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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Wins Emmy Award For Animation 3 minutes ago:
I’m so very glad to see that Prodigy’s excellence continues to get the acknowledgment it deserves from within the creative community.
This Individual Achievement award is determined by the animators’ guild not an open Emmy vote. Having the winner for each of the show’s two seasons demonstrates the respect the work has within the animation community.
- Comment on Star Trek ebook deals! 16 hours ago:
It would be cool to have an AMA with one of the longtime group of tie-in writers for the franchise.
They’ve seen the evolution of TrekLit from the end of the TNG movie era through the Relaunch book universe and back to standalones.
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- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 1 day ago:
Flix Patrol just compiles the public rankings from the streamers themselves as far as I know.
Parrot Analytics used to make public their rankings that incorporate everything available, including social media volumes, and presumably ‘alternative views’. They were excellent leading indicators and covered many markets that the other metric companies didn’t. However, they stopped making their top ten streaming shows list available, let alone their show by country details, and we don’t see them reported in entertainment media as we once did.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 2 days ago:
It has its ups and downs but many of us view it as the strongest live action first season in this era.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 2 days ago:
I have no issues with the ‘dots’ given this is the 32nd century. It really puts the fine point on assigning physical labour as a disciplinary measure.
The lens flare is part of a directional code that’s getting dated at this point. I notice that in the premiere - which Kurtzman directed himself - he went for long camera pans with fewer jump cuts, and fewer lens flares.
As long as Osunsami remains the supervising EP and supervising director in Toronto however, I don’t think that it’s likely we’ll see Kurtzman’s own style of direction reflected in the shows.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 2 days ago:
Oh! That is an interesting pair of indicators.
Nemechek tends to draw the old guard. If he’s seeing his reach increase, it would be a leading indicator for a shift.
- Comment on The new Voyager game was pretty bad. 2 days ago:
Thanks for this.
I think I should focus on finishing Resurgence.
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- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Episode 9 With 5 New Images For “300th Night” 2 days ago:
Giametti has said quite unequivocally that he is not in this episode.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Starfleet Academy’ EPs Talk “Sam 2.0” And Honoring The Doctor’s ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ History 2 days ago:
Why it didn’t really register that SAM will now be the Doctor’s daughter — formed by an environment where he shared his preferences and 800 years of experiences — I can’t say.
That’s on me. But surely, this will be a wild ride for all.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
The others in the household weren’t up to watching yesterday so I expect to get a rewatch with them very soon.
I suspect there are more layers in there that will hit during rewatches.
For example, what’s with the black Borg cube-shaped home of the Makers?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
The Makers stated that she would retain both sets of memories.
Not sure how that would work but she’s not an organic being. Perhaps her original memories would have been encoded and available for access as she matured.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 5 days ago:
10/10. No notes.
In my view, perhaps the strongest episode yet.
Just goes to show that YMMV remains a truism.
I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence are presented through the growth of young adults?
Sincerely, like resilience in the face of trauma is something many 30 and 40 year olds struggle with. I didn’t see this as sophomoric at all.
So, I wonder why episodes like this aren’t landing as well for folks 20 or even 30 years younger than I…
- Comment on Fanhome Announces Expansion to Star Trek Starships Collection, with Additions from Starfleet Academy, Strange New Worlds, and More 6 days ago:
That Protostar looks great.
Really glad that Prodigy is belatedly getting some ship releases.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Exclusive Clip | IGN Fan Fest 2026 6 days ago:
I’m much more excited about this episode than I had been.
And it helps settle some of the context of the first post-burn Academy class vs the fist at the reopened San Francisco location.
- Comment on Tilly Returns In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 8 – See 17 New Preview Images For “The Life Of The Stars” 1 week ago:
Given how offensive many Star Trek ‘fans’ were towards Mary’s weight, especially in the later seasons of Discovery, I have mixed feelings about seeing her choosing to go so far in her weight loss journey.
The increasing use of what was originally medication for diabetes management for obesity and general weight loss is a reality, especially for women in Hollywood.
On one hand the use of these acknowledges that maintaining healthy weights is not just a matter of self control and that behavioural weight loss approaches are largely unsuccessful and unsustainable for more than small losses.
On the other hand, it seems to be giving in to the stigmatization that Mary and others have been subjected to and that Discovery and Star Trek generally were trying to counter.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine” 1 week ago:
The thing is, for Darem, his family and his people, this might be a high stakes situation.
It’s a change in leadership model, with a young new monarch. It should have more weight — especially as we and Jay-Den learn that they have some advanced Ionian-level portal technology. So, they seem the legacy of an advanced species with a highly structured society.
But the feel of the event was more like a resort destination wedding than a constitutional event.
The Khionians clearly a society hiding behind masks, and Darem excels at that.
BUT in the end, Darem’s long time betrothed expresses betrayal that Darem had been wearing a kind of mask with her, never showing his true self.
So, she sees only the ultimatum of an abdication an annulment as a solution.
