Oh, I don't know. At the end of the day the core story of James R. Kirk and his Vulcanian first officer exploring thousands of light years a day on behalf of the United Earth Space Probe Agency has remained wonderfully consistent over the years.
The Orville is painfully derivative. It’s not the Star Trek show we never got, it’s reheated leftovers of the Star Trek show we already had thirty years ago.
NuTrek has certainly had its writing failures (looking in Picard’s direction), but at least it generally tried to let the franchise evolve.
And none of those failures had anything to do with “virtue signalling”. They’ve mostly been the result of committing to a season long arc with no meaningful plan and fumbling the ball halfway to the finish line.
Lawful evil. If I'm just reading through a book and can't remember where I left off, it's probably not a book worth coming back to. Bookmarks are exclusively for passages I want to come back to after I've finished the book - in those cases it's usually just a scrap of paper.
In an early episode on TNG, Riker describes time warp as exceeding warp 10. Which makes sense - at warp 10 you arrive at your destination at the same moment that you left your origin, so at warp 10+ you arrive earlier than you left.
That’s all very true, but it doesn’t stop me from feeling like Data would have a better time learning about humour from any other crew. Another great instance is his conversation with Guinan during the series, when she tries to explain jokes to him with “you’re a droid and I’m a noid”. I wasn’t laughing, either, and I don’t believe it’s because I have an odd sense of humour.
Then she gives up and sends him to the holodeck to learn from a computer generated stand up comic. Which is like telling ChatGPT to learn psychotherapeutic techniques from Eliza.
Reminds me of the scene in Generations where Riker dunked Worf in the water, data joined in the fun by dunking Crusher, and everyone responded like that was totally out of pocket.
Ah, but consider: Space and time and thought are not the separate things we imagine they are, and sometimes a Galaxy class starship can cross the entire universe on the power of belief.
So brew another coffee and keep on burning out, I suppose?
The one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.
No one misinterpreted your original post. It was sarcastic and dismissive, so people responded with that same energy.
As to the edit, I think it’s good that the new Trek shows each have such distinct personalities. They won’t all appeal to everyone, but the overall diversity is a strength. Part of what killed Star Trek in the 2000s was that TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise had all stuck to a very consistent approach. After close to twenty years, it was inevitably feeling a bit stale.
Hot take: it’s a great movie, but not a great Star Trek movie. Too militaristic, gives you the impression that Starfleet is at odds with scientists instead of made up of scientists.
I like helping people, but not with what I do for my day job. Ask me to shovel your driveway or help you move or proofread your emails or anything but more of what I’ve already spent all day doing.
Oh, I don't know. At the end of the day the core story of James R. Kirk and his Vulcanian first officer exploring thousands of light years a day on behalf of the United Earth Space Probe Agency has remained wonderfully consistent over the years.