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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 3 days ago:
The SNW Gorn literally pulled the classic sitcom “stay on your side of the line” routine - basically the same motivation as “Arena”.
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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 4 days ago:
I prefer the goofy-badass-Gorn over the scary-quick-incubatin’-Gorn.
They’re iconic for a reason.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 4 days ago:
The recon is to the timeline and initial encounter with the species
Fair enough - I’ll backtrack slightly and say that if there’s a retcon, that’s where it is, rather than in the Gorn’s behaviour.
But there is a bit of wiggle room in “Arena”, I think. Kirk certainly seems unfamiliar with the Gorn, but they never really say it’s the first contact, and Spock doesn’t really say anything one way or the other (a very Spock-like thing to do in any situation).
They definitely have massaged that canon, but I don’t think they’ve really contradicted it.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 4 days ago:
It’s really none of our business…but are they?
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 4 days ago:
“What I loved about the Gorn was it was an opportunity to retcon something into a real monster. What we do in Star Trek—and you’ll see we’ll even do it with the Gorn—is we start by seeing the other and often we end by engaging our empathy and understanding common ground. And that’s great, and it doesn’t mean that there isn’t real evil in the world. And so what we wanted to do with the Gorn was to give you a monster, and a monster that at least at first, seemed irredeemable.”
I find this statement a little aggravating, because in my opinion they really haven’t retconned the Gorn. In “Arena”, they slaughtered the entire Cestus colony, and the Gorn captain is utterly merciless.
“Arena” is about mercy, but the Gorn didn’t really earn it in the episode, which was really kind of the point.
- ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorntrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 22 comments
- Cillian O’Sullivan Says His Roger Korby Has A “Smidge” Of Darkness In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ S3trekmovie.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- ‘Strange New Worlds’ Cast Talks Funny Spock, Pike’s Trust Issues, And Uhura Letting Her Hair Out In Season 3trekmovie.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
- Interview: Nana Visitor On Wanting To Play Janeway On ‘Voyager’ And The Future Of Kira Nerys In ‘Star Trek’trekmovie.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 4 comments
- Comment on Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ 1 week ago:
Eh?
- Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’www.hollywoodreporter.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 12 comments
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 1 week ago:
Jump 900 years into the 'past* and do a period costume drama.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 1 week ago:
I always figured TAS was the final two years of the five-year mission…
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 1 week ago:
I think Goldsman’s actual statement is pretty vague - he could easily mean a spinoff with the non-TOS cast. Just redress the sets and you’re off to the races.
He could also mean a movie, or…some third thing.
And in any case, he’s moving on with his career.
It’s cool that they’re excited about possibilities, but I remain very skeptical that there’s any actual traction there.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)www.slashfilm.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 15 comments
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 1 week ago:
Heck, it was pretty much Goldsman’s pitch:
In the first pitch document that we sent to the network… we opened with a question asking, “What if we just did Star Trek?” And they said, “Okay.” Every day in the writers’ room, we try to imagine how would Gene Roddenberry and his team make The Original Series if they were doing it today?
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- Comment on Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest Performances 1 week ago:
I just clued in that you’re visiting from a Mastodon server. In that case, it’s unfortunately two clicks - first the startrek.website link, then the Gizmodo link that goes to the actual article.
Federation is an imperfect beast sometimes.
- Comment on Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest Performances 1 week ago:
If you’re interested in the article, you could try, y’know, reading it.
- Comment on Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest Performances 1 week ago:
Like the article says, the early seasons are often given short shrift due to what comes later, but there’s some great stuff in there.
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- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 week ago:
Oh, absolutely.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 week ago:
I mean, I think the Kurtzman era has been quite successful, but he’s had the job for quite a while now. It’s possible he’ll choose to move on once his contract is up.
But yeah, with Paramount in such a state of upheaval…nothing surprises me any more.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 week ago:
Paramount+ today announced that the fan-favorite original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fifth and final six-episode season ahead of the third season premiere this summer.
Huh…
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- Comment on Neville Page On “Unsustainable” Original Saru On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And Inspiring Future Generations 1 week ago:
But just imagine the “Doug Jones walks into things” gag reel…
- Neville Page On “Unsustainable” Original Saru On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And Inspiring Future Generationstrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- EXO-6 Revisits "The Cage," Master Replicas' Next Action Figures (and a Talking Moopsy!), and Much More Star Trek Merch News!blog.trekcore.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
