5 Star Trek Shows in Development, 1 Could Star Patrick Stewart, Reports Say (gizmodo.com) 300
An anonymous reader writes: In the wake of shocking allegations against Star Trek: Discovery's showrunners, producer Alex Kurtzman recently took over the role of showrunning the latest Trek series' sophomore season. But according to multiple reports today, he's just signed a new deal with CBS that could usher in multiple new Star Trek shows. Variety reports that Kurtzman has inked a $25 million deal with CBS as part of a five-year plan to bring more Trek shows to TV in the wake of Discovery's success. According to the site, five series are currently in early development: A teen-oriented series set at Starfleet Academy from Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the duo behind the recent Dynasty reboot and Marvel's Runaways adaptation. A limited series with a currently confidential plot. A limited series based around the beloved character Khan, from the original Star Trek and the classic film The Wrath of Khan -- something that's been rumored for a while as being spearheaded by Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer. An animated series with another currently confidential plot.
Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like Paramount stole their business plans from Mel Brooks.
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Will there be a Star Trek flamethrower?
Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:4, Insightful)
Definitely it's about money. The whole leftist conspiracy you allude to has more to do with media coverage and social media than it does with the political beliefs of rich executives at production companies. Ultimately all of them, left and right, worship the same god, the Almighty Dollar.
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Pushing narratives gets views. Executives don't care if the watchers hate the product or love it. Causing controversy is much easier than producing a good product.
Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:5, Insightful)
Causing unwanted and artificial 'controversy' is also a very effective way to destroy a media property. A good example of this is literally right in front of our faces: the /. web site. This was once the premiere tech-oriented online destination. Industry leaders used to participate here on a daily basis. Getting your product or service noticed by the /. community used to be a huge deal. It's hard to believe it these days, but /. used to be an extremely important and influential media outlet. Then we started seeing more and more submissions, many of them politically charged, that appear to only have been on the front page to generate 'controversy'. While this did result in lots of discussion, and presumably lots of advertisment views, in the short term, it also has had serious long term repercussions. Many of the top individuals who were influential in the industry wanted no part of this nonsense, and they left for other discussion forums. The low quality submissions also started driving away other regular users who made positive contributions to the community here. As the community has continued to disintegrate due to this forced 'controversy', we've seen, in my opinion, things get quite bad around here. The submissions, comments and moderating are now the worst that I've ever seen here. The sense of community is long gone; all we get now is bickering and name calling. In my opinion, the generation of 'controversy' here shook the foundations of this community, ultimately fracturing it in a way that is likely irreparable. If manufactured 'controversy' could ruin /. so completely, I can see it doing the same to other media outlets and series. It's a very risky stunt to attempt.
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ie there is only one question I want answered about Star Trek, will Klingons continue to be ugly cannibals who clad their star ships in coffin armour and behave like idiotic Hollywood ideologues or change back. Not to forget, will star drives go back to being science based or push further into pixie dust territory and how long before captain nancy pants as a commanders name ie for the next expelled cadet that gets made captain of the federation of planet fleet flagsship by the commandant of that academy bec
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And will the Klingon continue to be racist blackface villians? I was surpriced that they not only gave the a black textures (sure more different texture colors to alien races, and including black, yay), but then added negroid features and then made them culturally primitive psychopaths...
It is the most racist thing I have seen on TV in decades.
And then added on top with a toxic masculine main character that just happens to be female. The show was trolling the left.
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TV shows are about making money. Thank you Captain Obvious.
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To be honest ABC's quick response was a shock to me. And I do doubt in that instance that ABC's decision was driven by profit. Perhaps there is some risk to brand name that Disney at least perceived, but that's hard to put into numbers to weigh in the cold logic of profit.
It's certainly ABC's right to refuse to work with someone based on their behavior and politics. Political Affiliation Discrimination isn't normally a protected class, but it is illegal in California. Perhaps she could win if it is an extre
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When a [non-comedy] show uses a cast of all unattractive overweight women, I'll believe they're pursuing a leftist agenda. Until then, they're just trying to simultaneously sell men on sex appeal and women on empowerment to take money from both.
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Was Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd considered attractive in the 1984 film? at least I don't think their characters were considered to have any sex appeal.
