Oooh…
OK here’s something I never found previously.
The Center Seat on Freevee or DM me for a dodgy link and load your security & VPN
I’m 2 episodes in and I must say it is
It’s way past Nerdy/Trekkie fascinating, it is well into damn that shit REALLY changed the world - from the Lucille Ball story to the first inter-racial kiss on TV through to suicide bombers/Satan being discussed on Childrens Saturday morning TV, my eyebrows were raised a lot more than I expected - even simple things as realising I have read books by dudes that wrote episodes of TOS, or even that one of their best writers was a Woman in a time when they “didn’t know how to write”
The show is only a few years old but they have pulled interviews and characters from all over, such a joy to see Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Gene, Larry Niven and morph from the Animated Series into Lower Decks.
Most welcome
Episode 2 made me want to rewatch the Animated Series
OMG
Lower Decks S5 Ep 9
Opening sequence
So I’ve just seen the final episode of Star Trek Lower Decks. In terms of consistency, it’s probably the best Trek has ever been, especially if you were around for the nineties show.
It’s a true love letter to that era and features many of the crew members from previous shows. They’ve left things open enough so that another show could easily come in and live in this universe, a la Deep Space Nine.
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A wonderful labour of love from the team. right from S1 Episode 1 through to simple mentions of Giant Spocks. Careful clever storytelling, subtle fixes to small holes in Star Trek canon and some pf the best episodes of Trek in the modern era.
And, while we are sad to see it go, the show was about a crew (rather than the captain) and they reached that point where they outgrew the title. They are the New Next Generation
A joy to see the returning guests last week a clever new window to potential multiverse games for the future.
I think we will see the crew & maybe the Cerritos in some form or another
A happy ending
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As much as I loved The Orville it did give up on much of the comedy pretty early in.
Lower tax captured throughout and yet was really authentic to Star Trek law and I was amazed by.
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I love that the crew have so much love for the show & the lore
I’ve watched Section 31, the new Star Trek movie that began streaming on Paramount+ today. Expectations were not high. I didn’t think the creative team behind this would get a good handle of Star Trek or Section 31 - and so it has proved.
The impression you get about Section 31 in the nineties series was that Section 31 was a very dark, very secretive organiation. William Sadler’s portrayal of a Section 31 set the tone, really, with the organisation itself seeming like a KGB or other form of secret police.
That’s not what we see here. It’s highly derivative, the basic space heist template playing out, a lot of wisecrackin’ and a lot of stupid stuff which is just plain dumb. Feels closer in tone to something like Solo : A Star Wars story than Star Trek.
Some godawful performances as well. You will believe your ears can curl when hearing Sven Ruygrok do his fantastic Oirish accent. It’s not as bad as Titus Welliver in Sons of Anarchy, but it’s not great.
Something of an epic misfire then, and hopefully our final lesson in what happens when you let LOST writers do Star Trek.
I’m 20 minutes in where Phillipa “meets the team”
I’ve turned it off, it’s bad, very bad.
I felt I had to finish it just to be able to chat about it. However, I think you’ve saved yourself most of the pain.
Consequentially, I watched Inquisition last night, the DS9 episode where Section 31 is introduced. William Sadler is a nasty little bastard in it and the general premise of the episode is far more engaging.
I’ve not dug into the Enterprise stuff again, but I seem to remember Section 31 being particularly horrible there too.
At no point do you root for the bastards. I seem to remember them wanting to genocide the Changelings to win the Dominion War.
If you were going to do a Section 31 show, there are interesting things that you could have done. I don’t think they should have done this.
I read it was a rushed compromise.
Michelle Yeoh had a long term contract Paramount was done with her and she became an Oscar winner. Think the film was a compromise and rushed
Enterprise mixed Section 31 with The Time Directive crew. Discovery had very bad Section 31 guys & the AI. The Kelvin timeline had them as baddies with Into Darkness & Scotty on the Battleship
The reviews for this are brutal - I’ve not read previous posts as I know it is bad but want to stay clear of spoilers. Mrs P_F has the T atm while she catches up on The Night Aget S1
Do I see Cling-ons on the starboard bow?
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One of THE great karaoke choices that one.
But not as we know it
What on earth were they thinking?
Not so much a List script as a oathrtic sttempt yo reboot Missoon Impossible.
It smacked of "We bought a CGI Video Wall and Paramount are forcing us to use it.
"
Dog shit would be embarrassed by that.
And then so annoyingly.a cameo (did they even have The Borg back then? Or was that lazy writing again) and a call out to a planet…
Which was the home of Tasha Yar.
What a waste all round
Film was not good.
But.
It got surprisingly good streaming numbers which could mean…
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-section-31-streaming-success-more-paramount-plus-movies-op-ed/