Star Trek Thread

For anyone after it, Amazon now has Mack’s soon to be out Collateral Damage for £7.91. Probably be one of the best prices for it.

This is the one that, as far as anyone knows, wraps up the last 20 years of Trek books.

Yes it is. A hardback would be a far more competitive product at that price.

Yeah, even with a good net discount you’re looking at £10 in all likelihood.

Oh, the new trailer for Picard was released earlier by Prime Mexico… in spanish:

The panel can be watched here, just started:

Picard english trailer… with italians subs

Picard video has been privated

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lorcan_nagle.

It should be available in… half an hour aprox, when the panel ends.

Short Treks Schedule:
– “Q&A” – today at CBSAllAccess
– “The Trouble with Edward” – Oct. 10
– “Ask Not” – Nov. 14
– “The Girl Who Made the Stars” – Dic. 12
– “Ephraim and Dot” – Dic. 12
– “Children of Mars” – Jan. 9

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Well, I thoroughly enjoyed Q&A, a fun little character piece.

Trailer for the next Short Trek, featuring Rosa Salazar and H. Jon Benjamin, plus Anson Mount:

I’d rather be in a zone of danger than a burger joint or an Arby’s. (2 other things that use that distinctive voice)

I’m sure the Enterprise encounters some handwavium at some point which explains why they were never added to the database.

The second short Trek is up at Amazon & CBS, and I loved it.

They have been doing old style novel covers for them:

Spock and Number One are going to be out of pocket for a little bit. Stream Star Trek: #ShortTreks now on @CBSAllAccess. pic.twitter.com/5NYhbjzSW2

— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) October 9, 2019

Trouble has arrived. Stream Star Trek: #ShortTreks "The Trouble with Edward" now on @CBSAllAccess. pic.twitter.com/iuuK1XgWRm

— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) October 10, 2019

I really, really, REALLY want one of these. My only objection is that it’s a bluetooth device that has to be paired with your phone, so you also need to carry a phone in your pocket. Why not make it an actual phone, so this is all you need?

What the fuck was that?
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I like comedy in Trek but that was, well, it was dumb.
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Total waste of everyone’s time.

I really enjoyed it, especially the commercial at the end.

“The Trouble with Edward” was a strange little experience — a Star Trek episode done by way of Seinfeld and South Park.

Makes me think they’re using it as a trial balloon to test the waters for a Star Trek comedy. It was pretty much an episode of The Orville.

Rosa Salazar was quite cute, and I didn’t recognize who she was without the buggy eyes.

Using the Tribbles kind of broke canon for me; but maybe Section 31 saw a good anti-Klingon bioweapon when they saw one and decided to classify the little furry bastards. (I guess “Section 31” is now the Star Trek get-out-of-jail-free card for continuity gaffes.)

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Phlox was obviously a Section 31 agent.

It was need to know.

Frankly, I didn’t need to know either.

The McCormack Picard book has now become a hardback, which renders the price point both far more logical and attractive. Online discount will take a £16.99 RRP to around £9-11, which is fine.

Are the new Short Treks up on Netflix UK yet? I remember them being tricky to find last time.

Yeah, that’s what I seem to remember too. I guess I’ll wait and watch them then.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Short Treks get distributed outside the US. 1-3 are about or related to the Enterprise. 4 and 5 are linked to Discovery, and 6 is linked to Old Man Picard.

The last Short Treks were on Netflix in the UK. Is that the case for this latest batch?

lorcan_nagle wrote:

It’ll be interesting to see how the Short Treks get distributed outside the US.

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Torrent, most likely.
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1-3 are about or related to the Enterprise. 4 and 5 are linked to Discovery, and 6 is linked to Old Man Picard.

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Fingers crossed that the three that feature Pike’s Enterprise means they’re prepping a Pike Enterprise-based series. The cast and Enterprise sets are just too awesome not to keep using.
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4 & 5 are, I think, going to be the animated ones. I had assumed that they were going to preview the upcoming Star Trek: Lower Decks animated series, but I don’t think they’ve officially said anything yet about their content. You probably know more than I do, though.

