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The X axis is clearly time. “Some metric” ought to be on the Y axis.

Seriously, had I seen a gay Klingon on TNG I would have completely gone with it because TNG had (mostly) great writers that would make some awesome episode about it that would make you think and talk about it for days.

Thank goodness, nothing like that. There's nothing to think or talk about, other than to shout down bigots. His relationship is built up in the background of unrelated episodes, given no more focus or fanfare than any other character's relationship. No one so much as says "huh, a gay Klingon". It's a non-issue. He's just matter-of-factly gay. In other words, they handled it perfectly.

Then schedule an email to be sent to his brother in 7 years, reminding him to check his fire alarms...

A little long, so I listened to it at 1.5x speed. I think it only enhanced the character.

"I'm so sincerely mad about this right now! EEUR!"

Then why care so much? Obviously I’d like Trek to maintain a sufficient audience to keep getting produced, but beyond that I really don’t care. I want it to be good, not popular. I’ve loved plenty of shows that stayed pretty niche.

So to actually speak to quality: Kurtzman Trek has absolutely been a mixed bag, but I appreciate that he tries a lot of different approaches to the franchise and seems to be pretty hands off on most of them. It means we occasionally get some dreck like Section 31, but also some great stuff like SNW and, so far at least, Academy.

I got a note like this once (minus the condom). When I had parked in the morning, there was an inch of snow on the ground so I could only park a reasonable distance from the person beside me. By afternoon, the snow had melted and the lines were visible. Sometimes people are just looking for a reason to be mad.

I believe I initially also chose merch sales

Ah yes, the true worth of a piece art lies in how many action figures it sells. Silly silly me.

Not with inflation

Yes with inflation.

But sure, you might be able to find a list that places it in second place instead, depending on their method. That hardly defeats my point. Are you really trying to argue that Into Darkness performed badly?

Nothing else you said is relevant if we're judging Trek installments based on viewership, which is the metric you chose.

Kurtzman was writer and producer on the highest grossing Star Trek film of all time. Popularity is a shitty proxy for quality, but if that's what we're going with, I think Kurtzman comes out looking pretty okay.

It’s extremely telling that, for all the nonsense people are finding to condemn Academy for, I haven’t seen anyone leveling "Mary Sue" complaints at Caleb.

He’s been living on the streets since he was a child, but he has a heart of gold. He’s great at hand to hand combat. He’s an expert hacker and can effortlessly penetrate Starfleet computer systems. He’s the best debater in class by a mile. The school chancellor is obsessed with him. The visiting space princess falls instantly in love with him.

But instead of ragging on the objectively OP main character, it's all about Ake and how she sits wrong. Meanwhile I'll never stop hearing about how perfect Michael Burnham apparently was, even if her series showed her to be a perennial fuck up. The double standard is legitimately insane.

I wont say too much to spoil it, but my feelings on Picard's first season is that it started out with a huge amount of promise, then moved at a strangely slow pace for long enough that there wasn't any chance to properly resolve everything at the end. So a mess, but it had ambition and even those messier episodes had some lovely moments.