Speaking of that topic, I can't tell whether or not I'm disappointed at Chuck for (seemingly) simping for Lower Decks.
I can't stand Lower Decks. A lot of people talk about how it's basically the closest thing to actual Trek these days, and that's fucking sad. It's basically Star Trek flavored Rick and Morty. It's not funny, it's not clever, and you can tell how hard they're trying to force anything fans actually liked into the show. It feels fake as fuck, like artificial chocolate flavor made from fucking carob.
You think they've watched Time's Arrow? Pffff.
Yeah, but given that we never saw their first-ever meeting from Picard's perspective in the 24th century, we don't know if Guinan clearly remembered him from the very moment they met, or if they just naturally clicked as friends before she later remembered "Oh, that's where I know this guy from." Plus, the way she reacted when he told her his name at least makes it possible that she had only forgotten what he looked like, rather than completely forgetting who he was.
That's the weird thing about this season - there's enough little references to the franchise's history here and there to indicate that it's been written by people who clearly are familiar with Star Trek (albeit seemingly only TOS, TNG, and DS9), but either they don't actually understand the franchise at all, or we've got an early TNG-type situation with the scripts being written by competent people, before getting butchered by the person in charge.
Or they just went to Memory Alpha and hit the rando button.
Let's hope they never find the Sub Rosa page.
I know a conservative Catholic who's a fan of Trek and even he's told me the only new thing he can stand is lower decks.
Just learn to separate the art from the artist. Most actors are pseudointellectual scumfucks of varying degrees, but that doesn't stop them from delivering good performances.
The only other blatant Christian reference I remember from TOS was the modern Roman episode when they were trying to figure why the resistance worshipped the sun. Uhura had to remind them that they were worshipping the Son of God.
I still thinks its because the shit writers didn't know about the time travel episode where Picard and Guinan first meet.
Maybe. Just seems like a weirdly specific form of laziness, for the writers to chuck in a bunch of obscure details from various TNG and DS9 episodes, but to have completely forgotten about an entire TNG two-parter - and not even the worst, most forgettable two-parter from that series ("Birthright", anyone?)
To be fair the franchise was already drenched in piss anyway.
The only positive thing I could say is that at least they know this show is 90% shitposting. They attempt to make it light and humorous. It's not, but at least they don't want to be serious.
Admiral Nechayev would have ordered Picard to kill the Crystalline entity at some point as a threat to Federation security.
Condolences, everyone knows it's worth taking the time to watch Ensign Ro oh so very slowly.
Well, yes. In the 2001 version they foolishly rendered all the new digital effects in 480i resolution. All those had to be redone for 4K. I hear they are also going to be digitally recompositioning some of the original effects from the original elements.
