| ▲ | miohtama a day ago |
| Larry is also the reason why all new Star Trek series have been cancelled: https://www.cbr.com/paramount-dismantling-star-trek-9-year-s... |
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| ▲ | SOLAR_FIELDS a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I do love how the software world has the caricature of a comic book villain in Larry Ellison |
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| ▲ | glaslong 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." — Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s | |
| ▲ | smegger001 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I always thought of him as if he was angling to be a bond vilian but thats kind of a potayto, potahto thing | | |
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| ▲ | droptablemain a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I assumed the reason was Starfleet Academy was complete slop |
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| ▲ | bigstrat2003 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well, that's a blessing at least. It was painful watching the butchering of Star Trek over the last decade. |
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| ▲ | zingar a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Noooo Strange New Worlds was the best thing that ever happened to trek | | |
| ▲ | evanelias 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The current season has been rather divisive, to say the least. I mean some of these episodes currently have IMDB ratings in the mid 4's to mid 5's range out of 10: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12327578/episodes/?season=4 Personally I didn't hate the gimmick episodes, but enjoying them sort of requires no longer taking the show seriously at all. | | |
| ▲ | rickydroll 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The gimmicky episodes were highly entertaining to my decidedly non-Trekkie wife. She loved the Star Trek Muppet episode ("Star Trek in Spaaaaaace") and the soap-opera episode. As for taking the show seriously, I don't take any of it seriously. It's a telenovela, or maybe we should say Stellanovela. Most episodes build a fairly cohesive story, then break loose, and those old scientists have fun with the Star Trek universe. It's not like they're acting in a Chekhov play. | | |
| ▲ | evanelias 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | re: taking it seriously, I meant more in terms of whether it is "good art" vs disposable entertainment. On the whole, I felt that TNG and DS9 both eventually found the right balance of drama and humor, often with an intelligent underlying message about aspects of our society and culture. The modern Star Trek shows are sorely lacking in that area! |
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| ▲ | rsynnott 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Eh, I mean TNG, which is probably the best-regarded series, had its fair share of duds, and not just in the not-very-good first season. In particular, I am thinking of the episode where Data's cat turned into a lizard. > A transporter malfunction turns most of the crew into puppets while Spock fights to reclaim the ship. | | |
| ▲ | evanelias 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | The difference is the sheer number of gimmick episodes: so far half the episodes this season fall into that category. Did you actually watch that puppet episode you're quoting? Gimmick aside, it had one of the dumbest endings of any Star Trek episode I can think of. | | |
| ▲ | rsynnott 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nope; haven’t seen any of this series. The streaming situation for it, at least in this country, is a bit of a mess. But it sounds from the description like a do-over of the cat lizard episode, more or less. | | |
| ▲ | evanelias 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ehh, maybe that notion times ten. These recent episodes are far goofier and more nonsensical than that TNG episode. (and again, my view on them is far less harsh than many of the reviews I've seen online...) At least the TNG duds attempted some kind of sci fi technobabble explanation for whatever hijinks were occurring. With this season of SNW, we're getting plot devices like "missing resistance leader just happened to look identical to Enterprise's first officer by complete coincidence!" and "spooky derelict ship is haunted, no explanation even attempted!" ... there are worse ones I could reference but they're spoilers. I'm genuinely starting to wonder if an LLM is writing these scripts. |
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| ▲ | monocasa a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lower Decks is so good too. |
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| ▲ | lotrjohn a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Picard was great! Romulans, Borg, Q, Data!! What more could you ask for?! | | |
| ▲ | malfist a day ago | parent | next [-] | | A plot? | | | |
| ▲ | ThrowawayR2 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I could ask for them not to show graphic torture onscreen, yuck. Decided to skip Picard once I heard about that. | |
| ▲ | UltraSane a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I consider Picard Season 2 the worst season of TV ever made. | |
| ▲ | TiredOfLife 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Being at least average and not shit | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be honest, I'm not sure to what degree my reaction to increasingly random dips into recent Trek has been around them just not being that good as a whole vs. just being tired of the franchise after many decades at this point. |
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| ▲ | tekla a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Oh thank god. It hurt my soul watching the horror that is the new ST. Starfleet Academy was almost unspeakably terrible |
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| ▲ | jlarocco a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Meh. The last Star Trek worth watching was TOS. |
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| ▲ | ihsw a day ago | parent [-] | | That's funny way of spelling DS9. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | TOS was what it was. Some episodes were better (and aged better) than others. After a pretty week start, TNG was pretty solid. DS9 was good too far more often than not. While other series had their strong points, I'm not going to go to the mat to defend any of them. | | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | No love for VOY? :) I know it's been a long time... | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | There were definitely some good episodes and it probably got better over time. I'd probably give it a mild thumbs up overall with reservations. |
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