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Really? Front page with a lonely Star Trek post?
Well, jump into my messages if you'd like an in-depth chat about the origins of the El-Aurians or nerdy shit. I'm absolutely steeped in Trek-lore.
Derfboy
You just have to know where to look.
wanderer2575
Best thing that happened to Deep Space Nine was that Rick Berman kept his hands off it and let showrunners Michael Piller and then Ira Steven Behr guide the series' direction.
oozabooza
Well then, may the force be with you
BlazeDragon777
Ooooh a trek wars fan!!!
Problemwoodchuck
Go on
Hellallo
which is your fave series?
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DS9 hands down.
stefansd
interesting. I did not care for DS9 much during its original run--but now, in reruns, I find the acting exceptional and the story compelling.
Quixus
It has a different feel than the other ship centered series. The others are mostly us against the universe whereas on DS9 there is no single us. There are the Starfleet officers, the Bajorans, the Ferengi... I guess that is what put you off the first time. Also as many series it didn't get really good till later seasons.
dangerspouse
doctorId
DS9 is severely underrated imo.
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Still waiting for the HD remaster....
Vaporstang
I got "PICARD The Final Season" Blu-ray for Chrismas! Haven't seen any of the Picard series, but was told I did not need to before watching this one...
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
I actually liked all 3 seasons of Picard. Each can be watched on their own as the last episode wrapped up the story. I think if you watch them with an idea like 3 separate mini series then you may enjoy them more.
TooSoonOldTooLateSmart
Spoiler alert. At the end of season 2, Agnes set up a local Borg colony. So where was she in season 3?
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
That's what I meant about each season being independent. To me, it felt almost multiverse in the way some things were true throughout and some things took a different spin from season to season.
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
DS9 is the best. Fight me
EmperorCartagia
SNW is giving it a run for its money so far, especially if you compare it season by season, SNW seasons 1 & 2 are miles beyond DS9 season 1 & 2. DS9 did its best work in 3-7, if SNW keeps up the quality as it moves forward DS9 will rapidly fall behind.
Quixus
DS9 is great and has great characters, but the show does not have the same feel as the shows centered around a single ship.
Also bald Sisko is best Sisko.
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
Exactly, it's extra unique. The one awful thing are the lack-of-god-damn paralel universe episode. You can tell the actors love it tho.
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I shall not fight you sir. I shall kiss you fully on the lips.
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
Wait. I didn't look at username. Are you "the" repoststatistics? It's the best bot ever coming back?!? No lies please, remember You're on the internet!
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I have an extra 'e', I was only ever riding on their coat tails.
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
I saw but hoped. A propos of nothing, Kes is my last fave character in the whole show. Rest of Voyager is pretty Cherry tho
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What was the fucking point of Kes? And mother fucking Neelix?! Urgh.
lurkilydurkiler
Have you tried diverting all your auxiliary power to your plasma conduit?
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I revered the polarity and shunted the power through the secondary couplings.
FlyYouFLCL
When In doubt, reverse polarity.
lurkilydurkiler
Truer words were never spoken.
wanderer2575
Or send a tachyon beam through the main deflector dish (Voyager only).
lurkilydurkiler
Probably the better call. đź––
Atlasraven
Good lad. Don't forget to degauss the phase discriminators or it will send the whole warp manifold out of alignment.
lurkilydurkiler
That’s the worst.
PostalHeathen
I used to be able to talk to my wife about it, but she gives exactly zero shits about anything newer than DS9.
GigiDundas
Nothing wrong with loving the classics and not liking the newer shows, in fact I rather detested DS9 during it's original run but now it's my favorite so maybe she'll come around to liking some of them later.
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I'm fine with that. I generally only want to talk TNG and DS9 anyway.
FrozenInCarbonite
orangatuan
Star Trekkin' across the universe, Always going forward, because they can't find reverse.
eastend666
Surely you jest.
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MeisterKleister
Narsuaq
I've seen the entirety of Voyager like 6 times and I want to get into the other Star Treks. I tried TNG years ago but only watched like 5 episodes because it felt really dated. Any advice on what to watch next? Should I give TNG another shot?
EmporerDragon
TNG struggles a bit with the 1st season, but finds its stride by the 2nd and is where the trope "growing the beard" comes from.
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Ditto. Start with season 2 and forgive some of the shit episodes until you get to the meaty ones.
evilgriff
PhailRaptor
Allegedly...
Devylin
SirSmurfalot
@OP Garak did nothing wrong. Discuss.
EmperorCartagia
How could he have? He's just a plain, simple tailor.
SirSmurfalot
Exactly.
Imapseudonym
What are your thoughts on Stsr Trek Prodigy?
