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#4531042 - 07/23/20 12:52 AM Old Trek vs New Trek  
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This YouTube channel "Major Grin" has a created quite a large playlist of video snippets highlighting how New Trek (Picard, Discovery) differs from and ignores so much of what has come before. Some will say so much the better, but I think not.

Here are a few examples:


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Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.

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The last video is reason enough to never watch the new series. Seems like they hired some terrible showrunners.

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Originally Posted by Nimits
Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.


You really should watch them for yourself, and not let some net-hater make up your mind for you.
You might very well still not like it, but at least you've made the determination based on your own view.

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Looking at this controversy objectively, hasn't this cycle been going on with Star Trek for a long time? For example, I know quite a few fans of the original ST crew who don't care at all for TNG or anything else that came after that. So for them, "real" Star Trek is ST: TOS and the 6 theatrical films from ST: TMP through Star Trek VI.


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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
Originally Posted by Nimits
Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.


You really should watch them for yourself, and not let some net-hater make up your mind for you.
You might very well still not like it, but at least you've made the determination based on your own view.



Well this old net-hater has watched them both, fanboi.

My opinion remains the same. They are at times mildly entertaining sci-fi but they're not "Star Trek" except in name.

Hey here's an idea, you should really watch the videos I posted and see if you can see the valid points being made, if not at least you've made the determination based on having actually watched them.


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I was talking to Nimits, not you.

And why should I watch them? I've watched both Picard and Discovery and I enjoy both shows very much.

Why should I watch a hater-video? Last thing I want to do is fund these people in any way, shape or form. He's not going to change my mind about the shows.

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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
And why should I watch them?


Because they point out the endless stream of inconsistencies and total ignorance of canon in the new trek shows.


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He's not going to change my mind about the shows.



Nor you mine.


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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
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Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.


You really should watch them for yourself, and not let some net-hater make up your mind for you.
You might very well still not like it, but at least you've made the determination based on your own view.





The vulgar language in those clips is enough on its own to make me give them a pass.

I abandoned the second season of Jack Ryan in part because of the absurd number of f-bombs in the first two or three episodes.

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Originally Posted by Nimits
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Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.


You really should watch them for yourself, and not let some net-hater make up your mind for you.
You might very well still not like it, but at least you've made the determination based on your own view.





The vulgar language in those clips is enough on its own to make me give them a pass.

I abandoned the second season of Jack Ryan in part because of the absurd number of f-bombs in the first two or three episodes.


I'm with you.

I read something interesting recently. Everyone always say how cursing makes war movies more realistic. Maybe it does for a modern war, but not necessarily WWII. Early "Band of Brothers" scripts had Major Winters curse throughout the series. Winters himself complained to Tom Hanks, said he did not curse. Hanks said it made the show more believable, Winters stood his ground and eventually all of "his" cursing was removed.

Likewise many of the other real Easy Company veterans said there was too much cursing from the other characters as well, they said that they actually rarely cursed. "Not when you could meet your Maker any minute" according to one. But it's taken as a given nowadays that there must be cursing in every other sentence in a war movie.

I think some producers just like to be edgy, do something that's not been done before. Non-broadcast TV that gets around FCC rules gives them an opportunity. Some seem to get a childish thrill out of the cursing they can now get away with. I recall an interview with Ron Moore and he was giddy about getting away with "frak", it was really childish the way the whole thing thrilled him so. Likewise in one of the videos above Kurtzman feels the need to tell the audience "F*ck, that's the "f-word" by the way" as if everyone didn't know, he just wanted to be edgy and actually say it. They're like kids who just learned a new curse word and want to say it every chance they get in front of their friends because it makes them sound cool or tough.

The impact of Kirk saying "Let's get the hell out of here" at the end of "City of the Edge of Forever" was powerful. Now there is nothing left, nothing held back that can be reserved and then used for a moment like that one when it would really be meaningful.


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Originally Posted by F4UDash4
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Yeah, that pretty much ensures I will never want to watch Discovery or Picard.


You really should watch them for yourself, and not let some net-hater make up your mind for you.
You might very well still not like it, but at least you've made the determination based on your own view.





The vulgar language in those clips is enough on its own to make me give them a pass.

I abandoned the second season of Jack Ryan in part because of the absurd number of f-bombs in the first two or three episodes.


I'm with you.

I read something interesting recently. Everyone always say how cursing makes war movies more realistic. Maybe it does for a modern war, but not necessarily WWII. Early "Band of Brothers" scripts had Major Winters curse throughout the series. Winters himself complained to Tom Hanks, said he did not curse. Hanks said it made the show more believable, Winters stood his ground and eventually all of "his" cursing was removed.

