Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "" video.

  1. The Janeway we see in Prodigy (the one who got an augment into the Academy) would have resigned her commission before she let Seven get tossed to the wolves.
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  2. Wow, I totally missed that between all the other horrible things about that arc. My headcanon, fwiw—especially with the line that "Janeway did all she could" or whatnot—was that Janeway intentionally sabotaged her admission. 😂
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  3. When a flipping war hero describes "the best thing I've ever done in my life" and it's reaching out to a fan he's never met... that's character.
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  4. I'm at the halfway point, and she's pointing out how Riker would have burned the galaxy down before he let his son die of a curable disease, and my jaw is on the floor, because goddamn, she's right. And my jaw is still on the floor because I'm just wondering how she's the first person I've seen articulate this.
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  5. Thank you for acknowledging the optimism of DS9. And it is optimistic—despite all the terrible things that happen, freedom prevails over tyranny, the darkness is dragged into the light, and besides: there's always baseball. And I don't even like baseball.
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  6. Worst part of the whole "Frontier Day" idiocy: every single Streaming-era Trek had just done this "ships automated and connected turning against us" climax: - the battle vs. Control in Discovery S02 (aka Strange New Worlds Season Zero) - the Texas Class going rogue in Lower Decks - the Living Construct in the otherwise unimpeachable Prodigy - oh yeah, and S02E01 of Picard which was even explicitly because they were using Borg tech The idea that anyone proposing "Fleet Formation" wouldn't be executed for treason on sight by the end of beginning of Picard is a suspension of disbelief I cannot make.
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  7. They were also open about the reason they did it: it wasn't to give Seven a strong motivation —they could have done that in other ways—it was to stick it to Manu Intiraymi for some stupid stuff he posted (and apologized for) on Twitter.
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  8.  @KillahMate  It might be. But I would watch Michelle Yeoh play charades with Jar Jar Binks for 90 minutes... and then when it ended I'd watch it again.
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  9. He ran BSG into the ground and turned For All Mankind from an optimistic alt-history show into "Late-stage capitalism is good, actually, (and DEI is bad)," so I'd rather they brought on new writers entirely.
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  10. Steve Shives in his rundown highlights the moment Worf sent Alexander to live with his Rozhenkos as the best parenting decision he ever made.
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  11. ​ @rainbowkrampus The official ones are, like $350, so that's the main reason for me...
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  12. God, that would have been so poignant.
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  13. What's amazing is that a kids' show with no expectation of importance to the overall canon made the Mars Attack feel actually meaningful and important in a way that the show it was invented for never did.
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  14. I didn't need the Romulans to have created the Borg (that's one mystery that is not worth solving). But I agree with Angela—more needed to be made of the fact that Seven is able to function as a Queen. I'll go farther: the final confrontation in Season 3 should have been Seven vs. The Queen, with Jack nowhere to be found.
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  15. I paced myself and watched it in a few sittings. And now I need to go watch something else (maybe Lower Decks "Crisis Point" or Prodigy "A Moral Star" or even that Voyager episode Angela used as her own palette cleanser), just to not feel so depressed.
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  16.  @rainbowkrampus  The ending to BSG was... fine. It was a ripping off an absurdist plot line from Hitchhiker's Guide and making it melodrama, but it was fine. My issue with BSG was that by the time we got to the end, every single character had done such horrible things that I didn't care anymore, and I also can't go back and watch the early seasons knowing what they would go on to do.
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  17. And the way she strategically deployed it to rip on extra long cold opens. ::chef kiss::
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  18. (Jessie's in the comments with us omg)
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  19.  @stiofanmacamhalghaidhau765  Yeah, if anyone can convince Angela to give the franchise¹ another chance, it's Jessie and Dr. Erin. ¹by which I mean Prodigy and maybe SNW since, as much as I loved it, I can't in good conscience recommend Discovery S03-5 to someone who had such a negative reaction to S01-2.
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  20. Yes. That's why she's upset. Because JJ Abrams apparently didn't.
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  21.  @Freddisred  They do, and it shows on the shows that care. Dr. Erin MacDonald is the science consultant for the franchise, and as much as Angela has stated her dislike for time travel plot lines, I'd love to know whether that still holds when the stakes are real and the rules are well-explained, as in Prodigy Season 2's "Temporal Mechanics 101."
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  22. The explanations of this in canon are fine—their fleet (and pretty much the entire Tal Shiar) got wiped out in the Dominion War (and then the Shinzon incident), and their sun exploding was both not something that happened naturally and something that the government was actively covering up.
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  23. Prodigy? I'm showing to my grandkids. Discovery, Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds they will come to on their own. Or not!
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  24. All the stuff about the soundtrack dissonance makes 💯 more sense if you read Picard as a farcical comedy.
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  25. Well, that one was directed by Nimoy, and as Nimoy says, "When I directed Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill because I respected him so much." (to which Shatner added: "And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me because I respected me so much.")
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  26. Nah, he's a loser. He's Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused, hanging out with the high school kids because he's not worthy of any adult respect.
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  27. 44:45 it shows a lot of character to respect the privacy of your many Trek loving friends who prefer not to have their awed expressions shown on YouTube.
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  28. Good Trek still exists. Just check out Prodigy.
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  29. I counted two gold pips, so full Lieutenant. Which puts her in line with Lt. Erin McDonald, who I hope Angela gets a chance to meet in real life, as they would get along like gangbusters.
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  30. She had me going with the "I want to watch a better series," because I have not been able to stomach re-watching BSG after bearing witness to how that show devolved. I also refuse to watch any other RDM shows (even For All Mankind) on principle.
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  31. Deep Space Nine is hopeful, though (as is Discovery). It shows that the fight for a better future is never won, it must be fought by every generation. Note how the Dominion War is not won through a victory on the battlefield, but via an act of compassion and the dismantling of Section 31.
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