Me, furiously defending a thing from my adolescence, "this is for grown-ups!"
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where they contracted a virulent disease that make them so horny that they almost all fucked themselves to death? Very serious show, definitely had zero sense of humor.
Multiple such episodes, actually.
Always love fake Star Trek fans because you can always tell
There's always been goofy shit and comedic episodes
Hell, The Trouble with Tribbles is iconic and it's literally "Let's pelt Shatner with fuzzy balls for 20 minutes"
Goofy puppet episodes are a staple of good TV
Angel S5E14 - Smile Time
Stargate SG-1 episode 200
Lower Decks is just Family Guy for Trekkies. "Hey Boimler, remember that time Captain Picard was trolled by a Mariachi Band?" You know the fandom is desperate when they mistake fanservice for good writing.
More like Lower Standards
Worf is a great example of how the silly from those old shows is not the same as the silly from Lower Decks. He was practically a self-parody by the end of his run, but worf always took whatever nonsense was happening seriously, so the audience followed.
In Lower Decks, we see an angry Klingon try to Kill Boimler and everyone seems to think it's funny or they just don't care. It's one thing for the writers to make up silly shit for the characters to deal.with and another thing for the characters to take nothing seriously. I never felt like the stakes were real in Lower Decks. In TNG, when Data dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty develops sentience, that meant something to Data. Silly premise, firmly rooted by the stakes for the character.
Sir I protest, I am NOT a merry man!
I thought they didn't like Star Trek because it was woke commie trash?
somehow there are like dozens of essays out there trying to twist into pretzels an explanation that the Federation isn't communist or even socialist
Coming from the techchuds: they really believe it's just a hyper individualistic society with replicators so there's no scarcity. just made a magical "breakthrough" through capitalism. but also starfleet personnel get paid apparently because otherwise someone would steal the best land and housing. baby brained shit
and i'm so sick of: "how do you get a table at SISKO'S DAD'S RESTAURANT? HUH?? EXPLAIN THAT WOKE COMMIES??!" 
No different from a libertarian trying to explain how their ideology works I suppose
This person is obviously not a Star Trek fan. Because any serious Star Trek fan can tell you, Star Trek is at its best when it is campy.
: “I am the standing authority on geek culture. Now you see, all my media critiques will be all about how your geek culture is unpalatable to the cool kids. I am simply too cool to watch anything campy! Yes, I call myself a nerd, why are you laughing?”
A lady fucked a ghost
i love the goofy new trek stuff. its cool to explore the post-scarity utopian future in a way that isn't centered on sci-fi military porn.
very serious scifi for adults
And that's just TNG
TOS, DS9, VOY, and ENT all have their own tee-hees and ha-ha's
These shows were never 100% deadly serious
And even the serious episodes had jokes in them sometimes!
I don't like Star Trek at all, and like, I know its always been cheesy. That's half the point.
Exactly! It’s always been a bit of a soapy sitcom with a sci-fi base plot.
I didn't know who this person was until I saw this post and did a cursory search.
Thanks hexbear, I wish I can unlearn that.
I have only ever watched three seconds or his videos but I hate his whole motif with a passion. Pretending to be a jaded drunk is like anti funny and just embarrassing.
He also made a really crap boring 40 minute pilot for a spy/operator tv pilot based on nine books he wrote that must be dog shit too. Had a lot of the cliches that supposedly infuriate him in his reviews.
My personal conspiracy theory is that idiots like this get elevated by conservatives as a joke. Even they must know how vapid this guy is and they just love seeing him make a fool of himself.
elevated by conservatives as a joke
Unfortunately they're just like this.
I know, but I need a lil bit of cope sometimes.
Strange New Worlds has been kinda cheap so far this season and rhe last one was kinda mixed. But Muppet Star Trek is long overdue.
how's strange new worlds been? it was okay at first but I dropped interest when the best episode they did just ripped off The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and then they did another fuckin' submarine-war-in-space episode with the gorn which always bores me to absolute death
It has hits and misses.
This season, for example, had at the conclusion to a Gorn cliffhanger (which it sounds like you wouldn't have enjoyed) immediately followed by "Trelane crashes a wedding" which I personally thought was one of the better episodes to come out of this generation of Star Trek. But that was followed by "space zombies/silent hill" which I was unimpressed with.
It is very uneven, they tone shift without a clutch. Overall I'm happy with it, but I'm a little piggy who will happily consume most Star Trek slop, including whatever they're doing with this new series set in Starfleet academy.
I tapped out after 3 episodes. The dialogue and characterization was like a hideous west wing/marvel mashup.