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Meh.
Imapseudonym
Yeah, kinda what I thought too. Not a huge fan of Strange New Worlds either, but the Lower Decks crossover was fun. Didn't like the portrayal of Spock though.
wanderer2575
Trek ended with Enterprise, and even that series overall wasn't good. I don't care for any of the "NuTrek" series. They're just a money grab off the name. People would pay to watch an hour-long infomercial if it were called Star Trek: Herbalife.
JayDeeDubs
Then let's talk star Trek! What's your favorite series? At heart, I'm TNG man, it's the one I grew up with, but DS9, lower decks and strange new worlds are all strong contenders
raziro
I LOVE TNG. I haven’t gotten into the newer ones. I need to give them a whirl.
SevTai
My top three are TNG, LD, and SNW. I liked Picard, and could NOT stop the tears when the Enterprise D came on screen. <3 the Galaxy Class.
SevTai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBd_1JBbQA
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DS9 all the way. TNG a close second. I'm a solid 90s Trek kid. Voyager generally sucks though.
tacoaboutit
Feefyefoefum
Voyager looks like a kitchen utensil. TNG imho will always be superior as it introduced Q and the Borg. DS9 for me had better character development arcs.
Hellallo
ds9 ftw! garak and quark (and shran from enterprise!) are my trek fave characters. my fave part of that series is that they can never just fly away/outrun their problems. not that they did in other shows, but esp here, they're stuck. it's great.
dreikommavierzehn
You watch your mouth! Currently rewatching it and loving it (again) since season3 :)
Roune
What about Enterprise? I just rewatched it and forgot how much I enjoyed it but it gets shit on by everyone
Seizurebleak
IMO one of the best scenes in any Star Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjd9RgRUQDY
JayDeeDubs
Yeah, Voyager was never my thing. It felt like they never committed enough to the core concept, and when it wasn't as popular, doubled down on things people had liked in TNG: Q and the Borg
tosostrasni
We can chat about Star Trek at any time.
thatlazylizard
After watching the updated graphics OG series i was blown away at how good it actually was. An ethical problem was given, kirk would act rash but would always hear out bones and spock then change his mind accordingly. Kinda like Voyager. So now I now refer to TNG as the Horny Boat series.
Blastergv9
I've been looking for somebody to talk about the expanse 7-9 with since the last book came out
Regeny
I was like "did the bot develop consciousness or does the operator not feel well today"? Then I checked the username again ^^
PiercedViking
Oh, crap! It's Badgey!!
SignedEpsteinsMother
You can always hit me up to discuss Trek
MightyUrto
Right now, I think Lower Decks is the best Star Trek. It's like a love letter to trekkies with romulan ale and porno sex holodeck escapades
ellivenob4272000
I couldn't agree more. Except that strange new worlds is equally pristine but In an entirely unrelated direction....except for when those directions involve the crossover episode and that...that was amazing
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
It's great, some things are a little "Disney" tho .
Heavenissize17socks
Both, the writing is tight, the characters are legit, music is spot on and they, they just nailed it!
SahbumThav
I may or may not be watching lower decks and avoiding the adult things I need to do right now.
jimmythehat1
Agree. I want a Moopsy plush
gingersith
I crocheted a Moopsy
ConstantlyonYoBack
Strange New Worlds is very good too.
Noodlesocks
I'm not a fan. I don't think it's a bad show but it's very American humour, it feels more like a commentary on the Star Trek franchise than an actual Star Trek show and I hate that it is what Star Trek has come to.
NotACanadian
I think LD would do much better as a parody. If you told me it was a parody, outside the main ST universe, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more. But you take my promise of a bright, mature, thoughtful, morally passionate and COMPETENT future...and you turn it into...*that* and you say THAT is the kind of future we'd see after TNG...and it just fills me with horror, revulsion, disgust and depression.
MightyUrto
... it is a parody, it's a comedy that pokes fun at all the star trek tropes
NotACanadian
It's not a parody, it takes place in the mainline ST universe.
MightyUrto
Ummm.... it is by definition a parody, "an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect."
JayDeeDubs
A profoundly terrible take. Star Trek has always had silly moments, and at a time when multiple shows with different tones are all in production, one that's more light hearted is great. This is applies equally well here:
NotACanadian
These are silly moments where the theme of the show isn't that everyone's a silly absent-minded moron. It's the difference between the seasoning that makes a great steak and just being handed a plate of pepper, and as you're eating the pepper spoonful by spoonful, the waiter reminds you every 10 seconds "Hey, remember steak?"
GigiDundas
I've been pretty deep into your comment history because I was bored. Either you don't like anything or agree with anybody, literally, or you're just a shit stirring troll trying to annoy people for your own kicks. Either way, kick rocks.
