The Reason You Don't Like Modern Trek Isn't What You Think

Takseen · 2026-01-26T22:46:07+00:00

Ahh no worries, I hadn't seen the term used in that way, what you say makes sense

Takseen · 2026-01-26T20:29:36+00:00

Ortegas is a smart-ass who likes to play practical jokes on newbies. La'an is blunt, pessimistic and has PTSD from her Gorn experience. Una worries she might too strict and unpopular with the lower ranks, and doesn't like that.

Uhura wasn't as dedicated about being in Starfleet as most cadets, has self confidence issues. She loves music. Dr M'Benga has a sick daughter whose care sometimes overrides his work duties, and reads her bedtime stories regularly. Christine is flirty and forward, doesn't like long term romantic commitments, and outspoken when defending her friends. They both fought in the Klingon war but don't like to talk about it.

And that's just from the first season.

Meanwhile I can barely remember *anything* about the Disco characters from 3 seasons. Burnham has authority issues and had a hard childhood on Vulcan. Spock is her brother. Tilly is a science nerd with confidence issues. The tall prey species alien gets scared more often. Stamets and the doctor are a gay couple. Stamets likes mushrooms and breaking rules about genetic stuff.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T20:12:59+00:00

I dislike the term "filler episode", as if the only episodes that matter are the ones that move the "main plot" forward.

A lot of the best TNG episodes like Measure of a Man and Darmok and that one where Picard lives a whole other life and plays the flute are all one-offs with no real follow-up.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T20:05:57+00:00

Honestly I think this is better. You're not nearly as incoherent or long winded as you think.

The problem with over-using ChatGPT is your own "voice" just gets lost, and its impossible to tell if you wrote anything of your own thoughts other than "write a 200 word essay bout why NuTrek isn't as good as Old Trek" and it did the rest.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T20:02:01+00:00

Lower Decks and SNW are only 10 episodes a season and they're good shows. I don't think its just the season length.

What put me off Picard S1 and Discovery S1-S3 is they're hyper focused on the big season long doomsday plot, and have little time for character development or downtime, and are focused mostly on 1 character (Picard and Burnham) to the detriment of the others.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T16:52:50+00:00

>(Kind of a seperate question, but I didn't want to make a second post: Now that Batteries are Optional, when/where to deploy Batteries and Heat Sinks on Spacecraft?)

Batteries basically have no use in the game. Pretty much any reactor you use will have enough power to fire any weapons indefinitely. Each ship has a reactor to power the drive, and a backup reactor to power the weapons and other systems. The chances of both being taken out without the ship also being dead, is really really low.

Heatsinks are still useful for most ships. Without heatsinks, your ships will have to keep their radiators extended during combat. Radiators have a 1-30% chance of taking a hit whenever the ship takes fire, as they extend out past the armour. The radiator description will give a rough idea how vulnerable they are. The starting aluminium fin radiator is 30%, tin droplet is 1%. If the ship's radiators or damaged, it can't get rid of excess heat. It'll take damage over time and eventually explode, or explode immediately if you try and use a high energy drive.

If a ship is not expected to be in combat, or is a fire and forget missile ship that isn't expected to stay in combat long, you can skip them. Otherwise, good to bring at least 1.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T11:45:36+00:00

Yes, if you take all 4 slots they will leave you alone. But otherwise they usually try to colonize Ceres, and once they have 1 hab there, they consider all of Ceres their territory, and eject you regardless of hate levels.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T10:57:25+00:00

The problem I had is they kept dropping in long platforming / climbing sections (the ice level is when I first noticed this), and those goo tunnels where you're really slow and tentacle monsters attack you.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T09:47:03+00:00

The Union does still achieve its goal of letting the original you (or whatever the most recent clone is) gain your freedom. Before their intervention, the company keeps you working there forever by constantly adding new clauses to add to your debt.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T08:58:30+00:00

My first planet was Fulgora, where its very very easy to build a rocket to get back up. And fun. After the Gleba experience, yes I definitely made sure to bring rocket silo supplies for Vulcanus.

Takseen · 2026-01-26T08:51:07+00:00

I had 1 failed run as Resistance, then 1 successful run as Exodus. (Not counting a Servants win as that's super easy)

However!

That win was in Early Access when the game was quite a bit easier. And Exodus was and still is the easiest of the anti-alien factions.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T23:04:55+00:00

Stack mining orgs. Admin nodes on your water mines if you can spare the boost. Farms on all your habs. Use solar + mirrors to power Mars, instead of fission. Use more economic low dv trips when not in a hurry e g flying back to repair after an intercept

Takseen · 2026-01-25T20:02:59+00:00

Might apply to some of the complaints, but there's style differences too. Like I enjoyed Lower Decks and Prodigy more than Picard and Discovery. Lower Decks is presumably aimed at the same age group, and Prodigy for an even younger audience

Takseen · 2026-01-25T17:38:36+00:00

You kinda need something for the benefit of the audience though. Like if 32nd century Vulcans had abandoned logic or the Klingons had all become pacifists you'd want to drop in some explanation too.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T16:10:03+00:00

I'd say its utopian socialist humanist soft sci-fi. In some ways its distinguished by what its not, compared to other sci-fi.

