Star Trek: Discovery

jayrebb said:

Strange Worlds was his last effort to appeal to investors. Its supposed to address criticism by Netflix/Amazon that nobody cares about political message trek.

The creation of Strange World's was a direct reaction to the rejection of Section 31

He still thinks someone will bite on it as the next great Trek.

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Given Lower Decks' numbers, he thought wrong. (I hope.)

Kurtzman is to storytelling as a monkey flinging shit is to cooking. He has zero clue about character, plot, motivation, reality, themes or anything else that might be construed as a worthwhile narrative. His style is to literally fling vomit so fast past your face, scene after scene, that you are literally TOO TIRED to process logically any of what you just saw, and mentally memoryhole it. Which is why no one can tell you anything about Discovery or whatever else he's shat out with specificity like they can TNG, or TOS. It's trash and the people who greenlit this had no idea what Trek was and more importantly, what it was worth. Same with Star Wars. My kid is seven and could give a shit about either franchise, and he exists in a world of nerds. Truly epic fuck ups of billion dollar franchises. It is to laugh.

But on the flipside, if kid fuckin or Moloch is your thing:

Less than wrong. It's irrelevant. No one who cares about story or the human condition gives a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about fags, trannies, v6's, other car parts, or anything but story and how that story affects the fleshed-out characters who have to live with the decisions they've made in the line of duty. Real ethical and moral quandaries that have no easy solution. But when your politics is authoritarian, of course everything has an easy answer - whatever the fuck we in charge say. Re: Pelosi maskless in a hair salon.

Turns out authoritarians make shitty storytellers. Who knew?

Cybsled said:

That article is wrong. There have been binary and transgender aliens going back to TNG, even if they didn’t use those specific terms

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Ugh.. they're doing it the wrong way again. I remember one episode of Enterprise (I think?), it started out really good, they finally met aliens that weren't trying to nuke them. They explored some space phenomenon, felt super Sci-Fi in a good fun way. But for once the humans fucked the encounter up because the aliens had a 3rd gender, who by tradition was treated as basically a pet. It was pretty good story telling overall.

Issuing a press release that your show is now more woke based on what an actor defines gender as? lol