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LeeC:
Lower Decks season 3 release announcement poster! Considering how Rutherford's scenes went down in S2 E10, this is BIG! Also a great Homage to the Search for Spock poster too.



@Thrillho:
Rewatching TNG I have same complaint. I will say I really got into DS9 when Worf showed up. "Way of the Warrior" got me back into DS9 when it came out. I remember having a DS9 comic about Klingons when I was a kid after seeing the it (comics for kid LeeC was exceedingly rare because my mom thought they were pointless). If you want likeable and complex characters, DS9 is the way to go. I will say, I am rather liking the crew of the Enterprise in Strange New Worlds, but they only have a single season under their belt where-as DS9 has 7 seasons of these characters building on each other and themselves. Meanwhile TNG, while great sci-fi philosophizing, has rather weak characters and hardly any character growth. It pales in comparison to DS9. As a kid I always liked Troi and wished they did better by her as a character. They kind of started to in season 7 but it was too little too late. Rewatching as an adult and wow she had the shortest end of the stick, same with Geordie. I always skip the first two seasons to be honest. TNG season 1 and 2 was and still is cringe to watch. It does get better after Gene Roddenberry was less involved. Honestly, Trek is better when he's out of the writers room. Even TOS's most iconic episodes were not written by him. Same with Wrath of Khan.

That all said, I want to take a minute and really gush about DS9. It has the 2 greatest villains in all of Star Trek. Both of which you just absolutely love to hate and when they show up you just want to curse at the TV! Gul  Dukat, and Kai-motherfucking-Winn. Both just self righteous terrible people doing terrible things to everyone on opposite sides of the conflict. Also, just so much Jeffrey Combs. Like almost meme levels of him. He plays so many characters and usually villains.

BenRG:
It's worth remembering the complaints about Gene Roddenberry being something of a sex pest that started to filter out after he'd been dead for about a decade. Just about every actress who'd ever appeared in a major role in a live-action Star Trek TV show during his lifetime have alleged that he expected sexual favours as a price of the job. Given that he rigidly controlled early TNG scripts, characterisations and even costume designs, I don't think that you could expect a man with such misogynist behaviours towards real women to show any kind of an enlightened view towards female characters.

I'm pretty sure that the whole thing about Ferengi not thinking that females need clothing was basically to give him (another) excuse to have near-naked women on the set for him to drool at.

LeeC:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Jul 2022, 04:02 ---I'm pretty sure that the whole thing about Ferengi not thinking that females need clothing was basically to give him (another) excuse to have near-naked women on the set for him to drool at.

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I agree, thankfully DS9 corrected that eventually. Moogie is the best.

Akima:
Nichelle Nichols died on 30th July, still going boldly ahead of us. I'm sorry to see her go, as a character, a person, and a pioneer for actors from ethnic minorities.

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