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What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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I don't really like any Trek past DS9 Don't hate me
VOY and ENT are good
Never liked VOY, writing is poor.... Not interesting sci-fi like TNG, not a captivating story like DS9...
The Doctor is essentially the only good part. Maybe Seven of Nine, Jery Ryan is a great actress, despite the embarrassing clothing.
SNW is good, DIS is whack. PIC essentially crapped all over the past series' development, killed Hugh, Ro, Icheb, made the Federation grimdark... Monk Worf was cool tho.
Voyager's writing is inconsistent. There's some fantastic episodes... and then there's salamanders.
True, but the feeling is that in general Voyager was hard to watch.
I rewatched TNG and DS9 several times from start to finish and almost skipped no episodes (though in later rewatches of DS9 I'm skipping the alternate universe ones since I can't bear them). I tried rewatching VOY and I just can't. Sure I can rewatch some of the awesome episodes from the show, but I can't watch it from start to finish since I find most episodes to be cringey (even if I like most of the actors and their characters, but something doesn't work when watching entire episodes).
Unrelated: I watched DIS until it was on Netflix (and deemed it an action TV series that's got nothing to do with Star Trek) and watched only a few episodes of PIC until it turned into the "fellowship of the ring" with the introduction of a sword wielding elf. Should I squeeze my nose and dive into it again and try to finish it?
I'll watch SNW as soon as I can. Still haven't gotten around it
Discovery started off as an action show, then suddenly added 10 minute long unrelated montages in the middle of action scenes. That killed it for me.
TNG I would skip most of Season 1 and probably a decent chunk of Season 2 on a rewatch.
VOY episodes just leave you with nothing. Sure, stuff happened, but... you feel like it doesn't matter. It's sad because they had the chance to really make something cool, 5-year-exploration missions pale in comparison to travelling back from the other side of the galaxy.
You can watch the last season of PIC, it's essentially a noir-action show in a scifi setting, but.... WATCH SNW NOW!
Which we abandon and never talk about again. Not even a card on their birthday.
I'm watching Voyager with my kids. Janeway is pretty bad ass given her position as the sole federation representative in the delta sector. We are however using a watchlist and skipping the filler episodes rather than going for the completionist approach.
Janeway has Q powers, she gets into all kinds of shit she has no chance of getting out, and she just... does, somehow. It's really bad writing.... Plus Voyager is ALWAYS getting disabled! WTF, you guys should stay away from encounters, that ship is made of glass... even tho they, again, succeed somehow in the end.
That's a very correct point of view. Janeway IS cool and the show had such potential, but there are so many wasted opportunities...
This is the good take. Star Trek peaked at DS9 and there's yet to be a good reason to continue past it.
Biggest red flag in the entire thread. You win.
Ah yes, "my opinion is infallible and I'm righteous for screaming it from the rooftops, but your opposing opinion is ignorant and worthy of dismissal!"
Red flag indeed, friend.
This is so good I literally can't tell if you're doing copypasta or not
As long as you don't take every available opportunity to steer every single online conversation towards how you don't like a tv show then we're cool
"You are allowed to have your opinion so long as you don't share it"
But they did share it and were cool about it. It's people who say stuff like "this is shit and people who like it are shit" that need to cool their jets.
Who said you can't share it? It's not illegal to be annoying 🤷♂️