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Terry Matalas concept for season 2 was good its just the execution I have issues with, I have bought all of the Picard seasons on Blu-ray, I will rewatch them they are decent overall compared to STD which I will never buy unless I see a season cheap in a bargain bin.
Pretty much all of them, this one just doesn't feel worth it to me whenever I try it. I just can't care about the characters in SNW, it has a more 'bang average US network TV show' feel to it than most of the Trek shows I remember.
Funnily enough I spotted the '09 Star Trek movie on Prime the other night and gave it a whirl as it had been a while, it's still pretty great I think. And then I noticed Picard is back on Prime, I had a little look at one of the more fun episodes, and when you see ST09 and Picard together, it really is noticeable just how bad the effects are in Picard! :D
I mean I noticed it at the time, but you'd think a new TV show might get close to the quality of effects of a 15 year-old movie, however it's nowhere near. I guess I can't be too critical as I know they didn't have a big budget and had a lot of ship shots to do, but they're only just good enough really. Same with SNW, every time I've seen it I've thought the ships look a bit poor.
However, on a more positive note I've really been enjoying the Lower Decks comics, especially Ryan North's run.
I liked Lower Decks, I thought that's probably the best of the recent Trek shows to be honest.
But yeah this is his best episode so far. I like seeing this early version of Kirk trying to grapple with command in a critical situation, and while things come together in the end I like that we don’t see Kirk fully realizing why he succeeded, as in he doesn’t clue in that Spock is a major factor into how he shapes into a great captain. Of course, Bones is completely absent too, so maybe that moment of realization doesn’t click for him until he has both of them at his side and he realizes “I NEED these two with me”.
Something is really off with season 3 of SNW. Too much relationship drama, too much comedy. I thought season 2 was much better, with a palpable sense of danger. And the casting is...can I say meh? If the show lost, say, Number One, would anyone care?
Compare TNG, which, when Denise Crosby died, you felt it. And then every time she came back in some temporal loop or whatever, the loss was palpable.
I think Star Trek, like Star Wars and of course the MCU (which I gave up on long ago, around Captain America 1), needs a bit of a rest. Arguably, a rest is the thing Bond does best and that keeps it going!
And the worst thing is that it suffers from logic problems- I don't mind most movie logic, but if you can spot the lack of logic while you're actually watching it and not just when you're thinking about it the next day, then that's a problem. In this one Kirk sacrifices his life to save the ship; but why? The ship is falling to Earth- just get everyone to abandon ship and they'll all be fine; they're home. If the Enterprise were on its own in the middle of nowhere and there was no other way for everyone to survive and get home (as in Wrath of Khan) then it would make sense, but it's not. Is he doing it to save whatever is below? If he is it's not mentioned.
And the second thing: Bones works out that he needs some of Khan's genetically engineered superblood to save Kirk, so he turfs one of Khan's genetically superior mates out of his cryotube to freeze Kirk and wait for Spock to capture Khan so they can get some of his superblood. Except... the guy in the cryotube also has superblood. Just take some of his...?
I'm sure these are faults which Trekkies have debated endlessly since the film came out, but it's not something I've seen; and the problem is these questions appear while you're watching it. Especially the Kirk sacrifice thing, as Spock actually tells everyone to abandon ship, so we're made aware it's an option. I found that a big problem; along with just not really feeling that Kirk and Spock were good enough friends yet for the whole story to hinge on their relationship.
It's okay, but easily the weakest. Thankfully Beyond is next, and that's way better.