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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldtoLord of the memes@midwest.socialBecause "reasons"
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    I feel the best advice is to simply watch it and try not to let online opinions sway you until after you’ve watched it.

    I was dreading it, because I saw a lot of online voices saying it’s genuinely the worst thing that has ever been on television. Surprisingly to me, I mostly enjoyed it, although I found season 2 to be stronger than season 1.

    A few parts I didn’t like, a couple of parts I mentally even groaned and thought “…why did they do that?”, and some other parts I found great.

    Controversial, but overall I’ve liked it more than parts 2 and 3 of The Hobbit without a doubt.



  • Yeah. I get it when the Galaxy class was designed, and at the start of the Enterprise-D’s mission, after all, the Federation had been enjoying an unprecedented era of peace. Aside from the occasional border skirmish, like the Federation-Cardassian Union war (which ships like the Enterprise wouldn’t have been deployed to anyway), there was very little to fear.

    After things start kicking off with the Romulans, Ferengi, Borg, and Federation-Klingon relations becoming complicated, it’s surprising they continued to allow it. Picard himself said he had begun to seriously consider whether that was a sound decision. Which to me screamed of classic British understatement for “what the fuck are Starfleet doing continuing to allow this?!”

    That said, later ship designs seem to move away from housing civilians, so it seems they got the message. It’s just surprising that after a year or two into the D’s service, with all of these threats, they didn’t order civilians to move off the ship.