01-20-2025, 06:30 AM
I am watching ST: Voyager with the help of my biggest trek-fan friend's episode guide. The first episode is substantially better than I remembered, though the Voyager ship crew who are killed off would have been more dramatically served if they hadn't all been killed in the initial jump to the Gamma Quadrant.
The crew is more interesting than I remembered as well. Tom Paris really should have been kept as the TNG character where that actor was introduced to Trek. Yeah, I know it was usage rights or paying some money, but fucking hell, this was Paramount Network's flagship. Just pay some money to the creator. Why is that hard? Roddenberry wrote unused lyrics to the Star Trek theme so he could receive a few coins. Just pay the money.
The JETREL episode was pretty heavyhanded, clearly an atomic bomb analog, with survivors guilt and Oppenheimer catchphrase re-use. I liked it.
Having re-watched Enterprise s4 as well, I was reminded how miserable the series finale is. A friend turned me on to the ENT novels, in particular The Good That Men Do, which retcons the events shown into a much larger picture, in line with the other continuity-heavy s4 episodes which ran 2-3 episodes each. Really good.
The crew is more interesting than I remembered as well. Tom Paris really should have been kept as the TNG character where that actor was introduced to Trek. Yeah, I know it was usage rights or paying some money, but fucking hell, this was Paramount Network's flagship. Just pay some money to the creator. Why is that hard? Roddenberry wrote unused lyrics to the Star Trek theme so he could receive a few coins. Just pay the money.
The JETREL episode was pretty heavyhanded, clearly an atomic bomb analog, with survivors guilt and Oppenheimer catchphrase re-use. I liked it.
Having re-watched Enterprise s4 as well, I was reminded how miserable the series finale is. A friend turned me on to the ENT novels, in particular The Good That Men Do, which retcons the events shown into a much larger picture, in line with the other continuity-heavy s4 episodes which ran 2-3 episodes each. Really good.
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