StillPaisleyCat
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- Comment on Interview: Dan And Kevin Hageman On How ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2 Is Different, And What May Come Next 1 day ago:
A 90 minute animated streaming movie for either Netflix or Paramount could be great.
- Comment on Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence 6 days ago:
I suspect you’re correct on this.
I have been looking for a ‘special presentation’ on CTV linear as they have a track record of inserting those when they’re out of alignment with streaming releases.
- Comment on Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence 1 week ago:
Checking the CTV Sci-fi schedule on Thursday, July 5th at 9 pm - the usual slot for new Star Trek - Snowpiercer is shown. The rest of the evening has the usual Star Trek Voyager reruns.
Sigh.
- Comment on Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence 1 week ago:
The closest Chapman’s flavour to that might be Premium Chocolate & Brownies Ice Cream, but Rok herself might like the classic Rocket ice Lollies.
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- Comment on See New Images from Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2! 1 week ago:
TrekCore is saying that in Canada season 1 will be available on the CTV app.
😞😢😭😿😿😿
- Comment on The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here 1 week ago:
I’ve been checking CTV Sci-fi forward schedule in case a ‘special event’ might show up.
Complete void.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 509 With New Images And Clip From “Lagrange Point” 5 weeks ago:
But TrekMovie has one with the Breen that’s not on the StarTrek.com official site.
Seems like a quality control issue in sending out the embargoed emails.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 1 month ago:
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library doesn’t seem open to the public all the time, but it does have events it seems.
fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fisher-events
Also it has participated in Doors Open Ontario which is an annual event for a few days in May, when many publicly funded or non-profit buildings that usually have restricted admittance, are open for viewing.
- Comment on Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! 1 month ago:
Yes please!!!
I have absolutely been waiting for this to be released to Steam.
- Comment on TAS recommendations 1 month ago:
The whole run is less than 8 hours total, and there’s several episodes in there that really bridge between TOS and the movies and TNG, even if they’ve been cut down for the format.
But here are a few other suggestions…
‘The Slaver Weapon’ was written by Larry Niven himself, adapting his story ‘The Soft Weapon’, and making Kzinti a Star Trek canon species.
‘The Practical Joker’ gives us the holographic simulator in the Rec Room, and the first ‘space anomaly leads to computer misfunctions and Holodeck insanity’
‘Mudd’s Passion’ gives us Scotty and the Caitain second Communications Officer Lt M’Ress in an unintended romantic twist.
Uhura gets command in ‘The Lorelei Signal.’
‘More Tribbles, More Troubles’ is an essential part of Tribble lore.
‘The Time Trap’ and ‘The Jihad’ are great for showing off a wider range of sentient species.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
Given the cost of the archival footage upgrades for the DS9 documentary ‘What we left behind’, it’s really surprising that they didn’t work from the LDs as one of their sources.
- Comment on New SFX Magazine Features Star Trek: Discovery Spotlight Interviews, Plus: Captain Rayner’s Species Revealed! 3 months ago:
I’m very interested to see how they build out this species.
Given it’s so far in the franchise future, there was always the possibility he was another mixed species character, but having a connection with legacy species that’s been largely undeveloped, is a better choice.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
@virtualbri@mastodon.online really needs to see this. I know he liked one of your other laserdisc captures.
This is truly awesome, and the raw, un-upscaled analogue image data seems like a far better point of departure to reconstruct higher resolution DS9.
I hope he can see this post and thread via my tag to his Mastadon ID.
I have to ask whether you have any Voyager on LD as well…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Actually, TrekMovie makes the case that the references in the reply to the need to ‘time things out’ for the franchise was the answer. I would parse that as their having other Star Trek franchise products ahead in the queue.
The person asking really let Cheeks off the hook though with their final question being, “Is Trek still a priority for the company?”.
No matter how specific the preceding preamble was to Legacy, the question they got to was super general and let Cheeks take it wherever he wanted.
- Comment on checkmate globalists 3 months ago:
You are so missing out on the wonder that is Sam Kirk.
SNW has a lot delightful surprises, but adding the insouciance of Sam Kirk, but having brothers Kirk spar when Jim shows up on occasion, is truly inspired writing.
- Comment on Showrunner Michelle Paradise on Star Trek: Discovery’s Cancellation, and Filming More Scenes for Season 5 3 months ago:
I was surprised too.
- Comment on Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink. 4 months ago:
Or just tag one of the artists who posts on Mastodon. They’ll get the notification and can decide whether they want to respond here or not.
Vfx head Brian Tatosky did that when I that on another post.
Unfortunately, I can’t recall which of the animators have seen posting on Mastodon.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 To Debut With 2 Episodes On April 4 4 months ago:
Emily Coutts (Detmer) and Oyin Oladego (Owo) are never listed with the main cast characters. They and others like Patrick Kwok-Choon (Gen Rhys) are credited in the ‘also starring’ list in the post credits not in the main titles.
