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What’s wrong with Neelix?
Dislike DIS because Michael, not Gene’s vision
Wicked jealous of Pike’s hair
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I have a problem with the Kelvin timeline. Specifically how they depicted the Kobayashi Maru sequence. No, I don't care if Spock programmed it. My issue is that Kirk's behavior stank. He straight up cheated, but even worse, he was smug about it. That didn't show leadership potential at all. That was conduct unbecoming of an officer.
I'd always had it in my head that Kirk simply disagreed with the test philosophically. It's a simple scene to set up. Kobayashi Maru tests officers to see how they deal with a losing path in a simulation of a deterministic universe, but especially to reveal the quality of their character. But Kirk doesn't believe in fate. He believes in a quantum universe, where infinite possibilities spring from the vacuum every instant. In my mind, Kirk wouldn't simply reprogram the hostile ships' shields to drop at an exact moment, then just line up his shots. That's still determinism! Instead he would subtly reprogram the simulation to account for random chance, and depend upon his skill to beat the odds against whatever the scenario might throw at him. Examining his changes to the code would reveal not a spoiled rotten, cheating, nepotism brat, but a confident leader with a fundamental difference in personal philosophy for approaching the Universe, and furthermore, who simultaneously argued that the Kobayashi Maru was a flawed exercise, while generously offering a patch to improve it. That's captain material.
That scene would have made me lose all respect for Kirk if I regarded it as canon, so I can't. I would never follow a man like that into the unknown, no matter his supposed tactical brilliance. No disrespect to any of the actors. It's just bad writing. Beyond that, I've got no problem with Kelvin beyond minor quibbles.
Android slaves in Picard conflicts with TNG canon.
Trapped tardigrades for propulsion in Disco conflicts with Voyager canon.
Those are my complaints.
Android slaves in Picard conflicts with TNG canon.
Yeah I hear ya on that. When you think about it, Picard S1 is the exact opposite of Measure of a Man. In Measure of a Man they start by thinking it's ok to disassemble Data against his will because he's a machine. But then there's a debate about whether he's sentient. It ends with Picard saying that since debatable that he's sentient there is no debate about whether or not to disassemble data because if they do that if there's even a possibility Data is sentient, they risk being horrible racist monsters and eventually creating a slave race.
Picard S1 starts with the Federation already creating a slave race AND disassembling the androids. And it's not that they're assuming they're just machines, they are overtly racist against the androids. So much so when the androids malfunction they don't even consider the possibility that it's a malfunction (run a level 5 diagnostic or whatever), they go straight to hating androids.
I get they were trying to do an anti-racist message (which it's Star Trek, that's what they should do) but by doing Measure of a Man backwards they didn't accomplish anything. Because it's later revealed the androids were indeed just malfunctioning machines. So the Federation was being racist against malfunctioning machines? What is anyone supposed to learn from this message? If your computer doesn't work right, don't be racist against computers... run a virus scan instead.
TNG: Android is a machine -> maybe he's sentient? -> disassembly might be racist? -> disassembly: NOPE!
Picard S1: Android are people -> people that the Federation is racist against -> no wait, they're actually malfunctioning machines -> ???
By doing it backwards they watered down the anti-racist message so much it's non-existent.
No checkbox for Wesley Crusher? 🤔
Checkbox for annoying minor character with limited screen time
How are you going to have two for Janeway but no mention of siskos war crimes or martial law. Smdh
Because I can live with it.
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I dislile TNG because Q. I will be arguing with dissenters in the comments
I disagree - you dislike TNG for completely different reasons.
Shit. You got me.