There is a thin line to walk when you make a film that caters men's desire for sex appeal. You have to do it in a way that doesn't alienate the 52% of female moviegoers. The naive approach is to make a film that appeals to 100% of people equally, but then the film might be bland and uninteresting. A polarizing film or at least one that caters to a particular
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$140 million on marketing, which was nearly as much as the film's regular budget.
As a flat number, $140 million on marketing is fucking peanuts these days. As a percentage, many major films now spend as much on marketing as they do on production, if not more.
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ABC's reaction with Rosanne was still a profit based decision. They feared losing advertisers.
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Because it's not racist to make a simian comparison to a white person. Pointing out that a picture of G.W. Bush makes him look like a chimp, and that Trump looks like an orangutan is doesn't have the same historic baggage as comparison a black person to an "ape" or "gorilla".
I guess one solution is for you to open a book once in a while. If you want to avoid being turned into "toast" (whatever that means) and socially ostracized by polite society. If you're blind to the last few centuries of American histor
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I too am sick and tired of the overabundance of leftist narrative and agenda in media these days but wasn't Star Trek always filled with progressive leftist viewpoints? I liked the new discovery the only thing that stood out was no cisgendered white male in a major role (kid of sexists and racists isn't it?)
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There's so much more media than one could possibly consume, with left or right narratives, that one can choose only that which supports their preference. And that's a problem.
I try to watch a bit of both camps to mix things up. But both Fox and MSNBC's Trump coverage make me lose my appetite. More Fox than MSNBC, but still...
And that's just televised news. Social media makes me violently ill.
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The U.S. wasn't a terribly polarized place back then compared to now.
You don't remember the Generation Gap, do you? Four dead in Ohio? Silent Majority? Damned Hippies? 'Nam?
Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:5, Informative)
diversity... I really wouldn't want to see Star Trek fall victim to this kind of manipulation.
You didn't watch the original Star Trek, did you? Diversity was a significant part of Roddenberry's conception of the future.
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Most of the series were. TNG had a French captain, female security officer, and Data's personhood was the basis of a few plots over the years.
DS9 had a black captain and did more than any other series to explore the lives of aliens and their cultures.
Voyager had women in several key roles including captain.
Enterprise was a bit of an anomaly and seemed to suffer from not having that strong social justice aspect to drive the stories.
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Enterprise tl;dr - time travel == bad
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Enterprise suffered from not having much of a story.
Enterprise suffered for Starfleet not having much of a story. What is Starfleet? It's got a rank structure that we'd recognize as a navy, but then lots of noncombat organizations do. They fly around in ships that are armed, have science teams, do diplomacy, but they make it clear in many ways that they are not a military. They don't fight wars unless absolutely necessary. They don't have "soldiers" as we'd recognize them, only "security officers" or some such are armed with any regularity. It seems t
Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:5, Insightful)
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Not just Uhuru, the regular cast also had Japanese, Russian, Scottish and of course Vulcan characters.
Hard to realise the significance of a Russian character as one of the good guys at the height of the cold war.
And then of course you had episodes that were dedicated to condemning racism, such as "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" where the aliens were half black, half white.
And of course having Kirk and Uhuru kiss was quite literally "pushing it in the viewer's face", at a time when segregation was still
Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think the issue is with diversity, but with presentation. Yes, TOS had "Plato's Stepchildren" and "Last Battlefield" and the one with the nuclear war fought within a computer...but how often was putting a Russian in charge of navigation and shields a point of contention? How many times was Sulu's Japanese heritage brought up (remember, we didn't like Japan much after WWII, and it was still very much in living memory)? Uhura being black during the civil rights movement is what everyone remembers, but how often did her gender come up in the context of her being a bridge officer and other than Plato's Stepchildren, did her race come up more than maybe once or twice? The answers to all of these questions are "It didn't", "It didn't", and "It didn't", and "I'll have to double check...but I'm pretty sure it didn't".
Roddenberry's most amazing statement throughout TOS was paradoxically the most subtle - these things were such non-issues that they weren't worthy of anyone's attention. Uhura wasn't perceived by the crew as "a black woman", she was "the communications officer, and a damn good one", and everyone from Kirk on down respected her as such. Same for Chekov and Sulu. The whole ship was egalitarian in that sense - skills and rank were respected, but nobody treated anyone else better or worse based on race or gender. As it should be.
