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Creski t1_je7ze80 wrote

"Under Alex Kurtzman’s watchful eye, the Star Trek franchise has balanced this incredibly well so far."

No....No it has not.

[Edit: Looked at the author's history and low and behold she wrote a puff piece about TLJ, Rian Johnson, and how great it was for the franchise]

Discovery has it's fans but only caused canon problems and is Star Trek at it's absolute worst so much so they had to force so far into the future it couldn't damage anything.

(I would argue Discovery would have never survived if it's first 2 seasons weren't paid for by Netflix overpaying for international distrubution rights)

Lower Decks while has it's moments is just "remember this?"

Picard Season 1 and 2 were absolute garbage, 2 is an affront to your intelligence.

SNW was finally good but the only Star Trek show that actually tried to be Star Trek.

Picard Season 3 has been good, but is held back by the baggage Kurtzman has caused.

you have two good seasons of Star Trek agains 6 bad ones and animated series that is meant to be a joke.

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AmishAvenger t1_je934p9 wrote

Yeah there was definitely a lecturing tone to the article. Don’t tell me what is or isn’t Star Trek.

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twbrn t1_jed73k0 wrote

>Picard Season 1 and 2 were absolute garbage

Hard disagree. So many people hated it just for the fact that it actually tried something a little bit new, without having any kind of cogent criticism other than "Its just bad! BAAD BAAAD!"

> SNW was finally good but the only Star Trek show that actually tried to be Star Trek.

SNW was okay, but let's not pretend that six good episodes out of ten is setting any kind of records.

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MadeByTango t1_jeemebw wrote

> without having any kind of cogent criticism other than "Its just bad! BAAD BAAAD!"

SPOILERs

  1. Picard is dead at the end of the series, replaced by an Android, still old, and it's not acknowledged

  2. The entire core structure clearly changed halfway through the season and they had zero idea what to do with their premonition angle

  3. Picard wasn't a fantastic action hero at 47...watching him survive exploding rooftops at 77 was a huge ask

  4. His character went from intelligent thinker to "whee!"

  5. His crew member kills a man in cold blood and its ok because it was a hard decision for her?

  6. The CGI was cheap

  7. Ripped off Mass Effect's ending, using stock footage

There is more but it's been a while since I suffered through it.

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