when you get to season 4 and later and realize the character they brought on as eye candy for the teenaged boy demographic is in fact one of the most nuanced, complex characters in all of star trek.
Is that from voyager?
yes ^_^
Oh yay. After watching season 2 of Picard and getting some additional Seven of Nine character development, I have been going back and rewatching some Voyager episodes.
Yeah, Its an aesthetic choice that visually ties Star Trek with LOTR...it's tbh I would have rathered these klingons be a thing like the remans on romulous. on one hand I like the direction i think they're going with them, but on the other hand, I wished they matched the other cannon more.
Yeah, I mean the idea of all these weird subsects and various types of klingons is fascinating and possibly worth exploring. There's so many different versions from the devious mongolesque warlords of TOS era to the space vikings of TNG/DS9. I guess it's just been done kind of clunky overall, not just including in Disco. Enterprise tried to remedy things by explaining the augment virus, and that almost complicated it more. All because of a throwaway line by Worf in a DS9 crossover episode that was never meant to be taken all that seriously.
In A Mirror Darkly and Trials and Tribbleations proved that the TOS look could be updated in a way that felt organic and natural when shown in the context of modern Trek production value. Lower Decks also does a good job of call backs to TOS aesthetics and tech. No one's saying they need to go back to spandex and shoddy sets. But they went to the opposite extreme and made it all look a bit too shiny and new when we're supposed to be watching a prequel era that was known for being low tech (in comparison to the later eras we've seen). Disco even did a good job of updating the constitution class. The USS Discovery also has a TOS era feel (it's inspired by early concept drawings by Ralph McQuarrie if I remember correctly). It's just the other tech I find ugly and uninspired. Shenzou could look TOS without looking like a cheap model (see above image I shared). Even the new klingon ships lack elegance, they just look like big greebley blobs. Why do spaceships in newer science fiction have to feature tons of greebles and shit attached to the hulls? Sometimes there is something to be said for allowing the lines and curves of a design to shine, but we don't get that as much in Disco. Sometimes less is more. Real world examples--look at most military tech or for that matter automobiles--the trend has always been toward the smoothest possible lines and a minimal amount of shit protruding from the bodies.
It's kinda game of thrones in space? I dunno. Everything dark gets compared to GoT these days, but I think that's fair since every show wanted to be GoT after it blew up in popular culture.
I didn't feel a GoT vibe. The show feels pretty woke by Season 3. (I hate that word, but honestly Disc feels more like a vibe by then, rather than a show. Season 2 might have felt the most authentically a show.) Season 1 just felt like a bunch of cool twists that were not handled or paced well, like the show never really got the level of development it needed before rushing to air, and trying to introduce some radically different ideas. And of course, I'm a Hannibal fan (also Brian Fuller), so I'm used to his darker vibes, it's just who he's capable of being rather than trying to emulate GoT or something.
Did I watch Season 2 of Picard? I don't think I did... Season 1 was kinda nothingburger, again a bunch of meh foo-foo missed opportunities. I guess Data got closure. I have trouble watching it after they forced Alison Pill into such a shittily written role; watch her in Garland's "DEVS" if you want to see what she is capable of. Just really was meh about it after season 1 .
I actually really enjoyed Picard season 2. Like A LOT. It might jump up there if I were to ever rank entire seasons of Trek shows. Picard overall has a vibe much closer to DS9, the later movies and Enterprise, than it is to TNG. I'm OK with that. I wouldn't want a rehash of TNG, and if I want to reexperience that type of Trek vibe, there's The Orville or Lower Decks sort of carrying on the flame.
nooooo...
I don't dislike Burnham, and Sonequa Martin-Green is great.
It wasn't that Season 1 was convoluted, it was that it sucked emotionally and intellectually. Like, just noise and pictures, no real weight past the first episode -- aside from the episode with Riker and Troi, which I felt was well handled, and then the end of the finale with Data. I didn't care about much of it at all.
I don't know that it added much, but it did give us a fitting end to their relationship that I admit got me a little emotional. I thought they sorta already did a roads-not-travelled episode with Q on TNG (Tapestry, I think?), and I thought that was the direction the season would take, but then it went into a zany time travel storyline--very much in the vein of DS9 and Voyager time travel episodes with lots of high stakes. I don't think you'll get anything new, but I guess think of it like this album will feature the last recorded performance by a beloved bandmember, so it might be worth checking out for that reason, even though it adds nothing new to their sound. De Lancie and Stewart are like two virtuosos playing off one another, but it's nothing you haven't seen before, aside from their final scene together. That analogy also seems to fit the upcoming final season, if the teaser trailer was any indication. It definitely looks like it's going to be treated as the TNG cast's Undiscovered Country. I'm excited to see how the others like Geordi and Worf have changed, how they handled Data's death, etc. Especially Geordi, since if anyone loved Data as a best friend, it was him more than Picard or any other character
