StillPaisleyCat
@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ve done it through DDG on my phone. Still get weird thumbnail.
When I can get on desktop, I can try again but it really makes me wonder about CBR.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Even with the now corrected link, it still wants to show the image from the ad.
I stripped the tracking code from the end but the other image won’t clear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Corrected it. I initially seemed to have picked up the ad instead of the actual interview.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 week ago:
I’m not sure why anyone ever thought it would be?
Other than the naysayers who were looking not to like it and had to be ‘shown otherwise.’
Even Prodigy ended up an ‘all ages’ show.
In this case, despite the idea of an Academy show kicking around since the 1970s, it was fairly clear that no senior network/streamer executive were ever going greenlight it until someone came up with a concept that was more than a college soap in the Star Trek universe.
What I didn’t expect was for the other perennial ‘failed to make it to pilot’ franchise idea of a hospital show also got rolled into it. That’s one that Roddenberry first tried to spin off with M’Benga in the second season of TOS.
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise" 2 weeks ago:
I’m finally getting back to this.
Had a work push and then a virus. I really find I have even less attention for listening and podcasts when I’m ill.
One thing that I’ve figured out is that the audio quality varies widely depending on the service one is getting podcasts from or the delivery app.
The base recording is excellent and the sound effects are there. Some of the players have so much noise that you’d never realize that.
In any event, I tried out different players and found that Cassidy’s delivery was much less mumbly on better audio players regardless of being on the same device.
Something to consider when getting podcasts even through open source players.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
We can disagree on that.
I will never love TMP but I will never claim it’s not Star Trek.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
I agree. These folks have no perspective or are dishonest with themselves.
I can acknowledge that it can be jarring, and it can take time to accept a major visual design update.
I felt that in 1979 as I sat in the theatre watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
I had no heads up whatsoever that the Klingon design had changed. I was completely confused in the opening scenes with the Klingons. I couldn’t figure out what species they were.
But I got over it. Quickly.
I still think TMP is disappointing, long boring movie that rehashes the Nomad plot from TOS. The Klingon redesign wasn’t its problem though.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert Reveals ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Role As Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date — NYCC 2 weeks ago:
It seems more that Larry Ellison is giving his adult children amounts of money to invest to learn how to run businesses.
Amounts that for most others would be an inheritance in themselves are less than a year’s interest on Larry’s overall fortune.
David and his sister both started out with a certain amount.
His sister’s firm got into financial difficulties so Larry appointed a co head and hasn’t invested more.
David made his investment in creating Skydance profitable and so his father is investing more.
It’s a better solution than Trump taking his cut of the inheritance and bankrupting it, and then getting full control and bankrupting again.
That’s not to say even so that Larry isn’t taking advantage of the CBS part of the purchase to reshape its news to his own vision.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast And EPs Talk “Going For Broke” In Season 4, “Bittersweet” Season 5 2 weeks ago:
Celia’s hair for the panel suggests they’re evolving Uhura’s style in season five towards the one in TOS.
Which is interesting because Celia really wanted to avoid wigs and keep a natural hairstyle.
I’m wondering what kind of hair Jess will have for Chappel in the final season.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
There are a bunch of the perennial brigading naysayers on other platforms already venting that this young Klingon is too skinny/lanky.
Seems that they never saw Tony Todd as Kurn or considered that TALL is an important Klingon physical characteristic.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
This comes across as gatekeeping…
— from the perspective of someone who’s been watching Trek since the 1960s and has seen the same old ‘ahem, not Trek, it’s stealing from …’ chestnuts since TAS was announced, I am alway surprised how little older fans recognize that Trek has ALWAYS adapted other media (movies, television, radio plays, Shakespeare!) into its episodesz
Sigh.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
They’re making sure they’ll hit the February sweeps for advertiser data (which weirdly remain a thing in the streaming era).
Perhaps the new ownership are going to give the franchise more of a chance to thrive.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | BTS: Season 3 Costumes | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Never any notes on the SNW costumes.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
The global trailer is available an an embed on the official site.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
The Starfleet Academy trailer doesn’t seem to be available on YouTube in Canada yet and isn’t on StarTrek.com.
Sigh.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
Or, at the YouTube links provided in other posts here.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
Exclusive footage is being blacked out by the content owner.
So, I guess we’ll need to wait until the featurettes show up on StarTrek.com?
