Posted by: RottingCorpse
« on: September 04, 2018, 06:05:29 PM »It's over saturation of everything at this point. I'm so glad this new job virtually keeps me off the internet.
Posted by: nacho
« on: August 07, 2018, 11:00:09 AM »Also exhausting: The 10,000 on-demand TV series that they're planning. I feel saturated by Star Trek and all these new series are still years away.
Posted by: nacho
« on: August 07, 2018, 10:47:32 AM »At least two days since I've become aware of it, and no mention of Patrick Stewart coming back to Trek? Shame shame.
Yeah! I've been at tennis/in recovery!
He swore he would never return again and again. I wonder what they're paying him? Also, if this takes place in real time (Picard is now retired), it's all going to be set in the south of France and he'll talk obsessively about wine.
Posted by: Sirharles
« on: August 06, 2018, 07:01:42 PM »At least two days since I've become aware of it, and no mention of Patrick Stewart coming back to Trek? Shame shame.
Posted by: nacho
« on: April 17, 2018, 09:43:54 AM »Quinto is in it?
Nope. All new cast. We're in the original timeline, too, so it'll be pre-Cage Pike and Spock. Or are we in the Mirror Universe-altered timeline now? Hard to say.
Posted by: RottingCorpse
« on: April 16, 2018, 05:51:57 PM »Quinto is in it?
Posted by: nacho
« on: April 16, 2018, 10:51:56 AM »Ugh... Star Trek Discovery is now all about the Enterprise, Captain Pike, and young Spock. How can Star Trek fans seriously be excited about this show? It's high grade fan fiction.
Posted by: nacho
« on: November 05, 2017, 04:30:19 PM »The Orville remains strong. The most recent episode saw our (so far underused) doctor and her two boys on a shuttle trip with the show's analogue of Data. The shuttle crashes, they're attached by primitives, they must survive, the Orville rescues them in the nick of time. Again -- a standard TNG episode. But throw in the comedy, the special effects, and what (surprisingly) is becoming a good ensemble mixed in with the pure nostalgic TNG fun and... It was great!
Meanwhile, I'm now watching the Groundhog Day episode of Discovery because I have a pact with Satan to watch the Groundhog Day episode of every sci-fi series.
Meanwhile, I'm now watching the Groundhog Day episode of Discovery because I have a pact with Satan to watch the Groundhog Day episode of every sci-fi series.
Posted by: nacho
« on: October 27, 2017, 09:32:41 AM »So...The Orville.
I have to re-evaluate this show. It's grown on me. More importantly, it's the Star Trek show we all wanted and needed.
Even when they ruthlessly rip off Black Mirror episodes it's still endearing...because TNG ruthlessly ripped off everyone, including themselves. And The Orville is basically TNG 2017 with quirky writers.
I have to re-evaluate this show. It's grown on me. More importantly, it's the Star Trek show we all wanted and needed.
Even when they ruthlessly rip off Black Mirror episodes it's still endearing...because TNG ruthlessly ripped off everyone, including themselves. And The Orville is basically TNG 2017 with quirky writers.
Posted by: nacho
« on: October 24, 2017, 01:43:46 PM »The most recent episode featured a holodeck!
So... "Why a prequel" conversation #478,072
I am about to give up on Discovery.
(Oh! And I love the idea of Vulcan nationalist fanatic terrorists who want to leave the federation.....NOT!)
So... "Why a prequel" conversation #478,072
I am about to give up on Discovery.
(Oh! And I love the idea of Vulcan nationalist fanatic terrorists who want to leave the federation.....NOT!)
Posted by: nacho
« on: October 24, 2017, 10:27:56 AM »Star Trek: Disaster has been renewed. Yay. More awkward prequel Event Horizon rip off shit staring largely unlikable people who constantly reference events from 10 years in their future.
Posted by: RottingCorpse
« on: October 18, 2017, 10:51:21 AM »Oof. You’re not selling it though Acebook at large is till hooked.
Posted by: nacho
« on: October 17, 2017, 01:27:17 PM »Discovery update:
With the Harry Mudd episode we slip up quite a bit.
First, Pike is among the "most decorated captains ever" list. This list includes Robert April (the first (current?) commander of the Enterprise), Archer (of course), the captain who died in the pilot of this show (whom we know nothing about, who was in charge of a minor vessel, and who LOST that vessel), Decker's dad, and then Pike.
So, if we're going with the increasingly tenuous "ten years before The Cage" idea, then Pike hasn't even begun his five year mission yet. He's a relatively new captain as of this show's timeline.
Fan service like this is just annoying at this point.
Rainn Wilson as Mudd is great, of course. But I continue to wonder -- did we really need Mudd? This is, again, part of the "why do a prequel?" question. It's totally unnecessary. Not only would you have the same viewership if this were post-Voyager, it would be a better show all around. Why are the studios so afraid of new ideas?
