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Me too. Well, I finished the second episode and vowed not to give it a third chance unless someone I trusted put a lot of effort into convincing me. It seemed l
by foobarbecue 9y ago
Me too. Well, I finished the second episode and vowed not to give it a third chance unless someone I trusted put a lot of effort into convincing me. It seemed like they set out to parody Star Trek but instead they just made an inferior copy of it. In those two episodes I remember about five "ughs" and one laugh.
- curtis 9y agoDespite the silly (terrible?) humor, it is clearly not intended to be a parody. "Inferior copy" is more accurate, but having seen 11 episodes now, I'd say that it's only a little bit inferior, not a lot. It seems that the people involved really loved Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Keep in mind that Star Trek TNG was pretty spotty the first season, itself.) If the humor is just not your thing, then you made the right call to abandon it in the second episode. On the other hand, the third episode seems to be the first one that people really liked. That one really felt like a TNG episode and the plot had a couple of surprises in it that I think made the story better. It was also kind of heavy-handed, but then none of the Star Trek series were known for subtlety.
- Veratyr 9y agoAs someone who was in a similar situation: - I'd skip episode 3. Maybe come back to it later. It's the episode that nearly put me off the series. I think 4 is a fairer episode to judge it by. - It's not a parody of Star Trek and it's not meant to be one. It's more like Seth MacFarlane really wanted to run a Star Trek show and couldn't, so made something about as close as he could while still appeasing the networks with some crude humour thrown in. It's not as good as TNG but it's definitely an okay Star Trek at this point. They've toned down the stupid humour and premises from where it started.