General Star Trek thread

I laughed waaaaay way too much at this..

Why LaForge was transfered to Engineering.

That is fantastic.

Too woke for you.

I got to play it and it is good

I now after reading your views agree it was probably to tick boxes rather than to push an agenda with the PC stuff.

Ultimately bad writing is the culprit

SNW and Picard season 3 just about rescued a franchise about to totally disintegrate.

However here is hoping they don't clutch defeat from the Jaws of victory.

I do actually love Michelle Yeoh and think section 31 will work.

Star fleet academy - nah but let's see

Social boundaries should be pushed but it's a delicate thing as you say. Done badly it's preaching and we have enough virtue signalling as it is.

Would be better if trek covered more economic inequality rather than identity politics

I've a feeling the alt universe twist was always planned given how unlikely it would be that they'd sign up as high profile an actress as Michelle Yeah only to make her a plot sacrifice in the first episode.

It was a Bryan Fuller quirk to give his female characters male names. Did it for a couple of other shows as well.

Yeah, the big thing with Disco was it was going to be the first ST show where the main protagonist was specifically not going to be the captain. An idea that definitely has merit, as shown by Lower Decks. Just a shame the show was let down by terrible writing, plotting, pacing and the decision that only Michael could save the team/ship/world/galaxy which persisted until I stopped watching.

The interesting thing about the premise was (or should have been) that they wouldn’t be saving the day every episode.

What would it be like for a Lt. McEverybody serving on a starship while exciting things were happening all around them.

Instead we got a Lt. McSavestheday-Everyday.

Every cop show ever is usually centred around "the lower decks", rather than Police Captain Holt's equivalent, and their politicking with the mayor's office and Internal Affairs. Most war films are about the privates and corporals, up to company commander, not the major in charge of a regiment.

Yep, you'll be telling a slightly different story, but writers are hired for their imagination.

Ya true.

I suppose I was thinking of the kind of galaxy ending shte we have been getting but you could easily have a Siege of AR-558 style team or a show about a Bashir type doctor.

What that needs though (other than mature storytelling) is to be taken off ship. Lowly soldiers and renegade cops have the freedom to do their own thing behind the bosses back in an open environment.

They can't just walk in and press the torpedo button and get away with it like Burnham sorta did. Confines of a ship don't allow that kind of story.

That's why it could have been interesting though. Make it not a story about "the ship" or a war or a battle. Just let "Star Trek" be the place. There are families on starships and people live their lives there for years at a time. It's not all regiments and orders and fighting units.

I remember thinking that's what Discovery would be. I'd still like to see it. What life is like when a starship is your home.

I think that's why they chickened out of doing the anthology thing for Discovery.