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Have finished watching the first season.
... that got a second season?
... and Firefly didn't?

... *sigh* ...

The season closer was bizarre. Nothing particular wrong with the ship full of C20 cryo corpses, opportunity for compare and contrast, fair enough. But as the last ep of the season? And what actually happens? Whole lot of nothing.

If the story is the cryo people then compare it to Tochwood season 1 episode 10 Out of Time, which packed a whole hell of a lot more personal reaction into a lot less space, and had them actually interacting with the series regulars in a way that revealed and illuminated them. Roughly the same plot, on a different timescale, but a billion times better. It actually resolved things as well as bringing them up, characters had a journey, it was interesting. TNG's version? Entirely not interesting. Nobody had an arc, they just had a being lost in the future. And then they bumped into regular ships operations and totally made no sense at all. Just the bit where they could use the comm panel to call the Captain directly and take the turbolift to the bridge, or the fact they're on a ship of 2000 people including a security department and yet they're left unsupervised. The Enterprise has previously transported hostile alien delegations... which, admittedly, got out their quarters and did damage, so hey, maybe the incompetence is pervasive. But why is it supposed to be convincing? Makes no sense. And then on the bridge the Captain gave an order for the guy to be removed and two yellow suits went to grab him and... stood there staring at the viewscreen while allowing him to interrupt the most sensitive contact in the last 50 years? What, the Captain has to be looking at you before you do his orders? WTFingF?

It would be nice if they ever remembered the whole thing where they're on a ship with crew and procedures and chains of command and presumably the ability to survive this long.

So then there was this Romulan thing. Big build up... no, wait, kind of crappy buildup that thought it was big. And then... a conversation. Where nothing happens. And Worf interrupts his Captain.



It's not that I think only military type backgrounds should be able to write military type SF, but it would be nice if they at least roleplayed military sometime.

I guess competence would make it less dramatic.


So the last episode was frustrating, the episode before that was actively bad and threw away a perfectly good idea in forty minutes (that we know could sustain years of Stargate and a bunch of 90s conspiracy series), nothing seems to have consequences and it's just kind of a mess.


And yet, as far as I recall, I love Star Trek.

At least with Highlander I can remember the episode where it starts actually being the show I liked. With ST:TNG I have yet to discover it.