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- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 2 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? 2 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) 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 😂😂😂 5 weeks ago:
LOAD “*”, 8, 1 - Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 5 weeks 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 1 month 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” 1 month 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? 2 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." 2 months ago:
Still better than Musk Junior High.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 2 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? 2 months ago:
The Enterprise.
I mean, her or Yvonne Craig.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 2 months ago:
It’s spelt M’egh.
- Comment on Star trek clothing line 2 months ago:
Us Canucks have been boycotting U.S. products since the first round of tariffs.
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 4 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 4 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.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 4 months ago:
Yeah, I hate to say it, but it makes sense from a bean-counter’s perspective. Lower Decks seemed to mostly target hardcore fans, and hardcore fans will already be subscribing to watch SNW. If its not gaining them any extra subscriptions, they don’t care about it.
Section 31 and Academy are both trying to court people outside of the existing fandoms. Certainly not very successfully in the case of Section 31, but the reasoning at play is pretty clear.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 4 months ago:
The Daddykins to someone’s Ronny as it were.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 4 months ago:
Nice patch, nice pennant. I hope they’re planning some solid merch for this. Even if the show turns out to be a disappointment, I’d be happy to buy some Starfleet Academy gear.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 4 months ago:
Season 4 has been confirmed as well. It’s true that there was a longer gap between seasons 2 and 3, but that’s when the Hollywood strikes fell, so it’s not surprising.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 5 months ago:
You forget the option of puppetry! The best aliens have always been puppets.
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 5 months ago:
Honestly, I think this has more consistently been Star Trek’s approach. Early TNG was the exception. It really pushed for an “evolved humanity” model for Star Trek, where something has fundamentally shifted in our collected psychology. Examples like Dr. Crusher speaking like its remarkable that people used to fear death, or Picard dismissing religion as childish superstition come to mind as particularly strong hints that we’ve changed a lot.
But later Trek pushes against this: DS9 with it’s murky way arc, Voyager with episodes like Equinox and Scorpion, and even late TNG with Pegasus and Journey’s End. They are all more likely to see the “evolved human” as something to be tested by the story, with the drama coming from the possibility that it might fail that test.
And I think this is for the best. If humanity is too evolved and too perfect, the series can feel a bit heavy on U.S. exceptionalism - with the very American coded Starfleet going around to other worlds to fix and moralize about other peoples’ problems, but never needing to self-reflect or improve on themselves. I think a healthy balance is needed to actually model the qualities that allowed humanity to improve in the first place (and that we really need to see more of in the world now).
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 6 months ago:
The Orville was never funny, and it got much better when it stopped trying to be. Star Trek has a pretty good track record with humour. Especially where Newsome is concerned.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 6 months ago:
Huh, I thought I’d heard Netflix cancelled it, but according to everything I see on Google they just haven’t announced anything one way or the other. It’s been long enough that I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 6 months ago:
Sure, I’d understand your sentiment more when all those shows were being announced, rather than after they’ve all been canned. Right now we’re looking at ten episodes plus the Section 31 special in the coming year, which doesn’t seem like over doing it to me. But I was raised on seasons of twenty-plus episodes, so maybe I’m spoiled.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 6 months ago:
They’ve cancelled Discovery, Prodigy, Picard, Lower Decks, and you’re worried they’re going to over-do it? If they do it much less, there wont be any Trek left!