A new Trek series
...yes, you read that right.
http://www.startrek.com/article/new-...s-january-2017 Is it too early to call dibs on the pilot? |
This may well be the way "television" will go, from centralized cable and satellite access providers to each "channel" selling access individually online.
Not having been impressed with the franchise's direction since the turn of the millennium, I'm not really excited. (But then I'm not excited for the SW film either.) If something pretty good comes out of this, I'll be happy to get excited then. |
Heheheh. Nice try, Gremlin, but I called dibs on the pilot before it was <i>announced</i>.
(<a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/about/5mf.html">No, really.</a>) Anyway, I'm tentatively excited about this. As I've mentioned in newsposts, I'm baffled that Paramount didn't capitalize on the (equally baffling) success of the movie and make a new show five years ago. Beyond "woo, Trek on TV again", however, it would be foolish to say anything at this point. We know literally nothing else. How excited I get will depend on things that won't be decided for a while yet. Above all, it depends on who's behind the new show. If they don't keep at least a <i>little</i> continuity with the Roddenberry era -- make Rick Berman a consultant or something -- I will go in with much less emotional investment. |
I reserve all further judgement until I get an answer for the "original universe or Abrams-verse" question.
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Agreed. We really don't know <i>anything</i> until we know that.
My guess is original, by the way. The announcement specifically mentions that there's no connection to the next movie, and while that could still be true of an Abramsverse show, I think stressing the point tells us something about Paramount's current feelings. They really expected better results from Into Darkness -- maybe they're just going to finish the trilogy and write it off. (Also revealing: the planned line of Abramsverse novels was scrapped. Pocket Books has stuck with the original timeline.) |
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Zeke, I know how fond you were of the Bs, but Berman and Braga are burned out on Trek. We need fresh blood. We need fresh minds, people who are not going to the same well of storytelling tricks (time travel paradoxes) over and over, people who can create a character and allow that character to grow and change in a realistic fashion, people who are not obsessed with big-breasted pouty-lipped wasp-waisted women. (Yes, Jeri Ryan can act, and quite well. Let's be honest; that's not why she was hired.) I don't care if it's Roddenberryverse or Abramsverse or Cotoverse or "let's pick a well-written novel off AO3 every week and do that"-verse. But not the Bs. |
Traditionally, the way new producers of Trek show continuity with the Roddenberry era without arousing any of the Bermaga hatred is by hiring the Okudas.
Since Enterprise ended, hiring out the Okudas' aura of legitimacy has practically become a cottage industry. |
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Hey, Zeke, does this chloroformed cloth smell funny to you? |
So I wonder how much hatred Zeke will have when I say that the announced show runner co-wrote the story that introduced "antimatter radiation"...
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Flesh and Blood Workforce Bride of Chaotica Barge of the Dead Course: Oblivion Empok Nor and "Company Man," widely acknowledged as the best episode of Season 1 of Heroes. So, lots of funny, moving, powerful, character-driven episodes. I didn't watch Hannibal or Pushing Daisies but they've gotten a lot of love. He also noted in an older EW interview that he'd love to cast Captain Angela Basset and XO Rosario Dawson. I'm happy with what I'm hearing so far. Who knows — we might even get a series regular who's gay and not stereotyped, who just has a normal life and it's not the focus of the person's characterization. |
I got to admit, he did write a lot of good episodes. I'm happy for this decision, don't get me wrong. An excuse to bring up "antimatter radiation" though does not come up often.
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First look at Star Trek: Discovery.
Yeah, I'm not enthused about the design of the ship. At all. |
Apparently that was just a rough draft that the designers maybe didn't intend for public release?
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Star Trek: Discovery may use Majel Barrett sound clips for the voice of the main computer.
Yeah, I'm skeptical about the workability of this plan. |
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As of three weeks ago the female lead (who is NOT the captain, they keep emphasizing) wasn't cast.
PNQ: Does anybody else think that if CBS All Access wasn't in the cards the show would be pushed out to September 2017? |
Getting that Access thing going might be causing them to hurry the schedule along, yeah.
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More plot details. A joint Starfleet/Klingon crew, plus we're focusing on people other than the senior staff? That hill is getting steeper all the time...
More info. The seasons will be much shorter than usual. The article reiterates that American viewers will need to pay for All Access. Yeah, that's gonna backfire on them when everybody else can just use Netflix. |
The reason why Discovery isn't on broadcast TV.
To summarize: * Sci-fi never succeeds on broadcast television. (except for all those sci-fi shows past and present that do succeed because they're actually good) * It will bring subscribers to All Access. (no it won't) * They want to have more profanity and sexuality. (i.e. pandering) Another article rips these excuses apart as well. |
Never mind, I was being negative again.
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Michelle Yeoh announced as a cast member.
All I've seen her in is Tomorrow Never Dies and I thought she was fine, but that was twenty years ago. I have no idea how much her acting style has changed, so we'll see. |
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People elsewhere are groaning about being sick and tired of Klingons. Personally, I think it'll still all come down to the execution.
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Discovery won't be ready for a May premiere
Also they've cast somebody as Sarek, and actual production on the show is only starting now. Also supposedly the premiere date is flexible since the show is being broadcast on All Access. Oh yeah, it's not like you have to coordinate the broadcast of the pilot on CBS or anything (oh, wait...) and it's not like the show is the flagship of All Access (oh, wait...) There is no official release date now I am excited that Nicholas Meyer is involved. The casting of a guy who studies fungus in space confuses me. Even if they've thought of sufficient story possibilities for this, it seems like a job focus that is too narrow for a starship. Maybe a planet that's covered in fungus that can be used for a practical purpose, but not a starship. Can't they just call him an exobotanist or something? I'm getting concerned at the size of the cast. We've got officers from two ships, AND Sarek, AND three Klingons. I know that some of these will be recurring, but I just don't see the Deep Space Nine-style of balancing act even being attempted these days. |
Another recap of currently known information
Sarek is confirmed as a regular. Odd, because I never got the impression that Sarek spent huge amounts of time on starships, only using them as transport between assignments. |
Two more cast members.
I'm getting afraid now. How will the creators fit all of this into one-hour episodes? A theory that when Discovery arrives, the rest of Trek will leave Netflix. That'd be a shame and catastrophe. |
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I like the new logo better.
A fungus guy is handy whenever you need to make puns. I bet he winds up delivering a lot of one-liners in firefights. ;) |
Maybe the fungus guy will be Egon.
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Leaked photo from the set.
If these are supposed to be Klingons, someone really messed up. |
Yeah, I just hope there will be wigs attached to those brainspines.
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No, there's too much detail on the backs of the head to cover with a wig.
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More cast members.
I refer you to one of the comments: "They started shooting 3 weeks ago and they're still casting people? This is gonna suck." |
10 "New" Things We Just Learned About Star Trek Discovery
Note that the quotation marks were added by me, as few of these qualify as "new." But if you want a roundup of the last month or so of news, you might as well click the link. |
Well, another delay means fall 2017.
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Yeah, I remember when I said that they should've just delayed it until fall and done it properly. I also remember speculating that if CBS All Access wasn't in the cards that's what they'd do.
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