General Star Trek thread

We just had Poverty One and Poverty Two

<cough> When I were a lad, 😉 after walking barefoot, six miles uphill, each way, eating a bag of gravel for the dinner and then switching on the old wooden monster in the corner, waiting 3 minutes for the valves to warm up and waiting for this to disappear so I could watch the ONLY channel available ... RTE ... no 1, no 2, just RTE ... and yes, keeping on topic, I watched TOS in B&W, when RTE syndicated it in the early 70s, I think it was on around 4:30 or 5:00pm.

As for Westward Cable, we had that thing split three ways in our house 😁. Who remembers the first movie that was encrypted on Sky Movies?

This type of forum is skewed older anyway the kids are all on that there Discord and the TikToks.

Something I wish Netrflix et al would do is allow you to put a few series into a special list and give you the option to play episodes in that list at random. Sometimes when I want to put an episode of Star Trek or something on in the background I spend way too much time picking the episode.

So the big reveal is Beverly got a little hot under the collar on seeing Picard in his prime (Shinzon) and she jumped his bones during the E's refit and then disappeared to have a secret child, right?

That would make Wesley's half brother a good 35 years younger than him which given the life expectancy in the Federation might not be all that uncommon but still weird.

Don't you worry if Discovery is ever taken out back that will give Kurtzmann and yer one loads more time on their hands to ruin the shows you like.

Yea, but don’t they do this every now and again? «Conversations» with Space Hitler and it being «In Development» sounds like code for them having done sweet f*ck all with the idea in all of these years.

In comparison, since Season 2 of Discovery we went from Pike being a liked guest-captain to the series, to the idea of an Enterprise-centered spin off, to the first Season of said spin off delivered to us all. Section 31 has be brewing about as long, and still nothing more than «Conversations». My gut tells me they can’t even afford Yeoh anymore, so centering the project around her is ensuring that it never happens.

Presumably, and they probably don't want to end both Picard and Discovery too close to each other without some new show lined up for Paramount +. Had a look there and the only thing I could find that would tempt me to sign up (aside from Trek) is Yellowjackets.

The problem with a Section 31 series is the current crop of writers made them moustache twirling comically evil ruining any possible chance of a Star Trek: Jack Ryan type series.

I'm going to watch Picard season three for the same reason people slow down at car accidents, I want to see something mangled.

LOl. That's 55mins long wow. Glad I did try to watch it all lol. That would 1 hour of my life I would not get back. Done it in 2mins lol.

I dunno I think a Borg show woukd be better than a section 31 show but I suppose that is like saying having type 2 diabetes is better than type 1 diabetes. The point I am getting at is that neither is good but they are manageable.

For those of us old enough to remember this is almost on point

Season 3 is what killed what little hope I had left for the show improving. I haven't watched Season 4 because of it, and Season 5 will likely also go unwatched by me.

If you do venture into Season 3, there is one brief moment near the beginning where we get a somewhat alright Trek episode for a while. Discovery crew, newly arrived in the future, need to work together to get their ship back into space. Micheal is missing for almost all of it, and although not the best episodes of Trek...it still felt somewhat Trek. It felt like what the show might have managed if it hadn't a massive wooden mill-stone around its neck.

Speaking of the mill-stone, she re-appears at the end of the episode to negate all of the hard work the crew had done up to this point to use future tech to save them. Effectivly ruins the whole episode, and sets the tone for Season 3. Thereafter it becomes a sort of a mini-Voyager series where they try to find the New Federation. That was almost intesting too, until the writers lost patience and cheat-coded right up the Starfleet Command mid-season.

One tip for Season 3 is that you can probably skip over conversion scenes involving Adria. They built the character on an interesting premise and then pissed it away. No plot-critical elements are covered in these scenes. I hadn't the patience for them and skipped them automatically.

All of that said, I think the only advantage to seeing Season 3 is getting a feel for their take on the future Federation / Starfleet. It's not appealing at all and also part of why I don't watch more.

I could JUST ABOUT take a DS9 version of Section 31. Sure, it was a bit campy and OTT but you could dial that back (Would take much) and you could have an interesting morally ambiguous take on the Federation (And that universe in general). I LOVED Jason Isaacs' captain at the start of Discovery. Thought he was GREAT and would watch THAT show all day. But we know what happened there. As soon as the mirror universe was mentioned I lost ALL interest in his character as he dialed it from 7 all the way up to 11.

But a Disco version of S31? Pass. It would be camper than a Gay Pride Eurovision Music Festival. EVERYONE, regardless of gender, race, species, age, would have a moustache to twirl. As much as I love Michelle Yeoh, I do NOT want to see this. (Maybe her well-earned recent success will put a nail in this coffin)

I'll watch this, simply to complete (In the same way I'll watch Disco. To complete - Hopefully soon). As we know, Paramount are masters of putting out very good trailers. Each season you look at the trailers and think "Hmm, OK, maybe they have shaken it up a bit. That looks fun". Then you realise that all the best bits in the trailer were taken from the first wham-bam-wallop episode of the season and then it's back to usual. I'm thinking of the last season of Disco in particular I think (I don't care enough to check). Saw the trailer: "Hey, Burnham is smiling and joking. And there is no pained monologue about hole and Family. (When are they gonna do a crossover with The Fast and The Furious?)". Then you realise. Nope. First episode. All shots within about 2 mins when she is drugged! Back to positions, folks.

The trailer for the latest season didn't even do THAT!

So, I'll watch Picard. I know I shouldn't. I know it will be poor. Frakes looks like he's having fun (Even more so in LD) but the rest will be... Look, it's hopefully the end. I'll let you know if it's worth it :)

I see there was a novel written about what happened to the USS Hera the ship Geordies Mother was a Captain of that went missing. Did anyone read it? Was it any good?

A good episode that one Season7 Episode 3 "Interface"

Yes I think that is it. It was released in 2011 I think. Must look out for it in Chapters next time I am up there.

I don't think it's all about the Hera but it does feature in it a bit as far as I know.

Not you don’t….but you can buy one for me if you like….would be awesome of you :P