Thread 212783050

So I've just started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm only on episode two and they're already fucking.
I understand there's basically a religion behind this show, so what am I entering into? Are some of the series/films better than others?

Got a problem with people fucking, buddy?

>>212783050 (OP)
sounds hot, why are you complaining

>>212783117
>>212783128
Because they're only hinting at it without supplying the goods. I want to see some tits and asses.

>>212783169
oh got it, that sucks then, nothing worse than implied sex without showing anything

>>212783169
it was on network television

Be aware that seasons 1 and 2 are ROUGH, theres some good episodes here and there but it really doesnt pick up until 3.

>>212783117
Robots can't consent

>>212783345
>there is (singular) some good episodes (plural) here and there
season 2 has a ton of good to great episodes. "season to is bad" is a meme. the worst thing about it is pulaski.

>>212783366
Data is legally an officer, he's granted status as a person by the Federation and Starfleet (Never mind that they backtrack on this a bit later on and have to discuss it).

>>212783050 (OP)
Seasobs 1 and 2 are very campy. They are more like the original series in tone and presentation, but they do have good episodes and important plot elements. Season 3 is where the show hits it's stride.
>Are some of the series/films better than others?
The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine are generally reguarded as the best. The original series is also very good but it is even more dated than the 80s/90s stuff, however the movies from the original series are the best, and the production value makes them much less dated than the original series tv show. The Next Generation movies suck and are not worth watching.

Voyager and Enterprise are both enjoyable if you want something to watch after TNG/DS9, but neither are really on par with their forebears other than some stand out episodes.

>>212783345
>>212783050 (OP)
tasha yar is one of my least favourite characters on the show, she is a watered down version of worf, thankfully she leaves pretty early

>>212783475
Pulaski is great and a more engaging character than Crusher ever was.

>>212783854
>Enterprise

basically gene roddenberry was a known coomer and pervert

>>212784214
iirc season one were still using leftover scripts from the never made Star Trek II series, also early installment weirdness.

>>212784214
You don't know the half of it. There's a hilarious story about how once he started going really in depth about how huge the Ferengi's cocks were and describing their insane sex positions until everyone in the writers' room begged him to stop. There's also rumors he might've sexually harassed Teri Garr during the filming of the episode Assignment Earth because she adamantly refused to talk about Star Trek whenever it was brought up in interviews.

>>212783050 (OP)

That episode is a homage to an episode from TOS in which the crew is affected by some contagious force that takes away their inhibitions giving the actors a chance to act crazy. Its not at all representative of the TNG series at all. They dont do any fucking.

>SILENCE
Also episode one was absolute kino, does this guy come back at some later point?

>>212784348
only like 17 times

>>212784175
I love Pulaski but she's Bones in a skirt. She's great for the time she's in but I prefer a new take on the role for the long run.

>>212784200
IT'S BEEN A LONG ROAD

first two series were pretty bad, but it gets better

>>212784874
What causes the final season to fall off so hard?

>>212783634
>>212783366
Data's brain isn't fully formed! His frontal cortex is still growing! Tasha Yar is a rapist re-enacting all the rape she endured on the rape planet!

>>212784874
>series
this is an american website, abdul. shape up or ship out.

>>212783050 (OP)
Gene Roddenberry was a Satanist and in an interview openly discussed looking at the panties of his daughters when they bent over

His sexual depravity and satanic lust is all over early TNG. From showing in Who Watches the Watchers the very idea of religion as repulsive, to the countless sex and homosexuallity on planets like Risa.

Trek fans will always wave these things away, but it is at the core of the entire series.

>>212783050 (OP)
TOS, TNG and DS9 are the good shows. Voyager and Enterprise used to be the bad ones but given the current state of the franchise they're alright in retrospect. Anything made later is garbage.
As for the movies, the TOS movies are generally good, even the bad one is kinda fun. The TNG movies are generally bad. The Abrams ones are dumb entertainment at best and garbage at worst. Again, whatever garbage is made after after is best forgotten.

>>212785089
Writers and actors were checking out. It has a few notoriously bad episodes like Beverlys grandmas ghost episode, and Geordie's mummy issues episode.
Luckily the finale is god damn perfect, so the whole season manages to coast by on that. There's still a good chunk of at least par TNG episodes in there too

>>212785089
they were shooting the movies and everyone was tired and overworked

Gene was a real horn dog.

>>212784348
Yes, but fair warning he becomes more comedic relief/Picard's butt buddy later on. Also the second Q episode is terrible.

>>212783050 (OP)

https://youtu.be/aiEGcTuMgow?si=641U7_11HeRri0Nw

!!!FACT!!!

>>212784874
Pick any episode of season 7 and you'll notice how almost everyone is checked out and look like they want to take a nap. Nowadays prestige television is like 8-10 episodes but back then it was 24. Everyone just wanted to be done.

>>212785976
We got 24 episodes and it was YEARLY, that's what's crazy. Now you don't even get that 8 episode season yearly, you have to wait two or even three years. It's a wonder people are able to maintain interest in the story of these fucking tv shows.

>>212786134
Do they maintain interest? I lost interest in stranger things years ago. A bunch of other shows too. By the time they come back around I just don't give a crap anymore. If it's a movie series, I'll be onboard but not a tv season

>>212786134
>>212786254
House of the Dragon was 2 years and season 2 was complete shit. It really is a travesty.

>>212785976
>Pick any episode of season 7 and you'll notice how almost everyone is checked out and look like they want to take a nap. Nowadays prestige television is like 8-10 episodes but back then it was 24. Everyone just wanted to be done.

This is because back then the goal was to crank out as many episodes as fast as possible so that a show could be syndicated with approx. 75 being the standard number of episodes to qualify.

This is why shows like ST:TNG and The X-Files would make 20'ish episodes per season and usually peak in popularity during their 3rd and 4th, you can also include Community in there as well, but quickly drop in quality after they qualify for syndication with everyone getting royalties and anything after that is just gravy, so no fucks are given and why no TV show should be longer than 5 seasons as the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you end up with Games of Thrones and how bad its last few seasons were.

!!!FACT!!!

>>212786537

https://youtu.be/tmpU8EayETI?si=WRTlk12ox_09qQ8T

!!!FACT!!!

>>212783050 (OP)
Well that next generation isn't going to breed itself.

>>212783366
Does an android have a dick? Can it cum? If it does, does it have a little jizz tank? Who refills the jizz tank?

>>212789478
What part of "fully functional" don't you understand?

>>212790632
>this She-Vulcan's peepee is bigger than mine!

>>212789478
He has a dick, apparently a pretty good one since he fucks and gets a fair amount of attention from women in the series, human or otherwise. He will fuck any woman or creature that appropriately asks or convinces him enough, kinda like how LLMs can be guided except he's got some dick game going for him. Data is a fuckboi.

>>212783854
>The Next Generation movies suck
First Contact was okay, but the rest were shit

>>212784555
Pulackie is shit