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New Star Trek Movie Director Is A Fan And Directed The ‘Black Mirror’ Trek Episode “USS Callister”

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Corgana@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨startrek@startrek.website⁩

https://trekmovie.com/2024/01/10/new-star-trek-movie-director-is-a-fan-and-directed-the-black-mirror-trek-episode-uss-callister/

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Black mirror is a lot like a modern Twilight Zone, which early Star Trek took a lot of influence from, and now a fan who directed an episode inspired by Trek gets to do actual Trek?

    I can feel my hopes getting up.

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      William Shatner also starred in several episodes

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    • Bebo@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow so there’s a Trek inspired Black Mirror episode? Will need to check it out.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, as long as it's nothing like that episode, it should be fine.

    I remember an episode of CSI years ago where they were investigating the murder of someone who was rebooting a very Star Trek show into something super dark and gritty, with none of the hope and positivity the original show had. That seems to be the trend of a lot of Star Trek properties the last few years, and it makes me think the writer of that episode was quite prescient.

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  • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That episode is pure gold.

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  • Davel23@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh good, another prequel.

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    • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I share your dismay w/r/t the ‘origin story’ trope, and started typing a much more cynical comment. But it’s not like you can’t tell a good story within those parameters. Plenty of good prequels exist. And lots of people were not big fans of Picard’s efforts to advance the timeline.

      The determining factor for me will be the quality of the writing. I haven’t seen this Black Mirror episode, but I’ll check it out.

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      • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The “I won’t try it because it’s a prequel” argument reminds me of “Deep Space Nine is boring because the station doesn’t move”, as if every episode of TNG or TOS involved the ship being in motion.

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    • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do they even want to prequel? Isn’t SNW already doing that?

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  • mactan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    unfortunately it’s kelvin timeline so … ugh

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    • Aesculapius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The timeline didn't split until the Narada showed up. So, if it's before that moment, it is still the original timeline.

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      • mactan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        my expectation is that since they described it as being linked to kelvin it’s going to have jj abrams kelvin vibes instead of new trek vibes

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      • knotthatone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The impact to the timeline form the Narada affected the timeline before that point as well because it affected subsequent time travel (allllll the times SNW, TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, etc. went into the past would have occurred differently)

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  • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find “USS Callister” especially funny because early on in Disco’s run, people would point to it as what new Trek should be, but the episode is all about how someone obsessed with an old sci-fi television show is a loser and a creep, and then it ends with the protagonists getting a Kelvin universe-esque upgrade, lens flares and all.

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    Media literacy!

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  • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did anyone watch Video Game Highschool on YouTube? Am I crazy, or is the dude sitting in the captains chair, the same as the “villian” in vghs?

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    • Based_and_Cool@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not the same guy but he was I the later seasons of breaking bad’ as the guy that killed the kid

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      • nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        nick named “meth damon”

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    • Madison_rogue@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That's Jesse Plemons. I don't see Video Game Highschool on his list of acting credits in IMDB.

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      • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep, my memory has faded. They do not look remotely similar, I must be remembering Jesse Plemons from elsewhere. Thank you.

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  • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should make that black mirror episode into a series as a contrast to The Orville.

    Also good is John Scalzi’s Red Shirts or Steven Erickson’s Willful Child

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    • MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like John Scalzi and I love Star Trek, but I couldn’t get into Redshirts. It just felt like “We have Star Trek at home…”

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      • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s why Willful Child is probably the better Star Trek fanfic, where it’s like “what if we really emphasized how much of a misogynistic asshole Kirk could have been?” Or “what if we merged Kirk with Zapp Brannigan?”

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