Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday

Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by amalcon on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:17AM (#28245581)

I (mid 30s) think Picard actually works -- but only with the first season taken as a unit and including the finale. The entire season basically needs to be thought of as a single long movie. I don't want to spoil anything, but to me, the way the big threat was resolved perfectly captures that idealism that is synonymous with Star Trek.

Short Treks also felt strong to me. It showed that the people making Discovery can make Star Trek work, if freed from the constraints of having to build a season long plot and appease the right focus groups.

Discovery itself, on the other hand... It can be enjoyable at times, but one needs to forget that it's supposed to be Star Trek.

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Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:27AM (#28245668)

> I don't want to spoil anything, but to me, the way the big threat was resolved perfectly captures that idealism that is synonymous with Star Trek.

I agree. In my opinion, the season peaked at the two big Picard speeches. Avoiding spoilers I will say they should have not hit the reset button on a significant last-episode event and the series would thereafter be the crew carrying on the in the spirit of that event's significance.

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Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by TeMPOraL on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:43AM (#28245829)

I'm willing to agree, but I'm still pissed off about the Borg subplot (not spoiling much, IIRC even trailers mentioned Borg). It was one of those things that built anticipation and then got completely thrown away.

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Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:59AM (#28246049)

Yeah, that was lame.

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Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by vimy on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:13AM (#28246219)

The ship design in Picard didn’t feel trek. Like it was a different franchise. The nostalgia moments were the best but overal I didn’t liked the overal tone and storyline.

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Re:Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday by tjpnz on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:55AM (#28246738)

Not that there was even much ship design to begin with. The ship Picard travelled aboard felt like a ripoff of the Nebuchadnezzar, the ships in the battle at the end were all the same ship from Discovery.

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