Star Trek Next Generation Season 6 Episode 20 The Chase.
Iâll admit it didnât ring any bells. I obviously watched it many many years ago.
It was a stand alone episode, it shows us what we miss with this new era of Trek - a slow paced developing story not full throttle to fit into a 10 episode run, and it shows how damned fine Patrick Stewart is/was in the role.
And, it dropped a bombshell. A complete Universe defying changing Bombshell.
That was subsequently never returned to. One episode out of 140 odd, that defined Trek Canon and set the scene for Picard and Disco S5.
Marvellous. You donât have to watch it but I am damned glad I did. (Itâs still on my Middle East Netflix home screen other providers may have it or DM for a link) If you canât be arsed, Google will tell you the spoilers/revealâŚ
Certainly worth finding Paramount for Halo as well as the Trek World.
Here in Poland, Disney + & HBO ( which bears a strong resemblance to Sky) are advertising hard on Terrestial TV - HBO seem to have ST Discovery
Disco S5 Ep5 Mirrors is one of those episodes.
A lot of backfill blah blah, (which tbh the season needed)
And some other shit that âŚ
It has lots of canon links and lots of nerdy articles going over them.
And at the end in the Disco bar, one half seen glimpse of another moment.
I watched on my 2nd supplier but on my big TV.
It was an almost epic episode that was almost shit.
I think historically, what it gave us was epic.
On my big TV with other noises in the house I found some of the dialogue ânot clearâ, had some time tonight and decided to rewatch on my laptop with my not shit headphones.
So I got the bits I missed apart from a line Tilly said to Culber in the bar, so rewound, leaned forward and THEN saw him.
DS9 was 100 years ahead of Discovery, and with the canon links up the storyline it is no accident, surely?
It is farewell to the much unloved, even much disliked Star Trek Discovery.
It had lots of faults for me the biggest was time - a shortage of it meant they packed in âstuffâ and we never got the charater depth or the ensemble electricity.
But, here is the thing, it was the first Trek to do new SciFi. - new Science. Forget the abject Klingon reboot attempt we started with Mushrooms and Tardigrades and jumped around.
The Burn and Speciesc10-C improved a low base line to not really shit but it was still Trek (ish) to me and had given us Captain Pike
By Season 5 we had lost the gimmicky Bridge Crew and found a grumpy old git who improved the balance no end. Everyone loves Doug Jones who acts his socks off as Saru but he never felt like a Trek Number One to me.
So S5 is a chase, based on an obscure TNG episode called The Chase. Itâs a clever idea in retrospect that TNG episode was huge and yet drifted past.
Without spoilers S5 was OK - I have questions - but considering they had 3 days and 3 pages to turn a Season End into a Series End they nailed it.
They opened some great windows - Starfleet Academy may well bring back old friends and then there was the incredibly clever.
Nah. Spoilers
I just think that was genius. It dropped my jaw.
So yes, Discovery added to the story, it entertained me, could have been better but then so could my lottery number choices
Yeah, just watched the last episode- fam c_s think itâs had its day and went out with a whimper- didnât really set itself up for offshoots that anyone would watch.
Starfleet Academy clearly set up wiith Tilley imvoled along with new Oscar WinnerHolly Hunter running the show has special guest opportunities galore, it will exist in the post Disco timeline but apparently set in San Francisco where the old Academy was based.
And Iâm not sure how the Kovich situation hit fam CS but that is such a huge possibility in the future probably came up with the idea too late for Section 31 but it is a gift horse and so clever
But Disco brought us next gen Trek Tv. SNW which is lovable, Prodigy which is clever and the Grandkids love it (and we all love Janeway) and Lower Decks which is simply great.
Michelle Yeohâs
Star Trek Produgy had a battle to be seen. Paramount executives saw it as a tax write off.
Luckily Netflix remenbered streaming is about content.
Season 1 was proper Trek that tried to be interesting to small kids.
It worked for grown ips as well. I had a great week sitting explaining it to the grandkids while getting all dewey eyed that Janeway was back.
S2 seens ever better.
Lots pf reviews saying this is up tgere with the best Trek.
Here is a spoiler free overview
If only i had a long run of days off to fill.
OhâŚ
So Paramount crushed Star Trek Prodigy as a tax write off.
S2 was already in the Can
So the review.
That is it.
S1 was about some kids stealing a ship and learning so as a grown up we could explain it to kids.
But there was a hologram
Then there was Janeway.
Like real life Voyager Janeway
S2 was rescued by fans and picked up by Netflix.
The Kids are still all over it
But if you have an ounce of Trekkie in your soulâŚ
No Spoilers Iâll take the storyline gaps & holes and
