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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3256 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023

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Picard no, Strange New Worlds yes. It's not quite as good as TOS or 90s Trek, but it's still pretty decent. 99% free of political statements, reasonably well written, with characters who feel like actually capable professionals rather than overgrown children. And as a nice bonus the episodes are fairly independent, where each week they go to a new place, and solve interesting problems through teamwork and science.

Much less subtle. But more importantly, just pretty poorly written in general. The writers of those shows very clearly did not understand the ethos of Star Trek, imo.

Any thoughts on Picard season 3? There seem to be a number of people who hated the first 2 but love the 3rd right now. I've been skipping the whole thing based on early reviews, and "you can just skip 2 seasons and jump right in to the good one" sounds too good to be true.

I've heard that, but haven't watched myself. I actually didn't watch season 2 either, I was so bummed out by S1. So unfortunately I can't really speak to that one.

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