Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.
While hardly a first for Star Trek, it’s always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.
The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.
I would love to see what the fan edit looks like. I (re)watched it just last week and the theatrical cut is… a mess, to put it gently. There’s almost too much going on, with not enough focus on the elements that make the story tick. But there’s lots to work with here that would make a very high-production-value 50 minute Trek episode.
Scotty and Uhura’s flirting was cute, but it doesn’t go anywhere so it’s dead weight film-wise. But without it, the characters have even less to say in an already crowded story. It’s just sad.
One moment that stuck out to me was the bar fight. Kirk just tosses a Catian stripper, over his head, into a literal “pool” table and she’s rendered dead/unconscious floating face down in the water. Either she has bones like a baby bird or Kirk is on 'roids. I can’t make sense of that edit unless there was a longer fight that got chopped down somehow. It makes zero sense.
Worf: You have the heart of a warrior!
Amos: Really? I see assholes and just want to punch them. So I do.
They make a nod to this on Lower Decks. The higher ranking officers have access to an entirely different replicator menu, suggesting a distinction in quality overall.
Imagine eating the 140p food
I would get tired of steamed bananas real quick. The guac and chips look okay though.
:: slow clap ::
This is brilliant. Thank you for posting another good laugh.
lean/line - The point is *nobody * likes those things so it’s okay to get it wrong now and again.
Gilligan’s Island.
It’s been done, but we need more. The more you think about it, the more these shows have in common.
:: uncomfortable warp core noises ::
Counterpoint: Starfleet brass were well aware of him cheating on an infamous test and thought “that’s our guy!”
Now you have me wondering if the holodeck programs are free for all, or if private simulations are possible. The social ramifications of either are profound.
We need a “Star Wars Despecialized Editon” of Enterprise where the only thing they change is the theme song.
If it helps at all, this was originally supposed to be U2’s “Beautiful Day”, but they couldn’t get the rights to use it. It’s still an abrupt shift in sytle and tone, but it fits the intro really well.
I like this take. Use him like you’d use a stunt coordinator, or a pyrotechnics specialist. Have a complex action scene that needs to convey action, chaos, high-stakes, and fireballs, for 12 straight minutes? He’s your guy.
I’ll add that this didn’t start with the SW prequel movies either. The various essays on the topic typically focus on The Phantom Menace to make this case (see: Red Letter Media); we do love to hate on that movie. But if you look to early drafts of the very first Star Wars movie script, it’s clear that it took a village to make it more than B-movie material. Also, the making-of stories are complete with every kind of move-making person improving and adding to our producer’s vision, right down to salvaging the whole mess in the editing room. It’s been a problem the entire time.
Now I wonder if THX-1138 and American Graffiti have similar war-stories behind them.
Basically, writing movies like running a 100% improvised DnD campaign. Which is to say it’s great, as long as your audience signed up for repeated intellectual kicks to the groin.
Movie Trek has always been action anyways.
Yes, absolutely.
Except for Star Trek IV and at least half of Star Trek V.
I just noticed what was holding the spoiler up. Klingon cruiser, indeed.
I had to look up this magnificent feat of engineering. Apparently, it was spotted at DragonCon, eons ago:
It’s also worth mentioning that 17 million scovilles (17,000,000 SHU) is way off the top of the chart by an order of magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Gag or not, this may not be for human consumption.
The whole cast is one big thirst trap.
I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:
Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco’s first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.
Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.