Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

If Janeway had listened to Tom Paris they'd have eight intermix chambers sticking out the secondary hull with some form of forced induction of antimatter and dilithium, flames along the sides of the primary hull, and they'd reach the Alpha Quadrant in a single warp-burnout smoking subspace for 70000 light years.
 
My dad's an OG Trekkie who has been watching since the 60s and hates TNG because Picard is British and he thinks that Star Trek captains should only be Americans. His favorite captains are Archer and Kirk. Is his opinion based or cringe?

I always side with my dad because I love my family so I assume he is correct B) (I did watch the Trek shows he likes and they were pretty cool)
 
FPTMIU said:
My dad's an OG Trekkie who has been watching since the 60s and hates TNG because Picard is British and he thinks that Star Trek captains should only be Americans. His favorite captains are Archer and Kirk. Is his opinion based or cringe?

I always side with my dad because I love my family so I assume he is correct B) (I did watch the Trek shows he likes and they were pretty cool)
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Was your dad boomerposting on /tv/ years ago?
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FatMebius said:
If they wanted Chakotay to be cool, they's have just written him to be more like Robert Beltran is in real life.
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Star Trek feels like a big lottery sometimes. Look at Paris, how many jobs does he hold on the ship?

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They didn't even give Beltran the usual first-officer perk of hooking up.

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Network TV, as bad as it can be, always gives the side characters some crazy hobbies. Star Trek on the other hand, "we're guaranteed four seasons who cares." I think that contributes to the sense that the bridge crew is lame and out of place.
 
Something about all the ugly forehead aliens just hit me. Human seem to be just fine with lusting after aliens with all kinds of weird ridges and folds and whatnot all over their heads. We never see a human disgusted or at least turned off by the ridges. The only time I can think of an alien saying anything was in Generations when the Klingon sisters were looking at Dr. Crusher through the tinkered with VISOR and said she was ugly. It would have been great if we had an episode where someone like Harry Kim or D. Bashir had the hots for the Forehead Alien Gal and she shot him down because his head was just way too smooth and there was no way she could ever be attracted to seeing that every day.
 
Meriasek said:
Now that I think about it, Tom Paris totally tried to engineer a V8 warp core for the Delta Flyer and was denied.
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If he had the time and resources, Tom would totally make his own DeLorean.
NSA said:
Chakotay becomes president, and finally gets a personality
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Make the Federation Sacred Again.
Commissar Fuklaw said:
Dads are always cringe, that's the part of their charm. My dad's cringe and I'm cringe to my children. It's fun.
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My dad's the reason I got into Star Trek in the first place.
Captain Syrup said:
Star Trek feels like a big lottery sometimes. Look at Paris, how many jobs does he hold on the ship?
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People say it's unfair Harry never got promoted, but don't mention Tom never made it past Lieutenant J.G..
 
FPTMIU said:
My dad's an OG Trekkie who has been watching since the 60s and hates TNG because Picard is British and he thinks that Star Trek captains should only be Americans. His favorite captains are Archer and Kirk. Is his opinion based or cringe?

I always side with my dad because I love my family so I assume he is correct B) (I did watch the Trek shows he likes and they were pretty cool)
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Sisko was American and the best captain.
 
Ultraman Orb Dark said:
If he had the time and resources, Tom would totally make his own DeLorean.

Make the Federation Sacred Again.

My dad's the reason I got into Star Trek in the first place.

People say it's unfair Harry never got promoted, but don't mention Tom never made it past Lieutenant J.G..
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I don't. There needed to be an open billet for Kim to be promoted in. I mean, what were the writers going to do, just keep promoting everyone on Voyager during the 70 years it took to get home until every single crewman was a Fleet Admiral just based on time in grade?
 
William Murderface said:
I don't. There needed to be an open billet for Kim to be promoted in. I mean, what were the writers going to do, just keep promoting everyone on Voyager during the 70 years it took to get home until every single crewman was a Fleet Admiral just based on time in grade?
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He got promoted to, like, assistant manager of space Walgreens at 2 a.m.


And the funniest part is, even on night shift, he never actually saves the day. He just sits in the captain’s chair whispering, “One day this will be mine,” while the ship is on autopilot.

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William Murderface said:
I don't. There needed to be an open billet for Kim to be promoted in. I mean, what were the writers going to do, just keep promoting everyone on Voyager during the 70 years it took to get home until every single crewman was a Fleet Admiral just based on time in grade?
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That would have been hilarious. They'd still all have to serve under Reichsführerin Janeway.
 
William Murderface said:
Something about all the ugly forehead aliens just hit me. Human seem to be just fine with lusting after aliens with all kinds of weird ridges and folds and whatnot all over their heads. We never see a human disgusted or at least turned off by the ridges. The only time I can think of an alien saying anything was in Generations when the Klingon sisters were looking at Dr. Crusher through the tinkered with VISOR and said she was ugly. It would have been great if we had an episode where someone like Harry Kim or D. Bashir had the hots for the Forehead Alien Gal and she shot him down because his head was just way too smooth and there was no way she could ever be attracted to seeing that every day.
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That's just selection bias. Why do you think these people sign up to starfleet? Why would you?
Non-xenophiles simply stay on Earth and have barbeque parties or whatever people do all day on planets.
 
William Murderface said:
Or when Abe Lincoln comes to town and calls Uhura a charming nigress and she says not to worry about it because in the future we didn't worry about words.
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I miss the shitty holiday episodes. Like the one where they find alternate earth and read the declaration of independence after a massive Civil War nuked the planet to the stone age. And the haloween episode. Abe Lincoln was peak btw.
 
William Murderface said:
Something about all the ugly forehead aliens just hit me. Human seem to be just fine with lusting after aliens with all kinds of weird ridges and folds and whatnot all over their heads. We never see a human disgusted or at least turned off by the ridges. The only time I can think of an alien saying anything was in Generations when the Klingon sisters were looking at Dr. Crusher through the tinkered with VISOR and said she was ugly. It would have been great if we had an episode where someone like Harry Kim or D. Bashir had the hots for the Forehead Alien Gal and she shot him down because his head was just way too smooth and there was no way she could ever be attracted to seeing that every day.
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Too busy looking at the Duras sisters' cleavage to even realize they've got ridges tbh.
 
Commissar Fuklaw said:
Dads are always cringe, that's the part of their charm. My dad's cringe and I'm cringe to my children. It's fun.
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Fuck that, my dad was awesome (nothing cringy about him). However, I'm pretty sure I'm very cringe to my kids.

I found Picard, from what little I watched TNG, to be a bloviating bore. Kirk is the man. I never watched any of the other shows so I can't say anything about the rest of the Captians.
 
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