Well, we're going to have a lot to talk about with this week's SNW, @WordsmithFL. 🙃
I'm glad Jonathan Frakes was at the helm, at least. And we have a breather episode before the musical silliness comes along.
(Every other #Trekkie can join in, too! I like to take a beat before I write my weekly review - and give folks the weekend to watch the ep - but it'll be up on Monday.)
@MLClark @WordsmithFL You doing the cross over ep?
I have nothing good to say about it. :/
It should never have been made. :)
Lower Decks is just... not good Trek.
Frakes' direction is the best thing going for it, but whew.
WHEW.
(Watching the *actual* episode for this week now. Dreading next week's.)
@MLClark @TrueBloodNet
I couldn’t stand it. I was actually uncomfortable. I knew Lower Decks was some type of cartoon stuff, that’s all. How annoying.
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Lower Decks is really quite an ugly production. Almost every single one of its plots relies on notions of scarcity and workforce mechanics that shouldn't exist in the actual Star Trek universe. It gets by on relentless fanboy referencing by characters playing a kind of Trekkie dress-up.
Merging it with SNW just highlights how much NuTrek has gone astray. I'm by no means an originalist, but I'm glad Roddenberry didn't live to see this!
@Anouk @TrueBloodNet
"ML! Don't hold back! Tell us what you really think!" 😂
I don't get too cranky about my SF, except when it comes to messing with Trek. I got angry enough at Picard that I wrote half a season's worth of screenplays *fixing* the darned thing using the same base plot & characters - although, to be fair, that was early in the pandemic, & everyone else was going crazy over baking at the same time.
JEAN-LUC, my fanfix series replacement for PICARD, was my sourdough starter. 🙃