Not having a new plot development right up until that final episode which suddenly wraps everything up would probably help. Nearly every marvel series Disney out is guilty of this.
There has been good MCU content that actually has coherence - Agents of Shield, She-Hulk, Loki - but they’ve effectively had Showrunners.
Why Marvel thought it was optional, and everything could be fixed with editing in post is bizarre, but I’d argue that they’re just at the extreme end of a continuum.
Even with showrunners, some of the early seasons of the new era of Star Trek seems to have fallen into the same trap. To many big ego EPs each doing what they want and Kurtzman trying smooth it all out with editing in post.
Osunsami has kept coherence in the direction of Discovery in Toronto, but Picard season one and two was all over the place, frequently ignoring the tone laid down by Hanelle Culpepper in the pilot.
The fourth season is considered by a lot of fans to be the best of the series, but the finale was Game of Thrones bad.
I remember reading in the newspaper that the budget of season 4 was cut in half, and that the season wasn’t going to be so planet-focused. I haven’t re-watched it in a long time, so I don’t remember too many details. I could also be misremembering what I read 20ish years ago.
I feel you. Depending on your opinions about Voyager, Trek really is struggling to capture what worked about TNG/DS9, almost like modern TV doesn’t know how or cant do it. In the end, my critique about Voyager is that it is an example of what often happens to crafts … they get perfected right in the moment of redundancy. Voyager was pure synthesised TNG-era trek right when it had been done to death. Everything since has either been a prequel or reboot, with the Abrams films being both and SNW sadly hinting/heading in that direction.
Enterprise was the first attempt to try something kinda different but sadly fell into the prequel trap (where Trek is literally about looking forward!!) and dug up the worst of the inclinations of the remaining show runners, where it’s clear as day that Piller and Taylor had left Trek by that point, where together with Behr for DS9 seem to have been the heart of TNG-era, and IMO “peak” Trek.
I still remember seeing Enterprise for the first time as a kid and swearing that it was a cheap knock off of Trek and was surely going to be sued for copyright infringement … none of it made any sense to me as a continuation of Trek.
My problem with Voyager is their native american consultant was a fraud, they ruined the Borg, and Janeway’s racism and transphobia wasn’t treated with the appropriate seriousness by the plot. I watch Star Trek to see woke communists explore space. Voyager and Enterprise both break that core enjoyment by making me feel pessimistic about the future, as though humanity will never grow beyond its baser instincts. People say Enterprise is supposed to be non-progressive because it’s a prequel, but the problem with that is that the real world progressed beyond the likes of Trip in less than a decade. It sends a message that things are gonna be worse in the 22nd century.
9/11 plots and augment wars suck because they don’t inspire me with hope like TNG did. S4E4 was actually pretty good despite my apprehension, they definitely went hard on the theme that people are capable of being better than they are and I really appreciate that. But I wonder whether they’re going to stick with that theme and redeem these characters, or chase conflict and misery for the appeal of the drama. Drama like that doesn’t appeal to me.
I just wanna see a strange new world. It’s been like 10 episodes since I got one in ENT. Why can’t we just seek out new life and new civilisations? And no, an Orion slave market doesn’t count, because it’s miserable and Star Trek is about hope.
M’benga and Chapel met in the Klingon war and there are some flashback scenes to that. Also plenty of mention of it when Pike wants their combat skills. Ortegas is a war hero from back then.
It’s the episode where Boimler has his first command assignment and Freeman tries to prove she can fix computers.
Totally forgot about Vexillons world being a halo world. Huh.
Your complaint about SNW is really odd though. I mean… there’s like one episode about the Klingon war and a handful of references. It doesn’t focus on the Klingon War at all outside of that one episode. You have maybe 65 minutes of Klingon War content (the episode + references) out of 1200 minutes of Strange New Worlds. That’s like 5%. To ask for less is to outright ignore the impact that the war had on the characters and their experience from it because to ask for less is to erase either that episode or off hand references.
It’s not just the Klingon stuff, it’s all the tragedy and drama. Mostly on La’an and Una’s side. Spock is a culprit too, but at least his personal drama leads to shenanigans, which makes him tolerable. La’an and Una are no fun. Uhurua, Ortegas, Hemmer, and the engineer who got no arcs in season 2 are all more fun. Pike is boring but that’s okay because he knows how to let everyone else shine.
He could resolve it tomorrow by accepting the union’s reasonable demands. He could have resolved it weeks ago by accepting the union’s reasonable demands.
That’s true, he could. But I’ve seen no evidence that he’s actively fighting the union’s demands unlike Iger, Zaslav, and Sarandos. I’d love to see evidence to the contrary if it exists, though.
Have been able to load communities and content on Voyager since the last fix yesterday, but am still having issues with images in the main post, especially on c/risa.
On Voyager, I’m seeing just a little blue square in the middle of the box where the meme image should be. It’s not consistent though so it could be some kind of incompatibility with the upload and storage format.
Yep. On Voyager. Switch to Memmy, don’t use it for 12 hours, and it runs again. I now have both installed and switch back and forth. Voyager has a lot of little quirks that make it need to “rest” a lot. The one where it refuses to show any recent content, and only three-day-old stuff is the most annoying, in my opinion.
I was wondering if it was the Voyager app causing my pages to not turn over. I thought it might have been related to the sluggishness on our instance because it had been happening at the same time, but the admins fixed that already.
Maybe you could chime in with how its organized? Ill also hop on over to see how you all do things later today :)
From a short peek at the markdown it looks like a normal picture link. Im not terribly familiar with federation, perhaps this is cause im viewing it from another instance, but i would hope for some kind of :emoji: syntax.
We do have :emoji: syntax, when I start typing after a : I get a popup of matching emojis, or I can pick from a (very long) list. They just show up as pictures for the rest of you due to federation. They’re also sized more consistently for users viewing from hexbear but I hear lemmy is going to fix that for everyone soon. Our Emoji Science Officer, or perhaps People’s Comissar of Emojis, is @WhyEssEff she does the emotes.
On Mastodon, the tenforward.social instance where the @Admin & @ValueSubtracted have accounts, has its own set of emojis. Some of these seem to have been contributed by users.
It would be great if our leadership here could check in with @guinan to see if she would generously share her protocol.
That app is shockingly bad. I do not pretend it’s easy to make an app, or expect that everyone’s app should be as slick as Netflix’s. But for a service that’s coming up on a decade old, it’s astonishing that I can’t even use it half the time on the most popular TV brand.
I can’t look into this too deeply at the moment, but it looks like at least one person was able to make an account within the past hour. Maybe try the usual stuff (disable adblock, different browser, etc) for now and I can temporarily disable CAPTCHA for you later if needed.
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