#trek thoughts

[catgirljaneway]

Everyone makes mistakes! Remember to be kind to yourself if you accidentally mutate into a lizard and have sex and babies with your boss! It could happen to anyone.

[theprogressivesadist]

[ensign-spider]

screen caps i honest to sarek did not think were real in star trek until i saw them, pt 1:

[isagrimorie]

I like listening to All Access Trek podcast and I wondered what happened to AAT’s sister podcast, Shuttlecraft podcast. I realized as I went back the catalog, that it preceded All Access Trek podcast.

The hosts have finally announced that they are on indefinite leave, and listening to their reasoning it kind of is sad how much they lost joy for the franchise.

I kind of agree with some of their reasoning and I think they haven’t really been enthused with the current era of Trek and they didn’t want to include their voices in the negativity. It’s a good choice and that’s how they feel about it.

This Trek era isn’t just their Trek. It happens, just like how not all Doctors can be your Doctors.

The Section 31 movie also really did not help. It wasn’t the best entry in Trek, but it’s not the worst, most terrible thing. It was just a full season of TV crammed down in a short movie.

It didn’t have the time to have the nuance and decided to go with hijinx adventure. (I still maintain the tone of Section 31 should have been more Rogue One than Guardians of the Galaxy/Suicide Squad).

This also makes me come to grips again with only just two Treks on the horizon now that Lower Decks is gone and Prodigy doesn’t seem to be returning, and my beloved Star Trek Legacy isn’t growing more and more distant. Strange New Worlds isn’t just for me, the things that make it interesting are not the things it’s leaning into. And TOS has never been my Trek. the DS9-Voyager post VOY is my Trek.

I feel my interest in Treks have kind of flipped too from being meh about the Academy to being more interested in it since the writing room also included Tawny Newsome. Plus having Tatiana Maslany is always a big plus for me.

Far flung Trek timeline might not be my jam but the new writer’s room might be a good boost.

Also, unfortunately, it really doesn’t feel like Alex Kurtzman is a good ideas guy, and I’m not a fan of Akiva Goldsman as a storyteller either. All the changes SNW did with the Vulcan and the Gorn doesn’t sit right with me. If they wanted an alien threat akin to the Xenomorph, they could have just created a new one.

(I am also just lukewarm to Pike. I know he’s a fan favorite but post-Discovery, he isn’t just that interesting. I’m also finding all the stanning over him from all corners of fandom discomfiting. It’s just not my rodeo at the end of the day.)

I’m debating if I will watch Strange New Worlds or let a full season go and then just binge it eventually.

On the other hand, fiction podcast has picked up the slack of space opera with derring do. And, for me, that’s Midnight Burger/Welcome to Horizon.

Time travel, space hopping, dimension shifting diner out there to save people while serving delicious food. And a small town that’s suddenly become a center of the bizarre and the strange after a god had a meltdown and reset the universe.

And now they’re doing an epic crossover!

I just love how Midnight Burger is a ragtag diner crew who inevitably find themselves fighting intergalactic empire and gods while both having whimsy and still having great emotional stakes.

I guess this post was just me figuring out what I really feel about Trek now that Paramount kicked the ones I liked out in the curb and puzzling out if I want to keep watching SNW. It’s the only Trek game in town now and while it’s there, it’s not really scratching my Trek itch. I love some characters: Una Chin-Riley, and Uhura. Pelia’s a gas sometimes when she’s around.

On the other hand, it’s not very compelling Trek to me and the show just keeps putting M’Benga through the ringer. And the show doesn’t really go to Strange New Worlds a lot for a show with the name. Honestly, the more I think about how season 2 ended, the more I dislike it.

I don’t know, maybe I’ll feel it out. Storytelling wise I’m just not into Akiva Goldsman’s storytelling sensibilities.

[reagan-the-saunders]

I love how characters in Star Trek will like at some point find themselves in a different reality they don't belong in, and when they decide to tell someone, that person's always just like "bitch no ur not wtf you crazy" when reality swapping is not at all unheard of. It happens surprisingly often in trek and yet literally everyone forgets about any past occurrences and just goes "that's impossible, you're clearly insane."

[gothgirlspock]

i like to think that kirk learns vulcan because of spock and it leads to him and uhura talking shit/gossiping in vulcan because no one around them will be able to understand them, except of course poor spock who’s like please i beg of you stop using my language for this nonsense

[quarkmonger]

Finally caught up with Lower Decks and Strange new worlds.

Lower Decks continues to be a delight, though something about Quark wasn't Quark. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe bc its so many years later he just didn't sound like himself? Idk. It was beyond fun to see him and the bar and the station regardless.

Strange new worlds was a lot more fun than I expected! The episodes being more one shots was very good. Especially the one where they all became story book characters. Very Star Trek. Uhura is AMAZING, Kirk was horrendous, Hemmer deserved better.

[weirdtrek]

Still mad that I had the chance to get an autograph or photo with some of the TNG cast back in 2012 but I had only seen up to season 2 of TNG at that point, so it didn’t occur to me. The only one to have come back since then is Gates.

The only thing I can remember is that my older sister cried when she spotted LeVar and that Brent’s autograph line was 20 times longer than everyone else’s, like the difference was almost comical Bless