Updated TV review on my website!Star Trek: Picard – Season One★★★☆☆I have mixed feelings …

Updated TV review on my website!

Star Trek: Picard – Season One
★★★☆☆

I have mixed feelings about the first season of Picard. But later seasons have given me a new appreciation for it.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/tv/picard-s1/
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Re: DS9 and Comedy

Yes! I’m in the middle of rewatching the series and just watched an episode where Odo and Quark are stranded on an uninhabited planet with nothing edible and have to climb a mountain for days to get a distress signal through the atmosphere. Heavy premise. But their constant bickering is hilarious!
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TNG I think was always trying too hard to prove itself as Serious Television Despite Being Sci Fi. Their comedy episodes never rose to the level of DS9 or even TOS’ funny episodes. #

Re: DS9 as a B5 Knockoff

There are some loose similarities at the beginning and some oddly specific but otherwise superficial similarities later on. Plus the usual weird moments when both shows came up with similar ideas at the same time & found out about it when the other show’s episode aired. #

I eventually concluded I believe the people doing the show when they said it wasn’t a deliberate knockoff.

But I’m still not convinced there wasn’t someone in corporate who saw JMS’ pitch, decided they needed to get out in front of it, and suggested a station-based spinoff to the Trek people. #

#DS9 rewatch is up to Past Tense, Part I, in which Sisko, Bashir and Dax …

#DS9 rewatch is up to Past Tense, Part I, in which Sisko, Bashir and Dax are stranded in the year 2024, when the US is dealing with a major homelessness crisis mostly by ignoring it and blaming people for being homeless, stretching social workers to their limits and turning a blind eye toward police brutality, while wealthy San Francisco tech execs act vaguely uncomfortable about it.

It's sort of eerie…but then it's also not like it was that hard to extrapolate from the 1990s.

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#DS9 rewatch continues. O’Brien problems…

#DS9 rewatch continues. O’Brien problems: The episode where Keiko thinks it’s strange that Miles is drinking coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war is followed *immediately* by the episode where Miles is drinking extra coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war because he thinks Keiko is acting strange.

#StarTrek

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Spoiler alert

And it turns out that Miles isn’t actually drinking coffee under the circumstances shown in either episode, but for very different reasons!

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TIL there is a #StarTrek #LowerDecks character creator.

TIL there is a #StarTrek #LowerDecks character creator.

https://www.startrek.com/replicateyourself/constructor

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Note: In Firefox, the save feature was broken and only saved the background. (It worked fine on my wife’s phone.) I took a screenshot rather than starting over in another browser.

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Yep. Whenever someone complains about newer #StarTrek being “ruined” by social justice or progressive issues, …

Yep. Whenever someone complains about newer #StarTrek being “ruined” by social justice or progressive issues, unlike the older series…I have to wonder whether they ever actually *watched* the show they claim to remember so fondly.

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