We haven’t seen the Borg using generic engineering AFAICR
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They did in Picard Season 3 (which retroactively told us they were doing it as far back as Best of Both Worlds)
I've seen this complaint a lot with some of the newer shows, but it doesn't really resonate with me. A good central character ought to be able to carry a show, and I don't hold Trek as being inherently different in that regard. In fact, I think the original series would have been an example of a show like that if Spock's popularity hadn't been taken into consideration by later writers. Even then, I believe it would have a pretty low "pass" rate compared to all the '90s series.
(Incidentally, since Burnham wasn't Captain until season 4, Discovery passes on a technicality for most of its run).
Technically, this only needs to be the practice of Starfleet (or even just human) navigators in order to account for 99% of what we see in Star Trek. Maybe it's our guys who are doing all the careful orienting, and the alien of the week just comes in from whatever angle they want.
Gene would have loved Discovery because it let characters say “fuck” and there’s nothing and no one Gene hated more than the censors.
That’s very true, Kelvin Kirk is much more obnoxious than I believe prime Kirk would have been as a cadet. I’m not even sure Kelvin Kirk has the necessary charm to argue his way out of trouble the way prime Kirk did. If the attack on Vulcan hadn’t interrupted, I could see the academy authorities coming down pretty hard on him.
This is how I see it. Reprogramming the test was a protest, and protests should be loud and obvious. A subtle change that made the test just barely passable would have just looked like academic dishonesty.
Any time they bleed red instead of fuchsia is an unforgivable violation of the sacred canon.
Kirk didn’t die in that movie. It looked like he did, but he can’t have. He wasn’t alone.
Releasing Let That Be Your Last Battlefield at the height of the civil rights movement wasn’t some hypothetical philosophizing. That was pointed condemnation. Same with The Outcast’s attack on conversion therapy, or In The Hands of the Prophets' take on religious dogmatism.
Star Trek has always been happy to condemn bad ideas. If you think it's just started telling people off now then you haven't been paying attention.
You know, I’d personally rate V above Nemesis, Insurrection, Generations, and Into Darkness… and that still feels like very faint praise. Star Trek has had some pretty lousy movies over the years.
Same man created the brilliant Star Trek Blueprints, the first detailed deck plans for the Enterprise. He did all this after his daughter took him to a Trek convention and he saw how passionate the fans were and what a need there was for material like this. It's a great story.
No, no, more like "I'm going to fly a shuttle outside your quarters so I can spy on you during your date"
The rest of TOS was not at all spared from this sort of sexism, and worse. The Enemy Within in particular makes me squirm in my seat. I actually really like The Cage as an episode, despite some of those valid issues.
ADHD isn’t amnesia. The information isn’t gone, it’s just often hard to pin down when needed.
Hard to say with Discovery, since every season has had its share of detractors. It was cancelled for a reason, obviously. I didn't have the impression that the overall sentiment changed enough to alter any plans, but I don't exactly have my finger to the pulse outside of Lemmy.
Did season 5 crash and burn? Last I heard it was hitting Nielsen’s top ten streaming list. Seems pretty good for a show that was on its way out.
Agreed, Discovery has really only scratched the surface of what can be done with the Federation’s rebuilding itself, Earth’s new isolationist tendencies, and the unified Vulcan/Romulan society. It’d be a shame to leave all that behind. Plus, we still need to learn what’s become of the Klingons!
I’m 100% here for your vision of the Academy series.