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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Star Trek: Gone Forever
Reading through these reviews something very notable becomes apparent. Star Trek fans will clearly lay out their criticisms and the fundamental problems with yet another Kurtzman-ruined Star Trek parody, and then those who give 10 out of 10 attack the fanbase they were clearly never a part of, and their young age shows. "it's not the 80's any more" and such. Of course they completely fail to realise that Star Trek was still making brand new TV shows 2 years before Kurzman and Abrams got their hands on the franchise and rebooted it for no apparent reason whatsoever other than a cash grab.
This is like one long boring drawn out episode that (when taking into account the montages of the last episode, the next episode, the title sequence and such) actually leaves about 36 minutes of watchable content. I say watchable loosely, as I am now only watching this with morbid curiosity, like slowing down to look at a car accident.
The plot is predictable to the extreme, bears no resemblance to any version of Star Trek before 2009, has zero science (just writers making up Doctor Who type fantasy timey whimey gibberish with no grounding in science WHATSOEVER), seems to go out of it's way to destroy and retcon whatever of the Star Trek universe it can get it's hands on, has nothing even slightly positive or motivating, and worse of all it's ruining the legacy, just as Discovery did.
Canon violations galore, no where even close to family viewing, miserable and dumbed down once again.
This is Star Trek written by people who hate Star Trek for people who hate Star Trek's fundamentally positive and intellectually defined character. Decades of world building thrown out like an inconvenience. It's bland, formulaic writing with desperate needs for endless cliffhangers of characters and plot lines that aren't even interesting to mentally question where it's all supposed to be going.
Welcome to Star Trek: Dystopia, where people ram their view of divisive politics down your throat, because let's face it if you voted Brexit or Trump then you're fundamentally wrong, bad, evil, and everything broken in the world is all your fault, because democracy is bad now, and the future is written by people who fail to give loser's consent after they've lost a vote on anything. What a petulant and exclusive mindset to write into a franchise as it's death rattle. I suspect much of this is Patrick Stewart's fault, and if the articles of his interviews are anything to go by, he's become a bitter old man completely unable to relate to either the Trek fanbase who (it now appears) idolised the wrong person all these years. Picard now just roams around waving his stick and shouting at clouds.
Well done Kurtzman the disaster artist. You and Secret Hideout broke another franchise, it can never recover from this. Run along now, you're done, as are generations of loyal fans that were neck deep in this franchise while you were still ruining Spiderman and The Mummy.
Star Trek: Short Treks (2018)
It's dead, Jim.
Wow! once you peal back the action and visual effects all you are left with is generic two dimensional planks of wood trying to deliver lines.
which is what everyone has been trying to tell the people running it but they wont listen. i write this three days since it was put on all access, and there are just 11 reviews, 7 of them are 1 star reviews and 32 total votes cast, which is no wonder because you have to be in the USA and have an all access subscription to watch it. finally some decent indication of the actual viewing figures, and they are really bad.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
If only you hadn't fired Bryan Fuller.
What the hell CBS? You've ruined 50 years of TV in a stroke. What are we supposed to do now? Just pretend this didn't happen? You've done a cash grab on a classic and tried to milk it like Marvel. The end result is by far the worst abuse of Star Trek ever IP by a lightyear, and I'm including the reboot movies in that.
How dare you? You realise this is completely unrecoverable?
The boycott is on you greedy SOB's. I feel sorry for the careers of the actor's you strung in to this on the promise of it being the next best thing.
Let's be very clear here, this IS NOT Star Trek, it's not even close to parody of it, it's the result of idiots who have a vague idea of what Star Trek is, and then set out to desecrate it with shallow writing, generic acting, and 2004 style CGI.
I shall never source past content through official channels again. You've killed your biggest fanbase a year after it's 50th anniversary.
This will go down in history as yet another example of trying to rewrite a classic with disastrous consequences.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
If only you hadn't fired Bryan Fuller.
What the hell CBS? You've ruined 50 years of TV in a stroke. What are we supposed to do now? Just pretend this didn't happen? You've done a cash grab on a classic and tried to milk it like Marvel. The end result is by far the worst abuse of Star Trek ever IP by a lightyear, and I'm including the reboot movies in that.
How dare you? You realise this is completely unrecoverable?
The boycott is on you greedy SOB's. I feel sorry for the careers of the actor's you strung in to this on the promise of it being the next best thing.
Let's be very clear here, this IS NOT Star Trek, it's not even close to parody of it, it's the result of idiots who have a vague idea of what Star Trek is, and then set out to desecrate it with shallow writing, generic acting, and 2004 style CGI.
I shall never source past content through official channels again. You've killed your biggest fanbase a year after it's 50th anniversary.
This will go down in history as yet another example of trying to rewrite a classic with disastrous consequences.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry (2017)
No Trek is better than bad Trek
so i have given this 4 episodes with an open mind and tried to look past the fact that it's using star trek branding when it has nothing to do with star trek, and am throwing in the towel. no one can say i didn't try to get in to this. i have watched each episode twice to no avail. it just makes me angry more than entertained and i have better things to do with my time than to spend it getting angry at a stupid TV show.
perhaps if it was a 3rd party scifi series it may have ironically done better in its own right than it has but slapping star trek branding all over it and getting every body's heckles up, so its an outright no from me.
Star Trek: Discovery: Context Is for Kings (2017)
General viewership sliding, TOS fans enjoying.
This episode was earmarked as the "2nd pilot" in order to set the scene on the USS Discovery.
While this episode does go some way to toning down the visual effects, they do seem markedly worse in comparison to the vfx so far. Heavily over-saturated to the point of appearing similar to anime.
The plot doesn't fair any better with wholly bad pacing throughout. The acting is wooden, one dimensional, with lengthily conversations quickly becoming a bore to listen to. This is not a happy crew, they are rude, dismissive and downright unlikable throughout, including the lead played by Sonequa Martin-Green.
There does seem to be a lot of referencing to the original Star Trek TV show, which is unfortunate if you happen to be under the age of 50 as many things simply don't make sense, or seem so incongruous that the plot feels bizarre. For example the engineering set looks like that of a low budget fan movie, and can be staffed or unstaffed to suit the plot. Toward the end of the episode Engineering has no staff on duty whatsoever.
Once again action and special effects take the forefront of the plot, levered in place for the sake of it, and so the plot seems built around it, rather than a part of it, and rewriting 50 years of canon in the process.
Overall there is very little here for either new viewers, or any of the past incarnations of Star Trek (excluding TOS). The visual style has shifted to Battlestar Galactica, and the cancelled Stargate Universe. In spite of incorrect information/fake news to the contrary, the show has not been green lit for a 2nd season, I genuinely do not see this show holding viewers until the end of the season. CBS mentioned a record number of sign ups to it's all access platform, however this is misleading and intentionally planned as a PR stunt due to the first week having been a free trial. Now that viewers have had three episodes to view, the feedback on social media and viewer reviews is sliding quickly.
I don't feel this 3rd episode will do anything to help that situation, and wonder just how many viewers it will manage to retain, particularly with a three month gap in the middle of the season due in a matter of weeks.