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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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- William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Endingtrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 17 hours ago to startrek@startrek.website | 43 comments
- Comment on 'Starfleet Academy' Deserved Better Than This 17 hours ago:
It’s arguably only Prodigy that has faced a similarly unfortunate fate
This is certainly true by the standards laid out, but I’m struck by the fact that the only new series that was more-or-less free of studio fuckery was Picard (which certainly had its own issues).
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I think Shatner is complicated because (a) he’s 95 years old, and can’t be expected to be fully “in touch,” and (b) has definitely had some questionable people handling his social media over the years.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 3 days ago:
I don’t have a satisfying answer for that one - wireless power transfer is NBD in the TNG era, so maybe it’s just an extreme version of that?
Reno once had a line about replacing the warp plasma conduits with “polaric” ones, so maybe they don’t use plasma at all?
But the Athena seems to, so 🤷
- Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Freetrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 14 comments
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 4 days ago:
I’ll go for a deeper cut and say the Nova class. Small, purpose-built, and pretty cool-looking.
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I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.
In “Scavengers”, right after Discovery gets her refit, Saru says, “even her nacelles are now detached, improving maneuverability and enabling us to be more efficient in flight.”
I found this pretty puzzling, but it eventually dawned on me that the explanation is probably seen most clearly with Book’s ship. There are a few times when we see his ship rearrange itself on the fly to navigate the many, many debris fields present in the post-Burn galaxy - it looks like the detached bits let them dodge debris without actually changing their course or speed.
We do get a glimpse of Discovery doing something similar late in season 5, when they ram their way into the Breen dreadnaught - the nacelles tuck themselves up and behind the saucer, reducing the ship’s profile.
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- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
I assume you’re referring to Kurtzman, but it seems to be like that’s exactly what he’s doing? Of the six series we’ve had under his watch, he’s been the showrunner of two of them. The rest of them seemed to be fairly free to execute their creative vision, for good or ill.
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
That, I’m not so opposed to. No sense in visiting that time period if you’re not going to check in on the status quo of the neighbours!
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
The Rios one is a lot of fun if you enjoyed “A Piece of the Action”…
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
almost an anthology of legacy characters being visited by the Titanprise with the bridge full of offspring.
Oof, that would be real uninteresting, to me.
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
I’d watch it, and I’m sure they could do great things with it…but as presented, Terry Matalas’ vision left me pretty cold. Captain Seven was definitely the most compelling part of it all (and Raffi, I do like Raffi), but it mostly just seemed to be, “here’s a new Enterprise in that era that you miss!”
And that’s fine…but it doesn’t really point to a compelling story on its own. But take the basic premise, give it to another showrunner, and jettison Jack Crusher into the nearest black hole, and you have my attention.
thanks for the recommendation, BTW
Hey, you’re welcome! I stalled out on the Riker one, which I guess is the third one. I should pick it up again one of these days.
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 5 days ago:
I don’t particularly want it to happen, based on what we saw in PIC’s third season, but I feel like Sirtis is a little…confused here.
The oldest cast members of the hypothetical series would be Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd - everyone else would be a recurring guest star, at most…
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- Can you ‘live long and prosper’ by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that ‘highly illogical’?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 4 comments
- Comment on ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To “Classic” Star Trek 1 week ago:
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
Why would you need to put on a show?
Well it was a literal show to establish himself as the leader of his little pirate society, so I thought the ridiculous show trial worked. But I also think his motivation to be that sort of leader was a little out of left field.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
Yes, good call. I can’t believe I forgot to mention it, too!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
I also wonder if a completely stabilized Omega molecule would even be viable as a power source - the original VOY episode doesn’t seem to really touch on that, but it does seem like its energy potential comes from it being destabilized.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
not seeing Discovery blipping first right as the blockade is lifted, at least a few seconds or a minute before all other ships warping in.
I had the same thought - let the first responders be the first responders!
Hopefully we’ll see Stamets or someone show up as a guest lecturer at some point.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 1 week ago:
does anyone actually care about a gay character on Star Trek in the year 2026?
Well, yes - plenty of people care about, and celebrate, representation.
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- Interview: ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showrunners Talk Season Finale Messages; Tease Season 2 Villaintrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
I am absolutely okay with Star Trek being just one of many franchises they’re managing, and not the largest or most prominent.
In the case of SFA, I do think they’ll be looking closely at the demographics - are they actually reaching the younger audience they were hoping to reach? I think that’s far more important than “was it a top 10 show” or whatever other limited metrics are available to us.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
I could go on a whole rant about how that should be impossible, but I think I’m happy to let a gag be a gag in this case.
