StillPaisleyCat
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- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 12 hours ago:
At 22 episodes total, and only 6 in TAS second season, it could go either way.
I am willing to concede so that those who don’t love TAS much as I do can get their proper closure to the 5 year mission.
And then there’s part of me that very much wants Vanguard to be the new, darker station-based serialized ensemble show to fill the DS9 niche we haven’t quite had in this era.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 13 hours ago:
TAS is the 4th season of TOS - with some of the scripts adapted from the prep for a live-action TOS season 4 that never happened. (Yes, TAS IS canon!)
Now, we know that Arex and M’Ress are difficult to bring to live action, but who’s to say that their rotations on Enterprise aren’t done, and Chekov isn’t back, as year 5 begins?
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 1 day ago:
Indiewire has a less positive review - “Brings the Fun — and Zombies — but Misses Chances to Go Deeper”
indiewire.com/…/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-seas…
As I share this reviewer’s opinion on Tomorrow-cubed, I think I’m at the point of wanting to stop myself from reading more reviews now…
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 1 day ago:
I’ve been wondering how much of the decision to wrap SNW with a short sixth season might have to do with Goldsman’s contract with Paramount coming to an end and his new one with another franchise and major studio.
SNW really was his project, regardless of Alonso Myers being the co-showrunner.
There’s a possibility that this is also about a change in leadership as the show transitions to a true TOS show, perhaps hopping to a time post-TAS but before the movies, and even shifting somewhat in tone.
All of this would make sense of casting an older actor as Jim Kirk.
- Comment on SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up 1 day ago:
Ryan Britt had a good review for Inverse, and an interesting take on the show overall.
It’s tempting to say that SNW succeeds because, of all the newer Trek shows, it’s the one that feels the most like fan fiction. Or perhaps, to put it another way, it’s Star Trek version of Marvel’s What If? In this case, the “What If?” scenario that is floated in nearly every episode is “What if the 60s Star Trek show were made today?”
Given how much of a OG fan Akiva Goldsman is, this seems a fair assessment - even if other, mostly younger fans, have different ideas about where the show should link up with the original.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4 days ago:
I was hoping that SNW would focus on Pike and his crew and less on the legacy characters.
But it seems Goldsman has had his ideas about it since the early 1970s and he’s fulfilling his fan dreams, as an EP and writer, of filling in the backstories of the characters he and we love. I can’t naysay that and it certainly sold the suits on 5 seasons of an excellent show.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4 days ago:
We have to keep in mind that we’ve only seen 20 of 46 episodes, less than half the full run.
I believe that the new benchmark for selling a licence for reruns on other streamers and linear has dropped from over 70 episodes to a bit over 40 based on various industry reports. So this definitely puts SNW above that threshold.
This does raise the question though whether there is a plan to morph this into some kind of TOS continuation past year 5 and TAS.
- Comment on Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4 days ago:
So a half season + a one-hour series finale?
Having only 5 seasons seems the new normal since they haven’t been able to actually produce one season per calendar year and actors’ contracts run 7 years.
But having a short season seems weird, like some kind of negotiated compromise.
This is just going to feed the ‘Kurtzman is done when his contract expires …’ speculation.
- Comment on EXO-6 Revisits "The Cage," Master Replicas' Next Action Figures (and a Talking Moopsy!), and Much More Star Trek Merch News! 5 days ago:
Now I wish I had preordered Spock.
The one I want most is Number One but it would have been great to have the set.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Reveals Season 3 Posters 1 week ago:
Should we start a pool?
- Comment on Bruce Horak On Catching That Carrot On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ And Painting Over 600 Portraits 2 weeks ago:
One of the things in the interview, that’s super interesting, is that the original script had a scene that would have made it absolutely unequivocal that Hemmer was killed.
And it was shot, with some significant Sfx challenges.
The interviewers asked Bruce if there were any scenes left in the cutting room floor and he responded that there was.
:::The actor was in harness for a falling scene in which he would have been fighting off young Gorn. He had been pleased to have the opportunity to have a heroic on-screen :::
But the scene was cut despite it being challenging production-wise, all the more so with a blind actor in prosthetics.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you needed [sic], just the comma that StarTrek.com omitted.
So, this is a big reveal - the scenario is a planet that has not been but now is a part of the Federation.
The viewpoint is civilian.
The resort workplace setting, like the old Loveboat or Fantasy Island, means that anyone can come by as the guest star.
- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 1 month ago:
The production values are sufficiently high that it makes me think it might actually be from an episode to come.
- Comment on Fanhome Reveals Next Star Trek Starship Models, Including the USS Dauntless from Star Trek: Prodigy 3 months ago:
Did I miss the actual Protostar announcement?
- Comment on 9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast 4 months ago:
Thanks for bringing this here VS.
Saw Tatosky’s thread on Mastodon. It really gives a much better sense of how ‘real’ the preproduction was under Fuller.
Lots of expenditure clearly but badly managed.
Tamara Deverell talked about having little to spend when she took over after the pilot because the initial sets were built on the designs Fuller signed off on.
No engineering but a bay to hand load missiles! Which she repurposed to Stamets’ spore lab.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Told Us The Perfect Story To Prove That She’s Committed To Playing Star Trek: Section 31’s Philippa Georgiou For A Long Time 4 months ago:
My thoughts exactly.
It would be great if they could bring Kim & Lippoldt back as showrunners/EPs and get someone else to direct it.
- Comment on Watch: Anson Mount’s Audition Tape For Captain Lorca On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 6 months ago:
He didn’t necessarily know that Pike would be an option. He likely didn’t know that Lorca would be an MU character.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Chieffo On Returning To Star Trek For A New Flavor Of Klingon In ‘Lower Decks’ 7 months ago:
She brought such positive energy to fans during her time on Discover.
Her Twitter was full of enthusiasm. CBS was so much less limiting of the actors’ social media engagement. Paramount really hasn’t done well by limiting engagement to the EPs.
It’s unfortunate there hasn’t been opportunity for her appear in Strange New Worlds.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Controlled technology and not easily built from scratch even by Starfleet engineers.
The Relaunch novelverse expanded the concept and importance of industrial replicators. When Voyager returned to the Delta Quadrant, she led an small ‘Full Circle’ fleet that included a large engineering ship that did have industrial replicators large enough to reconstruct ships when severely damaged.
Lowere Decks and Prodigy have brought industrial replicators into onscreen canon.
Prodigy gave the Protostar prototype ship an industrial replicator large enough to construct shuttles. Lower Decks has shown the Cerritos and other ships tasked with delivering and bringing online very large industrial replicators on planets seeking Federation support.
- Comment on Nacelle Reveals First Eight Star Trek Action Figures at NYCC... With Plenty of Character Surprises! 7 months ago:
It feels like the chose them to fill in the gaps in the collections of fans across every show and the movies - but also to profile legacy characters featured in new productions.
Rachel Garrett is surely there because of S31 and Jellico is more popular than ever after Prodigy.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Most structural starship components would require large industrial replicators.
These seem to always be centrally located and powered.
What someone can do with a small home model would be quite different.
- Comment on Interview: Jonathan Del Arco Talks “Borg Spin-Off” That Became ‘Star Trek: Picard’ And Hugh’s Surprise Death 8 months ago:
Here’s another take.
We know that everything was reshaped to flatter and entice Patrick Stewart to come back and play Picard.
He kept refusing and keep on insisting on Picard’s life should be a reflection of his own.
But the suits at ViacomCBS (and later Paramount) put priority on greenlighting anything they could get with Picard as a character.
So, whatever initial concepts with and without Picard were all sacrificed in the end in order to indulge Stewart enough to play the role.