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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
Honestly impressed with Discovery’s restraint in not showing it to us for their last three seasons.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
Ah, so I just missed it. There goes my little theory.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
We’ve definitely seen cadets serving on ships a few times, and The Wrath of Khan featured a training voyage (though they didn’t seem to be going to anywhere in particular).
So I agree there’s precedent. I was really just stretching for a way to cheekily suggest the name.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
So these kids will be going out in the galaxy on real missions before they’ve even graduated. I love the enterprising spirit that shows.
Say, have they revealed the name of the ship yet?
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
Agreed. I’ve been enjoying SNW, but it’s been playing it far too safe. Star Trek needs to rock the boat a little!
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 1 week ago:
The inevitable next step after the musical episode. It was either this or Thunderbirds style marionettes like Stargate did.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 1 week ago:
I don’t mind zombies, but they didn’t even factor into real story. Why not have the tension come entirely from the Klingon hunting M’Benga? Then they could have spent more time building up her motivation and their ritual combat at the end would have felt like a culmination of the hunt instead of an awkward distraction from the zombie hoard surrounding them.
I didn’t hate the episode, but it could have felt a lot more cohesive.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien 1 week ago:
Not much concrete here beyond the images, so I’ll just comment on those:
- Lots of amber lighting. Seems like it’s always sunset at the academy.
- I’m really digging the new uniforms.
- Curious about the significance of the wall of names. A whole lot of familiar names on there from almost every era of the franchise.
- Picardo looks like he’s ready to have a lot of fun in the role.
- Nice to see the new bridge, but that’s an ugly captain’s chair. Obviously supposed to harken back to the TOS style, but while TOS had a minimalistic elegance to its blockiness, this one feels way too busy.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t show him any of the all time greats. Then there’s nowhere to go but down.
I also wouldn’t try to hook him on a twenty or thirty out forty year old show when there’s a really good Trek series coming out right now. There’s no urgency to watching an old show, so even if he likes it he’s likely to put it off for later and forget about it.
Just hit him with SNW episode 1. It’s a decent episode, not an all time best but a good introduction to what the Federation is all about and very briefly how it grew from the present day. And if he decides to continue in his own, there’s no question of where to start - just move on to episode 2.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 2 weeks ago:
Is this that feminist riddle again?
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 5 weeks ago:
Is the director’s cut the version where they cut away from the mind meld scene to shoehorn in a bunch of flashbacks for people who can’t remember the conspirators names?
If so, I hate that version! What a garbage change to a magnificently acted scene.
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 5 weeks ago:
I love all the TOS films (which is more than I can say for any other era), but at the very least I’d think that if you like II and IV you ought to enjoy III and VI.
III is the middle of a trilogy you’ve already seen the first and last instalments of and is a solid adventure on its own, and VI brings back the director of II to give the whole series a proper send off.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 1 month ago:
Interesting point. I remember TAS’ Kirk being much less, well, animated. I’d chalk it up to the limits of Filmation and Shatner being less interested in voice work, but I’ll need to keep Wesley in mind next time I watch it.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 1 month ago:
I’m personally not in love with simply doing more TOS. Feels like a show, once done, should stand for itself. Plus, I’m okay with Paul Wesley as younger Kirk, but he wasn’t a great fit when he debuted as mature Kirk.
I’d be more excited about something running parallel. Number One as the captain of her own ship (with the occasional 1701 team up, of course) would be more appealing to me.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 month ago:
I’ve been hearing about how Kurtzman is days away from being fired since Discovery’s first season. If he does choose to step down, there’ll still be no convincing those people that he wasn’t forced out in disgrace.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
LOAD “*”, 8, 1 - Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
If I were an overworked teacher, I’d still rather award the point. Just throw down a checkmark and move on. I don’t need to write an explanation, and the kid/parents are not going to complain.
- Comment on Gets me goin every time 2 months ago:
“And now the continuation” brings a real mix of feelings.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 2 months ago:
Clearly, Disco Klingons were a racist caricature of the good people of Remulak. Unforgivable, really.
- Comment on Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay. 2 months ago:
Looked it up - 1995. I’d have been all of eleven at the time.
Apart from the scale, I remember it as being pretty screen accurate. I think the first Starship Exeter fan film used these, with a little modification.
- Comment on Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay. 2 months ago:
My parents bought this for me when it was new, as well as the phaser and communicator! The strap was the perfect length for me at that age…
I loved the little blueprint sheet that came with them.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 2 months ago:
You say “dilute,” I say “diversify”. Star Trek has always had a place for comedy. That doesn’t mean anything goes, and I get being trepidatious after the trash fire that was S31, but I think there’s good reason for optimism in this case. If Lower Decks and interviews like this are anything to go by, it looks like Newsome knows that any comedy needs to jibe with the overall Trek ethos.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 3 months ago:
Nick Locarno was a name Tom Paris went by for a while to distance himself from his father, Admiral Paris. I don’t care what Lower Decks had to say about it.
Q was Trelane all grown up. We’ll see if this holds up after SNW season 3 comes out.
Data always had emotions, he just didn’t understand them. Lore never had emotions, he was desperately faking it.
Spot was a robot who underwent a series of upgrades throughout the series, and Data applied the lessons he learned from that to the development of his daughter.
- Comment on "You're kissing the ground in almost the exact spot where your statue is going to be." 3 months ago:
Still better than Musk Junior High.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 months ago:
I adore SNW, but honestly, “always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it” seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 3 months ago:
The Enterprise.
I mean, her or Yvonne Craig.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 3 months ago:
It’s spelt M’egh.
- Comment on Star trek clothing line 3 months ago:
Us Canucks have been boycotting U.S. products since the first round of tariffs.
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 5 months ago:
Always striking to me how many Star Trek fans are so dismissive of Star Trek. I know its of it’s time, but TOS didn’t take its place in history by accident. Wonderful storytelling, iconic characters - absolutely a must to watch, at least to try it out.
Voyager, by comparison, is pretty mid. The writing is super inconsistent and it absolutely squanders its own premise. Notable for Janeway, Seven, and the Doctor, but it’s definitely rough going.
But it’s still a good watch. The only ones I don’t think I could enthusiastically recommend are TAS, Enterprise, and Picard.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 5 months ago:
I’m old enough to remember the premiere of DS9, but I did appreciate Discovery’s move to the future. I liked the political aspects of the rebuilding of the Federation. I have always been a little bugged by how Earth centric Trek tends to be, so I especially appreciated the fact that Earth had seceded by the start of season 3. Not sure how much I can expect Academy to pick up on any of that, though.