There is no nutrek in ba sing se.

I just wish for a bunch of drama students to cobble something together and show it on YouTube/Nebula/whatever. I honestly believe that the high production value gets in the way of good storytelling and character development.

I'd more argue Star Trek is a procedural cop show in space, but yeah pretty much. The last really good science fiction movie I saw was probably Arrival, and that was ten years ago.

I totally agree. My only real issue with NuTrek is that it doesn't look crappy enough. The old shows were low budget and you could tell. It was part of their charm.

My point of view is: they had some success, they tried to milk it for money, it was overdone, and now because it was overdone we will have nothing at all.

Dear Paramount, I used to buy all of your Star Treks. Now your mobile app is the worst kind of spyware.

Please keep making great shows, so I can buy them later, when your CEO is in jail for you mobile app being ruled illegal.

Thanks!

You need to get a clue. Paramount didnt cancel it because of negative social media chatter. They cancelled it because the Nielsen ratings sucked. People weren’t watching it. - in spite of all the “love” studio bot shills were shitting out all over social media. You are actually the one in the minority .

The costumes alone were divine!

Hail Mary Project is a great book, but they dumbed it down to a buddy comedy for the movie.

Andy Weir proved that there could be huge potential for actual science fiction, not whatever the fuck Star Wars or Star Trek is. Those franchises seem to appeal to people with no STEM education. It's not hard to write plots that make no scientific sense.

Good riddance, it was too much of a Netflix college melodrama with a Trek skin, psychologically incoherent and on the shallowest side of progressism, as usual for modern american productions.

I absolutely hated the captain, who was a caricature of a bare-foot yoga instructor selling you expensive kale smoothies to "realign your chakras". Shallow AF. American AF. It would have been much more interesting if the protagonist had enrolled to actually kill her, making the show about the consequences of that event (or her survival and the consequences of it. Will she forgive and instruct her killer? Will she get revenge? Etc etc)

It did become interesting in the late episodes, but those should have been the starting ones. Thankfully, there is Strange New World, but even them got into fan-service slop episodes in the latest season (a wedding planning Q? Is that the new version of "the doc is having a scorching tryst with a ghost"/"suddenly, Abraham Lincoln" episode?).

Anyway, Star Trek Prodigy was better at Starfleet Academy than Starfleet Academy actually is.

Oh I do hope that is the end of kurtzman trek.

Enjoying rewatching TNG to get the infuriating hyper-dumb bad-taste of SFA out of my being.

Should've kept going with Lower Decks...

Now that i've seen and read both, I don't think they dumbed it down all that much. Most of the changes were kind of just good choices for going to a visual medium from a textual one.

also,

lets not kid ourselves about how "hard" this sci-fi is. Astrophage is given multiple borderline magical properties just so they actually have the ability to go to another star system and find a solution.

But I love soap operas about spaceships. Engineers writing what could be possible with current or future tech is not the only thing that constitutes SciFi and is often quite boring (like Andy Weir).