General Star Trek thread

Would you miss Toronto... if some sci fi type accident befell it... wasn't that the plot of a recent SNW ep :)

A small price to pay.

There is so much Star Trek and Star Wars now that I just came to the point where I can completely shut my brain off from the bits I don't like.

Space Hitler running S31 will be locked away in the vault with child Leia meeting Obi Wan and Picard fighting Seal Force Borg.

Not for me.

I still watch TNG all the time and I never get annoyed that the ship I am looking at will survive crashing into a planet and then Millennium Falcon it's way through a Borg cube.

I don't think Spock has a sister when I watch TOS.

It's easy if you are not looking for outrage.

It's not outrage to say when they make disappointing to downright awful sequels/prequels it can colour your enjoyment of the originals. It's a slightly different case but rewatching the first fours series of Game of Thrones they are definitely coloured by the steep decline of the last four.

I can't tell if your making the joke about there only being seven seasons or not. Actually, a better example is the Star Wars prequels or sequels, a lot of people feel they colour their enjoyment of the previous films. If you can compartmentalise information like that fair play but when I go back to an episode of TNG I do sometimes get Picard crossing my mind.

I count 4. TNG DS9 VOY and ENT

Yeah TOS is its own thing really. It did lay the foundation, intentionally or not, for the greatness that came next. I could see why fans at the time would take issue with TNG, given how neat, tidy and formal it probably felt to watch it.

TNG was progress in every way though (silly early episodes aside). It raised the bar on TV (maybe not on the big screen) for storytelling, visuals, production, it's all objectively better for the most part.

You absolutely cannot say that about Discovery. It's not in any way an improvement over what came before it.

SNW holds its own, on reflection I can get my head around it being set preTOS, but definitely not Discovery. It's pure tripe, in most measurable ways for me.

A kiss between a man of European ancestry and a Japanese woman on TV less than 15 years after the end of a particularly vicious war was probably a bigger deal at the time.

I think it has more to do with the fact that when people here "racism" with regard to America the only think of African Americans.

Star Trek has had a bigger cultural impact over all, and still airs on TV around the world, Sea Hunt does not as far as I can tell. And there's still a lot of myth around the Kirk/Uhura kiss like there were complaints about it in some states at the time which isn't true. TV stations were prepared to receive complaints but they never happened.