Star trek!

[Womble]

Really liking "Strange New Worlds" with the exception of a fourth wall breaking "cool" from Uhuru(???) and some basic things that an engineer, especially a chief engineer should know,

[August]

Same, I like Strange New Worlds! I hope there’ll be some philosophical episodes.

[VARRAKK]

Strange New Worlds is so good. Normally I save the best shows for the weekend.
But not this one, I just want to see it right away. Just enjoyable to watch.

[Crystalline Entity]

Its great seeing the timeline continue to get fucked up (to be sure it is mostly more subtle than Discovery) all in the name of "modernisation" and "bringing new audiences"

[Shaftoes]

I agree. It's like a modernised Star Trek TOS. It's mostly excellent

[Womble]

I'm still really enjoying SNW. In fact it has become my wife's favourite, she knows way more about trek than I do.

[Ruri]

Goddamn this show is just doing everything better. Where Disco feels pushy and preachy, SNW just tells stories about characters and trusts the audience to come along. Where Picard was a wreckage of story ideas and over-wrought speechifying, SNW shows us real stakes with a new adventure every week that feels plotted out and whole.

Extremely minor spoiler

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Cripes, the opening scene from ep. 7 was like 1,000% Star Trek, of course it was horribly formulaic but it was also simple, functional, elegant; classic. And expanding representation for trans people by having one tell Spock that no one's identity is purely binary but in a way that tied in directly with his personal growth so that it felt earned and natural - chef's kiss.

I love it, but more than that, I love that I can love it.

[GeromeDoutrande]

And I love that you love that you can love it babe

[El Capitano]

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Leaning into Star Trek V canon is a bold move, Cotton.

[Ruri]

And I love that you love that you can love it babe

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Leaning into Star Trek V canon is a bold move, Cotton.

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I'm an unapologetic fan of that entry, I think it's the closest thing to a feature-length episode of the original show that we got. It's not the best of the movies, by any stretch, but it hit all the - for lack of a better term - "meta" notes from TOS; obviously low budget, fighting something that calls itself God, cheesy alien makeup, "we need captain Kirk on the Enterprise for this mission," one of my favorite Kirk speeches ever, what I think is the most famous Kirk one-liner ever, and at the end everyone gathers in the lounge to do diplomacy. Again, classic.

This is one of those cases where I don't mind them going back to answer unanswered questions, Sybok was such a wild expansion of the lore surrounding Vulcans, and seeing more of Vulcan culture in this show than I think we've ever gotten (at least at this pace) is super cool.

[Lilalaunebör]

Couple of episodes into Strange New Worlds, can confirm it is Star Trek in every way that all the other shows are not (although the namedropping left and right does get a little tiresome).

Hope they will keep it up.

[depili]

Probably gets cancelled after season 2 at the latest.

[VARRAKK]

How does stardates work?
Usually theres some deeper thought to star trek stuff, same here or just random numbers?

[Joe Appleby]

How does stardates work?
Usually theres some deeper thought to star trek stuff, same here or just random numbers?

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stardate

Memory Alpha has all the answers.

Have a converter:

http://rinsanity.weebly.com/stardate-converter.html

[Lilalaunebör]

Better not ask which timeline they are in though :P

[VARRAKK]

I'm watching the old star trek movies, in wrath of khan. Why is she called MR Saavik?

[Boltorano]

I wondered this myself the last time I watched it. According to various places online, the director did it as a conscious choice to make Starfleet to feel more like a military organization.

In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard it is proper to use Mister to refer to commissioned officers below the rank of lieutenant commander, or to subordinate commissioned officers, though the use of Mister implies familiarity compared to the use of rank title for an unknown officer. Women officers below the rank of lieutenant commander may be addressed as Miss, Ms. or Mrs. as appropriate.

This going back to the British use as officers were of a higher social class. As for that bolded part I've read elsewhere though that the use of Miss/Ms/Mrs etc. is not appropriate at all in any case, so there's not really a female equivalent. After Wrath of Khan they seem to have dropped the Mister thing except for some male characters like Worf.

[Ruri]

Been on vacation but I finally caught the latest ep., I actually quite liked the little fantasy play. Hemmer got some time to shine, everyone seemed to be having fun hamming it up, and the doctor's scenes with his daughter really worked for me. It was dumb and silly but I had a grin on my face the whole time, maybe I'm just starting to lose my sense of objectivity over this particular show though?

[Nordstern]

I've been watching numerous clips of the latest seasons of Discovery and Picard. After a while, I realized that I like what I'm seeing. Is it wrong to feel this way?

[Paradox]

watch it as intended and the feeling will quickly go away