Star Trek SNW: The Puppet Episode Finally Dropped. What a hot mess

It was tolerable until the attack scene, and it went downhill from there. Probably the first time I heard GD on anything Star Trek and it comes out of a puppets mouth.

I’ve been watching Star Trek since the 1970’s. This is hands-down the single worst episode of Star Trek I have ever seen.

Don’t even watch it for camp value. It’s not worth your time, regardless of intent.

This is a show whose priorities are all wrong right now. I don’t know what audience they are trying to please. Who are the people who like shite like this?

It was a mess, but Academy was even worse and a second season of that mess is still coming.

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Maybe next they can have one of them jump over a shark on water skis and wearing a leather jacket. Might as well

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They metaphorically did this in 2009.

I literally haven't watched anything from the brand since. This was about the best regarded as a consensus, even from cynical assholes like me - until late.

#RIPStarTrek

It was a pretty good 42 years.

It was canceled but season 2 was guaranteed from the start.

How frustrating it is to be a person that enjoys Star Trek.

The first episode of this season was good. The black and white one was good, even though there were wayyy too many coincidences to make the story go.

This shite cannot be being made by anyone that cares for Star Trek.

Funny how the same pattern keeps repeating. Doctor Who, Star Wars, the Witcher, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Willow, and even more current day Marvel projects like Daredevil.

All objectively very popular IPs, but purposely neutered and subverted for the modern day audience. You can’t convince me this isn’t done with intent. They want to make their money off of existing properties while at the same time destroying those same properties.


Every single time.

You know, I went to the Star Trek con in Vegas. They had a panel on starfleet academy and it was quite sparsely attended. No shock there as the show is terrible, but what was shocking was the approach by the actors. When asked by fans if they had seen Star Trek once getting the role, the actors glibly responded “I scanned a few episodes, sure” or when asked about the making of certain episodes the actors responded “we were kind of winging it with scene to scene”…

Contrast that to DS9 and TNG and Voyager, and every line was meticulously adhered to. There was no ad libbing. There was no improv. The creators’ vision was paramount and cared for, nurtured like a baby fern.

So after hearing the responses from the actors…well I’m not surprised the Kurtzman era of trek was so bad. Thankfully it was equally shunned by fans as well.

The only thing I could come up with that didn’t suck in this episode was the female alien captain had a sexy voice