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

    • sloth [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      I concur. I haven't watched anything recent, but I remember the first two seasons being more "Star Trek" than anything else available at the time.

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Season 3 of The Orville is even more Star Trek than the first two. And if you liked The Orville, you will really like Lower Decks.

        • sloth [none/use name]
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          5 months ago

          Nice, I think I just stopped watching after season 2. I'll have to pick it back up.

    • soli@infosec.pub
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      5 months ago

      The Orville is pretty mid overall, though admittedly with some great episode in there, but boy does it really know how to prey on my nostalgia. Just look at it's opening titles. That ship design is so Trek without being Trek in the best possible way. I just wish it hadn't tried to be funny and took itself seriously instead.

      I think the thing that makes most nostalgia baiting repellent is it doesn't understand what I'm nostalgic for, it just points at some intellectual property they bought that I used to like, looks to the camera and says "WOW ISN'T THAT EPIC". I want the spirit of the thing to be passed on in something new, not to be told the thing I like is cool and be invited to circle jerk over it.