Sorry, it's really funny to me that we're watching your Star Trek obsession unfold. It's a great franchise. I love it, and ur artwork is great!
THANKS lmao it was inevitable……… i do think its funny that you say obsession though ive posted it Twice here like. you are not wrong but i think i managed to spare most of you by relegating my Thoughts to my close friends story
theres too much star trek media though i fear ive condemned myself
crazy how dana terrace made gus and hunter star trek fans and then made an o’brien must suffer joke by having hunter’s halloween costume be “chief engineer o’bailey”
Being the only one in my friendgroup watching Trek. On one hand I get to amuse/torment them with my Trek knowledge. On the other hand, no one to go to Trek cons with :’)
I've tried time and time again to watch Star Trek: Picard. I am a hardcore Trekkie; I've watched almost every episode there is - of Voyager, TNG, TOS, as well as every existing episode of Star Trek: Discovery, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds.
I'm still working my way through DS9, and thoroughly loving it.
Star Trek: Picard is dark in a way that just doesn't sit right with me. DS9 was dark - or perhaps gritty was a better word. But still, there was hope, of a better future, of a life of freedom for the Bajoran people after the Occupation.
With Voyager, marooned lightyears from home, there were dark moments, for sure. Dire, desperate moments, like in The Year of Hell, and the series finale. But still, there was that enduring light of hope - Janeway continued her mission to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where the Federation had never gone before. And she did it all in the face of improbable odds, powered-up enemies like the Borg, and meddling cosmic entities like Q.
But Star Trek: Picard seems dark in a hopeless, lightless manner. It exists on an Earth I wouldn't want to live on, where many 21st century problems are explored through the metaphors of altered timelines and anti-android laws. Even Q is not immune to the dismal realities of a universe where anything and everyone can and will change to become harder, meaner, bitterer versions of their hopeful, starry-eyed younger selves.
What Star Trek: Picard has done to TNG is something I honestly hope will never happen to DS9 or Voyager. As much as I'd like to return to those characters, I like the way things were left off in both Voyager and TNG. (I haven't reached the end of DS9 yet.) I adore the image of Picard finally joining his officers in a poker game after all those years in All Good Things, and I was perfectly content to spend my childhood imagining him growing old and upholding Federation ideals at Starfleet Academy, where he might retire to teach, his friends and colleagues stopping by every now and again for a glass of wine and some good-natured banter and reminiscing.
TL;DR: I can't get into Star Trek: Picard because it's hopelessly dark and is nothing like the Star Trek I know and love.
But have ya ever joined a existing fandom- a community that’d been around… since before you were even born by a decade or more… and suddenly find yourself in the fandom- And- and it’s not you’ve been part of it for years- as long as these other people who have been children and now are becoming GRANDPARENTS themselves…
And yet- you feel YOU FEEL like you’ve waited just as long as these people have for this one THIS ONE moment to finally happen? That you’ve been through what these other people feel? That you can chant and hug and scream and yell and cry with these people cuz it feels HUST AS IMPORTANT and emotional to you like you’ve been waiting 30 years too?
Because that’s what I’ve been soo happy about- it took 30 years for this one thing to happen and I feel I’ve been there since that too and Ute I. Only got into the fandom 5-6 years ago and yet- it feels like I’ve been waiting even longer than that, like I can feel where they are coming from
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BROIGTH HER VACK, THEY BROUGHT THE ENTERPRISE D BACK BITCHES IM SOO GODAMN HAPPY UM CRYINF AGAINNNNN