I don't know the GP, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he would have an issue with a diverse cast in itself. The issue is when that becomes such a point of focus that it starts being the defining characteristic of the individual at the expense of anything that would give the character any real amount of depth. When a show starts doing that, the push for diversity starts seeping into the scripts. Even then, there's presentation to be had. The infamous interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura was controversial based on its existence, but the story itself didn't depend on the shock value of that scene. Roddenberry did this sort of thing well. Few today can say the same - characters intended to provide diversity tend to make that diversity a featured part of the story, rather than "the person doing the thing who happens to be a non-SWM".
Sometimes things do need to be pointed out directly, but most of the time, treating it like a non-issue is the best way to illustrate how normal something is in the future. Few directors can do this well.
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The original series episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" had aliens who were literally half black and half white, fighting a racist war with the half white half black ones. It was extremely "in your face" and obvious. Then there was the first on-screen interracial kiss, again very obvious and if you read the history of the episode something that Roddenberry had to push very hard to include.
In the TNG era you had episodes that were quite overtly about the oppression and "treatment" of LGBT people, fea
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I don't get something about these kinds of claims. Maybe you can explain it. If the right is worried that the left controls Hollywood and most entertainment, why don't they make their own studios and produce right-leaning content?
John Wayne remakes/clones, Leave it to Beaver reboots, The Osmonds: The Next Generation, Lawrence Welk in
dude I hope its flute guy (Score:2)
the jean luc one should totally be about his life as flute guy
Is Star Trek still a real thing for scifi fans? (Score:3)
What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
Re:Is Star Trek still a real thing for scifi fans? (Score:5, Funny)
What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
It's as if fungus was the core of the Standard Model. And tartigrades were the conduit of the universe.
I know... it doesn't make sense. Apparently a can of Lotrimin spray will collapse the entire universe... theoretically of course.
Re:Is Star Trek still a real thing for scifi fans? (Score:4, Funny)
It's as if fungus was the core of the Standard Model. And tartigrades were the conduit of the universe.
The tardigrade count is strong in this one.
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What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
It could be but mostly it is on the wait and see list these days. I even find myself somewhat nostalgic watching Voyager on Netflix (working on watching all episodes from each series just to do it once in my life), then they have a stupid episode I can hardly sit through, but at least it had the occasional real Star Trek feel.
Re: Is Star Trek still a real thing for scifi fans (Score:2, Interesting)
Remember that Voyager was created during the very early years of the public adoption of the Internet and the WWW. Although some episodes may seem dumb today, at the time it was pushing societal boundaries in many ways, before information traveled as quickly as it does today. One example is the depiction of Ensign Harry Kim. If I'm not mistaken, this was one of the first, if not the very first, character in a mainstream production to suffer from micropenis syndrome and the difficulties it entails, such as th
Re:Is Star Trek still a real thing for scifi fans? (Score:5, Insightful)
What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
The whole "pay for the streaming service to just watch one program" thing kinda of stopped me*.
*That plus I thought the show sucked anyway. Between watching the first episode of that and also of The Orville .. I could see more potential in the latter.
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What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
I'm impressed you made it that far.
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Discovery has redesigned Klingons that dress in King-Tut outfits and take 15 seconds to say every word, a Fungus drive that derives it's power from space-fungal spores, and an unlikable protagonist who routinely disobeys orders and stabs everyone she works with in the back yet somehow was promoted to being just one step away from being Captain. What's not to like?
They did do one cool episode, though, in the "Mirror-Mirror" alternate universe where some bridge-equivalent rebels hear about and set out to st
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The TV series has nothing to do with the new movies.
It's mostly about the Klingon war. It's good, worth watching on Netflix or DVD.
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There was a rumor a while back to do a Star Trek Academy or something like that.
Personally, I would like to see a Star Trek from the point of view of the Klingons. Not those crappy Klingons from the discovery series, but real Klingons from TNG universe.
All Access? (Score:2)
Re:All Access? (Score:4, Funny)
No, Pirate Bay will also have downloads available.
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Yes, each one will have it's own infernal "All Access" app requiring a separate monthly payment in addition to the one for Discovery (if that's still around).
Re:All Access? (Score:5, Interesting)
It was basically lens flare after lens flare. The Orville on the other hand was hilarious.
