General Star Trek thread

If anyone is missing the best Star Trek show in decades since it got pulled off the air, I'd highly recommend the Lower Decks comics.

Written and drawn in such a way as to feel very much like you're watching the show in your head. LD methadone I call it.

(Paperback collected editions are available with six issues worth apiece)

I've heard about these lads (from here) but never watched anything from them before. Apparently they're pretty popular?

If a comment on the above video is to be believed, it got more views than the free live stream of the Star Fleet Academy premiere.

"They even stopped their reviews of Discovery after Season 2"

Oh I have to say I respect that. Presumably their lifeblood is views and lots of people nowadays will happily tune in to see something they hate being trashed in an entertaining way, so it's refreshing to see someone just say "do you know what? This just isn't for me".

That's kind of how I feel about New Trek. I've no real intention of watching Academy because I'm practically guaranteed not to like it. So I won't. I'm not gonna subject myself to something I've practically been warned by the makers in advance that I'm not going to like only to moan about it afterwards

I had an epiphany last night while watching Animal Crackers.

No one decided to make The Marx Brothers a "franchise" whose good name they would continually dilute, decades after the stuff being produced ceased to be in any way distinguishable from other immediately forgettable pap that was popular at that particular time.

This is what Trek is. It's the Marx Brothers.

It was glorious (TOS/TNG/DS9). And that's probably where it should have stopped. I for one don't care about getting new fans on board. Art speaks for itself. Let people find it as they will.

Put it to bed, lads . Leave us with the great stuff we have and start using another name

Point taken, especially when you listen to a lot of the narrative around 1986 being "this isn't gonna be MY Star Trek, I'm outraged".

The difference is though, that TNG was good (even that first rocky season is still truly special).

Gonn have to report this post for threats of self harm.

Ah no the poster I was replying to said stop making Trek and the fans in the 80s said you can't make Trek that isn't Kirk, Spock, McCoy so it had nothing to do with good or bad Trek.

As for "activist Trek" there is nothing activist about Academy and if you think TOS wasn't massively activist you were not paying attention. Have an auld rwd up on why the bridge had a Russian and Japanese man and a black woman.

You seem to not have a clue what Roddenberry was up to.

Academy is the least activist Star Trek in years. Ya some of the American frat kids are black or some other colour but there is nothing diverse about them and no storylines about anything political.

The "story" in TOS was way way more activist than Academy has been significantly far.

Who in Academy is being put in boxes ?

Please enlighten us as to what Activism is happening on Academy ?

Ive seen numerous, maybe as many as a dozen articles about how SFA has been "review bombed" by anti-woke nerds, each article then has hundreds of comments from "people" saying how much they are enjoying it.

I am starting to think there is a kind of reverse-review bomb campaign mounted presumeably by paramount to get people onto their platform. The youtube stats speak in volumes with the Spock doll in a chair getting more views than the actual premiere.

The show is poor. Even as a standalone not trek-attached show, it would be poor.

They wanted to attract new younger people to the Trek franchise but are getting backlash from existing fans and have perhaps attracted new viewers who don't like it and so are getting backlash from them too.

When Lower Decks came out, I had no interest in it, so didn't watch it, didn't comment on it, it just passed me by. My introduction to Lower Decks came from the Lower Decks crossover in SNW, which remains one of my all time favourite SNW episodes, and since then Ive watched a few LD episodes and enjoyed them.