I recall Voyager having an episode late in its run regarding universal health care. The Doctor was forced to work in a hospital where only the wealthy could get proper care and the poor were left with the scraps.
I recall Voyager having an episode late in its run regarding universal health care. The Doctor was forced to work in a hospital where only the wealthy could get proper care and the poor were left with the scraps.
And it was a Pike episode that would have been the stealth pilot for SNW if they'd planned it all along. And it also manages to be the one episode that contradicts the big reveal of the main plot later on. I'm glad they decided to make more stories like that, specifically a whole show about it.There's one episode of Discovery I remember the most about - it was an early season 2 episode. But even then I can't tell you any dramatic impact it had one me aside from "I wish they did more stories like this."
My only objection to that is that people by and large aren't upset about gay and black people being shoved down their throats - just the blatant disingenous nature of it being performative and fake. You can only have so many "first ever X in Y" celebrations before you realize that none of this is new anymore and people need to start focusing on good story telling once again instead of being dishonest about the representation.
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It's stuff like that the general audience is tired of because it happens EVERY time. Couple that with the fact that out of the gate her entire premise is based on being a space Nazi, I'm not sure how that really plays into "representation" anyway. [Note: I don't care about that because it's a fictional character in a fictional world, but some people get really upset about fiction sometimes]
As I said above, there will always be a small segment of vocal people who will love it or hate it no matter what - but I think the general audience can see through the bullshit on either side.
Off hand the most memorable Voyager episodes for me are
Tuvix
Distant Origin
Year of Hell
Living Witness
Equinox
Blink of an Eye
Critical Care
Friendship One
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Obviouslty they aren't all social commentaries but those are the ones I remember liking a lot. Yes, even Tuvix.
That was totally the first two episodes of Discovery S2 (Brother/New Eden). Nearly standalone adventures with energy, and character moments, and actual fun and adventure. Perfect? No, but there was so much potential.Realted, I would have loved to have seen what
Discovery and even Picard could have looked like if they had approached Star Trek like SNW has. You don't even have to change the overall plots (okay, maybe with Picard you could...) just write them like what we are getting with SNW.
Realted, I would have loved to have seen what
Discovery and even Picard could have looked like if they had approached Star Trek like SNW has. You don't even have to change the overall plots (okay, maybe with Picard you could...) just write them like what we are getting with SNW.
Its just, SNW has already given us so much content in four episodes. Imagine if Detmer or Owosekun, got a similar treatment to what Uhura is getting. I guess there's always season 5.
Detmer and Owo aren't really comparable to Uhura though. Uhura's Tilly. If you're going to compare them to anyone on SNW so far, it'd maybe be Sam Kirk
Owo was pretty likeable in that casino episode. The rest of the episode was shit but I was delighted to see Owo actually doing stuff and getting a sense of the character.
I'm torn. As you say, TOS Chapel had rather little to her, so I'm pleased to be given more to work with. On the other hand, it's been difficult for me to reconcile this Chapel with that one. I kind of have to treat her as a different person entirely.Nurse Chapel is such an odd case. Her character in TOS was pretty nothing. Notable for swooning over Spock (who is basically the character Majel Barrett was going to be before Number One was merged into Spock) and being occasionally ogled by various male characters, but I don't remember her having much prominence in the series.
This new rendition is definitely an improvement, in that she actually exists as a person and has a defined personality, but she does seem ever so slightly just on the edge of being a little too nonsense for the tone of the show.
I do kind of love her, though. She is to medicine as Scott was to engineering XD
I'm torn. As you say, TOS Chapel had rather little to her, so I'm pleased to be given more to work with. On the other hand, it's been difficult for me to reconcile this Chapel with that one. I kind of have to treat her as a different person entirely.