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Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:40 pm
by Hexx
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:13 am
by Cheeky Devlin
The first of the Very Short Treks has been released.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 6:42 am
by Moggy
Twovix started off pretty good, nice callbacks to Voyager and it's good that they've confirmed that
Janeway murdered Tuvix . Overall though, this show still doesn't do anything for me, I just don't get the appeal of Star Trek: Rick and Morty.
I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee was better overall, but the humour still falls completely flat for me. The menagerie thing obviously calls back to the Cage, but I guess it was also a homage to the Animated series episode where humans were kept as zoo exhibits. Interesting idea, but not explored any further here, just WACKY FUN!
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:12 am
by site23
I personally think Lower Decks is quite different to Rick and Morty. It has a much more positive tone and is noticeably less edgy overall. It ties itself to classic-style Trek in a very earnest way.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:54 am
by Moggy
site23 wrote:I personally think Lower Decks is quite different to Rick and Morty. It has a much more positive tone and is noticeably less edgy overall. It ties itself to classic-style Trek in a very earnest way.
Yeah, it's more Rick and Morty for cowards.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:45 am
by Qikz
I am so glad Lower Decks is back. Those 2 episodes were incredible <3
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 3:41 pm
by Moggy
In the Cradle of Vexilon was ok. Best of the season so far. Which isn't saying much.
All of the
"this isn't an evil computer" and then the computer turned crazy! LOL LOL LOL didn't see that coming! Tee hee.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:00 am
by Qikz
This weeks Lower Decks was amazing again. Laughed so much at so many different points.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:33 pm
by Qikz
Again another absolutely fantastic episode of Lower Decks. T'lin as well is such a great character to add to the cast and she's been added absolutely fantastically.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:35 pm
by site23
I'm catching up with Strange New Worlds at last. A lot of enjoyable episodes so far, and I just watched the Lower Decks crossover episode, which I thought was very good.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:19 pm
by Cheeky Devlin
Yeah Lower Decks has been great so far.
T'Lin is a nice addition to the group and the
promotions have shaken up the dynamic a little which helps.
I liked that we got some more character development for Tendi as well. I like that she was expected to grow up to be a Pirate but instead went her own path as a scientist. In most things it would be the other way around.
I'm beginning to think that Lower Decks is going to be the show that finally gets the Orions right. In the same way DS9 rehabilitated the Ferengi from a bad joke, LD appears to be doing it for the Orions. For a species that have been prominent in Star Trek ever since the first pilot, they've been surprisingly under-used. Same with the Gorn but SNW has that covered. 
EDIT:
site23 wrote:I'm catching up with Strange New Worlds at last. A lot of enjoyable episodes so far, and I just watched the Lower Decks crossover episode, which I thought was very good.
Yeah the crossover was great fun. My only complaint was Boimler just looked "off". Something about giving him the purple hair and makeup they used. Maybe it was to make him look a bit cartoonish, but I just found it distracting.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:39 pm
by Hexx
Cheeky Devlin wrote:Yeah Lower Decks has been great so far.
T'Lin is a nice addition to the group and the promotions have shaken up the dynamic a little which helps.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:41 pm
by site23
@Cheeky Devlin -- Ha, yeah, I see what you mean! I noticed his weird hair a couple of times too. I think it would have been fine to leave it black in live-action... or commit fully to it being purple.
I thought the two actors deserved some serious props (badum-tsh) as it can't be easy to go from voice-acting to live action. IMO they did a great job carrying the energy of the characters over.
The joke at the end about the Orion hurricanes was really fantastic.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:46 pm
by Winckle
Qikz wrote:Again another absolutely fantastic episode of Lower Decks. T'lin as well is such a great character to add to the cast and she's been added absolutely fantastically.
Every time a
knife hit Beckett I couldn't help but laugh.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:50 pm
by Qikz
Winckle wrote:Qikz wrote:Again another absolutely fantastic episode of Lower Decks. T'lin as well is such a great character to add to the cast and she's been added absolutely fantastically.
Every time a
knife hit Beckett I couldn't help but laugh.
I love the fact that at the end she's explaining the photos and she got hit by a fourth knife we didn't see
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:57 am
by Moggy
Something Borrowed, Something Green.
Boimler/Rutherford stuff was shite.
The Tendi stuff was actually ok. I quite enjoyed learning more about the Orion's. Although I could have done without the "haha Mariner keeps getting stabbed" bollocks.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:25 pm
by Cheeky Devlin
Here's the next two "Very Short Treks".
Hope they're funnier than the first was.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:10 pm
by Qikz
This is absolutely outstanding.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:46 pm
by Cheeky Devlin
Qikz wrote:This is absolutely outstanding.
When fans can make this, but Paramount won't shell out the money to redo the effects work for DS9 and Voyager.
EDIT: To be clear the video was awesome. Want to see the next part when it's done.
Re: The Star Trek Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:05 pm
by Cheeky Devlin
Next Very Short Trek has released. Probably my favourite so far.
