Mine is that Discovery should have been a series taking place in the Picard era.
I never liked Star Trek and never will.
They appeal to different aspects of entertainment. Other than being scifi franchise from the 70s that have lasted through today they are completely different types of shows.
I don’t want to bash you for likeing Star Wars but I’m the exact opposite in what I want. I find Star Wars dull and uninteresting and love the dialog, mystery, and problems of Star Trek. (I can’t deal with nutrek)
I think it’s like pizza vs sushi. You can like one, both, or none but one is never going to satisfy if you are in the mood for the other.
TNG is boring as hell, genuinely, and a complete abandonment of the space opera formula that gave TOS its charm. The entire TNG cast is dull and equally as robotic as Data, who gets far too much emphasis every episode. It’s exhausting and repetitive to constantly show Data making the same head and eyebrow movements, demonstrating emotions like irritation while everybody pretends he doesn’t have emotions, and everybody prefacing every sentence with “Captain…” Frankly I think TNG was written to appeal exclusively to nerds who get off on watching people do things robotically. The only interesting character is Q because everybody else’s dead performance makes him look like a superstar.
My hot take is that the dominion war was hot garbage. Just episode after episode of the least fun parts of trek for me. It has some stand out episodes, but it drags and I basically stop rewatches in the late seasons. I also think Sisko’s ending sucks, he should have stayed with Jake. Lastly, the prophets were way better before they introduced Pah-Wraiths and made them way more mystical.
Star Trek just isn’t good at big wars. Single battles where “Oh shit there’s a borg cube coming” can be tense and exciting but I’m way more into the ethical dilemma or space mystery mind screw episodes.
I think that’s the main problem with Enterprise. Someone fresh out of Voyager’s writing room said the phrase “temporal cold war” without thinking about what those words meant first, and then they said “Fuck it, let’s go full Starship Troopers.”
It think the Dominion war works but as a framework for some of the more complicated choices the characters need to make. It also give us a chance for decisions to not play out in an hour episode.
It gave us the most interesting human klingon stories since TOS. Allies with different views and where the klingon perspective has more value.
I agree the actual battle scenes and episodes are usually week.
I also agree Sisko and the wraith / prophets stuff was terrible though. Though I always hated the prophet stories not just the end. I would have loved to see a better ending to Dukat and Winn than blasted with space magic.
