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Episode 5 is better though I think I know who caused the anomaly already. There is way too much melodrama in this show and the future tech is a bit much both of these things harm the show overall.
Ohhh? Do tell.
I burned through S4 without ever really speculating or going on forums at the time it dropped in the US, so I never heard about fan theories.
My hunch is
This is the only fan site I go on, well not entirely true as I occasionally go on AJB.
YouTube can be a mine field when it comes to spoilers, I avoided spoilers with this series.
Season 2 was a little weaker than the first, but not every season can have that hit rate. I began to notice a lot of episodes aped The Cage and even more aped Return of the Archeons after a while. Still very solid.
Top 5:
1. Mirror, Mirror
2. Patterns of Force
3. Bread and Circuses
4. A Piece of the Action
5. The Doomsday Machine
Season 3 was significantly weaker than either, but I still wouldn't call it bad. It has enough enjoyable episodes in there. I seemed to be sympathetic to some of the more derided ones - I even liked Plato's Stepchildren and Turnabout Intruder!
TOS overall is a 9/10. A truly great show in spite of it's various laughable flaws.
1. All Our Yesterdays
2. The Empath
3. Spectre of the Gun
4. Let This Be Your Last Battlefield
5. The Enterprise Incident
The Animated Series is quite good, particularly for a 70s cartoon. I'd argue Uhura is a stronger character here than she was on TV (sorry Sulu, you still didn't get much focus). The things holding it back are the lackadaisical facial expressions and the regulars voicing most of the alliens. And it gives TOS's constantly repeating musical cues a break too! I give it a 7/10.
Top 5:
1. The Counterclock Incident
2. Yesteryear
3. The Slaver Weapon
4. The Jihad
5. How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
I need to finish S3 of The Orville thought the first few episodes were great, the budget has certainly improved. Once I finish STD I will binge watch the remaining episodes of SNW I think the whole season is now available in the UK on Paramount+.
The last episode I watched was a month or go maybe more, I unsubscribed to Disney+ for a while. I will most likely watch the first few episodes again. The Season Premier was great, loved the score it really channeled James Horner.
Edited: Finished the series, overall terrible full of plot armour. Worst season of Star Trek by some distance.
The Motion Picture has something really interesting themes, but it's so damn slow. Yes movie, I understand you have a budget now. I still don't need the 30 minutes of VFX shots and characters reacting to the VFX shots. The story just doesn't support the 2 hour 15 minute runtime. I like Spock's arc, but much like with McCoy's wilderness years, what got them from the end of TOS to where they are now is never developed. Kirk's conflict with Decker is good, though how things end for Kirk flows awkwardly into TWOK. 4/10.
Still, despite the sequel being in effect a soft reboot, both explore the same idea of a midlife crisis in different stages. In TMP Kirk looks to recapture his glory days, while in The Wrath of Khan A more weary Kirk is confronted with all his mistakes from the past. Spock's characterisation also fits nicely with his epiphany in the prior film.
This is, very controversiallly, probably my favourite. The pacing is much, much better, the character work is fleshed out and doesn't play second fiddle to the effects, and there's real tension and excitement. Khan is such a fantastic villain.
The Search For Spock certainly seems lesser when compared to TWOK, but I certainly still like most of the movie. The Enterprise crew rebelling in the first half hour is incredibly fun. Sulu and Uhura even get some good moments! I did prefer Kirstie Alley's Saavik, but Robin Curtis isn't bad. The problem there is more a reset in terms of how the character is written.
and it helps to make Spock's return feel less cheap. As does the destruction of the Enterprise, which was something I wasn't spoiled on beforehand, and it did hit me.
The Voyage Home is very fun.
The Final Frontier is two or so more drafts away from being a good film.
5/10.
The Undiscovered Country is a fantastic sendoff for these characters.
and now he's an old man on the verge of retirement going back to an empty house.
Even the ending of TWOK can't beat this film's final scene for me. Pitch. Bloody. Perfect.
Sidenote: I like Beverley too, but I kind of enjoyed Pulaski's ice by the end of S2. A bit of a shame she's gone.
TNG’s pilot sort of suffered from that too. It was written as an hour long episode stretched out to two by the demand of the studio. Roddenberry added Q to the script but it was still pretty bloated.
Can't imagine Farpoint without Q, he was by far the best part.
Also, top 5s for TNG so far:
S1
1. Conspiracy
2. 11001001
3. The Big Goodbye
4. Symbosis
5. Datalore
S2
1. Q Who
2. Elementary, Dear Data
3. The Measure of a Man
4. A Matter of Honor
5. The Royale
(One minor continuity question)
Still, the fact he continued on long enough to make Admiral isn't what I would've expected. Of course, Undiscovered Country was 4 years off from being made when he appeared.
I also intend to buy this set when released next week...
https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/107356/startrekmotionpicturedirectorsedition4kuhdcomplete.html
The set gets an excellent review.
Spock's colour tone looks more realistic, only viewing on my mobile.
Natural was the word I was looking for, the Kirk image from 2009 his blood pressure looks sky high. The new images are a vast improvement.
After spending an undisclosed amount of time in a Klingon prison, fighting aliens, scaling a mountain in sub zero weather only to fight his doppelganger and bluff his way out of not getting phasered, I'd imagine his blood pressure would be a little on the high side. :))
:)) you make some very good points, plus Kirk had Romulan ale in his system.