I like the show, but it keeps nostalgia bating and it’s getting annoying. The balance of terror what-if was cool. I don’t think I will ever get over that they chose to make a boy band joke instead if doing klingon opera in subspace rhapsody. The wedding episode was fun but after watching it, annoying.
a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half
I greatly enjoyed this season (no really, the good ones are so good), but I must agree here about the nose dive.
That documentary episode is probably my least favorite Star Trek episode of all time.
And that finale? Too much unwelcome Mass Effect 3 energy in this ending for me to enjoy.
Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!
Absolutely my least favorite treknobabble of all time.
Season 2 was already meh
Somewhere in Season 3 is where I finally completely lost interest. It’s been slowly coming for me for a while. It wasn’t even a conscious decision, I stopped watching mid episode and haven’t cared to start again. I don’t even really remember what was going on (some Gorn related thing). At some point I had pulled out my phone and stopped paying attention.
Apparently, this season seems to be controversial, some people really love it and that’s great. Not here to hate on it or try to take that away from them. But I think post Discovery Trek really isn’t for me and I’m just feeling done.
My interest was lost in the Holo deck episode and I havent been back. Does that episode get better?
to me it’s more like post Enterprise that I just can’t get into anymore. Time to time I try again though, hoping one day I will magically start to like them.
They boiled down the essence of Enemy Mine into a Gorn episode, fuck the haters this season was excellent.
Zammis approves.
Terrarium was pawbably the only genuinely great episode this season, and it still didn’t really do anything new as there have been several Enemy Mine episodes in past series (The Enemy - TNG, Dawn - ENT). This season also had pawbably the worst SNW episode to date in Four-and-a-Half Vulcans, which was just all kinds of problematic.
I found four and a half vulcans the weakest episode in my opinion, but a friend of mine loved the episode. My biggest problem with the episode, other than why was it really necessary, was actually pointed out by Kirk in the episode. They didn’t actually even act like Vulcans they were just dicks, Pike especially was uncharacteristically rude and would have never treated anyone the way he treated Spock in the episode.
Most of the season scored between 5-7/10 for me. Terrarium was an 8.5, Vulcans was a 4, This is Starfleet was a 3, but if it was filmed differently could have been so much better. I really this that This is Starfleet had one of the better stories and checks a lot of “Classic Trek” boxes for me.
Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.
Season three was freaking amazing!
It’s like the album your favorite band made when they were trying to get kicked off the label and did all the dumb shit they always wanted to do but didn’t have the money.
Season three is some of the best ST ever made
I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.
Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel’s storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.
I don’t understand why they didn’t just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.
I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives…leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them…as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.
None of this “Universal Star-child” bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.
It’s usually a bad sign when they have to say that.
The only way anything can be better is when the majority of everyone says it’s better.
Saying it out loud doesn’t make it better.
I, for one, loved Season 3, NGL. 🤷🏼♂️