Likewise many of the other real Easy Company veterans said there was too much cursing from the other characters as well, they said that they actually rarely cursed. "Not when you could meet your Maker any minute" according to one. But it's taken as a given nowadays that there must be cursing in every other sentence in a war movie.

I think some producers just like to be edgy, do something that's not been done before. Non-broadcast TV that gets around FCC rules gives them an opportunity. Some seem to get a childish thrill out of the cursing they can now get away with. I recall an interview with Ron Moore and he was giddy about getting away with "frak", it was really childish the way the whole thing thrilled him so. Likewise in one of the videos above Kurtzman feels the need to tell the audience "F*ck, that's the "f-word" by the way" as if everyone didn't know, he just wanted to be edgy and actually say it. They're like kids who just learned a new curse word and want to say it every chance they get in front of their friends because it makes them sound cool or tough.

The impact of Kirk saying "Let's get the hell out of here" at the end of "City of the Edge of Forever" was powerful. Now there is nothing left, nothing held back that can be reserved and then used for a moment like that one when it would really be meaningful.

That sums up my feelings pretty well also, and I specifically thought of the "City on the Edge of Forever" when going through this topic. I don't mind cursing where appropriate, but as you say, it's almost like they're children who found out they can get away with something they couldn't before and have to use it all the time. Deadpool had lots of cursing, but it flowed well and fit the movie. In these Star Trek shows, it's just frivolous, and has been said, somewhat counter to the established canon.


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There is very little reverence left for anything anymore. Modern "artists" congratulate themselves that they have made something new, when all they have done is deconstruct and debase what more skilled men created.

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Well it's not like tng didn't have swearing.

Or did they finally edit out Picard saying Merde?

Or Riker saying verule? (OK that ones made up.. But he still swore none the less....)

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Well it's not like tng didn't have swearing.

Or did they finally edit out Picard saying Merde?

Or Riker saying verule? (OK that ones made up.. But he still swore none the less....)



There is a difference in degree and quantity.

There is Rhett Butler cursing once in "Gone With The Wind" at one end of the spectrum and "Wolf of Wall Street" at the other end, both have swearing but they're not the same.


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The good thing about ST (tv shows) IMO, is that it has always evolved and fit well in the time each show came on. TOS wouldn’t work in another era when TNG did, TNG wouldn’t work now and so on. Likewise none would work in an earlier era. That is, as new releases, certainly they’re all great to revisit and hold up well like that. The sign of well made shows.
Picard...I can see that being polarizing, but what I liked the most is that it fleshed out the universe more whereas other shows left it pretty sterile. Before, you mainly saw governments, military, scientists or farmers on a colony somewhere, portrayed as somewhat backwards.
Discovery I friggin love. Too ambitious the first season, they took on too much, but still one of the best first seasons of a ST show. The second they really nailed. Looking forward to the new shows, especially Pike’s. They’ve done a good job building strong, interesting characters to take off with.


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Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite
The good thing about ST (tv shows) IMO, is that it has always evolved and fit well in the time each show came on. TOS wouldn’t work in another era when TNG did, TNG wouldn’t work now and so on. Likewise none would work in an earlier era.
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Agreed. Let's face it, audiences change over time and to assume that a certain formula that worked in one era will work again in the current era is misguided. To use another example, the Tim Burton Batman movies today are largely seen as campy comic book adaptations and would garner a lot of laughs (in a negative way) but back in the late 80's and early 90's the audiences loved those films.

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Oh yeah, Batman was exciting because it was considered dark and hardcore Batman for the first time.

Hollywood does tend to feel it has to raise the bar as a crutch, but sometimes the new stuff is just plain better in spite of that, not because of it. 24 had to raise the stakes every season to a point they eventually just couldn’t keep up with. The first season is still the best.
Discovery made the same mistake with the battle at the end of season 2. Big battles aren’t necessarily more intense. That’s probably my only criticism of season 2 though. In WoK it was much more intense.
Remember ST 3 when they lost the Enterprise? It was devastating, like a major character being killed off. In ST Generations, it was still rough. The recent ST movies...who cares? The ship wasn’t seen as anything but a taxi, so when it gets beaten up, I just find it ridiculous how long it goes on. Kill it, they’ll just 3D print another one in no time. LOL I think they’ve improved on that with Discovery, the ship is once again part of the cast.


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I agree that shows need to change with the times, and also, I think the early TNG shows were very different than the original series, and that came from Roddenberry himself - I think his views changed over time. I actually think the shows got better after he was gone (RIP), because they could do things that he didn't allow.

That said, I think there's still a canon that has been established that a lot of the swearing and attitudes of the newer shows don't 't fit into. When they did the Abrams Trek movies, I had a thought, and I think it applies here, as well, which is, why call it Star Trek if you're going to make it a very different show?

