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Star Trek: Picard S2 Premieres March 3, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Pike's show) Premieres May 5th
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
I hate, hate what they've done to Star Trek beginning with Discovery. All of these shows are clearly made by people who only know the originals as something like an internet meme, deemed ripe for wrapping in our era's mind-numbing corporate version of nerd-culture.
Picard: S1 was easily the worst yet. I will watch season 2 just to mock it and drink to the demise of the great TNG, but I can't fathom how anyone could be excited to watch android-Picard continue to be played as if Patrick Stewart is the same man as his character, when in fact he is absolutely nothing like him, but he at least knew how to act a few decades ago.
Picard: S1 was easily the worst yet. I will watch season 2 just to mock it and drink to the demise of the great TNG, but I can't fathom how anyone could be excited to watch android-Picard continue to be played as if Patrick Stewart is the same man as his character, when in fact he is absolutely nothing like him, but he at least knew how to act a few decades ago.
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Star Trek is just another girlboss-face meme now, hurray
Wheeljack539
Member
Star Trek is just another girlboss-face meme now, hurray
Maybe they have people from Dreamworks Animation on their staff.
ManaByte
Banned
Eh, it looks like they're doing Voyage Home but in the 21st Century.
Strange New Worlds though has the best Pike in all of Star Trek and is episodic as opposed to serial like the other shows.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
This show has no chance of being good right?
Pagusas
Elden Member
All new Star Trek has a chance of having 1 - 2 very good scenes (which were the bases of the show and why they were made) surrounded by 9-10 hours worth of useless filler that make Naruto filler seem like top tier writing.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
At least Janeway was always a girlboss
Star Trek is just another girlboss-face meme now, hurray
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
I thought that things wouldn’t become worse than Discovery, but Picard made the former look like a masterpiece.
We still have old classic / prime Trek to fall back on, and maybe one day Paramount will hire some decent show runners with half a brain and respect for the lore and all the work that went into everything before it.
CGiRanger
Banned
Discovery could at least be ignored because it was put into a strange position within the overall Trek timeline.
But Picard was a full sequel to the TNG/DS9/VOY universe and well, they pretty much wrecked it as bad as they could. It's basically what The Last Jedi did to many Star Wars fans for Star Trek. They turned Picard from someone to admire into someone to pity and barely recognize, among other things.
I mean, most people's overall opinion of Janeway is pretty low, even though I still think she's the best female captain by far compared to the current crop.
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Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
I hope picard S2 is better then the first season.
Pegasus Actual
Member
People be giving her that hindsight redemption. It's kind of like saying, "ya know what the Star Wars Prequel trilogy actually wasn't so bad!" after watching the new ones.
CGiRanger
Banned
Yeah. Patrick Stewart in particular aged so fast in the past 5 years. And of course it may have not been driven by as much woke ideology 10 years ago (I recall the storyline of S1 was "inspired" by illegal immigration and "The Wall")
I can admit a lot of my Voyager enjoyment is nostalgia-driven due to enjoying it a reasonable amount when it originally aired.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I don’t understand - the ratings are abysmal, how are these terrible shows surviving.
Why do you even use that face for promotion?
Star Trek is just another girlboss-face meme now, hurray
Pure display of condescension and arrogance.
Maybe I'm just too old....
GnomeChimpsky
Member
Sheer fucking hubris.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Discovery is good from Season 3 on... I'm enjoying Season 4!
Lower Decks is funny as heck!
I really enjoyed Picard... Excited they got some TNG fans like Marc Bernardin to write episodes for S2!
Looking forward to Strange New Worlds
Lower Decks is funny as heck!
I really enjoyed Picard... Excited they got some TNG fans like Marc Bernardin to write episodes for S2!
Looking forward to Strange New Worlds
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
This.
Star Trek has never been better. I fucking cried with joy at Piccard. Hopefully it continues for a few more seasons.
Kenpachii
Member
Older star treks inspired you to move forwards and to improve and problem solve and grow up and leadership ability's + social problem solving with a strong cast.
Example:
And with that these captains and other characters inspired a bucket load of people to get into certain professionals or move forwards or get motivated.
New star treks teach you, woman are strong, everybody is gay, sex, kicking white males makes woman powerful, angry white female is best, period guys its a thing!, don't ask questions just consume, with a ragdol cast that can't act for shit.
I have no clue how anybody that watched the early shows doesn't get straight up vomit reactions to the point they just shut it down because its that shit.