Please, just let it die. (Score:3, Insightful)
So we've got 5 Star Trek shows in the works and 7, 8, or 9 Star Wars prequels, sequels, whatevers, as well. This isn't innovation. It's not new ideas. And it certainly not exciting. It's whipping a dead cow laying out in the desert somewhere for the past 2 years in order to get a few more drops of milk.
It's done, guys. It's over. Time to let go.
Existed and killed (Score:2)
Maybe spin on the idea of a secret group jetting themselves off this rock just to get away from the crazy only to find out they brought they crazy with them.
That is Firefly. Change my mind.
The only future concept I've seen that doesn't instantly make me turn off the TV is The 100, but that's well past jump the shark territory at this point
Yeah but come on, it is some epic shark-jumping they are doing on that show. If you are going to jump a shark, jump a whole pile of them or a mega-shark - and that is wha
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Enough of shows being "gritty". Sometimes I want to watch an episode without it being part of a larger plot or ending on a cliffhanger.
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I wish I had. The first two seasons were good but then it found God and started with the religious theme. Mind you not as bad as Caprica.
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Agreed, though I think BSG redeemed itself a little bit during the mid-fourth season with the trial of Baltar and some other stories.
The real problem is that Ron Moore just doesn't know how to wind down and end a TV series. You can see the exact same problems with Deep Space Nine -- a great show that floundered at the end and also ended up going down the religion rabbit hole.
I'm impressed (Score:5, Funny)
5 Star Trek Shows in Development
I didn't know Seth MacFarlane could develop so many shows all at once.
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And they're all far better than any of these new Star Trek series will ever be. I never thought I'd say this but "Enterprise" is almost watchable compared to "Discovery". I'll probably check out the one with Patrick Stewart, if it comes to pass, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for it, not unless they sack the Klingon makeup department and hire some better writers.
"beloved" character Khan (Score:5, Funny)
A limited series based around the beloved character Khan ...
The series will revolve around Khan's earlier days as founder of a non-profit educational organization [wikipedia.org] and the challenges he, and his students', faced in fast-paced the world of on-line academia and, later, how the stresses of life and continuing education drove him actualize his genetic-designed potential for world domination. The rest, as they say, will be History.
Prequel (Score:2)
The series will revolve around Khan's earlier days as founder of a non-profit educational organization
I thought his early days involved leading hordes of horsemen from the Mongolian plains and performing so much rape and pillage that there is a fair chace you are related to him.
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Possibly also having something to do with building a stately pleasure dome.
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Could be a really interesting story there. Khan started from a not unreasonable position - he and his people had been used, abused and discarded by humanity and deserved a life, a chance to live. But he's also been bred for war and despite his intelligence he can't suppress those instincts entirely.
Those things pulling him in different directions, and what Kirk unintentionally did to him made a great movie.
at least put it on showtime if not CBS OTA! (Score:2)
at least put it on showtime if not CBS OTA!
The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan ... (Score:2)
Plot reveal: (Score:2)
To boldly go where no man has gone before ...
Shocking allegations? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Most of the stuff in the summary is not in the linked story so either msmash did a horrible job typing it up or made up things. The linked story doesn't say anything about Patrick Stewart or the reasons for the show runnner's dismissal.
Pay Streaming? No Thanks... (Score:2, Interesting)
If they can get it on my cable TV somehow, the cable I'm already paying big $$$$ for, then maybe I'll set the DVR. Oh, and despite the sexy graphics of the Discovery show, I stopped at the 1st episode where the female captain goes one-on-one with a Klingon and doesn't die. Female-lead combat command also ruined The Force Awakens for me, as it is seriously unrealistic in that, although women could probably do these things, you don't find many aspiring to such roles. Getting them "all over the place" in
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You should read up on crime statistics then. We're heading *away* from violence, despite the 24/7 coverage on TV.
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I don't believe there are women that can do combat as well as _any_ man. Their exceptionals can do combat as well as an average man, but when you talk Rangers / Seals, or someone built like Rambo... nope, I don't think I've ever seen any. I've seen pix of the body builders, and the guys are _always_ bigger than the gals. In hand-to-hand fighting, size matters.
One of those might be worth checking out (Score:2)
If Nicholas Meyer makes a Star Trek show, I may actually be excited about watching it. He did both Star Trek 2 and 6, the best of the movies IMO.
I've never seen Discovery. I'm certainly not going to pay for a streaming service for the purpose of watching one show. And I haven't heard anything positive enough about it to pirate it. I just don't care that much, which is a bit sad considering I've watched every Star Trek show up to this point.
