Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

Give Destiny a go, think you'll like it.

 

Yeah, Destiny's a good read. Read 'Before Dishonor' and 'Greater Than The Sum' beforehand though to get a full idea of the backstory to the Destiny trilogy though.

I was hoping for the post-TUC timeline for the new show, personally. Favourite uniform, favourite ships and a fairly untouched period of Trek history. Glad there's only 13 episodes though. 20+ episode seasons are just too much now.

 

Did read Before Dishonour, though, because is Peter David and Janeway was turned into a Borg Queen and the Borg started absorbing / eating things instead of assimilating them. But it had Captain Calhoun from New Frontier in it!

 

Third Star Trek Beyond trailer:

 

"But this is my last report as the captain of the starship Enterprise."

Not a fan of the music in this trailer. Second trailer is still the best IMO.

 

Australians: check your netflix. ALL of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT now uploaded.

GO!

 

Geez, even Australian Netflix gets them all before the Canadian one.

 

Well, True Sith have you checked lately? Good news, Canadians with Netflix! THEY'RE ALL THERE! Even the animated series! (I think I've literally only seen Yesteryear.)

TNG was there but left a few months ago, but it looked like it was sourced from VHS but this looks like the HD version! There's a bunch of TNG eps (the classics and not so classics) I've seen a ton of times but I think I'll watch one I haven't seen in forever. Hurm. Tapestry. Haven't seen that in years.

So... Netflix Canada just added all the Star Trek series. On a streaming service. They laying the groundwork for the new Star Trek series? Hope so!

 

I hope CBS-All Access do an international distribution deal with Netflix rather than with local networks. That would be grand.

 

Netflix Canada is different in a few ways from the US, a big one being if Netflix Canada gets a US broadcast show that has weekly episodes, they add them weekly (Shadowhunters and Scream are 2 series that add new eps weekly). Hey, as long as it hits the same time as on All Access, I'm cool.

Anyway, scratch Tapestry. Now Rascals is an episode I haven't seen in at least probably a decade or more. Gonna do that one.

 

We get Scream too, as well as a Japanese teen-drama (both of which are added weekly).

Maybe we will get the new Trek on Netflix. Fingers crossed.

 

I see it! They must've just uploaded them because I checked yesterday. Finally!!

 

I got a message that my grandfather rate of $7.99 will go up to $9.99! Netflix you Greedy pigs!

 

That's the price of Warp 9.

 

I won't mind paying it if they didn't keep removing stuff.

 

Unpopular opinion, but with both Next Generation and Enterprise on Netflix, one could do a super-sized "Pegasus" / "These Are the Voyages..." combo watch. I did that once, I think you watch the teaser for "Pegasus", go into "These Are the Voyages" and I think watch almost most of the episode and near the end act break after Trip dies, switch into Pegasus for a bit, then the final scenes of TATV and the rest of Pegasus (I believe TATV takes place almost entirely before the final half of Pegasus when the Enterprise gets trapped inside the asteroid field. Definitely TATV ends before Riker tells Picard the truth). I actually thought TATV played much better if you watch Pegasus literally in parts of it. Kind of odd to see Riker and Troi age about a decade when you're flipping back and forth but it does, strangely, work together.

 

Unpopular opinion: Enterprise is excellent and I prefer it to Voyager. Nearly finished with Season 2.

 

Season 2 is probably the weakest of Enterprise seasons (although it has some good stuff in there), there's an interesting season-long arc in Season 3 and Season 4 had a bunch of mini-arcs and some of Enterprise's best stuff is in there, the Augments arc, the (real series finale) of "Tera Prime / Demons" ("These Are the Voyages" is more of a bonus TNG episode), and the freakin' pure gold that is "In A Mirror Darkly" two parter.

 

Looking forward to it. Then, i'm returning to TNG in the lead-up to the new series.

 

If only we got that season 5.

 

Yeah the second half of Season 4 was pretty decent until These Are the Voyages. Other than that, and a few other bright spots, Enterprise is by far the worst of the bunch IMO.

 

Ended up watching Q-Pid as my first of the Trek series Netflix random episode watch. Hadn't seen that one in a long time and Q is in it. It's definitely a tad on the lackadaisical side before everyone ends up in Sherwood forest, but Trek can be kind of deliberately leisurely paced. I'll probably end up watching a random episode from each series once a week. Because, happily, Star Trek is self contained single episode viewing as opposed to the new series being a freakin season long arc, aggggghhhh!! *ahem* Sorry. Reflex action, won't happen again.