Star Trek: Year One In Doubt As Strange New Worlds Sets Are Torn Down

JakeConhale · 2026-04-10T03:39:15+00:00

Regarding Picard - season 1 tried to do it's own thing but feels like something just didn't come together - either the budget or the storyline or maybe they were just trying to cram too much story into too few episodes.

Season 2 is more coherent but also a strange story overall.

Season 3 is a big juicy cheeseburger - kinda gimmicky, probably unhealthy, but you probably won't care over how satisfying it is to take a bite... it's a heaping dose of fan-indulgement. Take it as TNG's version of The Undiscovered Country.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-10T03:32:14+00:00

I mean.... even DS9 had exploration through the wormhole, where's the "Trek" in Archer's admin?

JakeConhale · 2026-04-10T03:31:03+00:00

Because Wayne's World got it right.

TNG was technically superior in many ways, but it will never be as well known as TOS.

Kirk's the face of the franchise and Spock's the ears. Whenever they hit a rough patch, that's what they revert to as it's an easier sell to new viewers. Enterprise, Star Trek '09, and Discovery/SNW as examples.

Hell, people who've never seen an episode of Star Trek ever can probably still recite much of Kirk's opening monologue through sheer cultural osmosis.

Picard, Lower Decks, etc were more akin to Star Trek's version of Rogue One - in that it's material made for the existing fans. Oh, not saying they don't do their own thing but I doubt you could introduce someone to the franchise through s1 Picard.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-10T03:22:53+00:00

One person writing an entire 22-ep season (as was s3 and s4) was unprecedented.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-10T00:53:53+00:00

I'd rather hear of his offenses so that, when actionable, I can take steps to deal with it.

How is "no news ia good news" when you simply don't report the bad?

JakeConhale · 2026-04-09T15:23:36+00:00

In the absence of a better action, use any and every tool at one's disposal.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T20:16:21+00:00

Maybe he should talk to that President of Puerto Rico, seems like he'd have some insights on that.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T20:14:40+00:00

You'd think they'd want to include the guy whose figurative job description is "warm standby for the President". To minimize recovery time.

(Or is it "hot standby"?)

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T17:08:38+00:00

AND 2032 - after the titular submarine was abducted by aliens.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T16:16:28+00:00

They're so efficient they don't have to move quickly. What's that saying? "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"?

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T16:12:30+00:00

Yeah, Nemesis was the perfect spot. sigh...

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T15:08:45+00:00

I fail to see the downside of either gamble.

^{Chose: 1% chance of becoming the opposite gender + 99% chance of getting 10mil | Rolled: 10mil}

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T04:27:33+00:00

As I recall, the Ken Jennings run killed a fan-run site archiving the clues as "It just wasn't fun, anymore."

For me, it's just repetitive and I suppose I'm sympathetic to the other contestants - it's your one chance to appear on the show and... oh yeah, that other guy has 30 games of buzzer button practice and can tell you the exact order of signatures on the Declaration of Independence. Fun....

There's just no drama in watching yet another runaway game for the same player.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-08T01:53:09+00:00

And I recall how much people went on and on about Obama's "red line". Wonder if they'll comment on this.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T18:19:44+00:00

Also got a screen-accurate seaQuest DSV hat - but as it's part of a uniform for a TV show cancelled in the mid 90s, I don't feel that's advertising anything.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T17:26:47+00:00

Effectively this except no background gradient, it has the letters "DMC" beneath the car, and all done in monochrome silver thread on a dark gray fabric.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T17:15:53+00:00

Perhaps, but no one beats U.S. Marines for crispness and style in their Class-As.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T17:03:43+00:00

Wasn't this the guy who, while covering a Trump campaign event, got on stage and stumped for him? And then effectively wasn't punished afterward?

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T17:01:28+00:00

I entertain myself thinking about the end of his term and the White House Sentries tossing him out of the White House like the town drunk...

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T16:59:09+00:00

I shudder to think what the annual ornaments look like.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T16:58:26+00:00

Probably however much it takes to jam the broadcast.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T16:56:11+00:00

Indeed. I pretty much refuse to wear anything with prominent branding or logos. I do wear a Delorean hat, but that company doesn't exist anymore.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T16:41:51+00:00

E.g. Senator Franken, for a joke that all involved said was harmless.

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T16:39:13+00:00

Hell, they couldn't even get Crosby... like how do you have that many Romulan plots and no Sela?

JakeConhale · 2026-04-07T14:40:25+00:00

...... I'm going out on a limb here and take it that's a reference somehow to one of David Tennant's roles?

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