Is it about the future? (Score:3)
I grew up on TNG and DS9 because it was about the 'future'. Both series had a good balance of soap opera in space and technobable. TNG brought us the Borg. Voyager the Delta quadrant. DS9 the changlings and the wormhole. And then they went and started redoing established history. Stop overwriting canon so that we can see "Kirk" on screen.
I want to see what happens after DS9. Something set as far ahead of DS9 as TNG was ahead of TOS.
Get some tech consultants and map out some future tech. Get out beyond the quadrants of the Milky Way. Make up some new aliens, in the future. It makes no sense to say "eh, in the past we had these aliens but they somehow don't exist anymore by time TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY do".
There's so much existing IP that there should be no shortage of material. Borg, Cardassians or Changlings part of the Federation? Federation disbanded? Mirror universe travel 'normal' as interstellar travel? (Without being Sliders).
Time it right and you can still do cameos like Scotty in TNG (even if you screw up the episode so much that you have them beaming through a shield). The DS9, TNG and VOY crews should still be mostly alive, especially Data and the Doctor.
At this point they're just going to set a series in 2028 and call it 'ultrapre-history Federation'.
Humans with Klingons (Score:2)
They should make a series about two Federation human newbies stationed on a Klingon ship. A man and a woman. The culture clashes would be fun and interesting. The Earth man can date a Klingon woman, and he always walk out of their room with bruises but smiling.
New Series? (Score:2)
A show about starfleet academy could be interesting. Might bring in some younger viewers. But it could also completely suck if they make it like Beverly Hills 90210 In Space ,. . .
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Tormented, Science-Fiction Youth (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/27) [penny-arcade.com]
Just one phrase from TFA (Score:2)
Uh-oh.
Sounds like the Teen Titans and Thudercats Roar treatment for Star Trek.
Discovery? (Score:5, Insightful)
>"In the wake of shocking allegations against Star Trek: Discovery's showrunners"
Discovery? Is that really a thing? I am a huge Trekkie and have not seen a single episode. Their distribution model sucked, and I have heard it is nothing but "PC overkill" combined with total fantasy. Strangely, I don't know ANYONE who has actually watched "Discovery" and when I ask them, they have no interest in doing so, even the Trekkies like me. But....
Meanwhile, the Orville came along and THAT became my Star Trek after Enterprise. Enterprise was a bit shaky, but was just getting into its grove when they killed it. Reminded me of the issues with Deep Space 9, until STTNG ended and the writers apparently focused their attention on DS9 and it improved a lot. Anyway, who would have thought "Orville" would have somehow hit the Trek nail on the head??? I am still in disbelief.
I loved the original, REALLY REALLY loved ALL of The Next Generation, loved most of DS9, really loved all of Voyager, loved much of Enterprise, after the awkward start. Most of the original Trek movies were so-so (Wrath of Kahn clearly the best). The Next Generation movies were all quite good. And I really loved the reboot movies. But now it seems Paramount has really lost their way, at least with TV (and especially in combination with CBS).
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Don't let the "pc overkill" nonsense put you off. There is far less of it than the original series or TNG. It's just some people with an agenda saying that.
You can get it in DVD and it's worth watching.
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I agree with you about The Orville. It's 5 starts compared to Discovery, which I'd give 1 star. TNG, DS9, and VOY are all my favourites, but Enterprise had a weakling for a captain and it drove me mad. I watched a few episodes of Discovery (appropriate acronym: "STD") and regretted it. The Orville is where it's at, now.
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Enterprise had a weakling for a captain and it drove me mad
I liked most of the characters but had a REALLY hard time swallowing Scott Bakula. Although eventually he started getting into the role and I could deal with it. He sorta reminded me of Chapote on Voyager (my least liked character). One problem is that I kept thinking at any moment he would say "Oh Boy"....
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There's probably a dose of PC* injected into Discovery, but I very much enjoyed it and look forward to upcoming episodes. I think anyone who likes science fiction (and particularly a Trekkie) would be unnecessarily depriving themselves of entertainment by sidestepping this series.
* There's arguably an over-representation of strong and competent females vs males in the upper Starfleet ranks. Then again Janeway (and Admiral Nechayev) cleared this path years ago. (Our timeline ... Discovery is set before them
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But then the plot had to work via Michael. For a good STD the rest of the cast would have had to have some role.
