Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
What I want from Trek:
✅️ A sensible tone, mostly serious and sometimes silly. Like real life. ✅️ An exploration of morals, ethics and the human condition, aligned with the mostly utopian future depicted by 80s and 90s Trek. ✅️ An episodic plot that is not overrun by a season arc but not devoid of character development. ✅️ Occasional fun episodes with dress up and jokes. ✅️ Full orchestral score. ❌️ Too many action scenes and explosions. ❌️ Too much budget on CGI. ❌️ Over the top cheesy fan service. ❌️ Rewriting cannon. ❌️ Excessively American oriented script. ❌️ Lazy storytelling. ❌️ Reusing plot devices.
Spot on.
SNW is good but I don’t think we’ll ever see a return to the old TV format of 20+ episode seasons. You can’t do random episodic stories all that well in 6-12 episodes. Short seasons have no room to breathe.
Even Futurama has this problem with the two new Hulu seasons, and that’s without the burden of an overarching plot to keep moving forward.
The new 20 episode season is a 10 episode season with 5 webisodes and a cheaper side project like a cartoon or anthology.
Honestly this is better to me because it enables the good plots of the smaller episodes to get all the focus without forcing some awful secondary plot to fill run time.
I been saying this for a while.
Drop all the ‘canon’ lore. No more Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, or Borg. In fact, no six foot tall, five fingered aliens. Aliens will look completely unlike humans.
Wipe all memory and start 100% fresh.
If it was written fiction then I would agree, but for the screen I still prefer human actors in makeup over full CGI.
Don’t discount practical effects. Watch “The Thing” or “American Werewolf in London” if you don’t believe me.
You forget the option of puppetry! The best aliens have always been puppets.
If you are unfamiliar with him, look up a writer named Poul Anderson. He specialized in creating ‘strange new worlds’ and populated them with all sorts of great characters. “War Of The Wingmen” is a good novel to start with.
SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Overwriting canon is fine, actually. TOS never had an issue with it, and PIC S1E10 gave Data a much better send-off by breaking canon from Nemesis and other Soong episodes. Gene Roddenberry’s assistant officially decanonized TAS, but better writers still acknowledge it.
The idea of “canon” in regard to fictional worlds is dubious anyway, especially ones developed across multiple writers and generations. I’m fine with stuffing Pike’s comment about women on the bridge into the dustbin of history, and not stressing about what decade the Eugenics Wars happened, and assuming PIC S3 doesn’t exist.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You make some great points. I can’t disagree.