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[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

The bar was just so low after the TNG movies and first two season of PIC that traumatized fans were happy to have a seemingly final sendoff that wasn’t completely terrible.

"Traumatized?" We are talking about a television show, right?

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

We are using hyperboles to make communication more fun.

[-] SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

The deaths of

spoilerHugh and Icheb
were particularly upsetting for me, personally (especially the graphic nature of the latter). PIC S1 had way too much "let's kill people for no good reason" events.

I'd be perfectly happy if the dead PIC characters just showed up alive and well in a later show, no reason given. (They already did this with Q, right?)

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Fair, PIC did have some pretty rugged moments.

But would you say you actually experienced trauma watching season one, and then that trauma was alleviated watching season three?

[-] SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

No and no. I was disappointed and a bit upset, but not traumatized. Though if someone told me that the beginning of S1E5 was traumatic for them, I'd believe it.

I do believe people when they say they enjoy S3. Even though the story was just a bunch of reheated plot elements from other Treks, there is some joy to be had viewing it as a TNG reunion special. It's "Return to Mayberry" to the tune of BSG 2003, nothing more and nothing less.

(In contrast, Star Trek IV is the best TV reunion special ever made. Everyone's playing an exaggerated version of their 1960's personas and having a blast. It too is a bunch of reheated plot elements - the probe is awfully similar to Nomad and V'Ger at first glance, and "let's time travel to insert current year" was already the plot of two different TOS episodes. I'm trying to think of how a hypothetical good Picard season could've tapped into the same energy that STIV did.)

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