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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 3 weeks ago:
My favorite little easter egg is that the LOWER DECKS font in the title card now has those blue streaks in the background. Because it’s the 5th season. Just like TNG added those blue streaks in its 5th season.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on Justin Simien Shares Next Gen and DS9 Inspirations Behind the In-Development Star Trek Comedy Series 2 months ago:
One thing that the current era of Trek does right is giving each series a unique vibe. Remember when everyone complained that Voyager was just TNG 2.0? Definitely doesn’t happen nowadays.
Of course that means that not every series appeals to every Trekkie. And that’s okay. Just pick the ones you like.
- Comment on The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality 3 months ago:
I’m all for trying new things within the Star Trek universe!
I’m usually in the same boat. Because IDIC, you know? I like it when new shows expand the Trek universe and try something new. Just look at DS9. It got a lot of backlash in the 90s (“too dark”, “not Gene’s vision” etc.) and nowadays it’s very popular and often ranked somewhere around TNG.
But this Section 31 movie… I don’t know. Nothing about seems appealing. The main role is basically Space Hitler. It was already nonsense how they tried to redeem that character on Discovery while she had no redeeming qualities. Compare that to other Trek “villains” like Gul Dukat who at least had some sort of moral compass, even if it was a bit skewed. But Georgiou? There’s nothing. She’s just one-dimensionally evil. Do we really need a movie with her in the main role? 😕
- Comment on Factory Entertainment Unveils Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Tricorder Replica, Shipping in Late 2024 3 months ago:
And your cellphone even costs less. (unless you’ve bought a flagship phone)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself" 5 months ago:
This was … a DISCO episode.
Lengthy but meaningless action sequences? Check. Shaky cams all the damn time? Check. People talking about their feelings at the worst possible moment? Check. No apparent command structure and people just doing whatever they want? Check. One-dimensional villains? Check. Flamethrowers on the bridge? Check. (although, to be honest, those are so absurd that I’ll actually miss them)
I liked the future scenes because they were noticably slower and cerebral than pretty much anything that Discovery did during its five seasons. I wish they would have done something like that more often.
But yeah, that’s it. I’m somewhat glad it’s over. I liked the first two seasons of the show. Despite their flaws I appreciated that they’ve tried something new in the Star Trek franchise. And ultimately that led to Strange New Worlds, so I’ll have to give them credit for that. Anything after the season 3 time jump was not my cup of tea though. There was never enough worldbuilding for my taste because so much screentime was devoted to Burnham and Book, and that meant that the 31st century never really felt “real” to me.
Maybe I’ll rewatch seasons 1 and 2 somewhere down the line but I have no interest in watching seasons 3-5 again. I’ll just treat them as Burnham’s fever dream or something like that.
- Comment on Star Trek 3 Is Finding Its Way Back to Theaters 5 months ago:
Will this be an international release or USA only?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 5 months ago:
They’re both cartoon villains. It works for a comedy movie, not so much for a serious TV show.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak" 6 months ago:
For a split second, when they looked at the paper with the list of scientists, I had hope that the Discovery would fly to Denobula. That would have been so much more interesting than what we’ve got. Although I give them credit for doing a more traditional Star Trek episode with a bunch of technobubble, prime directive shenanigans and the obligatory human-like pre-warp civilization.
- Comment on Star Trek Writer Deep Dives Into Discovery Season 5’s Villains 6 months ago:
Our thinking was the Breen as sort of a natural species were bifurcated in the sense that they can be both gelatinous and solid in that sense. But the solid state takes an intense amount of focus and concentration in order to maintain. […] And then as they developed the refrigeration suits, they lost the need for that both evolutionarily and culturally, and it became a sort of cultural anathema. You don’t show people your solid face because that means you’re weak. It means you’re stupid. It means you’re slow.
I still don’t get it. It doesn’t really make sense to me. If it takes a lot of focus and concentration to maintain the solid form, why is one considered weak for doing so?
Breen ship! We’ve never seen the inside
Technically we’ve seen a holding cell inside a Breen ship in DS9.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors" 6 months ago:
Maybe
spoiler
Burnham stabbed a pimple.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 6 months ago:
I think I haven’t enjoyed Disco this much since season 2. This was a great episode in the tradition of whacky time travel episodes. And I really liked seeing the old uniforms, set designs, and Discovery exterior. Mainly because I like those designs much more than the 32nd century upgrades. The sort-of tie-in to the “Calypso” Short Trek also worked really well. And Linus was great as usual.
- Submitted 6 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Meanwhile, the adventures continue for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which has been renewed for season 4.
At least there’s that.
