• LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    8 months ago

    I personally loved season 2, Star Trek IV is my favorite of the movies and the whole thing was a love letter to it, but I know a lot of people didn’t care for it. Looks like Paramount might’ve been responsible for that.

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      8 months ago

      You are definitely in the minority there. It had its moments, but overall I didn’t like it.

      And I hated that it basically retconned Time’s Arrow by having that be the first time Guinan met Picard.

      Also-

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      Wesley showing up at the end was the worst deus ex machina in the history of Star Trek.

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        8 months ago
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        That Deus Ex Machina also was totally unnecessary, it’s like “Hey do you know Wil Wheaton? He played a character in Star Trek. Be amazed and hit by nostalgia, and now shut up!”

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        8 months ago

        I’ll do you one better:

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        It couldn’t possibly be the worst deus ex machina in the history of Star Trek, because it has to affect the goddamn plot in any capacity to be a deus ex machina. I’m just not sure what the Latin for “some unmotivated bullshit that comes out of nowhere to tie up the already-irrelevant B-plot” is.

        …Which makes it worse, I think, considering that season barely tied up the A-plot.