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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that
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I don’t think anyone cares about a torpedo being fired by a woman
What people do care about is continuity, at least trying to keep characters consistent, good stories, etc.
Hence why most of the nu-trek shows and movies are such utter crap, as it’s CGI over story while completely ignoring 50 years of history.
Picard show, for example… Beverly crusher who once disobeyed a direct.order to save a victim after a bombing attack, who made a point about being peaceful is now a ninja assassin. Seven of nine, who made a point about improving, being better, now is a mad mass murderer who wants revenge for everything. Picard, who once was thoughtful, highly intelligent and respected, is now a bumbling old man.
Star trek which once was about being better is now about fuck fuck fuckerdy fuck fuck fuck because that’s star trek now, man, get with the program, it’s cool man!
I can go on for hours about Picard, let’s not. Discovery is somehow even worse. Those movies where they just did older movies again but now with new! And! Improved! CGI! CGI CGI CGI! Lense flaaaaaaaare!
With TNG I so could imagine living there on one of those star ships. Nu trek crap ships are just … I don’t even know where to begin
Add a broody darkness over that with regular over the top violence, and yeah, we really have star trek!
Long live the Orville, the new star trek
I don’t think most NuTrek is utter crap. Some is written for me, some isn’t.
SNW and Lower Decks are some of my favorite Trek.
Continuity doesn’t matter too much to me, just how the shows make me feel. TOS threw continuity out the window within the first few episodes when they introduced time travel.
Also, if you expect someone to be the same person, fictional or not, 30 years later into their life, you haven’t lived long enough. The person who is the same human they were twenty years ago, is someone who has wasted twenty years of their life.
Times change. The new shows have brought in a lot of new fans. That’s not a bad thing. Maybe instead of getting angry that new stuff isn’t made with your tastes in mind, watch something you enjoy instead.
If style and continuity doesn’t matter for you then fine, let them make their shoe exactly how they want it to be, but don’t use the star trek name as an bait and switch advertising stunt. If you want to call it star trek, let it BE star trek. Nu trek movies are a horribly bad made rehash of the earlier movies all focussed on CGI and pew pew. The shows are dark and broody crap, the animated shows were skipped after seeing how awful the trailers were. Star trek is done.
You’re responding to a comment from a month ago.
Style and continuity in Star Trek has been varied ever since the original movies and TNG.
If you want to hate something, fine. You do you. Waste time and energy being angry about a fictional franchise and move on with your life.
But don’t think that your stance of “I don’t like it” holds any weight to the people that do.
Yeah, inrespond late. Blame the connect app for that, responding is hard.
In any case, my stance is not “I don’t like it”, that would be the summary of it. It’s much moroe than that, which I already wrote.
You’re responding almost a month later again. Get a better app.
And yes. That is your stance. You said a bunch of things you don’t like. None of which are objective truths, just opinions.
This is beyond dumb and I’m not responding anymore. Touch grass.