The new plots have to be more interesting than 5 times a STD with a winning Michael vs bad and evil monoculture.
If anything should be excised from Trek... (Score:2)
total lack of imagination moving forward (Score:2)
Counteroffer (Score:2)
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Patrick Stewart is something like 110 years old. Let the poor guy enjoy retirement.
5 shows? (Score:2)
With Michael crews and STD related plots?
Captain, First Officer, Lieutenant, Admiral, Tactical officer? All with their own Michael story.
Any civilian, ambassador, alien encountered will be out smarted by Michael.
In every explode and as a series plot arc.
5 times the Michael winning plots.
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Star Trek has always been "leftist propaganda". The difference is the Internet is around to inflame people's passion.
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proud subscriber of alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die
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I don't know what you are talking about. Can you provide some examples?
Re: No, thanks. (Score:2)
He didn't really give any examples is bad "leftism". You don't get much more gratuitously diverse then having a Russian crew member in the middle of the Cold War.
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Having a comedically over-patriotic Russian and making minorities all obey all orders of a midwest American white man was not nearly as liberal as Roddenberry wanted to believe.
Re: No, thanks. (Score:2)
You mean have mirror Chekov meet non-mirror Lorca? I look forward to your fanfic.
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Who falls in love with robots! It's a sure winner!
You never saw the films in high school.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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There weren't any pansexuals in that video!
Here's a video with a pansexual wookie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
And just for fun here's Darth Vader on the accordion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
For some reason I have a compelling desire to start cello lessons.
BITCH! You left out ST:tAS! (Score:2)
[1] yeah, I know what I do there.
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A teen-oriented series set at Starfleet Academy from Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the duo behind the recent Dynasty reboot and Marvel's Runaways adaptation.
Now, do you really think that's such a great idea? Most of you hated Wesley Crusher on ST:TNG and wished his character would get killed. How can you get behind this bullshit? Garbage.
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A teen-oriented series set at Starfleet Academy from Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the duo behind the recent Dynasty reboot and Marvel's Runaways adaptation.
Now, do you really think that's such a great idea? Most of you hated Wesley Crusher on ST:TNG and wished his character would get killed. How can you get behind this bullshit? Garbage.
I could actually see this concept working, if it is done well.
Wesley was, indeed, annoying — to the point that IIRC there was a whole newsgroup dedicated to coming up with ways for his character to die — but it wasn't because the concept of kids in space was so horrible. No, Wesley was annoying because the writers didn't know what to do with him. As a result, nearly every Wesley episode could be summed up as "Wesley broke something. The ship is about to blow up. Wesley somehow figures out a
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without the plots quickly devolving into "Saved By the Bell In Space" levels of superficiality under the mistaken belief that young people are incapable of conscious levels of thought.
I picture a semi-retired Picard as more of a Head of the Class kind of teacher.
A recurring Picard (Re:Is this a joke?) (Score:2)
I picture Picard as being a recurring character. Maybe he'd "bookend" each season, providing continuity with the larger Trek universe by playing a prominent role in these episodes but otherwise be largely absent. Maybe he'd bookend each episode by giving a "captain's log" style opening and/or Mork and Mindy style closing report to some authority on how things played out.
Why do I think Picard would be portrayed in such a way? Because Patrick Stewart is getting old. I saw an interview he had where he'd ta
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Meh. I'm O(half his age), and half the time, I couldn't tell you what I did at work last week. :-) Besides, I'm pretty sure he's not actually losing his marbles. Minor memory problems like those (including doing things while distracted and forgetting you did them) are actually reasonably normal at that age, and are not inherently a sign of anyth
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Well, the animated series had a few good episodes...
Okay, yeah, it sounds terrible. Maybe it could do something about some cadets who joined to be scientists and explorers but ended up fighting the Klingon war.
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They did that as a side story in one of the movies twenty years ago. It works fine as a ten second "oh, that's so sad that the cadet died" story, but as a core plot line, it doesn't sound like it would appeal to young people much at all. If anything, you'd get a bunch of Wesley Crusher stories that will be hated equally by everyone, regardless of age.
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Maybe it's not meant for you. Maybe it's, you know, meant for kids.
Has anyone insisted you watch it?