Just don’t let it get in your way of watching the animated shows - Lower Decks is terrific, and Prodigy, while more kid-oriented, is also loads of fun.
Lower Decks is pretty much on an endless loop for background noise - and never forget, gumato genitals are sensitive to phaser fire!
Okee Dokeee!
Prodigy I just couldn’t get past about 3 episodes - I’ve heard the latest may make me want to re-consider that, but the animation/kid style is hard for me to get past - and because it just didn’t feel ‘Trek’.
What Discovery needs is more shots of everyone on the bridge looking at each other instead of doing their jobs like professionals.
They need to bring Tilly back.
Chilllliiii’s Tilly-back ribs!
I started doing that about two and a half years ago.
Is it just me, or has Sonequa Martin-Green been whispering even more of her dialog this season, which, frankly, I didn’t think was fucking possible? She hasn’t cried as much as previous seasons, so I assume she’s compensating with more fucking whispering.
And more shots of gentle touches on the shoulder.
I think the absolute worst, yet expected, part of this most recent episode is that after everything - Book still didn’t manage to ‘one up’ the other guy at the end. THat would have made much of it worth it.
I really really want to like it. And it has improved a bit but it’s like 80% crying, meaningful looks and speeches about what is about to happen. HAVE AN ADVENTURE FOR SPOCK’S SAKE!!!
And therapy. Don’t forget therapy. This series is written by people who thought the best part on TNG was Deanna Troi.
I don;t think I would want to be on a starship - or any ship - where every bump causes sparks to fly on the bridge…
Latest episode - more of the same but SLOWER - you would think that breaking the galactic barrier would be a bit more fun - it just wasn’t.
I just had to point something out; you saw Deanna Troi actually do less genuine personal counselling in an entire season of TNG than you see counselling in two episodes of Discovery. On the very few occasions you see Troi formally engaging in counselling, it is directly in furtherance of the plot.
In a show largely about feelings and stuff - they just took it to 11 with MORE FEELINGS.
And its surprisingly easy to get aboard a starship and take people hostage.
I would be fine if they used stress over being ripped out of their time and flung to the far future as a plot point and wrote about it competently (look at the BSG remake for an example of crews under stress) but this show has Saved By the Bell-level writing.
They really should just get it over with and change the title of the show to Star Trek: Group Hug.
Their take on The Arrival was simultaneously interesting and boring. They just can’t help themselves with making some scenes go too long but the story was not bad.
She is the ships head counselor but her primary responsibility is to act as a Diplomatic advisor to the skipper.
Guessing most of the actual counseling is handled by her subordinates.
Every time anyone makes a suggestion they turn to gaze at each other with goofy grins and bedroom eyes.
I liked how the most recent episode had that scene with Burnham and Saru in Burnham’s quarters right before they left the ship that was clearly an homage to a similar scene in an episode from the original series. You know, the episode where the fate of the galaxy is hanging in the balance, so Kirk takes Spock into his quarters and privately admits that the whole situation is slipping through his fingers? And Spock says it helps to yell? So they yell and they laugh and they almost cry and then they hug?
You know the episode I’m talking about, right? The one where all of that happened? Remember?
No? Must have been a Picard and Riker episode then.