Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

[Captain Syrup]

Harry Kim's actor thought it was so bad that he was compelled to go to usenet and defend Voyager's honor from all the Trekkers saying that the show was shit and they had ruined Trek. He'd say "I'm Garret Wang, I play Harry, and this is really uncalled for, we had to shoot it like this because..." and the fans would call him a liar and a faggot. Good times on the old internet.

You ever notice how every show has that one C-list dipshit who decides they’re the pope of Star Trek? The “oh my” guy, Frakes and Wheaton split duties running interference for Kurtzman, two Enterprise guys sitting in a room talking about how "Two Days and Two Nights" was high art, and Wang, whose last molecule of his remaining celebrity comes from Voyager.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

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You ever notice how every show has that one C-list dipshit who decides they’re the pope of Star Trek? The “oh my” guy, Frakes and Wheaton split duties running interference for Kurtzman, two Enterprise guys sitting in a room talking about how "Two Days and Two Nights" was high art, and Wang, whose last molecule of his remaining celebrity comes from Voyager. So he has to attack the show and defend it at the same time.

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This was a bit different because he had a PC set up in his makeup trailer and was doing this while they were filming episodes but he wasn't needed on set, almost certainly while wearing a Starfleet uniform, making him even less cool than Wil Wheaton.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

I wish I had known about her before, she's like an incredible mix of a cute cat girl and weird alien with just enough weirdness to her.
It's particularly funny to me how they had her purring while talking, which I understand its meant to be a part of her physiology that she basically HAS to (or does it automatically), but it also adds to her cute weirdness.

I'm not one to kink shame but do recommend you review this chart while you're looking for catgirls.

There was a feature in early episodes of the Delta Flyers podcast where the actors of Tom and Harry would read ancient Usenet reviews of episodes that were posted after their original airing, which I thought was great, but they stopped shortly after reading a review where a woman compared the feeling of watching that week's show to shitting your pants while driving through the desert in a car with no AC.

In that very brief moment in time when IGN didn't suck, their Voyager episode reviews were hysterical in ripping on the bullshit written and shown on screen.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Man these pictures threw me because that's exactly what the early sample pictures I have in model training look like.

I don't know, I like the show now. I don't think it's high art but still. I guess my expectations are lower in 2026 than they were in 1996. Maybe also just knowing just how much worse it can get.

 

[BubbaRobot887]

I needed season 3 of TOS on Bluray so I just preordered the 60th aniversery set. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Anyone bashing The Animated Series most likely hasn’t actually watched it, in my experience.

I have, or had at least, the novelised scripts of it somewhere. The stories were actually pretty good, once you're not constantly being flashbanged by the terrible animation.

Also I have to go to bat for Lower Decks again, because it's the only show in the current crop that gets Trek (aside from a couple of clanger episodes). I know why people reject it, but if it were the only trek show in current production, instead of being the red-headed step-child of the kurtzman era, at least some of those same people would probably love it.

 

[Captain Syrup]

like the show now. I don't think it's high art but still. I guess my expectations are lower in 2026 than they were in 1996. Maybe also just knowing just how much worse it can get.

If you pretend it has no relation to Star Trek, it’s not that bad. Many episodes feel like they were cribbed from SG-1 and they were clearly chasing that same audience with their irreverent jokes and pop Americana (but without turning into a military recruitment ad like SG-1 did).