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Star Trek Discovery

I'll repeat what I said elsewhere:

I really want this to succeed and move past the shit that strangled any potential that UPN!Trek may have had, and hoped the CBS online platform would have given them some room to do that. But, no. :sigh:

But then, TIIC are all about bleeding Trek fans for money. They couldn't get up a proper 50th anniversary celebration despite having a new Trek film that was coming out, ffs.

By contrast, one of CBS's daytime soaps just had a 30th anniversary this month and they did it up with a big media blitz (for daytime TV), including a trip to Sydney and several meet-and-greet events for its surprisingly huge fanbase there, a couple veterans had cameos on Australian soaps and vice versa and made a very meticulous recreation of the original opening title sequence with the current cast. For a show that sees less than 3 million viewers on any given week here.

Yet, for a franchise like Star Trek that's inspired a generation of scientists and engineers and POCs who had little in the way of positive representation on TV in the 60s? Crickets.

Even worse than being bad, this will just legitimized to the worst types of fanboys that the only legitimate Trek iscthe same old shit we've gotten since '87.
 
Yeah, I don't even care anymore. I'm still half thinking the Rainn thing is a premature April Fool's Day joke, because I don't see how Mudd would fit in anywhere. But whatever, carry on!

Or was it carrion?
 
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Even worse than being bad, this will just legitimized to the worst types of fanboys that the only legitimate Trek iscthe same old shit we've gotten since '87.
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Actually, that's sort of the old-school fanboys' bitch. At least, it's this old-school fanboy's bitch.

"Mnyehhh, we can't use the design aesthetic from 1966!"

So why the fuck are we using the design aesthetic from 1987? Everything is all organically blended and swoopy and absolutely everything simply must be drowned in blue neon, as if these ships are spaceborne radiological disaster sites.

Has it occurred to these people that they don't have the faintest idea what technology is going to look like in the 2250s? They don't know any better than Matt Jeffries did what a faster-than-light interstellar spacecraft is going to look like. Okay, so we're now dealing with 1080p or even 5k, unlike the 320x240 resolution of late-1960s television sets. Great! Scope this:

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There is no justification whatsoever for "reimagining." Because you were spot-on when you said:

Anna said:
But then, TIIC are all about bleeding Trek fans for money.
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But what they haven't figured out is, it's inevitably not going to work anymore. They pulled the football away in the series pilot of Enterprise with the bumpy-headed Klingon and the ship swathed in Chernobyl blue neon. They did it again with JJTrek's "alternate timeline" with "Well, the Enterprise looks like an ERTL TMP Enterprise kit some kid put in a microwave for a minute and a half, but it's time travel! Alternate timeline! You guys just loved that when Voyager did it once a month, right? Guys... right?" -- and yet the Kelvin, a "pre-AU-event" ship, looked like it was designed by somebody who only knew what a Star Trek ship was supposed to look like from an explanation mumbled at him by a fan in a drunken stupor.

"Iss... *hic!* Iss got a, um... a shosher, and um... *hic!* A shigar shaped thingy, and *blllleeaauuwrrrgh!* Oh, shish, shorry 'bou yer shoesh, mannnn... an' um... a pod... thing... thass glowy on one end... or may-*belllllch!* maybe they're bofe... boof... both blowy... glowy..."

Or put another way, damn near everything in those films looked like it was designed by a guy who really, really wanted to be designing Star Wars ships instead. Kelvin as Millennium Falcon, Enterprise as Royal Naboo Starship.

Thus endeth the digression.

TL;DR: They should have let Axanar alone. True, somebody other than them would have made some money, maybe, but the rekindled interest in Star Trek that would have come from that could have reignited the franchise every bit as big and hot as Paramount/CBS has utterly failed to reignite it. Go figure. Star Trek fans want Star Trek, and not just the nameplate.

Plus, think of this: If they'd actually give us an authentic prequel, guess what that does? It reignites the entire franchise, not just TNG on. Suddenly, people who never had any interest in TOS will start buying up those Blu-Ray's as well because that old stuff now fits in with the new stuff.
 
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I'm too hard on modern Star Trek. It's a flaw in my character. People like to deride those of us who give a damn about whether or not the production teams are producing what the marketing departments are selling us with the cry, "Wrong font!"

Ironically, what we're actually complaining about is the fact that the font is the only thing connecting this modern generic shit to the franchise in any meaningful way. So I guess the counter-cry is, "Right font!"

"We got the logo right! Come on, ya fuckin' nerds! Ya fuckin' geeks, we gave you green women and space battles, what more do you want! Bring your fat pimply asses in here with those dollars! We want those dollars, you fucking geeks! Look at the logo!"
 
Star Trek: Discovery will remain docked a little while longer

"It’s going great, I’ve actually been up there [to the set]. It is, you know, phenomenal. It is huge. And we’re very excited about the content, the creators, the actors, all coming together. As you said, we’re not tied to any specific release date. It’ll be there when we’re ready to do it, and when we feel it’s in a great place. We’re not worried about anything here. We’re excited, and we’ll have more specifics as we get closer to what will likely be the release dates."

This show will be the next Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. All that's missing is Bono and The Edge, and a bunch of puppets.
 
I feel comfortable calling it: This show is what would be called, in the gaming industry, "vaporware."

It's the ship design. Last time they tried to float a wedge-shaped hero ship was "Star Trek: Planet Of The Titans."

Don't remember that movie? That's 'cause they wisely shitcanned it instead of squeezing it out the studio's anus onto screens. Just like they're going to do with Star Trek: Discovery.

If that's the case, they had good and well better give the fan production Star Trek: Axanar the green light. And an apology. From on their knees.
 
Other castings and a role change for one already-cast actor:
Penny Dreadful alum Shazad Latif is shifting from his previously announced role as Kol, a commanding officer in the Klingon empire, to Lieutenant Tyler, a Starfleet officer in the Federation. The Kol role will now be played by Kenneth Mitchell.

Also joining cast are Rekha Sharma as Commander Landry, the security officer of the Starship Discovery; along with Clare McConnell and Damon Runyan as Dennas and Ujilli, respectively, leaders in the Klingon Empire.
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Adds Rekha Sharma, Kenneth Mitchell & More To Cast

At first I thought "How can an actor take the name of a famous American writer?" but now I notice that Damon Runyan (actor) is spelled slightly different from Damon Runyon (writer of short stories that inspired Little Miss Marker and the musical Guys and Dolls).

 
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