Comment on James McAvoy Pitched 'Star Trek' Series About "Young Picard"
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 day ago
A prequel! What a novel idea.
This should be an org chart at the Star Trek office today when they look at show ideas: is it another prequel? Yes - don’t pursue this idea. No - Allamarain! Move along home.
Granted, they got lucky (initially) with SNW. But that needed a backdoor pilot through Disco to get launched.
brem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Disco was mostly terrible (Hemmer was one of the best characters of all time tho) but Disco gave us SNW, which gave us hope.
SNW shit the beds a bit less, but it still stinks on the Enterprise. I love Muppets & even a musical episode could’ve been fine if the show wasn’t limited to 10 episodes a season…
It might be a while before we get another real Trek, the merger isn’t going to help.
We just need a real showrunner who doesn’t go to sleep in guilded Star Wars jammies.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 day ago
Yeah, I have been looking at the veritable content drought we’ll be entering since there is nothing in production any more. And in streaming TV stuff takes ages to get off the ground or even renewed. I read on the grapevine that letting all existing contracts expire is a way to kick Kurtzman out and after that there is a chance for a fresh start under new leadership. But that will take time until after Academy S2 goes online. So considering all this stuff going on behind the scenes, I’m okay with Muppets and Casablanca in space. Whatever! Better than nothing.
brem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not saying I don’t want more Star Trek, but I have no issues with watching all of the older series (yes, even Enterprise) over and over, until something that deserves the title comes along and actually understands what the show was really about.
The actors are pretty damned good, but I’d rather them use the budget from the fancy sfx and make more episodes based on deeper stories.
Hollow, is the word.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 day ago
I started a rewatch of DS9 a couple of months ago and I’m a third done with S7. I saw Oceans 11 on DS9 earlier today. Didn’t even skip all the bad Ferengi episodes in the rewatch.
I suppose it was hard for the makers of Disco to square the circle of telling Star Trek stories in a post breaking bad streaming era. In TNG S1 they use the phaser as a visual effect maybe a dozen times, most of those in Conspiracy, because it cost too much. Now they can do whatever for a dime so they overlooked that we liked the character stuff they wrote to fill the hour so they wouldn’t blow most of the budget on SFX. I hope that in a future fourth wave Trek they fill the hollowness we feel.