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- Comment on Cillian O’Sullivan Says His Roger Korby Has A “Smidge” Of Darkness In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ S3 2 weeks ago:
I’m rather interested to see where they go with Korby.
It’s important for Christine Chapel’s character that the backstory they are developing for the TOS relationship is credible.
It was really rather sad and mortifying for Chapel in TOS to be shown as a intelligent and successful scientist, who took a Starfleet starship posting as a nurse to track down a missing fiance only to have him revealed as a dark mastermind turning people into androids.
Having what appeared to be a one sided, unrequited longing for Spock as well, made Chapel come across as pathetic, and very much shifted it to misogyny. Or, at least a complete failure of a Bechtel-type test where a female character exists for more than her interest in male characters.
(Even Majel Barrett’s Number One in ‘The Cage’ was put in an unrequited attraction situation with Pike.)
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 2 weeks ago:
I have started (another) rewatch of TAS recently.
This time, what’s struck me is how much the Kirk in TAS aligns with Paul Wesley’s performance.
Despite TAS being animated to look like Shatner’s Kirk and Shatner voicing the part, somehow there’s less swagger and a more intellectual Kirk in TAS.
It’s in the writing surely but perhaps the creators had a sense that they needed to shift the tone to sell the drama on an animated show — especially one that took advantage of the medium to show even more trippy aliens and phenomena.
I wasn’t looking for it but there it is.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 3 weeks ago:
The Animated Series that ran in the mid 70s.
It had the same cast as TOS. Roddenberry was the showrunner again (after leaving before season 3 of TOS) and DC Fontana was the Supervising Editor in charge of the scripts.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 3 weeks ago:
At 22 episodes total, and only 6 in TAS second season, it could go either way.
I am willing to concede so that those who don’t love TAS much as I do can get their proper closure to the 5 year mission.
And then there’s part of me that very much wants Vanguard to be the new, darker station-based serialized ensemble show to fill the DS9 niche we haven’t quite had in this era.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 3 weeks ago:
TAS is the 4th season of TOS - with some of the scripts adapted from the prep for a live-action TOS season 4 that never happened. (Yes, TAS IS canon!)
Now, we know that Arex and M’Ress are difficult to bring to live action, but who’s to say that their rotations on Enterprise aren’t done, and Chekov isn’t back, as year 5 begins?
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 3 weeks ago:
Indiewire has a less positive review - “Brings the Fun — and Zombies — but Misses Chances to Go Deeper”
indiewire.com/…/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-seas…
As I share this reviewer’s opinion on Tomorrow-cubed, I think I’m at the point of wanting to stop myself from reading more reviews now…
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been wondering how much of the decision to wrap SNW with a short sixth season might have to do with Goldsman’s contract with Paramount coming to an end and his new one with another franchise and major studio.
SNW really was his project, regardless of Alonso Myers being the co-showrunner.
There’s a possibility that this is also about a change in leadership as the show transitions to a true TOS show, perhaps hopping to a time post-TAS but before the movies, and even shifting somewhat in tone.
All of this would make sense of casting an older actor as Jim Kirk.
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 3 weeks ago:
Ryan Britt had a good review for Inverse, and an interesting take on the show overall.
It’s tempting to say that SNW succeeds because, of all the newer Trek shows, it’s the one that feels the most like fan fiction. Or perhaps, to put it another way, it’s Star Trek version of Marvel’s What If? In this case, the “What If?” scenario that is floated in nearly every episode is “What if the 60s Star Trek show were made today?”
Given how much of a OG fan Akiva Goldsman is, this seems a fair assessment - even if other, mostly younger fans, have different ideas about where the show should link up with the original.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3 weeks ago:
I was hoping that SNW would focus on Pike and his crew and less on the legacy characters.
But it seems Goldsman has had his ideas about it since the early 1970s and he’s fulfilling his fan dreams, as an EP and writer, of filling in the backstories of the characters he and we love. I can’t naysay that and it certainly sold the suits on 5 seasons of an excellent show.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3 weeks ago:
We have to keep in mind that we’ve only seen 20 of 46 episodes, less than half the full run.
I believe that the new benchmark for selling a licence for reruns on other streamers and linear has dropped from over 70 episodes to a bit over 40 based on various industry reports. So this definitely puts SNW above that threshold.
This does raise the question though whether there is a plan to morph this into some kind of TOS continuation past year 5 and TAS.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3 weeks ago:
So a half season + a one-hour series finale?
Having only 5 seasons seems the new normal since they haven’t been able to actually produce one season per calendar year and actors’ contracts run 7 years.
But having a short season seems weird, like some kind of negotiated compromise.
This is just going to feed the ‘Kurtzman is done when his contract expires …’ speculation.
- Comment on EXO-6 Revisits "The Cage," Master Replicas' Next Action Figures (and a Talking Moopsy!), and Much More Star Trek Merch News! 3 weeks ago:
Now I wish I had preordered Spock.
The one I want most is Number One but it would have been great to have the set.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Reveals Season 3 Posters 4 weeks ago:
Should we start a pool?
- Comment on Bruce Horak On Catching That Carrot On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ And Painting Over 600 Portraits 5 weeks ago:
One of the things in the interview, that’s super interesting, is that the original script had a scene that would have made it absolutely unequivocal that Hemmer was killed.
And it was shot, with some significant Sfx challenges.
