Pyat is Star Trekkin'!

[pyat]

I hate the new Star Trek movie already!

But I'm willing to believe I could be wrong.

And, frankly, I haven't bothered to see a new Trek movie in the theatres since Insurrection, which came out in 1998, and I didn't like it... and I didn't watch Enterprise, and I largely stopped watching Voyager after that awful mystery episode with the dog, which aired in 1995.

So, really, I'm not sure I'm exactly their target market, these days.

Darn kids.

Comments

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

Dude! I can't get over that. Who the hell builds a STARship on earth?! How does that make any engineering sense whatsoever?

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

A society that has access to cheap and easy anti-gravity technology? :)

As for acting, hey, Sylar is Spock. That will at least pull things up a little.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

A good Spock is good, though I hope they don't follow the recent trend of making all Vulcan jerks.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

TOS-Spock was pretty jerky sometimes.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Unconsiously so. The ones in Enterprise are expressing emotions all over the place - and they're all bad ones.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

They're all abusing the Pon Farr-suppressant medications.

Also, Enterprise mostly sucked.

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Mostly?

[thebitterguy]

Season four had several enjoyable episodes.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I recognize I'm in the vast minority, but I rather liked it's cheezy "return forward to the 1950s" emphasis on fists, rayguns, and relentless adventure. Plus, I kind of liked the choice of Scott Bakula for the captain. Quality television? Heck no. But it was certainly much more self-consciously fun than any of the other Trek spin-offs, I thought. The best of TNG (probably seasons three and four) were well-written, acted, and shot, for the most part, but they were a bit too earnest in retrospect.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

I think I lucked out by only seeing the last season of Enterprise and there were some interesting directions going on in the last season, playing off origins of the Trek mythos. It still wasn't really good over all, per se (although I liked the Organians) but there was some good stuff going on. So you're not totally alone!

[anidada.livejournal.com]

We did watch the first several episodes, remember? :)

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

I remember that I watched them - and that there were cornfields in them. That's about it, really. I think there was some gel and that's when I stopped watching it, actually...

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at least in the last season of Enterprise the primary writer (the only season it wasn't Brannon and Braga) was actually aware of issues like that. He tried his best to "fix" a few things like that. I seem to remember a 3 part episode whose plot was built around the utter failure of the contemporary Vulcans to be emotionless and that they were living in denial of the fact that they actually have emotions. Don't watch the final episode of the series, though, it was written by Brannon and Braga and frankly seems petty and spiteful.

In my opinion, the 4th, 5th and 6th Seasons of Voyager and the 4th (and final) season of Enterprise are mostly enjoyable.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

I don't care how good the anti-gravs are... it still the equivalent of building an ocean-liner on a mountain top and then hauling it via mules to the seaside. If we can do the International Space Station now, why wouldn't they do the Enterprise then?

Oh. Yeah. Not as "iconic" a shot of little rebel Jimmy looking at his future.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Are they flying mules made of space-age polymers?

If you went to NASA's ISS division and said, "Okay, you can build it down here and we can just haul it into orbit with a bunch of Sikorskys," do you think they'd have a problem with it?

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

I'd think, in the future, that launching a large scale building operation in space would still be far easier than it would be to build it on Earth, then haul the whole bloody thing into space. ;-) Just by virtue of energy expenditures; why use anti-gravs when you can work in zero-gravity?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Space suits are really itchy?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

People with anti-gravity and tractor beams, I guess.

Besides, it's already canonical. : P (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Utopia_Planitia.jpg)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

That's on Mars! Totally different! Don't make me come down there!

Or... wait... was Kirk on Mars?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Dun dun dunnnnn

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

How do you know it wasn't constructed in pieces there and built in space?

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

P.S. - Even if it is canon... it STILL MAKES NO SENSE. ;-) In which, I will say TNG fucked up, too, then.