Buffer time is definitely the episode where I stopped doubting they knew how to handle trek.
Having grown up with the original series and TNG, I think star trek works better as a cartoon.
The Animated Series has a few good episodes and include the sort of thing you simply couldn’t do in live action at the time.
I was disappointed in the episode called “The Soft Weapon”. Its based on a short story by Larry Niven. They had Kzinti in the episode, but replaced the Peirson’s Puppeteer with Spock. Cowards. Animate a three legged alien with two heads and an impossibly sexy human female voice.
Renamed as “The Slaver Weapon”
Haven’t read the story. The episode had an interesting concept, but was just kinda goofy. Might have been cool to see them get more recognition in one of the newer series.
I was hoping for more Barkleys but I ended up with a Mary Sue in a corrupt nepotism story line instead.
Still, a delightful show. Gotta watch for S02 DVD sales.
Robot/Bird sex in a waterfall.
Buffer time is definitely the episode where I stopped doubting they knew how to handle trek.
Interesting, I almost gave up on the show after the buffer time episode. Watching a Starfleet captain create a timesheet-obsessed toxic work environment made it seem like the show would be too much “The Office in space”.
I’m glad I gave it a little more time, though, it definitely picks up for me after the first half-season or so.
TNG infamously had an episode about an asshole captain who, among other things, made arbitrary and annoying changes to the scheduling system. Did you feel the same way about it then? It just seems to me that bureaucratic and management difficulties are a totally plausible problem to deal with in starfleet.
I found it to be just too not ST, I didn’t like it, less of the socialist utopia and cartoonist characters.
I never got past or even possibly through the first episode.
I’d say the characters stay cartoonish up to the end, but it’s not any bit less of an utopia (in fact, it’s less militaristic and more social than TNG).
The first episode feels pretty different from the rest, I also don’t really like it. It finds its footing super quickly compared to other shows though.
They brought over a writer from Rick and Morty, so it definitely shows through the first season. It finds its own identity by season 2.
Oof, I never made it past the first 2 episodes. Maybe I should give the third a try, but damn, they were trying so hard to be… I don’t know, edgy? Crude? It just seemed to be made for a different audience, which is fine, it just wasn’t for me. But I liked Academy, so what do I know…
