Why do people like Star Trek?
I tried watching episodes and movies of several generations and none of them really appeal to me even though I really like sci fi.
The design and aesthetics put me off the most. Everything looks weird, from ships to weapons and even the aliens, everything is weird.
Sounds like you're a homosexual, try watching the new fallout tv show instead or something
I like both but nutrek is shit
You don't actually like sci fi, you like flashy spaceships and special effects.
If you're a nerd you just get it, the second you watch it, (the old skool cerebral shit, not nuTrek crap that isn't even Star Trek). There's a reason the term 'Space Cadet' exists.
Also another reason nuTrek is bullshit. Without the formal military discipline and pseudo-naval shit you only have the space shit, but not the 'cadet' part.
Cope
it was never good and you all have awful taste
dumbass
start with TNG, DS9 or like all mommy boy millenial/zoomers, Voyager
but we both know that you're STD material, aren't you
maybe this is more your speed
the flash has a lightsaber now?
>CW
like always on there, it got REALLY moronic after season 2ish
Man, I was thinking that after the slowmo the next scene would be them zipping all over the place like the living embodiment of lightning or something
Honestly, because it's comfy.
they never aired Star Trek on my country, when I first watched the original series (like 4 years ago)
I knew I was watching actors on silly costumes, on fake caves saying silly sci fi things
and I knew actors also knew this, they just didn't give a shit
but once I realize that the whole thing is made with so much sincerity and genuine good writing, it became so much easy to take it. it's such a comfy show
TOS was endearing but TNG is the real deal honestly, full of great characters and great episodes.
modern tv has so little dignity or respect for the viewer's intelligence
TOS was before my time, so it took me a while to warm to it considering its age and cheap sets, but I caught one of the good episodes that makes you think and loved it. That's how you know you're a fricking nerd.
Still, the enhanced version with respectful enhancements is easier to take for moderngays:
I'm not some purist who is going to get upset about a few screens in the background being upgraded. As long as there aren't Banthas walking around in the background with Jar Jar Binks shooting first, it's all good man.
>Still, the enhanced version with respectful enhancements is easier to take for moderngays:
I don't get it, a lot of the new effects don't even look better, they just look like the obvious CGI they are. Would rather stick with the original, so long as they get the point across that's good enough enough. I feel like more ingenuity went into them, as opposed to the endless modern cg spacescapes we've been seeing for years.
Start with The Next Generation season 2 and watch until the end of season 4. If you don't get it by then, you never will.
You have a low IQ.
because the show was based around theoretic science concepts of the time put into a kind of theater play.
>I tried watching episodes and movies of several generations and none of them really appeal to me
Same. It's basically as boring as some drama set in the navy. They're not doing anything I would ever aspire towards, and the aliens are so boring, just silly makeup.
I don't get it either. TNG was on TV endlessly when I was growing up, and I can't imagine a blander more sterile vision of the future. Everyone in their tidy little uniforms walking around the most drab interiors. And such dull, uninteresting characters. Could not relate at all.
It was like a world in which nothing wild or exciting had ever happened.
That's the point. The writers were pretty thoughtful about this. The idea is that in a future where cultural conflicts within the federation are effectively nonexistent, social homogeneity increases and the aspects of diverse peoplegroups disappear. Futuristic socialist monoculture. It's gonna be boring, and that's why the external threats or challenges posed by aliens and outsiders are what make up the meat of the conflicts. The 'slice of life' episodes are good too because it breaks up the externality of the conflict and fleshes out the characters. I really enjoyed TNG in particular because the 'slow/rational' aspect of the crew would be challenged in a fast and irrational way by the external challenges. I'd give it another shot as an adult.
The original star trek movies are genuinely entertaining and fun to watch. There are a couple duds by my measure but the Wrath of Khan is kino by any measure.
>when I was growing up
You must've been a real dumb kid then and probably didn't get much smarter either.
I grew up with Kirk and it was the best thing I've ever seen.
sounds like you were a pretty dumb kid with little imagination
shame really
Don't force yourself to like something.
Growing up I was always aware of ST since my dad had it on TV, although I paid zero attention to it.
Then comes high-school and TNG re runs are on. I decide to give it a go and immediately I fell in love with the world and characters and I have become a life long star trek fan.
I watched all of them up until enterprise. TNG I probably watched all the way through about 6 times worth.
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If I never watched Star Trek aside from one of the michael bay movies, where do I even start?
you zoomers really seem to have a hard time with original Trek
so put Kirk at the end of this viewing order
just remember, that's old school seasons
compared to currentday ADD half seasons it will take a long time to get one finished
I hate that "minimalist" (read: talentless) design shit. I thought that trend died years ago.
show us you preferred awesome designs then
its okay not to like things. camp and cheese appeal to some people, less to others, and trek is full of that while still having cool scifi ideas and episodes. if you only watched sporadically, you might caught some of the bad episodes that are bad and throughout all of trek. half of TOS is crappy for example. TNG has also at least 2 seasons worth of really bad episodes and some mediocre ones. its not perfect
>I really like sci fi.
name three sci fi you really like
also the trek movies, especially with the TNG cast are all poor trek movies
trek 1 is great, but slow
2,4,6 are great and more conventional movies
3 is pretty good and 5 is alright as a movie but bad trek too
the jj movies are all shit
Homeworld
The expanse
Dune (books)
In no particular order.
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It attracts pedophiles
If you have to ask why, then you probably lack a philosophical basis, an intellectual basis, or taste. This is not an insult, it's just fact.
Do you like speculative fiction at all? Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C. Clarke? Do you understand why Marcus Aurelius' ideas are so appealing? Do you appreciate a realistic and accurate depiction of the chain of command, scientific rigour, or the intrinsic nobility of being an engineer who makes it all possible, even if you're only a lowly technician or one that only does menial tasks? Do you understand why folk tales, history, art, music, theatre, and various other forms of cultural heritage and artistic expression are so important?
If you can answer yes to all of these things you wouldn't even have to ask why Star Trek, at least TNG, is an elevated form of scifi over all the other action scifi schlock.
Jannies b& me for posting offtopic somewhere or something but frick'em.
>why Marcus Aurelius' ideas are so appealing
why?
Because he was a philosopher king, one of the few rare rulers of history (that we know of) that aspired to timeless virtues we still idealize today.
He was a stoic and pragmatist, and in his writings you see core concepts similar to that found in eastern philosophy, branches that converged on similar ideas.
Mindfulness, noblesse oblige, the impermanence of the material, he didn't invent them but he espoused them.
Picard is based on the same archetype.
For what it's worth the opposite happened to me. Life long Trek fan but always avoided TOS it just looked too cheesy and honestly horrible. TNG was my favorite by far. Then I actually watched some of TOS and fell in love with it. It was cheesy but somehow it was more good than cheesy and Shatner was like I had never seen him. I've only known TV commercial Shatner and he just was so different on the show. TOS is the best Trek.