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[–] Rutty@sh.itjust.works 87 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It should end with Riker and Deanna on the holodeck

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I'd actually be ok with this.

And Picard.

Retcon them both.

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No it’s a cgi aged-down Wil Wheaton, and Riker barges in to tell him he’s late for his shift at navigation or whatever.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you saying it was a holo novel with Wesley Crusher playing as Michael Burnham?

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Some ferangi conned him into playtesting and debugging a new holonovel under the guise of it being a prototype training course for cadets. The whole series was the b-plot of a TNG episode about the ethics of clone voting or something.

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[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Am I alone in liking that ending?

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago

I like it too! I would say there are literally dozens of us but you're the first I've ever encountered in the wild.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, I don’t necessarily need Riker, but then I never thought Disco was really Star Trek. It could stand on its own feet perfectly fine but shoehorning it into TOS killed it for me. VOY and DS9 were great and showed that you could do different and still fit well.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always felt like they stretched a Star Trek skin over another IPs pilot in season 1

[–] solitaire@infosec.pub 12 points 8 months ago (6 children)

It reminded me a lot of Stargate Universe, a complete tonal whiplash that was clearly imitating other popular shows rather than a continuation of the franchise. I was pretty kind to it in the beginning because SGU got pretty good after I got over it not being Stargate as well, but Discovery S2 completely killed any hope I had.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stargate Galactica was awesome.

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[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I am so sorry but I cannot give you the point. You forgot to say "umm...actually".

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 18 points 8 months ago

well I'll be

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but... I'm particularly offended by you pointing out numbers here. 50 years? Fuck you. Just.. fuck you.

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

TNG aired in 1987, so it's only 37 years. Whomever it was that wrote that headline stretched a bit to generate some extra clicks. Yeah, TAS ended in 1974, but there's still 13 years in between where there was no Star Trek, which is apparently getting lumped into the Star-Trek-that-Riker-has-shown-up-in bundle.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I mean, that's technically correct then. The last time there was a Trek Show without Frakes was 1974 (50 years ago)

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Phrased differently, "it has been 50 years since a Star Trek show ended without a Jonathan Frakes appearance."

[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Technically correct is the best kind of correct!!

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

They are counting the time spent as a twinkle in his mom's eye.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Meh. Looking forward to this show dying and making way for the good, new Trek shows, like LD, SNW, and Picard's Season 3 (sorta).

So tired of Michael Burnham and her stupid "Magical Burnham Problem Solving Mary-su Solution Express". Really too bad, because Saru, Tilly, Georgiuo, Staments, Adira, and basically all of the other characters are REALLY interesting in this show. Unfortunately, they didn't relegate Burnham's character for being a "get out of writer's block free card" to the background and that basically doomed it.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Prodigy too, first season was fantastic.

You’ve described precisely how I feel about Disco, Trek is supposed to be about the whole team solving problems but somehow in any century…the destiny of the universe is all about her. Remove deus ex Burnham from the show and it could be so much better. Saru, Stamets and all are great, they’re just background to the Michael story.

[–] Tin@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I like Discovery, but I have to agree. So many of the narrative problems could have been solved by simply giving the line(s) of dialogue in which Burnham solves a problem to someone else on the bridge. Easy peasy. Mix it up.

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[–] dasJot@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

In my head Discovery will always be ST:MBS - The Michael Burnham Show.

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[–] barttier@feddit.de 19 points 8 months ago

Thats good. That it ends that is.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 8 months ago

when i was a kid, i used to watch tng with my dad every saturday when i went to his house. the only bad thing about picard and discovery is that i wasn't able to watch it with my dad.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like Frakes.

That said, in also like pretty much all Trek. I'm not a big fan of some of the series, but I don't hate them, nor am I going to go around saying they're "not trek" because reasons.

I'm looking forward to seeing more from the franchise, and I feel a bit alone in my universal enjoyment of Trek. There's so many people hating on disco or Picard or whatever... I enjoy all of it.

I also enjoy Star wars and Orville, and Stargate, and pretty much most sci-fi.... The only stuff, that's popular, that I have no opinion on is Babylon 5, mainly because I have not watched any of it. Between that, the og BSG and some of the star wars properties (like the animated shows), I've watched almost all of the mainstream sci-fi, and honestly, it's all pretty damn good.

I really liked how they forced the issue about time travel in disco, where the time machine suit thing wouldn't go unless she went back to all the points she needed to in order to bring this circumstance to happen. I thought that was spot on. I try to ignore the multitude of time paradoxes in voy, and there are many, but it's probably my least favorite part of that specific show, too much time shit, and it's all done very poorly.

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[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't mind people not liking discovery, such is the nature of these things.

People who claim Discovery isn't Trek then swoon over Picard in the same comment can eat my whole ass though 😂

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Homie I'm 37 not 50.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Riker probably wouldn't be able to hear Burnham whisper yelling at him, anyway.

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