Mudd's anti-Starfleet rhetoric is also from a darker time in the future. It's exactly what you would hear in later seasons of TNG, DS9, and VOY. Again, perfectly fine if we weren't in the utopian world of pre-TOS. With the timeframe in mind, and knowing Mudd's future, it's odd to hear this on-point criticism of Starfleet. I feel like, if Kirk & Co. had heard this argument, they'd just be flummoxed and it would result in a Shatner monologue.
Use of the word "fucking." After 50 years of Star Trek, it was actually alarming for a character to casually say "This is fucking cool!"
Leaving Mudd behind: This was just stupid, since we know his character arc. It made it feel like Mudd, who was pretty much just a minor guest star, was one big fan service moment. That is, entirely pointless. More to the point of the utopian pre-TOS setting -- it's shocking that they leave Mudd behind. That's something no other captain on the show would have done, with the exception of Sisko, and Sisko would have struggled mightily and gotten an epilogue to emotionally address this decision. It's not even "dark sci-fi" to have this choice be an option. Lorca leaves Mudd behind happily and never thinks twice about it. This essentially moves Lorca into "villain" territory, which is something the show seems to kinda sorta want to do. But it's just so dumb and over the top.
Of course, Lorca also confesses to murdering the ENTIRE CREW Of his previous ship to "spare them" from dying at the hands of the Klingons. Um...well...
And, finally: Name-checking the Eugenics Wars. Yes, we get it, Star Trek II was a great movie. Thanks for the CONSTANT YEARLY REMINDER, FRANCHISE!
With the Harry Mudd episode we slip up quite a bit.
First, Pike is among the "most decorated captains ever" list. This list includes Robert April (the first (current?) commander of the Enterprise), Archer (of course), the captain who died in the pilot of this show (whom we know nothing about, who was in charge of a minor vessel, and who LOST that vessel), Decker's dad, and then Pike.
So, if we're going with the increasingly tenuous "ten years before The Cage" idea, then Pike hasn't even begun his five year mission yet. He's a relatively new captain as of this show's timeline.
Fan service like this is just annoying at this point.
Rainn Wilson as Mudd is great, of course. But I continue to wonder -- did we really need Mudd? This is, again, part of the "why do a prequel?" question. It's totally unnecessary. Not only would you have the same viewership if this were post-Voyager, it would be a better show all around. Why are the studios so afraid of new ideas?
Mudd's anti-Starfleet rhetoric is also from a darker time in the future. It's exactly what you would hear in later seasons of TNG, DS9, and VOY. Again, perfectly fine if we weren't in the utopian world of pre-TOS. With the timeframe in mind, and knowing Mudd's future, it's odd to hear this on-point criticism of Starfleet. I feel like, if Kirk & Co. had heard this argument, they'd just be flummoxed and it would result in a Shatner monologue.
Use of the word "fucking." After 50 years of Star Trek, it was actually alarming for a character to casually say "This is fucking cool!"
Leaving Mudd behind: This was just stupid, since we know his character arc. It made it feel like Mudd, who was pretty much just a minor guest star, was one big fan service moment. That is, entirely pointless. More to the point of the utopian pre-TOS setting -- it's shocking that they leave Mudd behind. That's something no other captain on the show would have done, with the exception of Sisko, and Sisko would have struggled mightily and gotten an epilogue to emotionally address this decision. It's not even "dark sci-fi" to have this choice be an option. Lorca leaves Mudd behind happily and never thinks twice about it. This essentially moves Lorca into "villain" territory, which is something the show seems to kinda sorta want to do. But it's just so dumb and over the top.
Of course, Lorca also confesses to murdering the ENTIRE CREW Of his previous ship to "spare them" from dying at the hands of the Klingons. Um...well...
And, finally: Name-checking the Eugenics Wars. Yes, we get it, Star Trek II was a great movie. Thanks for the CONSTANT YEARLY REMINDER, FRANCHISE!
Posted by: nacho
« on: October 10, 2017, 03:46:22 PM »Yeah, a prequel seems misguided, though I suppose they like the structure of building towards known entities.
Except that's not what they're doing. Their stated backstory in the buildup to the release is actually all wrong. Michael is not Number One from The Cage. The Klingon story is not at all canon and has no bearing on what's to come. It, in fact, completely retcons Enterprise and TOS. The technology is more advanced than the TNG-era.
So the only use of the prequel aspect is to make us think we're building to known entities -- and we get dumb teases here and there, like with Sarek. But it's all surface only. There's no point to having Michael be Spock's sister, and Sarek only exists (so far) to say "Hi, I'm Sarek from the original show!" every once in a while.
Also, poor Rekha Sharma. She's doomed to always be a strong, awesome person of color in modern sci-fi reboots only to die horribly, needlessly, and illogically in terms of scripting and characterization. Ah, well. At least they can't kill the black girl this time around. I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way around that, though.
Posted by: RottingCorpse
« on: October 10, 2017, 03:18:47 PM »Yeah, a prequel seems misguided, though I suppose they like the structure of building towards known entities.