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
New footage
Exclusive news
And SNW and Starfleet Academy cast and producers.
GO!!!
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
Al the moreso since Paramount offered nothing this year for Star Trek Day in September.
- Comment on LIVE | Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con 2025 2 weeks ago:
And we’re all waiting.
Not so patiently.
- Comment on Enroll Now · Welcome to Starfleet Academy 2 weeks ago:
The most simple acronym would be SA. It’s unfortunately the acronym for so many different things that it wouldn’t have a difficult time establishing an identity with and for the who.
If the VOY, ENT and DIS precedent were followed, some have proposed ACC since STA for Star could fit any of the shows. (I have seen ACC in the wild on other social media.)
The quibble with SFA is that Starfleet is one word not two and it’s unprecedented to go with the first letter in a syllable to get the designation.
For what it’s worth, SA seems to be what Memory Alpha has landed on. It’s designating article stubs for the show as ‘SA Performers’ etc.
- Comment on Enroll Now · Welcome to Starfleet Academy 2 weeks ago:
Not sure I’m entirely comfortable with SFA as the acronym for Starfleet Academy.
But all the alternatives I have seen would be worse.
- Comment on Nacelle Opens Up Star Trek Wave Two Action Figure Line Pre-Sale 2 weeks ago:
I’m tempted and conflicted, all at once.
Nice to see TAS original characters getting some profile though.
- Comment on Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch 2 weeks ago:
I’m finding Sussman is doing a better job of tempting fans:
Once again, as Sussman noted in his recent TrekMovie podcast interview, “this is not a real television show,” which he also made clear to Andy Probert. Even so, the idea remains intriguing enough for the veteran designer to keep sketching — and for Sussman to remain hopeful that the new Skydance team at Paramount will want to revisit Star Trek: United. “I think Scott said it best at the [Las Vegas] convention, right?” he noted. “Who knows what will happen?”
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 2 weeks ago:
She was one of the ensemble in The Residence and it worked well for he.
That show had to reshoot the episodes that had been done before the WGA strike because the second on the call sheet unfortunately died during the strike. Not sure if that impacted Wiseman’s availability.
But in terms of her role in Starfleet Academy, it’s clear that the backdoor pilot in season four was viewed as a largely a failure.
The show had been in development hell for some time, but the lead creators changed once again after that episode and it’s writers were dropped from the project.
Neither Wiseman nor Blu del Barrio were strong enough to carry or be compelling in a weak pilot. It looks like they bore some of the weight of senior executive disapprobation.
- Comment on Fluevog x Star Trek Expands Collection with Two Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Styles 2 weeks ago:
Great Canadian brand.
I’ve been drooling over Fluevogs in shop windows since I was barely a teenager.
Adding Trek into it just makes the temptation all the greater.
- Comment on Fanhome Brings Star Trek: Prodigy Creatives and Cast to NYCC, Eaglemoss XL Models Return 3 weeks ago:
I think I like the Dauntless model better than then onscreen version.
That Voyager-A is interesting.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 3 weeks ago:
While many older fans are disappointed that Starfleet Academy is set in the far future 32nd century, I am hopeful that it’s focus on original characters, will be a strength.
Having a few recurring Discovery characters around, and Robert Picardo as The Doctor, doesn’t negate that it’s fundamentally about new characters and not legacy ones or their immediate family.
Like the apparent ‘no technobabble’ edict from on high, with so many ‘kids of’ and ‘sibling of’ characters in the new era, I have to wonder if the IP holder had laid down some kind of structure forcing the creators to tie new main characters to legacy ones.
I am wondering if Pelia was created as much to give Holly Hunter’s character a legacy tie and check the required box for linkage to another character as much as she was to provide a vehicle for Carol Kane.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 3 weeks ago:
I think we share a view on Scouts.
I think you missed the point on this though - it’s not a show for or with children.
It’s another go at selling an younger ensemble based on they’re being the offspring of a legacy character.
The article says Archer’s four adult children would be in their twenties and thirties. They would be in different roles and services.
I didn’t like the nepobaby, ‘children of’, angle in Picard and I didn’t really like Archer, so I can’t imagine why they would think this would be the way to draw in an audience.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, they could pick up Vanguard for a more serious show.
I’m actually disappointed that United would focus more on Archer’s kids than his government