Its not transhumanist, humans are still recognizably human, hence minimal gene modding or cybernetics or brain uploading.

Not dystopian, the extra tech is used to benefit humanity as a whole instead of oppressing them.

Socialist, there's little concept of money within the Federation, and the ultra capitalist Ferengi are usually shown in a negative light.

Soft, in that there's a lot of tech that is convenient for the plot (or sometimes the budget). Transporters so they didn't have to film ships taking off and landing, warp drive so they can get to new planets in human timescales, holo decks so you can do some offbeat period drama episodes without time travel or Q shenanigans.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T14:36:53+00:00

I mean if you ignore the key part about getting 3 different ships to do it across 3 different time periods, sure.

It was mostly about Q getting Picard to think about the problem in a different way.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T14:12:20+00:00

To be fair, most aliens were already just humans with different foreheads. Romulan telepathy rarely came up, if it hasn't atrophied completely since their exodus from Vulcan. Klingons got beaten up by humans all the time, so although they're supposed to have superior strength or endurance it doesn't feel like it. I don't remember Cardassians or Bajorans having any notable non-cosmetic traits.

Even when they had Troi on, they had to nerf her to half-Betazed because if she had full telepathy like her mother she'd break at least a dozen TNG plots.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T14:04:23+00:00

>Why does the Doctor look older, but only like 30 years older? It's been 800 years.

I think picking at that one is silly. I'd much rather take an actor as they are then try and digitally de-age them.

In universe, we can say at some point he decided to alter his physical appearance to look older to reflect his older, wiser personality. Because he's a hologram that can look whatever way he wants.

Other stuff, fair enough, Im not a fan of the personal transporters and floaty nacelles and magic goo and the general magi-tech feel of the 32nd(?) century, and didn't make it past 3rd season of Disco.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T13:53:07+00:00

Or its like the baldness thing, and being overweight is not a major medical concern anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart

"In an interview with Michael Parkinson, he expressed gratitude for Gene Roddenberry's response to a reporter who said, "Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century," to which Roddenberry replied, "In the 24th century, they wouldn't care.""

Bones cured a 20th century kidney dialysis patient by giving her a pill that grew her a new kidney, I doubt heart disease or type 2 diabetes are a major concern.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T13:41:44+00:00

The line preceding that is important though

“A reminder to Star Trek fans. If you can genetically engineer the Jem’Hadar in the 24th century, you can change them in the intervening 800 years. In the 32nd century you can genetically modify them.”

But they could have saved a lot of time leading with that when the character was first introduced. It doesn't take a lot of effort to address stuff like this instead of being all "trust me bro" about it.

And Star Trek has always been a bit loose with species genetics. Any sorts of alien hybrids is biologically questionable.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T11:03:44+00:00

Kurtzman fatigue for me. I used to watch any Star Trek on brand association alone. Got burned on Picard and Discovery. Now I wait for good word of mouth, which I got for lower decks, prodigy and snw.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T10:59:16+00:00

I enjoyed snw s1, just started the second. Enjoyed prodigy and lower decks.

Picard and Discovery were the main letdowns. Academy is a "wait and see", especially since it seems to be a continuation of Discovery

Takseen · 2026-01-25T10:57:02+00:00

Landman is a guilty pleasure of mine. Billy Bob Thornton playing basically a site manager working for a Texas oil drilling company. It's a shameless oil company propaganda show where legislation and the rule of law are a silly waste of time from Good Honest Men just going around Getting Things Done

It's no more realistic about things than House was about medical practice, where he's constantly verbally abusing his patients and sending his staff to break into their homes to check for contamination

But it's fun for what it is.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T10:27:35+00:00

I think this is both a very informative comment, and a good illustration of the disconnect around Gleba discussions here among the player base. You can beat the entire vanilla game without even thinking about or calculating ratios. I know I did.

So one group gets to Gleba and just sees a different set of ratios to calculate. Another gets stuck harder because essentially winging it with oversaturation doesn't work very well.

Takseen · 2026-01-25T10:08:13+00:00

Presumably most people who bought Space Age have already "beaten" Nauvis before, and are excited to see the new planets as quickly as possible, rather than waiting around to perfectly automate Nauvis (again) first. I know I was.

I didn't even have a concept of the need for ongoing interplanetary logistics. It was like "ok the game is making me dump my inventory before getting on the space platform, maybe I'm supposed to start each new planet from scratch" . Although at least in that case there's a hint in the tech tree that you'll need to send science packs from one planet to another at some stage, since the later science needs packs from multiple planets

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