22. I don't like when Star Trek (or any show) has something major occur and then time snaps back (Year of Hell is best example) and everything we saw & everything they went through never happened. The same with "it was all a dream". Cop out! No like!
Yeah, the 90s shows did this kind of thing a lot. I appreciate episodes like "Yesterday's Enterprise" for the Elseworlds plots that they were but the franchise at the time was allergic to long-term consequences for plot decisions.
23. The JJ Abrams movies are fine, but they aren't Star Trek. That dude was auditioning for Star Wars and he has even said it in the press. He isn't a Trekkie, he didn't grasp the fundamentals of what Trek is about. They are average scifi movies but they are Star Trek in name only.
Sister!
24. Wesley is great. Leave him alone. Loved him as a kid, love seeing him now. He gets very unfairly ripped on.
25. I believe I echo Marina & Frakes when I say that we should have gotten the Riker/Troi rekindling and marriage much sooner! They are a fab couple and I really wantes to see their journey back to each other in more depth. Should have done that instead of Troi dating Worf in TNG s7.
Worf made a lot more sense with Jadzia Dax to me
26. Chakotay was not good enough for Janeway and while I respect the shippers, he isn't great and she deserves a much better, cooler guy. Janeway deserves romance & & love & all the good things. Prodigy helped develop him a bit more, but I'm still meh on him.
27. As a teen I shipped them but as an adult, I have grown & I recognize how someone worthy of Janeway should act (& be written) and Chakotay ain't it. He's a snooze and too self-righteous.
It doesn't help that I have issues with the actor. The writers of my favourite Trek shows largely worked with what the actors were giving them, and Beltran wasn't committed to his character in the same way that (for example), Robert Picardo or Nana Visitor were committed to theirs.
28. Perhaps also a common one: I don't like seeing the biracial characters hating their "alien" side. B'Elanna needed more to do than self-hatred and anger management. It sends a terrible message to biracial viewers, among other things. Entire essays have been written, seek them out.
29. A lot of things that rile up Trekkies honestly do not bother me. Especially in the post-Disco era. I'm happy to have so much Trek now, and if I am not hugely into something, there is lots to watch! If I hear people whine about the Klingons' appearance in Disco, just gonna roll my eyes.
Hot take: It's not a true Trek *unless* they redesign the Klingons.
30. A lot of you are still sleeping on Prodigy, and it is absolutely fantastic. It is going off Netflix soon, so buy the physical copies and watch it! There are no boring episodes. The writing is tight & the team loves Trek. Brilliant work all around. 🖖🏻✨ Go fast!
Prodigy is such a masterpiece in so many ways, from the storytelling, the worldbuilding to the actors themselves. They breathed a lot more back story to more legacy characters, and having Janeway back in the saddle always makes me smile.
100% this!! ☝️
Season 2 gave the entire franchise a narrative spine, which I thought was impossible given how old it is. Absolutely incredible season.
31. Q "dying" in Picard was dumb. Season 2 of that show was a fail. Thank god we got s3, we needed the band back together. And I was LIVING for all the great Dr Crusher moments! Amanda Plummer was also stellar. The energy of s3 was leaps ahead of s2.
32. Tilly is a great character. Anyone who craps on her in my presence will receive swift and definitive judgement. Science is fucking cool; she is right. I have witnessed comments from 99.9% men about her & I will end you if I see that behavior. Online, IRL, on a con stage. Will rumble.
Two of their cold opens were the kind of thing I *wanted* in Trek...and then the rest of the movie happened. I want the movies that led to those cold opens!