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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

I'm curious to creck some of the new stuff out but it all looks so not Star Trek

By New Trek I mean Discovery, Picard, Strange New World and Lower Decks

Wow that's a lot of series.

I like the optimism of Star Trek and apparently a lot of New Trek kind of abandons that? sadness

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[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

I've enjoyed Lower Decks and Brave New World.

Lower Decks is too reference heavy for my taste and sometimes too omg random, but over all I like it. BNW usually feels good but is sometimes too quippy "modern", for lack of a better term. I'll have to think more about what I mean. But I enjoy it too.

Picard and Discovery I couldn't get close to finishing. If you love nostalgia you might like Picard. My irl friend who loves nostalgia thought Picard was good.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I lost interest in Discovery very early in season one. I made a stab at watching season two and lost interest again, and from everything I hear it never got any better, so I never bothered with anything else. I tried to sick it out with Picard in its first season, but it got so awful I stopped watching. Tried the same thing for season two, and the same thing happened. Season three was actually pretty decent, so if you want to watch Picard, I'd just watch that one.

Lower Decks is pretty fun, and it gets better after the first season. My main issue with it is that the characters all constantly reference things that happened in previous shows as though they're Star Trek fans, and not people who actually live in the world of Star Trek. But that said, it's surprisingly good.

Strange New Worlds is a very mixed bag for me. There are some very good episodes that have that pulpy TOS feel. But there are some episodes that use outright tired sitcom plots, and those are very weak for me. It also has the same problem for me that Disco and Picard have where everyone acts really casually with each other, and everyone is everyone else's best friend, and there's no sense of military hierarchy or that a Federation starship is a serious environment. (Ironically Lower Decks is the new Trek show that has this problem the least.) The show also insists that Spock is the same character Leonard Nemoy played, but he's so completely different that I just think of him as a different version of Spock.

[-] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

i liked lower decks but i havent watched any other trek stuff so idk how it compares

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Prodigy and lower decks are both really great.

Lower decks has so many references to the 90s trek.

Prodigy was good and I binged watched it in a day, the first 2 episodes were a little tough? But it was fun.

Strange new worlds was amazing, my wife and I really like it.

Picard season 1 and 2 were not that great, but season 3 was decent.

Discovery is not that great, but apparently season 5 is going to be more like snw in regards to episodic storylines and exploration.

[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I love lower decks. It's the only one I like, even a little bit. But you have to really really love 90s trek to get all the inside jokes. Like watching TNG-Enterprise multiple times. Season 2+ got a lot better too.

If I want to watch trek, these days, I almost always throw on Voyager or Enterprise, they are my favorites.

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