35 points

The Cage is peak trek

Never accepted Kirk and those after as real trek

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You better be referring to the original broadcast recorded to magnetic tape and not the abomination that is the DVD release

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6 points

What about the option of the original black and white recording of ‘The Cage’ with the colour portions from ‘The Menagerie’ spliced in, as released to videotape in thr 80s?

That was the real Star Trek. Roddenberry even took it to cons in the 70s and 80s to let fans know what he really wanted to put on the air.

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4 points

Good point. Everything after that is woke critical race theory DEI!

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You’re fooling yourself if you don’t want to see the sharp decrease in quality post DS9. The best Trek series of the last 25 years is Orville ffs

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13 points

I’d give strange new worlds a pass as being better than Orville, but yeah, it’s definitely the exception to the rule.

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Fair, Strange New Worlds is great

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3 points

Fuckin-A roit, mate!

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-8 points

LOL I had a whole reply typed out before I realized this was sarcasm. A+ example of a red flag.

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You’re so threatened by people who like different TV shows than you that you have to pretend their opinions aren’t serious?

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-6 points

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21 points

I don’t mind the Kelvin films. Karl Urban as Bones makes it all worth while.

They’re just popcorn flicks. Watch or don’t watch and it’s not like the Star Trek Universe is altered in any way. (Also, those movies are better than everything after Wrath of Khan, movie-wise)

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Also, those movies are better than everything after Wrath of Khan, movie-wise

boo

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10 points

I used to think Chris Pine Kirk was better than Shatner. I now kind of feel like Pine’s the best Captain, but SNW Kirk’s the best gentlemanly lady killer kirk.

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6 points

I’d argue they are better than anything after The Undiscovered Country. But yeah otherwise I agree, 2009 is one of my top trek films, and I’d rather watch it over any of the TNG movies. Sorry, not sorry.

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5 points

Largely agree, with a couple exceptions: Undiscovered Country and First Contact are good; Into Darkness is bad.

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20 points

I’ve taken to the term 3rd-wave Trek for the 2010s-present shows to identify the stylistic differences in production compared to shows made in the 80s-90s or 60s.

Each era is molded by the media conventions of it’s time. And there I go reinventing Marshal McLuhan again: “the medium is the message”

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4 points

Where do you put ENT? I say it feels very different from the not much earlier VOY but not as a wave in its own right. And while we’re at it: TAS

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5 points

Echoes, like when a wave hits something else and creates some dissonance.

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17 points

What’s the face for anyone who remembers that by TOS canon, the greek god Apollo is real and just got bored of Earth and fucked off to another planet?

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5 points

Teal’c.

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