Star Trek hasn’t done anything good with Section 31 since DS9 (and even then it was kinda meh), so I never had high hopes for this movie/show. Still disappointing.
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I think what DS9 did with it was good. They were clearly portrayed as the bad guys, but you didn’t know if Sloan was even telling the truth about it. For all you knew it was just him and the people under his control who went rogue and making up something to justify their actions. Then how that tied in with the Dominion War and the things they, and even admirals like Ross were up to to wipe out the Founders supported the themes of Starfleet ideals and if they can hold up in wartime. What ENT did with it was meh, but fairly easily ignorable. The problems really were with Into Darkness and Discovery forward.
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I love Lower Decks. If Prodigy is good enough to be compared to it, I must see it.
Someday I’ll pick it up on disc.
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I think it takes a few episodes to get going, the main character starts off quite unlikeable, but he grows a lot. It is a bit kid show ish, but not dumbed down, so it’s still perfectly watchable for older viewers. It’s good stuff.
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Most shows do, don’t they? I think of the early TNG episodes. If that show didn’t have the built in security of Star Trek, I doubt it would have reached a second season.
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That is true. TNG took two whole seasons to get good
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It is one of these things where the initial two-parter was good, but then you get a few episodes where the main character’s being annoying and there’s a fair amount of “these are all the Star Trekky things” for people that haven’t seen Star Trek before.
But it starts getting pretty good after that. Second half of season one had some great episodes, and season two was wonderful.
If you like Janeway and are interested in what happened to Voyager after it got home, you’ll get some of that, too. One thing Lower Decks and Prodigy have in common is that they’ve both mentioned Tuvix and the salamanders…
You’ll definitely see a few people from Voyager and TNG at one point or another.
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Just finished Section 31. That was quite bad. I loved seeing some of the more obscure alien spicies appear, but this was not a good movie at all.
ThisI’ve still not finished Discovery but I quite like the first 3 seasons. I’ve always found Georgiou an odd character. I like the general concept, but I don’t think they’ve done anything to try and make her remotely redeemable from the monstrosities she has committed. And really don’t know what to think after this movie. If anything I find her less likable. The backstory added here I found hollow and unnecessary.
That whole starting bit about her becoming emperor, just why?
I’ve always wished we could get more of the main universe Georgiou. Her appearences in the first two episodes of Discovery was definitely the characters best use.
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OMG, my most anticipated RLM video!
Happy Threshold Day to all who celebrate! 
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The spinoff we never quite got. I mean, there could be a whole civilization of salamanders descended from Paris and Janeway by now…
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I had to look up that because I thought it was something important! Ha, I mean it is important but not in the way I thought.
I love fans. We’re idiots sometimes.
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I love that both Lower Decks and Prodigy ended up referencing Threshold…
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It’s very important! The guy who wrote the episode wants us to forget it exists so bad.
We all joke about the salamander babies, but to be fair the first half hour of the episode is really good, and I’m happy to have an excuse to watch it once a year. I also enjoy flooding my tumblr followers with related posts, especially now when I don’t have as many Trek fans following me as I did when I was deep in the fandom. A little something for the unprepared.
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It does actually have pretty good character development for Tom Paris…
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Personally, I think Threshold is as bad as they say.
I think you might need to rewatch it.
Perhaps, and I’ll keep an open mind when I eventually do. Not in a hurry to rewatch Voyager though.
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If we had a holiday for any widely panned episode of Star Trek, my pick would be Spock’s Brain. Or where’s my Move Along Home Day?
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Whenever someone tells me that Spock’s Brain was the worst Star Trek episode ever, I give a little shudder. That’s because I remember how much that infamous episode terrified me when I first saw it as a boy. The idea that someone could steal your still-living brain out of your body was the stuff of nightmares, something I know for a fact because it did indeed give me a particularly bad nightmare that has stayed with me into adulthood. in the dream, I came downstairs to breakfast, only to find my family lying on the kitchen floor with their heads open and their brains missing - I woke up screaming.
A few years later, in the mid 1970s, watching the early repeats/reruns of Star Trek as a teenager, I managed to suppress any lingering fears from that episode as I discovered I was now quite distracted by guest-star Marj Dusay in her, erm, interesting attire. To this day I still disagree with anyone who says Spock’s Brain was the worst Star Trek for both of those reasons.
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