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- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 2 weeks ago:
Archie thought they owned all the characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog comic, but when they took Ken Penders to court, they found out the paperwork was misplaced. Auditing for specific parts of the IP is tractable; maintaining confidence in everything would be onerous. More so for series with multiple authors introducing characters and plots.
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5 months ago:
When they’re disguised as an Andorian, yes.
There are also scenes with Cardassians that look like Bajorans, a Bajoran that looked like a Cardassian, a human that looks like a Malcorian, and a human/Betazoid hybrid that looked like a Mintakan,
- 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? 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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? 2 years 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" 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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" 2 years 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.