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[–] doleo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wasn't this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.

This season, we're going to have had: Spock's comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.

We've gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy's name was did.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Are you forgetting you're talking about the series where:

  • Humpback whales were a central plot point in one of the movies
  • Dr. Crusher had a sexual relationship with a ghost
  • Paris and Janeway were mutated into lizards, had sex with each other, and gave birth to babies
  • It's canonical that people need to clean up the bio-filters for holodecks (leave that one to the imagination)
  • Data, a robot, manages to get laid a couple of times
  • Q's method of testing humanity is basically trolling the entire TNG crew every single time he appears
  • SNW had a literal fantasy episode in S1
  • Fucking James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes was a recurring villain in TNG enough times to show up in Picard

Like... my guy, Stark Trek has always had an element of camp and being a goofy-ass series. It has a lot of thoughtful and contemporary dialogue in a lot of the episodes, yes, but you can't say stuff like the SNWxLD crossover (which, as somebody who has never watched LD and grew up with TNG & DS9, I thought was pretty good) and the next couple of episodes are straying from Star Trek as a whole. Why do you think a lot of Trek fans would consider GalaxyQuest as an honorable Star Trek film?

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I too want the same old rehashes of 60s and 90s Trek plots so we can have full series burnout in record time.

Star Trek is a place to tell stories. Some of those stories involve weird shit. "Weird," as Janeway says to Kim after he comes from a cloned version of the ship where everyone he knows and loves just died in a self-destruct explosion, "is part of the job."

Spock’s comedy capers was tonally different from data’s day… how?

You’re acting like goofy shit is not an intrinsic part of trek’s charm

[–] michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 1 points 1 year ago

@doleo TOS had a gangsters comedic episode, and a cutesy animals comedic episode.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, I think SNW doing all this stuff is more Trek than we've seen in a while. Most inventive and creative live action series since Enterprise ended.