I'm a little skeptical about another iteration of rehashing, but also a little happy that it's not ~another~ TOS rehash, and one that involves Picard (yay!).
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
they should bring picard back to do 30 minute flute lessons filmed like an instructional video
Paramount can have that one for free
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
patrick stewart turns 78 next month
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
star trek is one of the only good things left in the world.
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
except for neelix
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
i've decided that orci was the brains and kurtzman was the scapegoat for when things fell apart. like peter guber and jon peters.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Great! But I am very very much not up for any sort of "comes back to die" Han Solo story.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
nominating bg to play young picard
― mh, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
tfw when the line between a compliment and a male pattern baldness joke is so fine as to be nonexistent
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
We watched ST movie #1 last night. I fell asleep after spock flew into the alien thingy sphincter in his spacesuit. I had no idea that movie was 2001-level paced.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
at his age shouldn't picard be like manning a desk at starfleet high command or whatever they call it, or being president of france or something
― j., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
xxp I was thinking more about how you'd look in spandex
― mh, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
let me assure you, it would not be good
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
so a limited Khan series would be about... the eugenics wars of the 1990s? or the 15 years he was marooned by Kirk?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
also maybe cast an actual Asian actor this time
(and then deal with villain stereotype questions)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
how ubermensch was khan even meant to be? he didn’t seem all that in WoK
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 June 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
Well he was 60 by then. Have you seen "Space Seed"?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah I havent and having just read the plot of it, that answers me question!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
(we are rescreening all the films at the mo, I've never even seen any of the OG ones cept bits of Wrath of Khan in high school)
ST:TMP (#1) is the only standalone movie I could love, and its the only one that really captured the sense of awe and wonder I think was Roddenberry's aim. While I'm still enraptured by the Spock EVA sequence, 3 minutes flying about admiring the new Enterprise model is too much for even me. There are some good fanedits.
― Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
YEah same, though I appreciated what they were doing.
It took me far far too long to get the Voyager joke and then, to also realise thats what futurama were taking the mick out of with their V_GINY episode. Geez is there anything that show did not rip off Trek!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
sure a middle-aged or older man is the peak human. just ask nearly any of them
― mh, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
Yay wonderful me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
There is a comic series that traces the lines between proud-in-defeat Khan at the end of Space Seed to seething-hair-metal Khan in ST:II that isn't bad!
https://i.imgur.com/dxnaTwU.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
as long as they're insistent on rebooting everything, patrick stewart would make for a great kodos the executioner
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
I don't know if the continual reliance on the old series/movies merely indicated the play-it-safe template of corporate entertainment or the lack of creativity of those who've inherited the train set.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Little column a, little column b.
Hey guys, if you have a franchise with 'Star' in the title, it might behoove you to eventually move beyond sixteen characters who are constantly bumping into each other's asses regardless of where they happen to be in the boundless galaxy.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Unless the aforementioned is in reference to a single star around which revolves a tiny planet that can only sustain a total of sixteen lifeforms, in which case carry on.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I wonder if it's largely JJ's fault. Since he wasn't a Trekkie to begin with, TOS fandom was the one that was most accessible to him, and given its initial success, everyone else following him has been locked into the TOS era.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
its initial success == the success of the first reboot movie
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
It's not JJ but ST:Enterprise that is the gift horse that keeps giving in the forced nostalgia dept.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
3 minutes flying about admiring the new Enterprise model is too much for even me.
I'm paraphrasing and I can't remember where I read this (maybe even in this thread), but someone said this scene makes more sense when you consider it had been 10 years since anyone had seen new footage of the Enterprise.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
https://trekmovie.com/2018/06/26/rumor-patrick-stewart-close-to-signing-deal-to-return-to-star-trek/
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
st:tmp endless effects scenes surely exist because no one had ever seen *anything* star trek other than on a tv set featuring mid-60's effects. so, you know, check out the new enterprise, new klingons in their new spaceships, the special effects we can afford, etc.
also shooting for some kind of 2001 heaviness
― chinavision!, Saturday, 7 July 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
the sounds of TOS sound designer Douglas Grindstaff (RIP)
https://www.cnet.com/news/hear-13-iconic-star-trek-sounds-by-the-late-douglas-grindstaff/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/news/star-trek-discovery-captain-picard-is-the-hero-we-need-says-writer-michael-chabon/
Somehow I didn't notice that Michael Chabon is on the writing staff for the Picard mini.
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
A quick note that the two new SHORT TREKS (ha) are both worth watching and very TNG-y.
In the first story, Tilly gets a Wesley Crusher C-story about a runaway alien child. It's still good!
The second was written by Chabon - it's a trifle, but it's probably the best Trek thing I've seen since "All Good Things". (I didn't watch DS9).
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
All Good Things is my favorite TNG so that is some high praise. Is it only available on the CBS streaming service?
But do check out DS9, I actually prefer it to TNG, and it holds up way better.
― I Got Stopped By a Lady Cop on my Automobileee (Leee), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
It's t0rr3ntable, for sure
It's not *quite* up there with All Good Things, but it's just very *right* without being a rehash of something I've seen in Trek before. It's more like an "Inner Light" in miniature.
I will definitely watch DS9 once I've made it through my TNG rewatch, but I've been on that for three years and I'm still on season 4...
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
dooooo it Chuck
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Finally watched "Calypso," it is a gem!
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Sunday, 9 December 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
this is canon now.https://i.imgur.com/hihGJxr.png
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 14 December 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
In explaining her approach to politics as a black Democratic woman in a state controlled by white Republican men, she devotes several pages to a pivotal scene from “Peak Performance,” an episode from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/stacey-abrams-star-trek.html
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
That is awesome! But:
She said “Deep Space Nine,” which was set on a space station, would go lower on her list of favorites because, as she said in a Reddit thread, “I love Captain Sisko, but the ‘trek’ in Star Trek is why I am drawn to the show.”
:(
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
haha i knew that would get flagged here
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
Such a facile dismissal of DS9 from a so-called Star Trek "fan."
― DJI, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
We were hanging out drinking, and realized Jonathan Frakes, Riker from Star Trek, and Avery Brooks, who played Sisko, were sitting in a corner — basically Star Trek royalty. Riker went to the piano and sang show tunes for an hour and a half. When he was done, Sisko went up and started doing jazz, getting progressively drunker until they shut the bar down.
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
that may be the least essential oral history every conceived
― Number None, Monday, 15 April 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/star-trek-picard-michael-chabon-showrunner-1203254625/
― DJI, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link