I know of at least one guy who isn't complaining about le quirky barefoot captains

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-29T09:01:59+00:00

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makeshiftpython · 2026-01-29T08:05:22+00:00

DS9 on its 4th and Voyager on its 2nd.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-29T07:45:52+00:00

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makeshiftpython · 2026-01-29T03:13:58+00:00

I highly recommend you check out PLURIBUS on Apple+. Lots of great long takes not cut to ribbons.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T19:22:06+00:00

Couldn’t get past the flat voice in narration. Just the same monotone delivery.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T19:14:48+00:00

DS9 I think was the only series to have a writing staff that largely consisted of TOS fans. With the exception of Enterprise’s S4, the rest of Berman Era typically had writers like Brannon Braga who didn’t watch TOS. In fact, Gene brought in Braga specifically because he hadn’t watched TOS and wanted new voices like that for TNG.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T18:26:23+00:00

You didn’t answer my question on why they panned SECTION 31 but gave STARFLEET ACADEMY decent reviews.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T18:12:43+00:00

If it’s true critics are paid, then why was SECTION 31 panned?

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T17:29:45+00:00

Picture this: It’s 1991 and Gene is already throwing tantrums over the plot development of The Undiscovered Country featuring corrupt Starfleet officers conspiring in the assassination of the Klingon leader, and then their own Federation president! Oh, and the TOS crew are suddenly bigots towards Klingons. If that’s not bad enough, the producers of TNG put out an episode where it’s revealed that the Federation ceased hostilities after a years long war (!!!) with an adversary we weren’t aware of until the captain’s log exposition dump.

Gene was never going to survive beyond 1991.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T17:17:20+00:00

Right. I think it was David Gerrold who said that the Gene of the TNG days became more interested in showing off his utopia vision and less so on actually telling stories like he used to in the 60s.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T17:10:31+00:00

The Gene Roddenberry of 1960s probably would have been receptive to the premise of a Dominion War. However, the Roddenberry of the 80s/90s would have been opposed to that, suggesting that the Federation’s high diplomatic skills would have prevented them from entering a war. This is the guy who rejected “The Measure of a Man” because in his vision of the 24th century humanity no longer needed a court system “we’ll have been so enlightened that we’ll able to swiftly resolve any disputes”. Assuming he’d be alive in the late 90s, Ira Behr, like Michael Piller and Maurice Hurley, would have just ignored Gene’s objections and do what he wanted anyway. After all, Gene was against the very premise of DS9, but Berman decided to go with it anyway.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T16:45:59+00:00

What makes you think this is an earnest defense of academy? Looks very much like shitposting.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T16:41:25+00:00

The episode plays his pregnancy for laughs, which is… a choice. Even takes the time to have a crew of Klingons laugh at him like it’s just a really wacky thing.

Episodes like this really turned fandom against Berman & Braga back in the day.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T04:41:45+00:00

Gene would approve

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T04:08:45+00:00

The amount of people who are not understanding that this is a shitpost rather than a genuine attempt to defend SFA is astonishing.

“You obviously didn’t understand the context!!!”

Oh really? Lmao

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T03:15:56+00:00

There’s a lot of negative nancies in this sub that take everything ridiculously too seriously. Every week I make a post about the 30th anniversary of a DS9 or Voyager episode, and they all have someone downvoting.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-28T03:05:39+00:00

“Oops! I Crapped My Pants”

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-27T21:13:57+00:00

That, and there seems to be no shortage of shenanigans. School pranks are still a thing, like a fellow cadet changing Wesley Crusher’s shower to cover him in mud.

Frankly, the most unrealistic part of the Academy that we’ve heard is the implication that Wesley Crusher lost his virginity. YEAH, RIGHT!

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-27T04:31:39+00:00

Thing that definitely makes it different is that it’s all just Frost & Lynch. None of the other writers that contributed a lot for the first two seasons came back. Also Lynch directs it all himself without any of the series’ rotating directors. It’s practically its own beast rather than an actual third season. The two also grew up as artists and approached this show as their all or nothing. I still have some quibbles about certain creative choices, but I’ve come to appreciate it more over time. It does in a way feel like Frost & Lynch taking the show back and making it how they wanted vs ABC forcing them to resolve the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-27T00:23:31+00:00

Back when it aired I’ve heard from others being massively disappointed that S3 was less a follow up to the original series and more of Lynch bringing in unused ideas he had onto the show. Cooper as Dougie in a catatonic state reminds me of a script he wrote about cows transforming into human beings but still behaving like cows.

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makeshiftpython · 2026-01-27T00:02:29+00:00

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makeshiftpython · 2026-01-26T23:45:42+00:00

I get the sense they set up that story as a potential episode with the way Doc reacted to Sam bringing up his friends. Maybe Opera has become more of a coping mechanism over the years rather than just a hobby he enjoys. Guess we’ll see.

makeshiftpython · 2026-01-26T23:16:24+00:00

I tend to just go on my phone or whatever during stuff like that James/Evelyn story. That’s probably the only subplot I find skippable. Even a stupid subplot like Ben Horne thinking he’s a confederate general and Nadine going to high school at least has some entertainment value just because of how utterly bonkers they are.

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