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Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It”
Submitted 18 hours ago by hopesdead@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 18 hours ago
I hope this means “luxury gay space communism team diversity” and not “everyone needs to have a command rank” gets it.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Employee supports continued employment
amgine@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
If I could caricature he’d be fun
xSikes@feddit.online 17 hours ago
Big doubt. New owners values is the polar opposite of what Star Trek stands for.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I don’t even know what Star Trek stands for anymore. It just seems to be slogging on for money, for quite a while now.
Even in the original sense, Gene Roddenberry’s high-principled ideals was kind of sabotaged by how he actually conducted himself. That said, a lot of great stories and eps were produced along the way, IMO.
agentTeiko@piefed.social 16 hours ago
The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is. You need DC Fontaine and Gene Coon and for TNG you need Ronald D Moore and Michael Pillar and to some extent Rick Berman for putting the limitations on those writers to drive creativity.
The problem is people don’t realize, like with Batman. Bob Kane had a good idea but it was really Bill Finger that really made Batman what we know today.
Just like with Bob, Gene Roddenberry knew how to take credit for others work and create the myth of one man doing it all.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 16 hours ago
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
Nobody@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
Shatner and Nichols intentionally butchered every take that didn’t involve them kissing and made television history doing so.
I hope that moving forward Trek keeps that same spirit no matter how oppressive the new corporate regime may be.