Someone on discord is semi-live blogging watching Star Trek Beyond. I am not sure if it’s their first viewing of that particular movie or not but it made me nostalgic.

Kelvin movies have a bad rep mostly I think? The whole “not real Trek” thing but I grew up pretty sheltered from sci-fi. I could read whatever I wanted but we only had the one TV and so I watched what my mum watched. To be honest it didn’t really occur to me to try anything until I had moved out and a whole new world (well galaxies haha 😛) opened up.

So I was 19. Definitely old enough I could have watched at least Enterprise when it was on for real, if not Voyager, but the first Kelvin movie was the first Star Trek I ever saw. Eventually it gave me the itch and I had Netflix by then and tried TOS (intending to go chronologically). I think I made it 2 episodes before I looked up what was the most recent (Enterprise) and skipped to that. Enterprise kinda killed Trek for me for a while until another Kelvin movie came out and I was like “Trek is cool, I want more Trek!” and then there was Discovery and suddenly I was starving. Voyager, DS9, TNG, all the TV movies – everything. I am a total obsessed fan now. I love it. I mean I’m critical sometimes but that’s just because I love it.

And it all started with those Kelvin movies that people bash for not really being Trek. Idk just makes me think.

It’s a bit like how people draw a line between old and new Trek, and you aren’t a real fan if you only watch Discovery or something. Like I get it because vibes/storytelling methods. I mean it’s episodic vs arc etc. and we can definitely debate the pros and cons of approaches. I do think modern Trek has lost some things and /cough less said about the most recent Picard the better

But I rec Prodigy very much. The finale was just… that is what Frontier Day wished it could have been. The speech Gwen gave about the meaning of the Federation was as close to the essence of Trek I think I have ever heard on screen.

And it has holo Janeway and Admiral Janeway for all your Janeway needs.

I found Prodigy very slow to get into. I was iffy about it until nearer the end of season 1 when it just sort of came together.

Lower Decks unfortunately I can’t click with. I think it’s that I have a weird sense of humour. So I don’t find it funny.

The tumblr posts about it are A+ though.