I don’t particularly care for this plot.
Q is omniscient, so he already knew that our history is rife with examples of good people and bad people, brilliant and ignorant… and he comes to judge a fairly utopian future society of a unified, post-capitalism, post-religion Earth? My dude, they’re doing fine.
Someday in the not too distant future, we’ll have the technology to swap actors in and out of roles in movies. Not just the masking stuff we see with deep fakes, but fully alter the timing and dialog and reactions.
No. Anything JJ Abrams has ever touched doesn’t count.
That episode had an interesting premise but I hated the interactions between Will and Thomas.
The nerve of cmd. Riker using his rank to bully Thomas.
And in the end, Will is like: “I have all our stuff, but here, I’ll give you one item. Have a nice life.”
It was absurd.
I honestly think that music did more to hurt the show than anything else. It was the musical equivalent of starting EVERY EPISODE with a voiceover saying: “we hate all that old star trek. This is the new WB Network Star Trek, with 70% more down home, Midwestern American values! Yeehaw!”
Reimagining the Gorn:
Writer 1: remember the Gorn?
Writer 2: are you talking about the guy in the lizard costume?
Writer 1: yup.
Writer 2: that was so stupid.
Writer 1: …
Writer 1: okay. But what if we redid the Gorn and made them scary?
Writer 2: scary?
Writer 1: sure. Like … remember the movie ‘Alien’?
Writer 2: of course.
Writer 1: let’s do that.
Writer 2: do what?
Writer 1: let’s do Alien.
Writer 2: I’m not sure that I underst-
Writer 1 scribbling furiously: shut up! We’re doing Alien.
… ?
He has escaped + shift + ZZ’ed this mortal coil.
“delightful”
Not so much.
Yeah. It was the weakest writing in the show’s history, including the entire Lore introduction.