The interviewers asked Bruce if there were any scenes left in the cutting room floor and he responded that there was.
:::The actor was in harness for a falling scene in which he would have been fighting off young Gorn. He had been pleased to have the opportunity to have a heroic on-screen :::
But the scene was cut despite it being challenging production-wise, all the more so with a blind actor in prosthetics.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 month ago:
I don’t think you needed [sic], just the comma that StarTrek.com omitted.
So, this is a big reveal - the scenario is a planet that has not been but now is a part of the Federation.
The viewpoint is civilian.
The resort workplace setting, like the old Loveboat or Fantasy Island, means that anyone can come by as the guest star.
- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 2 months ago:
The production values are sufficiently high that it makes me think it might actually be from an episode to come.
- Comment on Fanhome Reveals Next Star Trek Starship Models, Including the USS Dauntless from Star Trek: Prodigy 4 months ago:
Did I miss the actual Protostar announcement?
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 4 months ago:
There’s absolutely no incentive to log in to YouTube now that subscriptions and bells do nothing to control your feed. End stage enshittification.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 4 months ago:
There’s currently an Redexit of Canadians who are looking to get off US-controlled social media.
Lemmy.ca has had a huge spike in enrolment as it’s the one that was most prominently promoted in r/BuyCanadian. Apparently, it’s had over 9k signups in the past day.
- Comment on 9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast 4 months ago:
Thanks for bringing this here VS.
Saw Tatosky’s thread on Mastodon. It really gives a much better sense of how ‘real’ the preproduction was under Fuller.
Lots of expenditure clearly but badly managed.
Tamara Deverell talked about having little to spend when she took over after the pilot because the initial sets were built on the designs Fuller signed off on.
No engineering but a bay to hand load missiles! Which she repurposed to Stamets’ spore lab.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Told Us The Perfect Story To Prove That She’s Committed To Playing Star Trek: Section 31’s Philippa Georgiou For A Long Time 5 months ago:
My thoughts exactly.
It would be great if they could bring Kim & Lippoldt back as showrunners/EPs and get someone else to direct it.
- Comment on Watch: Anson Mount’s Audition Tape For Captain Lorca On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 7 months ago:
He didn’t necessarily know that Pike would be an option. He likely didn’t know that Lorca would be an MU character.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Chieffo On Returning To Star Trek For A New Flavor Of Klingon In ‘Lower Decks’ 7 months ago:
She brought such positive energy to fans during her time on Discover.
Her Twitter was full of enthusiasm. CBS was so much less limiting of the actors’ social media engagement. Paramount really hasn’t done well by limiting engagement to the EPs.
It’s unfortunate there hasn’t been opportunity for her appear in Strange New Worlds.
- Comment on Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore: Interview with Bob Picardo 8 months ago:
It sounds like he was in premed when he met his wife, but then went on a different track while she became a physician.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Controlled technology and not easily built from scratch even by Starfleet engineers.
The Relaunch novelverse expanded the concept and importance of industrial replicators. When Voyager returned to the Delta Quadrant, she led an small ‘Full Circle’ fleet that included a large engineering ship that did have industrial replicators large enough to reconstruct ships when severely damaged.
Lowere Decks and Prodigy have brought industrial replicators into onscreen canon.
Prodigy gave the Protostar prototype ship an industrial replicator large enough to construct shuttles. Lower Decks has shown the Cerritos and other ships tasked with delivering and bringing online very large industrial replicators on planets seeking Federation support.
- Comment on Nacelle Reveals First Eight Star Trek Action Figures at NYCC... With Plenty of Character Surprises! 8 months ago:
It feels like the chose them to fill in the gaps in the collections of fans across every show and the movies - but also to profile legacy characters featured in new productions.
Rachel Garrett is surely there because of S31 and Jellico is more popular than ever after Prodigy.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Most structural starship components would require large industrial replicators.
These seem to always be centrally located and powered.
What someone can do with a small home model would be quite different.
- Comment on Interview: Jonathan Del Arco Talks “Borg Spin-Off” That Became ‘Star Trek: Picard’ And Hugh’s Surprise Death 9 months ago:
Here’s another take.
We know that everything was reshaped to flatter and entice Patrick Stewart to come back and play Picard.
He kept refusing and keep on insisting on Picard’s life should be a reflection of his own.
But the suits at ViacomCBS (and later Paramount) put priority on greenlighting anything they could get with Picard as a character.
So, whatever initial concepts with and without Picard were all sacrificed in the end in order to indulge Stewart enough to play the role.
- Comment on New Star Trek Action Figure Line Coming From Nacelle 9 months ago:
It’s absurd. Our kids end up playing Star Trek with Playmobil’s space and planetary exploration lines.
When the Star Trek line finally arrived it was only TOS.
- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 9 months ago:
The thing is that while the technobabble is just that, the process represents how engineering gets done better than most other ‘serious’ SF, albeit at compressed speed.
Voyager did a better job than any at showing how the thinking and problem-solving work gets done - which to me is more the point.
All this criticism seems to come from folks who’ve never seen nerds working in teams being nerds. They seem to want science FICTION to be locked down to concepts that someone with a mid 20th bachelor’s degree in science would know.
Whereas the real life scientists and engineers in my circle react more like Erin Macdonald did when she was working on her physics PhD and saw Voyager. She recognized the process and thought it was cool that some of the newer concepts in gravimetrics were referenced but didn’t sweat the small stuff.