I know that Hollywood loves an established franchise for safety, but if you're going to change it to a large degree, it seems you're going to limit your audience. People who didn't like Star Trek won't watch it because it's called Star Trek, and people who do like Star Trek won't like it because it's too different from the show they expected.


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The recent movies really are an odd situation. It's like a very expensive experiment to see if you can make ST movies independent of a tv show and cast. I really like the cast of the movies, but the movies themselves are very forgettable since they managed to lose the attachment to the characters that the fans had. ST just doesn't work without a show and regularly seen cast the way that SW does. They counted too much on the fans knowing the Kirk-Spock relationship and didn't bother to develop it themselves in any way. I think it might have been ok to continue calling it Star Trek, but they should've picked up new characters and stuck to a shorter timeline for the movies so you could grow to appreciate them. Preferably without the major changes they adopted. It WAS nice to see Nimoy on there, but they still could've included him.


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ST just doesn't work without a show and regularly seen cast the way that SW does. They counted too much on the fans knowing the Kirk-Spock relationship and didn't bother to develop it themselves in any way.


Eh, I think you give Abrams more credit too much credit. As demonstrated by his body of work, it seems his main idea for character development is a toss in a random "surprise" twist out of left field followed by an improbably-sized (space) ship . . .

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ST just doesn't work without a show and regularly seen cast the way that SW does. They counted too much on the fans knowing the Kirk-Spock relationship and didn't bother to develop it themselves in any way.


Eh, I think you give Abrams more credit too much credit. As demonstrated by his body of work, it seems his main idea for character development is a toss in a random "surprise" twist out of left field followed by an improbably-sized (space) ship . . .



And lens flares, lots and lots of lens flares.


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I agree that shows need to change with the times, and also, I think the early TNG shows were very different than the original series, and that came from Roddenberry himself - I think his views changed over time. I actually think the shows got better after he was gone (RIP), because they could do things that he didn't allow.



They grew worse after he died.

Roddenberry kept them nerdy and quirky and breathed life into the characters--he was the heart and soul of Star Trek and could literally name every single component on a starship and how everything functioned. The new movies focused more on action and less on characters and plot, though I can see why after lessons were learned from "ST: The Motion Picture" and applied to "The Wrath of Khan." They learned the wrong lessons, however. ST II actually understood pacing and didn't overwhelm the audience with nonstop action, and maintained dramatic pacing and tension throughout, while still allowing for that Star Trek sense of awe and discovery that is important and crucial to the franchise. The new movies, for the most part, fail at this--especially the most recent film, "Beyond," which I felt was abysmal.

I actually liked "ST: The Motion Picture," and watched it over and over as a kid, because it was raw, pure science fiction and the polar opposite of "Hollywood." It almost felt as if it could have been something written by Heinlein, Asimov or Clarke, and that's saying a lot and a true complement to Roddenberry because he really stepped up his game there. I also loved "Wrath of Khan," however, because it preserved the ST ethos and built upon it further.

Enterprise was the last decent series for me, mostly because it maintained some of that crucial nerdiness that is essential for Star Trek.

I don't want swearing, gritty, in your face hoohah with anything new that is made, nor do I want a repackaged kid's rollercoaster ride movie like "Beyond" was. I want good 'ole fashioned Star Trek. If they can't give us that then they might as well leave it be, until someone worthy enough of Roddenberry's legacy, who respects what the man did and stood for in his writing, comes along and brings the universe properly back to life.


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I actually liked "ST: The Motion Picture," and watched it over and over as a kid, because it was raw, pure science fiction and the polar opposite of "Hollywood." It almost felt as if it could have been something written by Heinlein, Asimov or Clarke, and that's saying a lot and a true complement to Roddenberry because he really stepped up his game there. .





I am 100% of the same mind here. The influence of 2001 on TMP is undeniable. All you have to do is watch the Spock walk sequence as he enters the deeper interior of V-Ger using the jetpack. That influence from 2001 is what made TMP such a "thinking man's" science fiction film.


When it comes to Wrath of Khan, the brilliance of that film is how it proved that you CAN have action scenes and intelligent dialogue and profound sci-fi concepts at the same time.


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Roddenberry would have ruined Trek had he lived longer and maintained overall control. His original concept was brilliant but somewhere along the line he went off the deep end. It is said he wanted no internal conflict between starship crew members, everyone just got along because they had evolved beyond base instincts. In other words he wanted Trek to be the exact opposite of 'Picard' where everyone is at each other's throats. Both extremes are terrible.

I think the best balance of interpersonal interaction and overall tone is somewhere between TNG and DS9.


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I'd heard about the no-internal-conflict as well, and agree that you need a little to make it interesting. Also, Roddenberry wanted the Ferengi to replace the Klingons as the bad guy, and they would represent capitalism, which he then considered a great evil. When I look back at the first few seasons and am reminded about how bland and boring they were, I think that is mostly due to Roddenberry's control. The crew seemed to mostly be along for the ride in most of those early episodes, and not really doing a whole lot.


