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The Star Treks

Of the Star Trek Series

  • Every Series ROCKS!

    Votes: 27 8.2%

  • Every Series has good and bad episodes

    Votes: 163 49.4%

  • Every Series has good and bad episodes except Enterprise, which sucks

    Votes: 28 8.5%

  • Enterprise and Voyager suck

    Votes: 13 3.9%

  • Enterprise, Voyager and Deep Space Nine suck

    Votes: 19 5.8%

  • The Original Series and TOS Movies are the only good Star Trek

    Votes: 38 11.5%

  • Star Trek sucks, geek boy

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • Star Trek: Carrots

    Votes: 31 9.4%
  • Total voters
    330
#1,284
I think she was good for her character the same way Keanu Reeves was perfect for Neo. These are characters with subdued emotions and Jeri Ryan is good at playing repressed. In the few and far between moments when she was panicking or freaking out, I don’t think she did a particularly good acting job. But she did angry well. She did smarmy well. She was great at being condescending.
 
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#1,288
murphy said:
Like seeing Spock in a different show...seeing 7 of 9 not being the Borg woman and speaking differently .Realizing she was only acting....Well..it made me sad and broke the magic.
As she did in Picard
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New Trek advocates get upset when I criticize it. As far as I’m concerned the last time I saw Picard was All Good Things and I last saw Seven in Endgame.
 
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#1,289
I’m getting near the end of Lower Decks S2. I love this show. It’s creative and has fun with all eras of Star Trek. The adventures of the Cerritos are pretty mundane but hey someone has to do the second contacts and take care of the paperwork. The episode where Boimler was transferred to Riker’s ship (Titan?) was great. Everything on Riker’s ship was Red Alert, we’re going into battle, shields up, give me some options! Boimler couldn’t take the stress and was transferred back to the Cerritos where things are a little more calm.

“So does Riker really clean his trombone on the bridge?”
 
#1,291
Alkali Ike said:
I’m getting near the end of Lower Decks S2. I love this show. It’s creative and has fun with all eras of Star Trek. The adventures of the Cerritos are pretty mundane but hey someone has to do the second contacts and take care of the paperwork. The episode where Boimler was transferred to Riker’s ship (Titan?) was great. Everything on Riker’s ship was Red Alert, we’re going into battle, shields up, give me some options! Boimler couldn’t take the stress and was transferred back to the Cerritos where things are a little more calm.

“So does Riker really clean his trombone on the bridge?”
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I like voice actors - they're really good - and dialogue a whole lot; I don't care for the writing in a wider sense: a whole bunch of reference to past Trek meant to amuse hardcore fans, but with a generally condescending attitude toward the core tenets of the classic shows, as is all too usual with modern Trek. Basically, an annoying intersection of "hey, let's do The Orville, only with real ST lore because we actually can" and new, Kurtzman ST.
In fairness, in this season they have toned down the Federation mockery some: they even took a light jab at the high-stake, flashy tendencies of their own current live-action TV output, in the episodes you mention.
I do enjoy the series, all things considered. I'll probably restrict myself to just it and Strange New Worlds, whenever it comes out, unless Picard s2 proves to be worth my while. (Haven't brought myself to Prodigy yet...)
 
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HaphAsSard said:
I like voice actors - they're really good - and dialogue a whole lot; I don't care for the writing in a wider sense: a whole bunch of reference to past Trek meant to amuse hardcore fans, but with a generally condescending attitude toward the core tenets of the classic shows, as is all too usual with modern Trek. Basically, an annoying intersection of "hey, let's do The Orville, only with real ST lore because we actually can" and new, Kurtzman ST.
In fairness, in this season they have toned down the Federation mockery some: they even took a light jab at the high-stake, flashy tendencies of their own current live-action TV output, in the episodes you mention.
I do enjoy the series, all things considered. I'll probably restrict myself to just it and Strange New Worlds, whenever it comes out, unless Picard s2 proves to be worth my while. (Haven't brought myself to Prodigy yet...)
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I watched one of the Ready Rooms with Wil Wheaton. They had four of the voice actors, via Zoom or something. Apparently the bulk of S2 was made during lockdown so the voice actors did their parts at home using makeshift studios in bedroom closets or whatever it took.

I don’t mind them poking fun at ST canon. In the end it’s just another take on ST and covers some new ground through humor.
 
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#1,297
My Trek wall above my bed -

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