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- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Live-Action Comedy From Alex Kurtzman, Justin Simien & Tawny Newsome In Works At Paramount+ 3 months ago:
I’m not sure if someone was trying to figure out ways to increase their profitability to avoid getting bought out, or if they were trying to increase their value to make buying them out a more attractive deal, or what… but there was definitely a whole lot of “wtf are they thinking?” moves at Paramount, just as there were at HBO a year or so ago.
They were definitely flinging options at walls to try to get some kind of effect. But they were doing it with no apparent rhyme nor reason, at least to us out here.
I suspect we’ll see another round of readjustments if/when Skydance gets their merger handled. I suspect there’s people over there just chomping at the bit to get their hands deep in some Trek productions.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 6 months ago:
I’d guess Zora didn’t want to run the DOTs to clean things up anymore
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 7 months ago:
that… looks like it was a 480p source, playing on a 720 display.
Yeah, it might be just slightly higher quality than the broadcasts originally were, but not much.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x02 - Under the Twin Moons 7 months ago:
On rewatch, I wonder if he was on the way to suggesting someone like Book when he was interrupted
Agree with this, it seemed like he was using Book for context, not for a real suggestion. Saru respects what Booker has done for everyone, but I don’t think he’s a real big fan of the guy, and certainly doesn’t think he should be the XO of a Federation ship.
I could be wrong, though
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Director Fesses Up To Unplanned Cameo In Episode 502 7 months ago:
I’m told that’s Bigfoot with a hat on.
- Comment on The Beast at Tanagra 7 months ago:
Darmok, his spear thrown too early.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x05: “Empathalogical Fallacies” (SPOILERS) 1 year ago:
I think people have gone back to the places they came from… :| :| :|
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” 1 year ago:
I’m not sure if there is or not, but it seems like there should be a way to link a post that links to it on whatever instance of Lemmy we’re on instead of hard linking to the main… hmmm
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” 1 year ago:
wouldn’t the Romulans entering the neutral zone also be an act of war, though? that’s kinda the point of a neutral zone – neither side can enter.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” 1 year ago:
They were looking for clues to the attacks on the ships, playing the part of party girls to get in places they probably normally wouldn’t be able to. They went full into it when they got near T’Lyn
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
So… what’s up with the big bad ship of destruction? Any thoughts?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
In this one, it looked an awful lot like they got dusted, to me.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
Collectively, each of the races in Star Trek have their own thing that they do. Individually, some lean more into it than others, but that’s the way they go, pretty much.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
" … delinquents, pirates, slave traders." (DSC s1e15, although the same perception about Orions is held throughout Star Trek).
It seems that Orion culture internally looks down on those who want to be in the sciences, but it’s Tendi’s grandmother that shows the galaxy that they are not all just pirates. Some several years after DSC S1, in SNW S2.
- Comment on Voyager and Paramount Plus 1 year ago:
hmmm. i have an old LG smart TV (webOS v1), I wonder if it would be possible to sideload the Paramount app to it, somehow, and see if it would work… I think it’s currently flagged as requiring webOS v3+
- Comment on Star Trek: very Short Treks | Skin a Cat 1 year ago:
No, the message is that if you continue being an asshole, you don’t actually get what you want, and everyone dies in the end.
- Comment on Star Trek: very Short Treks | Skin a Cat 1 year ago:
I don’t think that was supposed to be Kirk, it was credit as just “Captain”.
- Comment on Star Trek: very Short Treks | Skin a Cat 1 year ago:
The message, I think, is “When Spock tells you you’re being an asshole, stop doubling down on being an asshole, or you lose it all”.
Or more generally, “This is an example of being an asshole. Don’t be like this.”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" & 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" 1 year ago:
It’s a California class. Low budget. :D
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
I love all Star Trek.
- Comment on Star Trek Prodigy season 2 spoilers 1 year ago:
… huh. Releasing a large clip from an episode of a season that doesn’t presently have anyone to broadcast it.
weird.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Extended Clip | SDCC 2023 1 year ago:
To me, there is no bad Star Trek.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Extended Clip | SDCC 2023 1 year ago:
And then everyone watching it (which, unlike what you might think from reading this thread, is actually millions of people) would get super pissed when it got cancelled in the middle of a storyline.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
The first 3 LD episodes are pretty brutal if you’re not tuned into the frenetic pacing of something like Rick and Morty. I would not put Simpsons, Bobs, KOTH in the same zone. HOWEVER, it’s worth getting tuned into. And if you really want some great info, dig up the old site’s posts by /u/USSBurritoTruck (if they are still there) about Canon Connections especially in Lower Decks, because there’s a TON.
or just search “easter eggs in lower decks S1E4” or whatever. But USSBurritoTruck is the best.
- Comment on Can anyone recommend a NuTrek viewing order? Or does it not really matter? 1 year ago:
As far as Discovery and forward go, I’d honestly recommend order of release. I’m not going to feed you any “don’t watch this, do watch that”, I just want to say that various bits of lore are introduced in some series, are then referenced in later episodes of other series. All of the series are making references to each other now. So, I think you get the most of the lore references, if you watch them in release order.
That said, it probably doesn’t really matter – Most of the recent series are in distinctly different places and/or times. Discovery and SNW are the closest (to start) in time and space, and Discovery S2 directly feeds to SNW. Prodigy and Lower Decks are in a similar time space, but very far apart in the galaxy, and Picard starts the farthest ahead in the timeline, though Discovery will overtake it, and Picard also has flashbacks that take place probably close to the time of Lower Decks or Prodigy.
Soooooooooo… overall, probably doesn’t matter, but in my opinion, you get the most benefit of lore knowledge in release order.
- Comment on Can anyone recommend a NuTrek viewing order? Or does it not really matter? 1 year ago:
getting his trombone polished, you say?
- Comment on Ship Lighting 1 year ago:
The one shot with all the torches going out, that the lighting was perfect for, and it looks amazing on TVs that have super great black, like an OLED.
The rest of that episode, they should’ve TURNED ON SOME DAMN LIGHTS