very much agreed, show is improving a lot with her addition

i didn't understand the chatter over how hot jeri ryan is back in the day but after watching several seasons of pedestrian looking cast and she's brought in with statuesque facial structure, height and perfect body in a skin tight outfit just wow i get it now

also best part was to make room they jettisoned kes (one of the worst characters on the show) who was the old attempt at bringing in sex appeal - you could notice how they gave her tighter and more revealing outfits and went away from the childlike appearance to that of a woman in later seasons and then i guess decided to just upgrade the whole thing instead

and the nice side effect is now there's even less neelix and he's back to serving as a plot device and not a central character - which is how he should be

https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/jen...er-1201594328/

and apparently she's now bonkers



apparently she has multiple mug shots now, age hasn't been kind to her


but all this overt attempts at sexing up the show actually kind of makes me give some extra respect for how they treated janeway since she is actually a pretty attractive woman with a nice body but for the most part the dumbed her down and put her in noticeably baggier outfits than the rest of the cast so people wouldn't view her as a sex object imo

look at the bagginess and bunchiness


compared to this


or this when they occasionally undress her


really like how they made that choice, i legit think janeway most competent trek captain and don't think i'd have felt that way if she were wearing a skin tight outfit like others

still don't like the show's style too much

like neelix dies, happens at beginning of episode so now i know they will find some way to revive him which they later will surely forget so people will become mortal again and then they revive him immediately so now i know the episode is surely going to be about him having this existential crisis - it'd just be nice where i couldn't immediately map out what is going to happen by the end each time i'm 4 minutes in each episode

i do like though that despite getting rid of kes and altering the timeline they still go into the year of hell and since it's a new timeline without her they don't know any of the advanced intel she gave and then replicate getting that info the same way via her hotter replacement 7 of 9 - that two part episode was really well done and occasionally they'll have great gems like that get to me ignore all the nonsense

defintely improving as a show but writers occasionally f up, like we've already established neelix has never been here before and they are like 100 years travel time away from where they first started and yet they sometimes defer to neelix as the local guide forgetting he's as new here as they are and of course he still has the local info

Katherine Mulgrew wasn't too happy with thr overt sexiness of Jeri Ryan, perceiving her casting as a slap in the face of the first female Star Trek captain. She took it out on Ryan, which was grossly unfair and which she does somewhat acknowledge.

yeah i actually really like how they make her clash with bellana so much because surely it'd be unnatural for her to suddenly get along with all the women

Big tits rule. Brains are very secondary.

Picard started off really good. It felt like a "10 hour movie" as they claim the series was supposed to be with the plot constantly moving forward and a fun tone and characters. But after the first few episodes it's devolved into a typical modern serial with mysteries that get teased over multiple episodes and everything being dragged out as long as possible. I'm mainly watching it due to sunk cost fallacy at this point.

Picard season two is somehow worse than season 1, but they made all the same mistakes. Lots of random ideas just thrown together with no storyboard. Plus, they should either have just picked one of the Borg queen, Q or Adam Soong as the villain. As it is, all three are horribly underused, especially considering they are the three best actors in the show.

Just watching now as a companion piece to "Half in the Bag".

So much this, Borg queen actually works as played as a dual character

Q with no powers a bit boring,

Soong is lol bad as written.


Still watching obv, which means I am the idiot.

Discovery season 1 was the peak of the new ****

ST TNG S7E13: Homeward

Worf's stepbrother violates the prime directive to save an alien race, and somehow beams up a village of people from a dying planet into the holodeck without the crew or the people knowing it. Fractious discussions about violating the prime directive ensue.

Good to see Paul Sorvino in it, but a slight tale, similar to elements of Star Trek: Insurrection.

3/10

For me... Voyager was somewhat forgettable as a series HOWEVER, it does have the Historical distinction of having one of the greatest Science Fiction episodes ever written.

That is... Episode 34: Death Wish

It's an amazingly written and extremely thoughtful story that it touches me personally and deeply.

I look forward to getting to it!

So Picard season 2 did end up being a rehash of Tapestry. But more than that it was a mediocre ending to a mediocre season of a mediocre series. This season started with a bang and ended with a whimper. It also included a silly cameo from another TNG character. It's such a waste that after a 20 year wait, the continuation of the prime timeline and the story of Picard ended up being this show.

I hope they at least have the TNG crew do age appropriate things in season 3. In Star Trek VI, the crew was old but the story was mostly about diplomacy, with major scenes taking place in a dining room, a court room and a conference hall. The final battle involved Kirk barking orders from a chair and McCoy and Spock modifying a torpedo. But they already showed a clip of Riker and Picard with guns blazing in the teaser trailer.

The new episode of Strange New Worlds was a breath of fresh air and all the positive reviews are spot on. It actually feels like I'm watching Star Trek again. The serialized format with a galaxy ending threat every season has not been working and it's great they finally made a classic-style episodic show.

are you going to do any of the new series?
I am understandably curious about the series but i don't have access to viewing it.

anyone see brave new worlds? the trailers make it seem to be in the same style as the films

I gave up on Picard after that ridiculous ICE episode (#4?). I've only followed the rest of series through RedLetterMedia's hilarious, and somewhat sad, reviews.



I couldn't agree with you more. For the first time in the Kurtzman era, I'm actually looking forward to the next episode of a Star Trek series.

doh, you guys were already discussing it, super amped to have the wrong impression

Strange New Worlds worked well and was happy to watch that after the garbage ending on Picard.

ST TNG S7E14: Sub-Rosa

The one where Beverley Crusher shags a ghost.

Possibly one of the most demented ST:TNG episodes ever (that one where everyone gets addicted to an app is close), and comes across as fan fiction written by a Star Trek/Anne Rice fan who has drunk too much cough medicine. Gloriously insane.

I was going to give it 2/10, but boy was it entertaining.

5/10

I think you should have gone with your first instinct.

I don't have Paramount so won't be watching SNW. It sounds like the creative team finally figured out how to have half-decent Star Trek, but for me it's too little, too late.

Picts or it didn't happen

I might be the only one since... ever, but there was a season or two towards the end of the series where the doctor definitely had the cure for dysfunction.

You need to watch this one. Gates McFadden is acting 'woman in heat' like a champ.

Minx... is that inappropriate of me?