No reason not to believe Emily won’t be back. Oyin was in production as the lead in an independent feature last year so there may have been a scheduling issue as there was for Ronnie Rowe Jr (Bryce) when he was in production for his lead role in BET+ Series ‘The Porter’ during production of Discovery season 4.
Most of these Canadian actors filling in the bridge crew work on other Canadian projects which seem to be more crucial for advancing their careers even if working on Discovery was a regular income.
- Comment on ST: DS9 - Behind The Scenes (1993/LaserDisc) 4 months ago:
Brilliant thank you!
I remember seeing this. One wonders why this hasn’t been included in the BlueRays or included with the DS9 library on Paramount+.
- Comment on Interview: Doug Jones Talks “Dignified” Change For Saru In “Sentimental” Final Season Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 4 months ago:
I totally agree.
However, the number of posts I see elsewhere wondering if it will take place in the already crowded late 24th or early 25th century is surprising. So, there’s value add to Doug Adams affirming that.
- Comment on Interview: Doug Jones Talks “Dignified” Change For Saru In “Sentimental” Final Season Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 4 months ago:
It’s interesting that Doug somewhat confirms that Starfleet Academy will be set in the 32nd century.
- Comment on Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description) 4 months ago:
Wow.
- Comment on The origin of starfleet combat training. 5 months ago:
Only fair to credit Treklit author (and former marine) Dayton Ward for his Kirk-fu 2020 book and for coining the term.
Here’s an interview with Ward from the time of its release.
- Comment on All 10 TOS And TNG Star Trek Movies Exit Paramount+ For Max And HBO (Again) 5 months ago:
The physical media merchandising team seems to be excellent.
Fans really showed up to buy the Prodigy DVDs, but they also had really put in the effort to promote them. They even came up with party ideas and recipes.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 5 months ago:
Don’t impose your preferences for doing things in sequence or being a completionist on new viewers please. This seems really bad advice and likely to turn off more potential fans than pull them in.
OP’s question is about how to figure out how to engage someone in the franchise who seems to have her own specific preferences, and things that put her off.
I’m a viewer who first saw TOS as a small child when it was in first run, and everything in first run after that. It for others, there’s a whole range of shows for different tastes, best to figure out which one suits someone’s tastes and pull them into the franchise with that.
When we wanted to introduce our kids to the franchise, we started with TAS, then curated episodes from the other series. Like many tween, Voyager turned out to be ‘their show’ and it makes sense that Prodigy is strongly tied to Voyager. Our kids have moved onto other Trek shows and other franchises as they’ve moved through their teens. TOS, DS9 & Enterprise remain shows that they’ll watch occasionally. But one can never say that they’ve not liked Trek.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 5 months ago:
It really depends on the person.
I wouldn’t assume that it works best in that direction even though that’s great for long time fans like us.
There is an entire new cohort of younger fans for whom Lower Decks was their entry point. It’s successful because you don’t need to get all the Easter eggs and references to still find it an enjoyable show.
In fact, I see a lot of those Lower Decks-first fans talking about how the show gave them enough reference points to really enjoy the classic shows and be open to their slower pacing.
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 5 months ago:
There’s a ‘Where to start’ FAQ linked in the sidebar wiki for this community. I recommend going there and taking a look.
The best place to start largely depends on your personal preferences in terms of whether shows need to be action packed, have long term serialization vs episodic, and tolerances for 60s or 80s/90s trends in special effects, technobabble, Shakespearean acting styles.
I’m an older person who has been watching since TOS was in first run, and saw the original Star Wars as a teen. Alien 1 too. All to say, I saw all of it as it came out. We were just so glad in the late 70s that someone was making sci-fi movies that weren’t post-Armageddon dreary.
Trek has held my interest more intently, but I read more than my share of the SW ‘legends’ books as they came out. I can see a wide range of offerings in both franchises, appealing to different audiences and tastes.
It rather boggles me that there are folks who have tried one but not the other. It’s like someone who is a DC or Marvel fan and has never checked out the other. You may not find anything to like, but the potential of finding another universe of stories that interest you is more than worth the risk.
A word of caution. Just about Star Trek every fan thinks that the show they first watched or their favourite show is the best place to start. They’ll argue passionately that you’ll do best starting where they did. Ignore all of it. You’re you.
Read the ‘where to start?’, check out ‘Memory Alpha’ or Wikipedia for the basic description of the main series, pick one that appeals and try the pilot. Be also cautioned that many of the shows take a while to find their groove. Checking out a ‘best of’ list for early seasons is ok if you’re not the of a completist temperament. Hope you find the Trek that’s best for you.
- Comment on Where to Watch Prodigy on December 25 5 months ago:
It’s still on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, Netherlands and Eastern Europe where Paramount and NBCUniversal teamed up.
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
Uhm, would that be 5/10 episodes of the first half of season one (which has two x 10 episodes)?
Most fans view S1E6 ‘Kobayashi’ as the episode where the balance flips to be more Star Trek as it pulls new viewers in.