Being creative and allowing Darem to continue with Starfleet so he could grow and become more comfortable and confident in his own identity, was beyond her ability to imagine.
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 1 week ago:
Those of us who were on the old social media boards of the day recall the outright hostility against a woman as a captain as the principal character of a show.
The number and toxicity of rants about ‘political correctness’ was extreme if less generally known outside fandom.
Personally, I loved the technobabble in Voyager — it conveys the process of engineering and science more authentically than in any other show in the franchise. At a certain level, it’s more important to have a realistic applied science and engineering process in a Star Trek show than to be restricted to what’s currently known in science or that can be extrapolated from limited current knowledge.
Voyager gave us nerds nerding out. What made it exceptional was not only was it two women with STEM expertise, but that they were enthusiastically supporting one another rather than competing.
We saw some of that positivity and STEM process with Geordie and Data in TNG, but Voyager gave us a captain who was an engineer who moved to command track.
- Comment on Interview: George Takei Talks Timeliness Of ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Doc; Wants To Return As Star Trek Admiral 2 weeks ago:
As long as he isn’t a ‘badmiral’, I would love to see that happen.
Can’t we have more Short Treks please?
- Comment on New Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 107 Photos — “Ko’Zeine” 2 weeks ago:
The article says: Genesis Lythe (Bella Shepard) and Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) try to stay out of trouble back on the quiet campus.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t Roddenberry’s original concept for the Ferengi closer to the Furies in this episode?
They were supposed to have large bat ears and the cannibalism rings a bell too — at least the rumours Picard mentions about the Ferengi in TNG ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ included cannibalism.
While the “capitalists on steroids” concept for the Ferengi doesn’t align with the Furies, I still can’t help thinking that Secret Hideout and the Roddenberry estate haven’t pulled out another old idea and reworked it.
Roddenberry’s concept was reworked in the posthumous Andromeda tv show that combined a few of his ‘trunk’ of concepts that were never greenlit. According to the fandom wiki, Magog in Andromeda were “a savage bloodthirsty species feared throughout the universe…(with) baser instincts to kill other living beings for food, or forcibly infest them with Magog eggs for reproduction.“
This ForgottenTrek page on the Ferengi does mention cannibalism and big ears, but I don’t see the prosthetics sketch with the big bat ears that I am recalling.
Do khaosworks@startrek.website or USSBurritotruck@startrek.website happen to have any other references for the original Ferengi concept at hand?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
My partner, our older GenZ offspring* and I were pretty stunned at the end of that.
I’m trying to think of the last time the franchise had an episode with such a dark ending that was not the first episode in a clear multipart sequence.
This is not cozy Star Trek.
- Comment on Preview Episode 6 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 10 New Images From “Come, Let’s Away” 3 weeks ago:
That ship definitely has a late 24th century Sovereign-class look to it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 3 weeks ago:
That’s how Sam interpreted it, and it’s why she imitated it / mirrored it back.
But what if it wasn’t pro forma?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 3 weeks ago:
Does anyone else have any lingering questions or hypotheses around two nonsequiturs in the episode?
- The Bajoran who welcomed Sam said that her “pagh is strong;”
- Jake’s holographic reconstruction called Sam ‘sis’.
I’m wondering why and how the photonics chose the form for Sam - and whether her form is based on a real person - such as Sisko and Cassidy’s daughter Rebecca.
I’m also really wondering how a photonic being can have a pagh…
These definitely seem like things that might be followed up on later.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Pulled Off Those Amazing Deep Space Nine Returns 3 weeks ago:
This has some value added in terms of contrasting the outcome of DS9 ‘The Visitor’ with Jake’s Prime Timeline outcome.
I like the SFA outcome, and I think it respects what Avery wanted in terms of showing that Sisko was a fantastic Black father who left a legacy of good parenting to future generations.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 3 weeks ago:
I was very moved at how Jake was a truly adult version of the youth we saw in DS9 but that he also had the posture and dignity that Avery Brooks brought to Sisko.
Cirroc Lofton really can act and it’s outrageous if he’s not been getting work if he wants it.
If you’ve seen him as himself in his podcast, there’s no doubt about his performance in this episode.
It makes me very much want to see him cast in something else.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 4 weeks ago:
Skydance only bought Paramount this past summer after production of SFA season one was well advanced and SNW was largely done seasons four production.
While there is genuine reason for concern regarding future Star Trek, it’s very hard to make the case regarding anything in pre production before 2025.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 4 weeks ago:
As if Star Trek wasn’t corporate from the beginning!
Every major difference between the original pilot ‘The Cage’ and the original series / TOS was rooted in corporate priorities.
The bright, primary coloured uniform tunics, bright colourful flashing lights on the bridge and other sets were designed to promote NBC’s ‘Living Color’ television broadcasts.
Kirk was younger, physically more vigorous and less cerebral than Pike, no matter what Roddenberry wanted. Action adventure hero, romancing women, was what the network wanted no matter that Roddenberry wanted Kirk to be a ‘stack of books with legs’ and for Yeoman Rand to be the original third principle character and long term romantic interest.