The drubbing of the Michelle Yeoh-led streaming film now holds a dubious title—one that reflects something much more interesting than simple schadenfreude.
That’s probably because it’s a mediocre movie overall and a horrible star trek movie.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate it. It had some good bits and pieces, some interesting ideas. But they were cobbled together into a script with the worst dialogue of any trek effort I’ve ever seen. And the fucking accents? Absurdity. Yeoh’s character had this weird one that made the character feel stilted and the “nanokin” accents were just insulting to their respective real world versions.
The action was meh for the most part, though one of the bits with the special gear over the box was kinda fun until the end where a plot point made it turn into nonsense. I avoid spoilers where possible despite thinking spoilers don’t advisor actually spoil anything, so that’s vague as hell, but when you see the movie (if), you’ll get what I mean as soon as you see the bit I’m talking about.
I watched it with my wife and kid because my kid is slowly delving into trek, and this is the newest thing. I said afterward that, as a sci-fi action movie it was okay, I’ve seen a lot worse. But it wasn’t a star trek movie. It was a trek themed movie where they used catchwords from trek canon to make you think of trek, without delivering on the actual feel of any of it.
It definitely deserves to be the lowest rated trek project, and I hate the whole Kelvin thing.
But, again, I didn’t actually hate Section 31. I hated sections of it lol.
Thinking about it as I’m writing this, what it most reminded me of is fan fiction. It was just bad fan fiction. At moments, it also felt like they were going for a ttrpg feel akin to what the d&d honor among thieves movie did. Only in this case, it wasn’t done well.
I dunno, I’m rambling a bit. I think what I’m getting at is that if you’re forced to watch it, there are some decent bits, but you’ll likely be angry at whoever forced you to watch it despite that
Sounds to me like it’s the TROS for Star Trek
Somehow… the fans… never returned.
It’s a bad movie.
It would be a bad movie even if it weren’t Star Trek.
As Star Trek, it seems like an even worse movie.
Stop making slop. If you don’t want to put the time in to give established IP the attention it deserves, get new IP.
I stopped watching Discovery after a season and a half, I found it grating and unwatchable, it was just simply awful. I’ve enjoyed Strange New Worlds, except the singing episode, that one I didn’t making it through the first 10 minutes. I’d like to think the failure of Section 31 will teach them something, but it probably won’t, I mean the other brain trust is about to force another Daisy Ridley Star Wars on us. le sigh.
You need to try The Lower Decks. The only nu-trek show that actually does Star Trek right.
loud, shrill and annoying, made it 4 or 5 eps. liked the crossover with snw though
You’d have to make it past season 1. They tone down the “Adult animated comedy” Schtick quite a bit and just becomes actual Star Trek.
I also stopped watching Discovery (but I think I’ll go back specifically for Tig Notaro). I was thinking I’d found a kindred spirit. However, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds is amazing and you’re depriving yourself from enjoying good things.
What was wrong with Daisy Ridley? Aside from the weird swerve at the end where they made her boring instead of cool.except the singing episode, that one I didn’t making it through the first 10 minutes
I remember when Buffy: The Vampire Slayer did a singing episode and everyone went nuts for it. Probably helps that the Buffy cast was already a bunch of shameless drama nerds itching for exactly this chance to shine. Then it just became a trope within the Sci-Fi / Teen Fantasy genre that kept getting well received because of course a bunch of Hollywood B/C-list actors are going to ham it up the first chance they get.
But I did not get the sense that the SNW cast actually knew how to sing. Like, did they rehearse this beforehand? It felt so amateurish by comparison. The lyrics were also just so flat. It feels like you shouldn’t need to work that hard to do a Star Trek musical number. But that episode was painfully phoned in, particularly given how hard they went in others.
the other brain trust is about to force another Daisy Ridley Star Wars on us
Daisy Ridley was the best thing to come out of The Sequels. She and Adam Driver carried that mess for three movies as it collapsed around them. If you got rid of everything but Daisy Ridley, I’d be happy to see her get another bite at the apple. She’s still got to feed slop to that fucking Mouse, though.
Star Trek was been dead since Discovery. It got so bad even the normies can see it’s bad.
ive queued this up into my library but im really having to force myself to watch it. even the description sounds tedious.
I thought it was pretty bad but not quite as bad as Discovery.
Maybe the brand has lost some of its dedicated fanbase