JayDeeDubs
No one in lower decks is presented as a moron. All of the main characters are highly skilled members of Starfleet. It's a comedy though, with dramatic elements at times, and some of them, as ensigns, are inexperienced.
nickwinters
They're also doing something new instead of being hung up on the past. I love it.
wlfman
I genuinely can't stand it - opinions are weird lol - or I'm just missing the point
gaynorvader
Yeah, I tried it. Was just a lot of shouting sprinkled with the odd Trekkie joke and shoved between way too many pointless action sequences. Felt like The Big Bang Theory got a Star Trek spinoff imho. Still, some like that style
NotACanadian
Every time I try to explain why I don't like the show I'm dogpiled. Good to see someone who agrees.
ToonamiT0M
Well said.
ToonamiT0M
Lower Decks isn't good. It's just the least bad of all the new Trek shows that have been made in the last decade. The jokes are just surface level observations about the franchise by a production team who have said they don't like Star Trek.
GigiDundas
Did bitching about "new thing I don't like" on imgur give you that dopamine hit you were looking for?
ToonamiT0M
Project much? I didn't say anything about not liking it because it's new. I like lots of new stuff, as long as it's good.
NotACanadian
Gigi tends to project a lot and start shouting down and gaslighting people for negative opinions.
dorsvenabili
It’s fantastic
lurkilydurkiler
Is the porno stuff during Pon Farr?
HighlandPotatoe
Probably the Mugato and the simulation Mariner is in... IIITTTSSSS NAKED TIME
xedrik
Hubby and I definitely see Lower Decks as a love letter to fans, but we think Strange New Worlds feels the "Trekkiest" of the new Treks. They're both so, so good, though!
SyiLocan
I REGRET I HAVE BUT ONE UPVOTE TO GIVE. SNW is fan-fucking-TASTIC Star Trek.
Quixus
Except for the musical episode. Boimler and Mariner on the show was brilliant though.
Christx30
I like strange new worlds. But they are all Very. Serious. Characters. And when they get silly (like the musical episode or Those Old Scientists), it feels very disjointed.
Elrohn
Agree on both.
Now....if we could just get back to like 20 episodes a season. This...we got 8 and cya in 2 years is shit!!!! Good ole tng reruns used to put me to sleep at a rate of half a year per season.
Paintedmithra
100%
MightyUrto
Yes!
lpooptoomuch
quality over quantity
Elrohn
Why not both?
Quixus
Budget and greed
Vergenbuurg
I know it'd be impossible because of the format differences, but I wish they'd do a crossover with the two. But, nah, that wouldn't work. /s
Vergenbuurg
(Sidenote: For me, "Those Old Scientists" is perhaps one of the most enjoyable, damn-near flawless Trek episodes I've seen in a long time.)
Elrohn
Kailash, when the walls fell. Ya need to put it out there. Lots of geeks out and about. Life in the cave of Granola (sp)
StewedTomaters
Elrohn
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Motoemt
Quixus
Leonardo di Caprio on the couch pointing
Menalaous
Temba, his arms wide
PhailRaptor
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
SugaryBonemeal
Darmok and Jalad, absolutely shitfaced driving a camaro.
VampireTeaParty
Shaka, when the walls fell!
confracto
Klingons, their gods slain.
Talbotous
The beast at tenagra.
Why does everyone leave this out?? It's such an important part. Like the whole reason.
raziro
Which series?
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DS9 til I die.
HashMaster9k
HAVE YOU MET ME?!
jimmythehat1
That's why I listed to the Star Trek: The Next Conversation podcast. It's got Matt Mira [from Nerdist and G4 fame, and several other podcasts] and Andrew Secunda [comedy writer, actor, and improv guy]. Matt's seen all of ST and Andy hasn't so they've done all of TNG and are working on DS9 in the main pod and are doing Enterprise and Voyager in their Patreon and they also did some Marvel movies in the Patreon. It's great. Highly recommend 5/5 stars.
StewedTomaters
Right? Then you go find their Facebook fan group/Reddit community and nerd out. Not the same as in person, though.
jimmythehat1
They do have a Facebook group, lovingly referred to as the Facegroup after a gaff from Matt. "Star Trek: The Next Conversation FaceGroup" But I'm more on their Patreon since that's more focused for each episode as they cover it. In person is hard since the newer episodes of Trek depend on having Paramount +, which I've only been subscribing to when there's a new series out.
jimmythehat1
The FaceGroup is good though. I'm also in a meet up group for ST fans that attend San Diego Comic Con, but they're not as active in general ST discussion.