of the characters pretty much non-stop as they stumble from one idiot plot to the next.
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I found that season 1 and 2 lacked the same level of star trekkiness, it was rather dark, and depressing. I'm not surprised that they stretched what is considered the prologue to the first 4 episodes.
 
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The only new Star Trek series I like so far is Lower Deck. It is the only one that retains the spirit of Star Trek. Granted it's a sarcastic vision. Truly fitting for the perspective of the down trodden grunts, so unlike the the view from the ivory tower of the elite bridge crew.
 
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BigMcGuire said:
Really nice to see them together smiling like that. I grew up with TNG. The Picard series was hard to watch from a Trekkie standpoint (for me) - I only got through the first season (barely). But it is nice to see them on TV again and it's something I can watch someday. Q is one of my favorite characters so hopefully I can summon the courage to get through Picard again - I hear he came back.

Data and Spock were my childhood heroes. ......
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Unfortunately, nostalgia makes people tend to forget there were also some really horrible episodes of TNG - especially the first season .
 
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This is what I didn't like about some of S3 of Orville. Even I thought it needed to tone down the humor, but it went super serious. Isaac was the funniest one, and that was rare.
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Orville may go the way of the last season of Enterprise - a strong season, ending in cancellation. But I did miss some of the humor.

Crew going on an away mission in disguise...Ed: "You all look like unemployed backup dancers."
 
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Rafterman said:
Orville may go the way of the last season of Enterprise - a strong season, ending in cancellation. But I did miss some of the humor.

Crew going on an away mission in disguise...Ed: "You all look like unemployed backup dancers."
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I did like it for the most part, but I don't like when shows totally change the genre. If it's supposed to be serious start as a drama and stay on course. I did like how they handled such serious issues and the parallels to other ST like Q
 
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I did like it for the most part, but I don't like when shows totally change the genre. If it's supposed to be serious start as a drama and stay on course. I did like how they handled such serious issues and the parallels to other ST like Q
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Unfortunately, show's do that a lot, when they are borderline cancels.
 
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Unfortunately, nostalgia makes people tend to forget there were also some really horrible episodes of TNG - especially the first season .
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Agreed. I remember as a young kid in the 90s when that episode in TNG came out where Beverly got kissed by that trill woman ... it was in the local news and I remember my parents threatening to not let me watch Star Trek because of that.

I got my wife to watch Star Trek with me a few years ago and the first season of TNG was very very cringe. We got to the first season of DS9 before Netflix got rid of Star Trek. :mad:

My biggest problem with Star Trek today - it doesn't even feel like Star Trek, it's dark and not overall positive with Mr. Roddenberry's idea of Star Trek - the good of humanity and what we can accomplish together. Discovery felt like it was written by someone who didn't even bother to try to understand Star Trek or watch previous series.
Picard and Discovery were very dark and did not feel like Trek for me either. A celebrated captain being treated like that?! What?! Data?!?!?!?! Hundreds of identical ships warping in instantly. Discovery: Klingons having a LONG drawn out conversation about racism. lsd;kfjl;jasf
I remember reading an article where the director apologized for not making it Trek like and promised to do better.

I've been told by other Trekkies (and here) that Lower Decks is very good - so I will be looking into that.
 
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