There’s nothing wrong with the music choice itself; it is just too loud in relation to the voice of the person speaking.
I say Picard 2020.
Why does talking positively about personal rights and dignity sound so political?
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I think Insurrection is underrated. It’s a movie about characters who are having a legitimate argument about the limits of the power of the state they work for.
I mean, So Cal White Hippie Planet was a strange creative choice as a resource to fight over, but it doesn’t really affect the story. They could have been talking lizards. That wasn’t the point.
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My opinion is that it’s the second-best of the TNG movies… but that’s not a very high bar to clear.
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I mentioned this in the other thread
Pandora is the inevitable Starfleet Academy series in all but name and ownership
There are no androids, but there’s like a former slave clone cadet, a Borg cadet, a First Romulan in Starfleet cadet. Of course the Borg and the Romulans and Starfleet are all called something else. The protagonist has some kind of genetic secret, like Dr. Bashir. It’s all very Deep Space Nine actually
It’s not really doing it for me but if you’re a fan of young-adult stuff and/or DS9 maybe it’ll be your thing
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Rating of 3.6. Whoops.
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From this io9 article, a quote from Rod Roddenberry (Gene’s son):
If you look back at all of my father’s works, pretty much all of them, for the most part, have a particular character, and I call it the Roddenberry character, which is, whether it’s Spock, Data, the Hologram Doctor, Seven of Nine, whatever these characters are, they are always aliens. They come to us as the aliens, but they end up being the most human. Because they’re always questioning humanity and what it’s about. And searching for that humanity inside of them. And Q is another example. All of those characters are the Roddenberry characters, because they are the ones who sort of point it out to us, or the other characters on the show, what we take for granted and how beautiful it is to be a human. And that our mistakes are what make life worth living. That’s how we learn and how we grow. Those are the characters that are so important.
I think this is a big piece of what has been missing in AbramsTrek and Discovery. Beyond sort of got into this with Idris Elba’s character, but not really, and Abrams himself didn’t touch it at all, not even with Spock.
And the pity of this when it comes to Discovery is that you can name so many characters who could fill that role. You have Burnham, a human raised by Vulcans. Saru, an alien who aspires to live up to the example set by a human (Georgiou). Airiam, a human who was grievously injured and had much of her body replaced by cybernetics. Spock, for the same reasons as earlier incarnations. Stametz, who underwent genetic alteration. Culber, who [spoiler]. Or a half-dozen others.
It just seems like modern Trek is uninterested in the question of what it means to be human, and that’s a major disappointment.
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On the one hand:
The Michael Burnham show continues! Now with even more grimdark and even less focus on the ensemble!
On the other:
I think this io9 comment sums it up best:
Riker has a beard.
We now have confirmation this is going to be good.
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Abe Lincoln and David Cross, together at last.
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that is amazing. even more amazing because it WORKS.
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Picard episode 01 is out
So far nothing has changed the impression I got from the trailers, that it’s basically another TNG movie
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I scrolled up to see if I’d mentioned it a time or ten already, but apparently not. The director was a friend of mine in high school. She wasn’t my bestie, but we had lunch together pretty frequently. I’m so proud of her.
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The direction, and acting, and whatever, were all fine, not a problem
I just wish the writing was a little more surprising somehow—or else more reminiscent of TNG’s original utopianism—but instead it seems like we’re going to get Nemesis: The Series
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I’m a bit surprised to realize that, even though I know I saw Nemesis… I can’t recall a bit of it.
I kinda feel like the plot holes in First Contact prevented me from really remembering the following movies. Sadly (I think?), that means I still understand the old joke about Generations, where Kirk wants to die on the bridge but instead dies under a bridge… 
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All I can recall is thinking how lousy it was. And ST:P is just more of it? 
Something about a clone of Picard who likes wearing lots of pleather.
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