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Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020)
Rough start, but now I see the potential.
EDIT: After seeing the second episode I came back to change my previous review, but I'll keep some of it, because it's relevant.
From the pilot the show seemed like it will be about people who don't respect anything that the starfleet stands for. Mariner constantly made fun of the vocation of her colleagues, especially the senior staff, when in any of the canon shows staff usually respected very much the ranking officers and they believed in the starfleet principles, except some of the former Maquis in Voyager for example. Also they shot down most of the crew, while 2 of the main characters just sat there in the middle of an attack having a romantic moment behind a desk. This didn't seem to be an efficient behavior from starfleet crew. Star Trek pilot episodes are usually quite heavy, at least they were before Enterprise, so my expectations were really high even for a comedy show, and it didn't really came close.
However... in the second episode the writers proved me wrong. The crew showed enormous support, also Mariner turned out to be wise, despite her disrespect towards the senior staff. On first glance she didn't seemed like someone who has finished the starfleet academy and got a job on a starship, just because her parents are high ranking officers. Rutherford also showed some honorable behavior. I was also amazed how much reference was to previous events from the ST universe, just as in the older shows. This time it really felt like the show was made by people who didn't only see the recent JJ Abrams movies and decided to create their own show, rather by people who know their roots, but they want to go where no one has gone before, and I respect that, because it's not a prequel that doesn't really line up with the original shows nor something from a "parallel timeline" because the creator didn't really know much about the real timeline as in the above mentioned JJ Abrams movies.
Also I have to point out the awesome animation that feels similar to what we have seen in Final Space and Rick and Morty. I like that very much!
So apologies to everyone who worked on the show, it was honestly a weak start, but now it feels a bit better. I'm overprotective when it comes to the Star Trek franchise, because it helped me to become the person who I am today. TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager influenced me to start a career in STEM, to be curious, to enjoy working in a team, to be open for ideas and ideologies of other people and to love solving problems. I am very grateful for this.
I'll keep following the show and I hope that it will fulfill it's potential in the upcoming episodes.
ORIGINAL COMMENT:
TNG, DS9,Voyager and even TOS thought me, that by learning, improving and working together hard, an utopian future can be achieved, where intelligent people will one day travel through the cosmos with the goals to learn, discover, make contact, share knowledge and most of all, spread the ideology of teamwork and moral across the universe. Doing this is not an easy task. People who will one day get there will face issues that nobody ever heard of before (similarly when the disaster in Chernobyl happened to point out a realistic example), and to solve them, you must be competent, clever and you'll need loads of scientific and engineering knowledge in your beg to stay alive, not to mention that a lot of other people's life might be in your hand.
All that being said, recent Star Trek shows don't really wish to influence humanity to aim for a better future anymore. This show basically says "stfu nerd", get a life, you don't need to learn to be good enough to outsmart passionate people who spent their entire life in specializing to solve problems. You can specialize on anything by watching a clickbait video on youtube.
I'm still positive because some people still understand the oldschool Star Trek principles very well, like Seth MacFarlane and his crew for example. The Orville does a wonderful job. It gives a new hope, inspires the audience to improve and shows how amazing teamwork can be. I can only hope that it will be a show that will live long and prosper and hopefully (but this is a long shot) inspire the Star Trek franchise to be a massive influence for people who wish to raise humanity to higher levels again!
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
The first ever prequel that made perfect sense.
Very nicely synced with the original movie. I always felt that the original was a good one, but it felt a bit unexplored. Now every piece of the puzzle is on it's place. I agree, those who wrote that after 20 minutes of watching it didn't make any sense and had nothing to do with the original are most likely Skeksis who did not get their morning essence. It was lovely to see that the Skeksis in the series behaved more agressively, they were much louder, like they were the younger version of themselves (as they were) from the movie, which was a fantastic touch. Well done!