Picard is old as shit, he comes over to me as weak, fragile, his stare into the abyss makes it look like he's almost half zoned out most of the time, how is this supposed to inspire me or how am i supposed to care for it? i don't. Give me a strong captain and move away from picard entirely. sadly the show is called picard so yea gg with that Einsteins.
And about woke, star trek has always been woke, just check the cast again and u will see what. However the woke was more superficial rather then full blown crusade preachers that they got going on right now. So it went from easy to tolerate towards unwatchable.
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Kenpachii
Member
Watched that shit show with that other star trek a year + ago, maybe i mixed them up. However both where trash and frankly it was riddled with this garbage. The cast that was actually good got killed of fast to be replaced with a ragdoll garbage cast that nobody cares for. The only good actor left on discovery for example is the black chick, everything else, specially that red haired girl is fucking trash.
I will give picard a second chance because i loved his TNG performance with season 2, as i hope they dump the entire new cast and replace them including the writers, and see how Q holds up, as Q is always good fun. Endless possibilitys with him, but if they again start moving off the rails i will ignore it much like discovery for the rest of the days, i rather rewatch older star treks.
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
If you liked the juvenile insertion of current-year's political parameters all over the first season, you'll love seeing Picard-droid travel back to our time in order to stop the future of Starfleet from becoming, I guess, somehow even more boringly totalitarian and evil than it was in the prior episodes.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Fair enough.
I never saw the first 2 seasons of Discovery. But I've immensely enjoyed seasons 3 and 4 (which is resuming next month)
I think the Kelpian first officer is really good (the tall lanky alien) as is Stamets (chief engineer). The new character, Book, is good! I like his story arc this season.
strange headache
Banned
theclaw135
Banned
What decade have I landed in? NOW people are catching on a show set after Nemesis was going to be a snoozer?
But give Picard a break. He's a tired old man, put through the wringer by Q's games and the Borg.
But give Picard a break. He's a tired old man, put through the wringer by Q's games and the Borg.
clem84
Gold Member
How long do you think this will last with Q being around next season?
Patrick Stewart is not the same actor he once was. At this point it's just fan service, but I'm just happy to have him again in a Star Trek show. All things considered I thought S1 was pretty good. I hope Stewart will be in good enough shape to do a few more seasons.
CGiRanger
Banned
Looking forward to The Critical Drinker rant.
CGiRanger
Banned
LMAO. FAT GUINAN!!!
Seriously though. In TNG, Guinan's appearance never changed in hundreds of years. So all of a sudden she's now different?
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PuppetMaster
Member
Picard being awful was such a bummer to me. I so wanted it to be good. But the creators and even Patrick Stewart himself do not understand Star Trek.
The RLM review pretty much perfectly captures how I feel about the show.
The RLM review pretty much perfectly captures how I feel about the show.
Pagusas
Elden Member
For hundreds of years she didn't have access to McDonalds.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Whoopi is 66 years old. TNG ended in the 90s... She obviously didn't expect to play the character again and given her age, weight loss wouldn't come very easily... She'd need a year of training to lose it. Possibly more.
Y'all act like the actors aren't supposed to age.
Pagusas
Elden Member
lifa-cobex
Member
Stop making old people run around.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
A touch of real human emotions and motivations in DS9, Voy, and Ent weren't unwelcome, but they weren't utterly fucking cynical like NuTrek.
It's like a buddy of mine who turns into a full-blown lefty Nihilist whenever he smokes weed, like, "Bro, I love you, but you are a fucking labor to be around when you're high."
Oberstein
Member
The same action movie crap with probably fencing scenes, some " look who's back!" and a ton of inconsistencies from the previous series.
Q is going to launch an apocalyptic time machine with an ultimatum. Will Picard and Dajh save the universe from the ultimate trans-temporal destruction of white people's sins?! Can't wait!!
Q is going to launch an apocalyptic time machine with an ultimatum. Will Picard and Dajh save the universe from the ultimate trans-temporal destruction of white people's sins?! Can't wait!!
ManaByte
Banned
So is Spiner playing a Soong ancestor in 2024?
Woody Nvincible
Member
Janeway the Jenocider has always been my GOAT. Damn, I loved the hot trash that was Voyager.
Revolutionary
Member
I'm not wasting my time watching another season of this trash.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Star Trek has gone to complete and total shit, but I'll give Pike a chance because I'm a fucking idiot.
clem84
Gold Member
It's probably the same character at the end of season 1, basically yeah a Soong ancestor.