It’s still surprising that Lower Decks ends so soon. It’s well received and should be reasonably cheap to produce. Why would they axe it?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x03 "Jinaal" 7 months ago:
As a DS9 fan I appreciated the many references to the Zian’tara, Dominion War and Tzenkethi.
- Submitted 7 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 7 months ago:
I wasn’t too impressed by the first two episodes. There were some good parts in it – most notably the actor who played Fred – and I liked the more upbeat tone compared to previous seasons. But ultimately it felt like watching Star Wars. I was bored by the prolonged action sequences in both episodes. They are just a showcase for the talent of the VFX people but the scenes feel empty and meaningless.
I’ll keep watching but only because I know it’s the final season. There are just too many of the same old Disco tropes for me to really enjoy this show. A prime example was the scene aboard the Romulan ship: Burnham beams over with Rhys and Owo…only for them to be incapacitated so that the main character can continue on her own. I know, I know, Disco is not meant to be an ensemble show and that’s okay. But it just doesn’t work for me.
- Comment on Happy First Contact Day! 7 months ago:
…thanks.
- Comment on The bridge of the Klingon Battlecruiser from ST:TMP has been added to the Roddenberry Archive. You can freeroam on this and other bridge sets. 7 months ago:
Yeah, this definitely isn’t intended for mobile devices. On desktop you can freely walk around and the controls are pretty self-explanatory. (WASD keys + mouse)
- The bridge of the Klingon Battlecruiser from ST:TMP has been added to the Roddenberry Archive. You can freeroam on this and other bridge sets.roddenberry.x.io ↗Submitted 7 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on Rewatching TNG: classic Riker boning his way out of the problem 7 months ago:
“First Contact” (the episode, not the movie) is a nice little TNG gem which is often overlooked on the “best of” lists. There’s lots of talking and diplomacy, so TNG at its best. It’s also mostly shown from the perspective of the aliens, so that’s a nice change for once. It’s one of my favorite episodes.
- BREAKING — Paramount Pictures “Moving On” from STAR TREK 4, Announces New STAR TREK 5 Film Instead [TrekCore.com]blog.trekcore.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans 7 months ago:
The mention of >!Rachel Garrett!< in the Section 31 movie points to a time travel storyline, doesn’t it? Or at least some holodeck stuff. (Maybe the movie ends with “Computer, end program.” 😄)
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Showrunner Drops Hints For Each Season 5 Episode 7 months ago:
Hopefully this means that the episodes in season 5 really are distinctive. My problem with Discovery (and Picard) is that all the episodes of a season blend into each other. It’s super difficult to remember individual episodes because each of them is just a tiny puzzle piece of a larger story.
- Submitted 7 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 60 comments
- Comment on The Wildest, Weirdest Star Trek Action Figures 8 months ago:
So there are several special Riker action figures but no “regular” Riker action figure with a proper uniform? There’s only the one with the torn uniform top.
Weird decision.
- Comment on New Star Trek Movie by 'ANDOR' Director – Trek Central 8 months ago:
Excerpt regarding the story:
!While plot details haven’t been shared, we do have an understanding of when the movie will take place decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film. This is very confusing, as the 2009 star trek film takes place across multiple years, and multiple timelines. This might mean decades before the main events of the movie. The main events of 2009 take place in the Kelvin Timeline in 2255. However the Kelvin timeline only started in 2233. So if this takes place anytime before 2233, it would be canonical to both the Kelvin and Prime timeline.!<
!The other option is that it takes place decades before the events of the movie in the prime timeline, in 2387. An option this movie has is to tie into the backstory of Star Trek: Picard, and possibly even explain why the Romulan Sun went supernova in the first place! I doubt this will be the case, as it will probably be set in the Kelvin Timeline, sometime after the Narada destroys the U.S.S. Kelvin.!<
Sounds to me like it’ll be >!taking place in the prime timeline either way!<.
- Submitted 8 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 59 comments
- Comment on Discovery Season 5 Early Review Round-Up 8 months ago:
This sounds pretty good actually because it addresses my main concern with DISCO after the time jump. There has been almost no world building in the last two seasons. The 32nd century still feels like a blank canvas and a wasted opportunity. Particularly season 4 could have taken place during any other era without needing to change anything about the story.
And that they don’t drag out the mystery is a huge plus too.
I’m much more optimistic about season 5 now.
- Comment on Discovery Season 5 Early Review Round-Up 8 months ago:
This sounds pretty good actually because it addresses my main concern with DISCO after the time jump. There has been almost no world building in the last two seasons. The 32nd century still feels like a blank canvas and a wasted opportunity. Particularly season 4 could have taken place during any other era without needing to change anything about the story.
And that they don’t drag out the mystery is a huge plus too.
I’m much more optimistic about season 5 now.