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Things you love about Star Trek

I like Disco a lot in the beginning, but felt like the writing went to shit near the end. Maybe it was the writers' strike or something.
 
Cassie said:
I like Disco a lot in the beginning, but felt like the writing went to shit near the end. Maybe it was the writers' strike or something.
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The long pauses between a couple of the seasons was definitely a turn-off. It was like a different show each time it came back. I'm really hoping SNW starts up again soon, because I'm starting to feel the withdrawal symptoms
 
Cassie said:
I like Disco a lot in the beginning, but felt like the writing went to shit near the end. Maybe it was the writers' strike or something.
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So DISCO probably surpasses TNG for most dysfunctional production ever made.

Originally Bryan Fuller dreamed it up as a anthology series, and the first season was going to be a complete story with S2 picking up an entirely different crew and ship etc. Hes also the one who made some of the more dramatic changes such as the Klingons looking like they do...

Then he got fired with only the first 2-3 episodes having been shot and the first half the season even being plotted out.

From there through S1 - S2 his writers room Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts took up production, except half way through S2 they too got fired from creating a hostile working environment (talking about verbal harassment and fights breaking out apparently within the writers room) and Alex Kurtzman now getting directly involved in production from that point forward. There was also a explicit change to moving it to the 31st century due to fan backlash along with retroactive changes to the Klingons and stuff.

S3-4 are probably the most consistently planned out of the show, and it shows honestly.

Then S5 again becomes a shitshow again... because towards the end of the season they were informed it was being canceled, so they had to wrap up a bunch of pliotpoints meant for further seasons into the last 4-5 episodes.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Not really a "thing I love about Star Trek" or relevant to the current discussion, but with all the recent celebrity deaths I missed that Bob Orci died: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/roberto-orci-dead-star-trek-transformers-1236320536/

One of those "if you don't have anything nice to say..." situations, really. I did like Sleepy Hollow for a while.
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I really do wonder on this sentiment.. I mean literally everything he did outside of a few shows and movies made absolute bank at the box office. Everyone loves to shit on his writing and stuff but people are OBVIOUSLY enjoying it with the truckloads of money his stuff made. Even adjusted for inflation, all three of his Kelvin films come in at 1, 3, and 4 with only Star Trek TMP coming in at #2.
 
I never said he didn't write movies that made money? Obviously some people enjoyed things he contributed to (even me to some degree.)

I just remember him being a 9/11 truther and trying to insert that shit into 'Into Darkness'.
 
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Not sure if it's been mentioned here yet, but Star Trek: Khan (Nick Meyer's project) is wrapped, but it's going to be an audio thing, like an audio book or podcast or something. Naveen Andrews is voicing the Khan part, and I'm thinking how the fuck didn't they think about casting him as Khan in "Into Darkness"?
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned here yet, but Star Trek: Khan (Nick Meyer's project) is wrapped, but it's going to be an audio thing, like an audio book or podcast or something. Naveen Andrews is voicing the Khan part, and I'm thinking how the fuck didn't they think about casting him as Khan in "Into Darkness"?
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Because they needed a big name like Benedict Cumberbatch for the role.
 
I don't hate that casting, but I hope he's going to do some press ups before he starts.

Ironically the only actual Indian to play Khan Singh seems to be the little kid in strange new worlds.
 
Cassie said:
I like Disco a lot in the beginning, but felt like the writing went to shit near the end. Maybe it was the writers' strike or something.
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It's because you have a showrunner who thinks every season should be a season long mystery box and not tell Star Trek stories.
 
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