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Originally Posted by Arthonon
Also, Roddenberry wanted the Ferengi to replace the Klingons as the bad guy, and they would represent capitalism, which he then considered a great evil.



And what hypocrisy, coming from the guy who wrote goofy lyrics to the TOS theme music solely so he could claim royalty rights on it.


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The estimated net worth of Roddenberry at his time of death was 500 million.

Hmm... I guess the “evils” of capitalism didn’t account for any of that 500 million.....


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I wasn't going to share this, then I got to the end of the video... watch it all the way through and you'll see what I mean (but don't cheat, watch it from the beginning!)



https://youtu.be/BesKS-bCDbo


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Wow, even I didn't expect this.

Exclusive – Star Trek: Picard Lost Nearly Half Its Audience Before The Finale


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Star Trek: Picard is in trouble. Though the first episode of the show set new records for CBS All-Access when it premiered in January of 2020, viewers quickly abandoned the show as they realized what they were watching. CBS has refused to reveal any of the actual viewership numbers for the series, but we have an inside source who has exclusively slipped us the real numbers.

This is the same source who made us the first outlet to break the news that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was happening, so they’ve proven their reliability. That said, we only have one source for this data and we generally prefer to have two sources before reporting something like this. Read on with that context in mind.

According to our source at CBS, though the premiere episode of Star Trek: Picard broke records by recording the biggest number of tune-ins for any CBS All-Access show at that time, those numbers quickly fell off. Our source says that by the time show’s final episode aired on March 26th, the number of people watching Star Trek: Picard in the United States had fallen by 45%.


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#4533422 - 08/13/20 07:50 AM Re: Old Trek vs New Trek [Re: F4UDash4]  
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This is nothing new.

Most shows never exceed their initial episode viewers.

Star Trek: Enterprise:
First episodes: 12 million viewers.
Final episode of season 1: 5,3 million viewers.
Final final episode: 3,8 million viewers.

TNG
First episode: 15,7 million
Last episode of season 1: 10,2 million.

Voyager:
First Episode: 21,3 million
LAst episode of season 1: 6,1 million

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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
This is nothing new.

Most shows never exceed their initial episode viewers.

Star Trek: Enterprise:
First episodes: 12 million viewers.
Final episode of season 1: 5,3 million viewers.
Final final episode: 3,8 million viewers.

TNG
First episode: 15,7 million
Last episode of season 1: 10,2 million.

Voyager:
First Episode: 21,3 million
LAst episode of season 1: 6,1 million




Both TNG and Voyager lasted 7 seasons. Picard's numbers are just for 1 year.


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Streaming shows have yet to have any kind of industry-accepted method for measuring ratings/audience numbers so it's extremely difficult right now to gauge just how popular streaming shows are.

Working on the assumption that businesses always want to make a profit, all you can say for now is that if a streaming service renews a show, they are happy with the current audience numbers and if they cancel a show then they were not happy with the audience numbers.


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#4533438 - 08/13/20 11:30 AM Re: Old Trek vs New Trek [Re: Allaire]  
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Originally Posted by Allaire
Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
This is nothing new.

Most shows never exceed their initial episode viewers.

Star Trek: Enterprise:
First episodes: 12 million viewers.
Final episode of season 1: 5,3 million viewers.
Final final episode: 3,8 million viewers.

TNG
First episode: 15,7 million
Last episode of season 1: 10,2 million.

Voyager:
First Episode: 21,3 million
LAst episode of season 1: 6,1 million




Both TNG and Voyager lasted 7 seasons. Picard's numbers are just for 1 year.

My figures are all for Season 1. Start end end of first season, which are comparable.

Espesially Voyagers are interesting, it still had 7 season after dropping over 70% views in the first season.

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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog

Espesially Voyagers are interesting, it still had 7 season after dropping over 70% views in the first season.


Yes, I was also surprised by that big drop. It would be difficult yet interesting to investigate the reasons behind that massive drop in the audience.


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Janeway's voice was annoying, to me at least. smile So that's one reason viewers might have stopped watching. She lacked the suave and calming smooth of Picard or Kirk, and instead was resonant, terse and harsh.


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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
Janeway's voice was annoying, to me at least. smile So that's one reason viewers might have stopped watching. She lacked the suave and calming smooth of Picard or Kirk, and instead was resonant, terse and harsh.




That's possible but I think a bigger factor was the fact that for most of its run, Voyager aired at the same time DS 9 did. I think it was a mistake for Paramount to have had two ST series going at the same time. I think there was some cannibalization of viewers since DS9 was clearly the more popular ST show at the time.

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