If you’ve watched any Star Trek this week, feel free to drop the episodes/movies and any thoughts you might have on them in the comments!

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    19 days ago

    When my wife started her journey of watching Star Trek with me we started SNW before Discovery and she was lost and curious about the first episode of SNW and Pike’s inability to reveal certain details to Batel. So after the first season of SNW we watched DIS up until the split between the two shows. I told her after that DIS gets even stranger, and if she wants to continue with it we can, if she wants to skip it totally, we can. After finishing SNW she asked why we stopped with DIS. So we are now 6 episodes deep into season 3. She is still unsure how she feels about it, but wants to see the conclusion (I also have not seen the final season, and cannot recall if I watched season 4 or not).

    We also watched a handful of TAS, the more tribbles episode, the survivor(an alien copied a crew member’s husband), the infinite Vulcan (giant Spock), the magics of megas-tu (weird mythology episode), once upon a planet (homocidal computer running an amusement planet), Mudd’s passion (lovey dovey Spock).

    There are some good episodes of TAS and there are some Why?!? episodes, and lots of “I cannot imagine DeForest Kelley saying that” lines.

    We also watched the final episode of this seasons SNW.

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      19 days ago

      Oh, that would be confusing! I think I gave up before I got to the Discovery episode where he sees his future, but I had the benefit of seeing the TOS episodes and just extrapolated what happened from the flashbacks. If I hadn’t known that information it would have been a confusing first episode!

      I agree on TAS. The quality swings pretty wildly at times. I usually end up recommending it to people that liked TOS, with a few caveats!

      It’s disappointing that the SNW season went so fast, but at least we’re supposed to get 16 more episodes! I admit I was a little underwhelmed with the season overall, but it was still pretty fun. I’m thinking of putting up a season discussion post later on, so I’ll probably write more specifically there.

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        19 days ago

        I think I gave up before I got to the Discovery episode where he sees his future

        The opening scene of Discovery SNW has Pike eating breakfast with Batel and telling her he cannot discuss what is bothering him because she does not have clearance.

        I admit I was a little underwhelmed with the season overall, but it was still pretty fun.

        I enjoyed it. It was not as frantic as the previous season. it felt more TOS, which I enjoyed.

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          19 days ago

          The opening scene of Discovery has Pike eating breakfast with Batel and telling her he cannot discuss what is bothering him because she does not have clearance.

          Wasn’t that scene in the first SNW episode? Because I remember that one, I had been referring to the Discovery episode that they showed in the flashbacks for that episode. From what I’ve heard and what they said in SNW 1x10, he used the time crystals to see his accident.

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            19 days ago

            Yes, I meant SNW. And that is where she was confused (and me too apparently) about what was happening at the start of a brand new show.

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              18 days ago

              The way they set it up definitely assumed everyone had seen Discovery! It would have been nice if they had laid it out a little better.