50 Years of Star Trek - RIP
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Thank fuck, it’s actually Star Trek.
Competent grownups, teamwork, hopeful outlook, and an adventure of the week. Spock has worked on his performance as well, much closer than the movie version to Nimoy.
Nostalgia touches weren’t too in the face, nice humour at times. Retro tech is just great.
They can’t excise all the clunky politics, but that was in the original show as well.
Solid start.
4 out of 5 Gorns.
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@Kirwan said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
Thank fuck, it’s actually Star Trek.
Competent grownups, teamwork, hopeful outlook, and an adventure of the week. Spock has worked on his performance as well, much closer than the movie version to Nimoy.
Nostalgia touches weren’t too in the face, nice humour at times. Retro tech is just great.
They can’t excise all the clunky politics, but that was in the original show as well.
Solid start.
4 out of 5 Gorns.
@Kirwan couldn't agree more. Really enjoyed it and was refreshingly retro in look and feel. Looking forward to the next episode or two to see if it keeps the quality up.
Also a big fan of Anson Mount and think he nails Capt. Pike.
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@Kirwan said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
@kiwiwomble said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
makes me thing, for all their holes and problems.....i did kind of like at least the first two of the Chris Pine movies, enjoyable action rather than..."good"
I like all three, the third might even be the best.
I just wish they would tone down the action and up the smarts. Tell a good story first, and let Star Wars be Star Wars.
finally, beyond showed up on the streaming services, you're right, was much better than i remembered, the music scene at the end...super cheesy but spectacular
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so, just had a 2 week trip to canada...very few movies i wanted to watch but saw they had season 4 of Discovery, another one i really enjoyed, another season with a very different arc to the ones before (maybe more in common with S3 than the other had in common), last few episodes dragged at points with people monologuing when things we very time sensitive, could have trimmed an episode off i think
I really enjoyed, in a very nerdy way, the whole idea of communicating with a new race and how different it could be
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@dogmeat isn't that literally what starfleet was? exploration rather than military, the first Enterprise barely had any weapons and several of the stories were about being outgunned and having to upgrade to protect themselves, i would be happy with a bit of both
I did notice the future story line is lacking some of the old favs, both bad guys and goodies (borg, klingons), wondered it it was either trying to not just walk the same storylines as previous shows...or they were holding them back for big roles in future series
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
The new episode of Picard was ... good.
I almost didn’t watch it, but was pleasantly surprised. The shit of the Titan leaving space dock was spot on, and Picard seems closer to his TV persona that the first two seasons.
Of course they could ruin it all.
Liked the fact that one of the characters was the actual daughter of the actor, nice touch.
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
@Kirwan Interesting that they brought in a show runner who had worked on Trek before (Voyager, Enterprise), and dumped most of the new cast.
It does help when the show runner (he directed the first episode too) has seen Trek before.
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@Tim yep, another good episode. The thing they have done is make Star Trek tv again, there have always been plenty of shit bad guys and hokey stuff.
Here we had light action, good special effects, people talking through conflict and making plans and moral questions.
It felt like a new generation episode made today, all I wanted. Picard is far closer the tv version now, back to being gruff.
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@Kirwan really, id missed that, disappointed as i really liked it
