I'm not sure that "gender critical" is the right phrase to describe her approach? I associate that more with the gang opposed to her existence.

Whenever the RedLetterMedia guys talk Trek it’s a good time. It’s not their bread and butter though.

Steve Shives is my go-to Trek Guy. Mostly reviews and revisits older episodes, but also discusses the new shows.

I often disagree , but I find the reviews by Treklit author Keith Di Candido on TOR interesting, and the comments participation of another author Christopher L Bennet interesting to follow. Both know the history of onscreen canon very well and have spent a lot of time working around it as tie-in writers. It’s good to see their takes and their debates.

I agree that Jessie Gender has some solid reviews as well.

As for most of the rest, the reviews of Picard season three have really made me reassess who I find worth my time to pay attention to. Many revealed themselves to be just locked in a a gatekeeping idea that 90s Berman Trek is the only ‘real’ Trek and it’s not something I want to give my views to.

That is, some reviewers whom I had considered sometimes tough but balanced, seemed to turn off any criticism of Picard season three as the nostalgic hits rolled out. Many of the same flaws they had repeatedly criticized in Discovery or earlier seasons of Picard were given a complete pass. And they are back being hypercritical of SNW now.

As someone who eventually stopped supporting the 80s fanzines run by TOS fans that couldn’t accept TNG was its own different thing, I feel the same way about Berman-era fans who are now gatekeeping what Trek can evolve to.

Steve Shives is someone I've been watching. He's a little crass yet his observations are pretty decent. Otherwise, same as you...Jessie Gender, and Sean from TrekCulture

The two that I used to love either have disappeared or significantly slowed down their posting:

Ketwolski - just gone, I hope he's ok

Trekspertise - use to do a lot of video essays on Trek, I think he got caught up in making a movie (good for him!) so even when they do post it's just not the same

Jessie Gender, Steve Shives, TriAngulum Studios, Junkball (when he uploads), and he isn't strictly Trek but I also like Certifiably Ingame.

Naturally Trek Culture is pretty cool too.

Not a full-on reviewer but Junkball. That guy's enthusiasm for starship design appeals to a part of me I didn't know existed, and I wound up watching half of his videos one weekend not long ago.

Greatest Generation is a great trek review podcast that does ep by ep reviews of each series. Lot of potty humor and gimp jokes, but it's not that bad. Hard to explain, but worth a listen.

https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/

Unlimited Lives grills Voyager. He especially dislikes Neelix so we have that in common. He also dislikes time travel episodes but I enjoy them so More for Me.

Certifiably Ingame covers the Temporal War and it's well worth a listen. https://youtu.be/8nmWe2EFBWQ

Rowan J Coleman's Star Trek Retrospective series is superb and is what made his YouTube channel famous. He has now branched to other SciFi movies too which are equally interesting.

It's unfortunate that he said that he won't have in depth retrospectives about new Trek series but hopefully he'll change his minds when series like Discovery will end.

Honestly, the only one I still catch from time to time is Sean on Trek culture because all the other ones got absurdly hostile the last few years when it came to Discovery & Picard and it ended up with people quoting some truly insane alt right sources like midnights edge.

I find it better to just enjoy the shows and discuss on reddit(now lemmy) than watch these influencers.

This post makes me feel very old