General Star Trek thread

I think critics are good but obviously objective. Trick is to find one or two with a history of liking what you like rather than saying x amount of critics like something.

Well I think there are two large problems with those aggregators (not defending Discovery BTW, those reviews may have been too generous....). Sites are not willing to pay for good quality reviewers, and replace them with writers who seem to be a hot second out of college, the AV club was a prime example of that one, while at the same time I've noticed that an awful lot of "reviewers" are only watching the first episode or two that they got on screener, and probably at double time, and then dumping it. So issues that arise in the initial episodes, which are later either addressed or adjusted, become the death knell of some shows that could actually work out in the long term. Almost the only shows that seem to now have reviews for each episode, despite quality, are the Marvel/Star Wars grouping, with a few exceptions here and there.

I'm honestly at a loss at the moment trying to find a decent site or reviewer for upcoming 2023 stuff. Empire went to gack an awful long time ago, and I either don't trust or fundamentally disagree with both the more mainstream review sites, and the edgelords whose main stick is that absolutely everything is crap.

Didn't realise it was the 30th anniversary this year, now I'm beginning to feel my age! Would have been 30 years ago so that my dad arrived back from a work trip in the UK with a holographic Star Trek postcard of some weird space station I'd never heard of. Trek, on a station, Never! Was a couple of years before I actually got to see the show though, not sure if it ever came up on RTE so must have been when we got NTL around '95

Early 90s Sky One was great for a Star Trek fan with TNG/TOS/DS9 every weekday at 1700 repeated at 2200, and yes I did watch it at both times.

I was in first class when I started watching it daily. Communion money for my own TV was a wise investment and my dad split the cable tv to my bedroom too.

Yup, cablelink it was so, NTL must have been a later rebrand! I think for a while I was bouncing between Sky and the BBC watching episodes. As far as I recall the new ones were Sky, and I could watch older ones I missed on BBC, until Sy started doing the two Trek episodes back to back 4pm-6pm on weekdays

I had cable until I was 14 when we moved. Cable was RTE1, Network 2, BBC1, BBC2, UTV, Channel 4, Sky One, Sky News, MTV, QVC (switched to TV3 when that launched), Cartoon Network/TNT split 12 hours each, and TnaG as far as I remember.

After moving it was the four Irish channels and the 5 UK ones from Wales. There was one Sky box eventually but that was my mostly what my parents wanted to watch during Prime time.

If you lived in the Southeast and got UK tv from Wales TV3 and TG4 had terrible reception because the UHF aerial had to be pointed in the opposite direction to the Irish broadcast to receive the UK channels at all.

Folks, go easy with the memories, I'm nostalgia-ing hard 😁

Tiktoks.. back in mah day..

Also, I mentioned these "Thick thocks" is it? to one of the youngers before Christmas and that also now seems to be an oldies thing with BeReal being the real deal..

I was absolutely in the dark.

I dunno, the whole instant gratification thing has it's advantages. I remember one summer finding the VHS where I had Best of Both Worlds taped from RTE back in the day and it was like manna from heaven since there was a small collection of season 7, I think at that stage it had been years since I'd been able to watch it. I'd absolutely dread if Netflix had the ability to show you how much time you spent watching particular series/shows/episodes. I can think of several where I must have worn the tape out on Netflix servers!

At least back then if you had an argument because you hate Discovery it was only with your friends and you and you didn't get a million racist homophobes giving you the kind of back up you really didn't want.