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Auf #Tele5 beginnt, nachdem #Voyager geendet hat, gerade wieder #DasNächsteJahrhundert bzw #TheNextGeneration oder #TNG mit Staffel 1 Folge 1.
Noch für 5 Tage lässt sich die erste Folge in der Mediathek nachträglich ansehen und, wenn ihr am Ball bleibt, nach & nach alle Folgen der Serie nach Ausstrahlung im TV.
Viel Vergnügen!
Ich gebe es mir auf jeden Fall (nochmal) 🤗
back a million years ago, a local theater was playing Wrath of Khan, and some friends talked me into going with them. since I'd never watched Star Trek before, I have retained exactly zero of this movie
I still feel a little silly for not having realized earlier than, like, season 4 of #TNG that Noonien Soongh is a different person than Khan Noonien-Singh. another issue with having started out of order ... when I started my TNG watch, all I knew about Khan (besides that there was a movie about him) was what was in #StrangeNewWorlds. I also didn't have a very good grasp on the timeline of the different series (including the 100-year gap)
In "Galaxy's Child", La Forge's response to Leah Brahms calling out his over-familiarity and telling him off for creating the holographic simulation of her has not aged well. She didn't give consent, so she has a right to feel violated.
While I feel #StarTrekPicard gave its titular character (and the rest of #TheNextGeneration cast) a fantastic and worthy send-off, I would never be opposed to another #TNG movie.
#TNG S6E12 Ship In a Bottle is making me ask questions about how Geordi's VISOR works in the holodeck
like, I can accept that Geordi can basically function due to different materials having different physical characteristics (density, etc), but in a holodeck, it's all simulated
#StarTrek#TheNextGeneration
with the number of ppl caught in transporter pattern buffers and time loops for 80 years, they could crew an entire starship with ppl caught out of time
okay so I get that this guy has like incredible power and therefore Picard may not be capable of arresting him, but WHAT the FUCK
Picard: "We have no law to fit your crime"
me: "that is a WAR CRIME, my dude"
Picard: "You're free to return to the planet"
me: "GENOCIDE, you dick"
Picard: "I am not certain if he should be praised, or condemned"
me: "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK"
Some good friends of mine really enjoyed the panspermia ideas in Prometheus (2012), they found it deep, profound, fascinating.
At the time I found it underwhelming partly because panspermia was an old, old idea to me, even then. I rewatched Mission To Mars (2000) recently and was reminded how panspermia was used prominently then. Plus there's the classic 1993 TNG episode 'The Chase' of course. #sciencefiction
I've always wondered why Trek used this idea, which ought to be a huge concept which underlies the entire trek universe, only in a one-off TNG episode and then never referenced it (as far as I know) again. #startrek#thenextgeneration
The Picard Legacy Collection arrived today. Includes Wisdom of Picard book, Magnetic badges, coasters and playing cards. 11,028 of 11,750. #StarTrek#Picard#TheNextGeneration
Actually, one gripe I have with #StarTrek#TheNextGeneration, #DeepSpaceNine, and #Voyager is that all the captains are intolerant to dissent, and are like: How dare you disobey! There's a rule command!
But then some admiral or viceroy from #Starfleet turns up and the entire crew are like: Ugh! Fucking Starfleet bureaucracy!
And then they disobey orders.
So which is? A rule of command or no rule of command?
I like how on #StarTrek they have four centuries more history than we do yet they nearly always have hobbies based on 20th century sports or cars or something ...
And when #Data wants to learn comedy, he learns from the greatest comedian of all time -- some dude who does Jerry Lewis impressions ... ?
It talked about family, relationships, love (most especially a mother's love), being true to ourselves, and [our] humanity. But for this post, I want to talk about [our] “humanity”.
I'm a Star Trek #TheNextGeneration batch where #Spock was more of a side-character in the Star Trek universe. You know, he's half-vulcan half-human. However, there was always this lingering question: What made Spock the way he is? What made Spock pro-human? What made Spock, who lives by the vulcan expectations and yet very human at the same time?
Season 02 episode 05 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds answered that. This was the pivotal moment when Spock understood his humanity. For some reason it was familiar, maybe it was mentioned on a movie, or I've read from a novel, but seeing this episode gave a lot of impact on the character “Spock”.
Spock is no longer just a half-vulcan half-human character. Spock is no longer just an icon for me. Suddenly, Spock is alive, a figure. A person who is the embodiment of two conflicting worlds yet was able to harmonise the two and lived the way no one else can.
Almost everyone looked down on him for being half-half. There were people who ridiculed him, made fun of him, shunned him. And yet, he became a better person than everyone, all because of this pivotal moment in his life.
To the point that, in the future, his experiences pushed him to champion the welcoming of the romulans back into the vulcan fold, as equals. As well as, to understand who they really are as the same race: vulcans.
S02E05 is, for me, the best episode of this season, and more likely the entire series. I will always remember this episode.
The episode where:
Spock embraced his humanity.
Humanity shone brighter than the stars.
That despite the many flaws in being a human, that maybe we are indeed inferior than the other races, it is our humanity that makes us the better race in the universe.
Just gobsmacked by the #StarTrek#Picard finale. Wonderfully done and if you were even a little bit of a fan of #TheNextGeneration#TNG#STTNG give this a go, it's totally worth it! Love that they leave the continuation possible and hope that they deal with all the fallout from the events of this series while getting back to what makes Star Trek great!
I adored S1 of Picard (IMO the single best season of Trek ever), and thought S2 was okay (but a big step down). I thought #TheNextGeneration was generally bad television, so my hopes for this season are not high.
Especially since I read the showrunner wants this to be a better finale to NextGen than #Nemesis was, and I thought Nemesis was one of the best NextGen stories.