Manabi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was more like this one where they use an instrumental version of the opening theme, but as I recall the music was more along the lines of Voyager’s opening theme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Robert Beltran kept upping his salary demands each season hoping they’d fire him, since they were giving him so little acting to do. But they saying yes, so he stayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah someone being non-binary or whatever and no one caring or commenting on it at all is a lot more progressive and meaningful. TOS did that really well with Uhura on the bridge. She was a black woman and absolutely no one on the ship acted like that was remotely odd. It sent a very powerful message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also felt like it was shoehorning in all the progressiveness for the sake of being progressive which sends the exact opposite message than they hoped for. The crew was so amazingly diverse representing so many different things that any adult would look at it and go “the odds of all these different sexualities/etc. being on one ship at once are so improbable as to be impossible.” That makes it feel like pandering, not being progressive. That could work for kids, just being able to see someone like them on screen helps a lot, but Discovery is very much not meant for kids to watch.

  Basically they tried too hard and didn’t understand what they were doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s part of why bringing in Seven of Nine helped the series a lot. Exploring how she adapted to being a human, when she’d been a Borg since she was a child, was much more philosophical and led to a lot of really great episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part of Voyager’s problem was that the writers had absolutely no clue what to do with Kes. You had one of the main characters being just kind of there and largely useless. Once they brought Seven of Nine in and dropped Kes Voyager got a lot better. The writers had a clear understanding of how to write for Seven and she had a ton of character development over the final four seasons. Hell, I’d even say they did a better job with Neelix once they got rid of Kes, since they couldn’t keep falling back on “Neelix is super jealous of Kes interacting with any male on the crew” BS they did a lot of. (And dear god was that annoying as hell. And I like Voyager!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of them hold up pretty well when binging them, although I do fairly slow binges, maybe watching 3 - 4 episodes a day at most. There are episodes I dislike and I simply skip those when binging, which helps a lot. (For example DS9 is my favorite Trek but I really, really hate Vedik/Kai Wynn and skip the earlier episodes where she’s being an annoying bitch. I do watch the later episodes where she’s a lot more important, but I still hate her character so much. For TNG I skip all of season 1 and most of season 2.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when Enterprise was airing some fan took the opening video and put it to an instrumental instead of the song and it was awesome as hell. Really wish I’d saved a copy of that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The scenes in the isolation chamber in underwear applying gel to each other were totally unnecessary and unpleasant to watch, especially nowadays. They have aged very poorly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually liked the Temporal Cold War stuff and the Xindi arc, but that fourth season was so damn good. I wish we’d gotten at least a couple more seasons like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when Enterprise was airing some fan took the opening footage and added instrumental music to it instead and it was soooooo much better. Worked wonderfully. Really wish I’d saved a copy of it, because I can’t find it anymore.