Thursday, 28 September 2017

Honest Trailers - Star Trek: The Next Generation

quote [ Before CBS has you boldly subscribe where no one has subscribed before, celebrate the 30th anniversary of the sci-fi sequel that came before all these prequels - Star Trek: The Next Generation! ]

Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+7 Funny]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:21pmGMT]

Comments

Franger Sanger said @ 3:42pm GMT on 28th Sep [Score:3 Interesting]
It's an easy question and the answer is yes.

Do I like Kirk xor do I like Picard? Now that's a hard question. In the Atrocity Exhibition story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", J.G. Ballard considers that "the face of L.B. Johnson is clearly genital in appearance - the nasal prepuce, scrotal jaw etc. Faces [a]re seen as either circumcised (JFK, Khruschev) or uncircumcised (LBJ, Adenauer). In assembly-kit tests Reagan's face was uniformly perceived as a penile erection."

So yeah, Picard obvs.

The Honest Trailer pretty much lists all of my favourite things about TNG. It's often at its best at its worst.

lilmookieesquire said @ 5:34pm GMT on 28th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
conception said @ 6:43pm GMT on 28th Sep
Another - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4W12rb-_fYerZKSOgx-Jg/videos
lilmookieesquire said @ 4:42am GMT on 29th Sep
mechavolt said @ 1:28pm GMT on 28th Sep
Picard, obviously. Also, what did everyone think of the pilot?

Reveal

I thought it was fun, if a little disappointing. The dialogue and acting were a bit iffy, but that's par for the course. I liked it enough to at least give the first real episode this weekend a shot.
mechanical contrivance said @ 1:41pm GMT on 28th Sep [Score:3]
He flew the plane very well.
Bruceski said @ 7:00pm GMT on 28th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
I think the prequel stuff's getting way too crowded and has trouble finding new ground to cover. I wish they were willing to go further out and build on what's been established, instead of trying to prop up a table that's already fine on its own. I found it hard to actually judge the show itself with that frustration getting in the way. It's not Discovery's fault, it's just another notch on the frustration I've had since Enterprise.

What surprised me was The Orville. Fox billed it very heavily as a comedy and it's not, at least not in the sense of Family Guy and American Dad and such. It reaches too far for a punchline sometimes, but "Star Trek with actual people instead of noble professionals" is a much better description. People making catty comments, bridge crew gossiping, the general awkwardness of any workplace, it's found a niche that works. It initially established itself as "not gonna make time for it but if I'm home it's watchable" and the third episode (which critics jumped all over for reasons I don't understand) has bumped it up a couple of notches to "I want to see where they go with this."
steele said @ 9:26pm GMT on 28th Sep
Orville felt more "Star Trek" than Discovery. Though Discovery was very pretty.
cakkafracle said @ 2:15pm GMT on 28th Sep
The Next Generation pilot was campy and uptight...

or are you asking about :Discovery? - i loved it
Anti_fuites said @ 2:18pm GMT on 28th Sep
I really wish they weren't holding the new series hostage with this required streaming service. I also would have preferred a series that took place after the Next Generation movies, it just seems like the writing is going to be too confined trying to fit it into this narrow space just before ToS begins.

Those gripes aside, this two part prologue was decently fun. I like the character arc of this "anti-Spock", a human trying to become more Vulcan. I'll certainly give it a few more episodes at least, see how the rest of the crew shapes out, all we've really seen so far is the captain and science officer interactions.
Morris Forgot his Password said @ 8:14pm GMT on 28th Sep
They should have set in in 1543... a federation ship, lost in time. There only hope for survival, to impress the natives and fuck them.
Anti_fuites said @ 9:22pm GMT on 28th Sep
So you're saying the real cause of the Native American's decline was some kind of extraterrestrial STD?
cb361 said @ 9:09am GMT on 29th Sep
Kirk was an extraterrestrial STD, from the alien's point of view.
HoZay said @ 5:06am GMT on 29th Sep
Their leader? Captain Myles Standish.
Morris Forgot his Password said @ 2:57pm GMT on 29th Sep
Oh...I wasn't referring to N.A indigenous peoples, just people native to 1543...
lilmookieesquire said @ 5:37am GMT on 29th Sep
captainstubing said @ 5:33am GMT on 30th Sep
Thanks for the post. I didn't know about the Honest Trailer stuff and I have been binge watching them while I really should be working.

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