General Star Trek thread

Agreed. I did love the Dominion arc that DS9 took and it was my favourite series overall but look at some of the best or most memorable episodes of Trek (Not always the same thing ).

TOS:

Devil in The Dark (Miners impact alien slug)

Amok Time (Spock gets horny)

Journey to Babel (Space Politics)

And this is leaving out the "Biggies" which either impacted the show going forward like "Space Seed" or "Balance of Terror" and also leaving out episodes which were about end of the Federation type stuff like the (awesome) "City At The Edge Of Forever". For all the "The Federation never existed" it was because of a small thing.

TNG:

Inner Light (Will say no more. My favourite TNG episode)

Sarek (Dealing with dementia)

Family (Dealing with PTSD)

And again, this is leaving out biggies like "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Best of Both Worlds" of course

Even DS9 which leaned heavily into an arc of course had amazing low key standalones like:

The Visitor (Dealing with loss)

Little Green Men (Just straight up comedy)

Far Beyond The Stars (fantastic masterclass in acting)

And again, this is excluding ANY episodes directly related to the Dominion or even tangentially. Leaving out classics like "Sacrifice of Angels" or "In The Pale Moonlight" which really was a "small episode but with huge ramifications.

Not everything has to be "Sad Alien Destroys Warp" or "Space anomaly destroys uh… space"

Mo more Jar Jar Abrams Star Trek 4 ~ No more Kelvin Timeline!

Star Trek on TV to end with what's left of SNW and possibly 2 Seasons of Academy?

Didn't realize he had a bad record. Lost my main youtube account with all my account follows (nearly 90 days ago)! So trying to get another account established with some sort of algorithm of good content.

He's essentially a mellower British version of Doomcock, who similarly collates 4-Chan rumors into "Hollywood Sources" or "Hollywood Spies" etc….

I was taken in a bit by him early on, but it didn't take too long for the mask to slip for him to just start ranting about Trek problems for the sake of ranting (ala Doomcock). I really don't like what Kurtzman has done to Trek either, but I'd rather hear real news about what's actually going to happen as opposed to a Youtuber making up fictional "sources" to declare that "Kurtzman is essentially fired" or "Kathleen Kennedy is out at Lucasfilm. Bob Eger is pissed!! There was a meeting…with yelling!" Ad-infinitum for yeeeeeers.

It's a challenge to find a happy middle on the likes of Youtube since you're often given the choice between the various Doomcock / Critical Drinker clones, or fully subscribed shill channels for the studio like for example "Trek Culture". I miss the old days where reviewers had at least some scruples.

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The styling goes away if Kurtzman and his studio eventually lose the agreement make Trek. He's a legacy from the Abrams movies, and Discovery smacked of something that should have been part of the Kelvin-verse (Bridge Windows, polished deck floors, lens flairs left right and center). I still believe that Discovery was originally intended to be part of the Kelvin timeline and when it was eventually suggested that it should be part of the original Trek timeline…they found themselves stuck with a show that didn't seem to belong.

Trek 2009 was a pretty decent space adventure movie. Into Darkness was piss poor, and Beyond alternated from "Meh" to "Yea..it's ok". However they screwed themselves and the brand over twice. Once by reconning away 40 years of established stories, TV shows and marketing in order to get a clean slate. And then once more by giving up on that clean slate and trying to go back to those 40 years as if nothing had happened.

The JJ Trek movies live in this bizarre limbo because of this, which unfortunatly means that we might never see another Trek movie…or at least not one that's in-sequence with the re-established Trek universe.

There was at least that. I think that's part of my disappointment with what happened with Discovery.

I felt pretty sad that the Trek I had grown up with had gone away with Trek 2009, but at the same time I felt that a clean slate could be an exciting new possibility to experince a brand new Trek. I'm of the feeling that they should have either stuck with it, or not bothered at all. Instead we got what we got alas.