Comment on James McAvoy Pitched 'Star Trek' Series About "Young Picard"
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 day agoYeah, 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.
brem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly.
Give the next group the same equipment they had when filming “The Original Series”, only allowing studio effects with a rare exception for graphical effects on removing wires and whatnot.
Hire Trekkies to make it.
Watch what happens. Trekkies know love. Enough of this walking on the hulls of really fast space ships with blurry stars streaking by, Magnetic boots are for punching Borg, in the rarest of extremes. Leave the action sequences to whatever is left of “Star Wars” and stick with what you do best.