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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say TNG mostly stopped exploring new frontiers halfway through season 1. Farpoint promised exploration, but soon the ship is ferrying diplomats and scientists and answering Federation distress calls. The worlds are new to the audience, but not the characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why were the TOS movies better than the TNG movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He wrote a book about making it. The section on studio interference implies that it was all egregious, but it lists Paramount trying to fix most of the problems that were still in the final film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  She directed episodes of both “Enterprise” and Star Trek: Enterprise", which each lasted two seasons. The stealth name change was surprising back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tale as old as time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea was that the Klingons had joined the Federation and we’d see Klingon Starfleet personnel in the background. When they did add Worf, he was to be more frequently Data’s relief than Yar’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tale as old as time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the initial material, Data is drastically different. There is no explicit mention of being unemotional, just that he tends to speak more formally. He’s supposed to be more like the Ilia probe than Spock.

  Worf didn’t exist at first, so Geordi the teacher with bionic vision would be the most “other” character. If they’d seen any of the early press material for Phase II, Spock’s replacement there was a very junior officer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*A*S*H in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a spinoff pitched during TOS called Hopeship featuring M’benga. The pitch for NBC/RCA was that instead of introducing expensive colorful sets, they could stay shipboard and have expensive alien makeup and costumes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A Quality of Mercy also showed Una in prison, and Those Old Scientists implied she’s revered. Did sending that letter prevent Pike from recruiting her lawyer? Things are already not heading down the exact timeline we saw Ortegas alive in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely an industry change. Frakes has talked about how when he directs an episode now, the show’s director of photography tells him to keep the camera moving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wesley’s mom, a main character, was initially going to be the ship’s teacher. They shifted her over to the empty doctor position without changing much about her. Then they made a new teacher who was also changed to be a bridge character, as the ship’s pilot.

  While Riker and Troi are adapted from Decker and Ilea, Beverly was more extrapolated from yeomen Colt, Smith, and Rand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TOS had a proposed spin off for him, which would have ended up about his brother (played by the same actor) as first officer of a medical ship.

  It would be astoundingly different after SNW.