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The Final Frontier
I love Mr. Spock because he reminds me of you, I told my father. For the first time that night, I considered the possibility that he was going to survive it.
By Michael Chabon

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-final-frontier

Second, THE GIRL WHO MADE THE STARS, a 3D-animated tale likely referencing Michael Burnham's monologue about the African legend which opened "Brother," the #StarTrekDiscovery Season 2 premiere. #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/X6NwcJP4Bt

— TrekCore.com 🖖 (@TrekCore) November 14, 2019

Ask not was decent, if light. I saw the twist coming a mile off, but the performances were good and the script was good. Not much to say but I liked it.

When is Discovery proper starting again?

Oh, for some reason I thought it was sooner, before the end of the year.

I think I associate the show with this time of year because of the way the first season was split between late 2017 and early 2018.

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This is neither here nor there, but I think the Enterprise shown there is the redesigned one from Discovery and not the classic look. The nacelles look like the new ones; can’t quite tell if the pylons have that cutout area in them.

Results vary.
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So much for the first female directed Star Trek movie.

The whole Tarantino thing seems to have gone quiet.

edit: Eh, that wasn’t a very appropriate joke. Sorry.

https://twitter.com/roddenberry/status/1201923388849049602

Robert Walker Jr., ‘Star Trek’ Actor and Son of Hollywood Superstars, Dies at 79

On the second aired episode of Star Trek, “Charlie X,” the slender, blue-eyed Walker portrayed Charles “Charlie” Evans, the sole survivor of a transport-ship crash who possesses strange powers. Walker was actually 26 when he played the 17-year-old Charlie during filming in 1966.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com//news/robert-walker-jr-dead-star-trek-actor-son-hollywood-superstars-was-79-1260215?__twitter_impression=true

RIP Rene.

I’m actually properly sad about this. Having rewatched DS9 earlier in the year I realised Aberjonois was on of the many actors who gave, through his performance, gave the show real heart.

Bruce wrote:

I’m actually properly sad about this. Having rewatched DS9 earlier in the year I realised Aberjonois was on of the many actors who gave, through his performance, gave the show real heart.

Yeah, he was a really good actor, and Odo may be my favourite Star Trek character of all. Really sad to hear this.

Huh. For some reason I had it in my head that Picard was being done as a one-off season only.

Dave wrote:

The whole Tarantino thing seems to have gone quiet.

Quentin Tarantino Re-Thinking ‘Star Trek’ Film

The internet is blowing up after comments that Quentin Tarantino might be stepping away from directing the R-rated version of Star Trek he cooked up with JJ Abrams, with The Revenant‘s Mark L. Smith scripting. I happened to be on the phone with Tarantino as the stories began spreading. Tarantino said he hasn’t made a definitive decision, yet.

“I might be steering away from it, but we’ll see,” he said. “I haven’t completely decided, or talked to anyone involved. Nothing is official.”

Deadline broke the story of the decision by Tarantino and Abrams to develop the script with Smith, a passion fueled by Tarantino’s love for the original show and particularly the James T. Kirk character created by William Shatner for exec producer and creator Gene Roddenberry. It would be a shame for Trek fans if Tarantino won’t direct it but Smith has turned in a script he likes and they’ve done a lot of developing, so it might well be a gift for another filmmaker. They’ve all been waiting for Tarantino to complete his awards season promotion for the triumph Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, which just got its DVD release and still remains a front runner.

Deadline revealed recently that Noah Hawley had come aboard to also develop to direct another Star Trek film.

New spot, LOCUTUS…

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=539855039932776

Even the tie in comic is good.

I’m scared, I have hope

The movies all seem to be somewhat on hold now. I think part of the problem is Star Trek has a strong dedicated audience but it’s never really hit blockbuster takings despite the fact that they are big sci-fi effects driven films. The box office usually looks around the ‘break even’ point and not the big profit zone that stuff like Marvel, Star Wars and Harry Potter gets.

So maybe the future for the franchise is going to back where it started, on TV. In a subscription model that large dedicated fanbase is exactly what you need. A big number of them will sign up just for a particular show because they can’t miss anything Trek (also why sports has always been good at getting people to sign up as they are fanatical about their teams). Something like Jurassic World may have made loads more money at the box office than any Trek films but the audience is a lot more casual and I think if you put a series of that on to tempt subscribers it wouldn’t be as successful.

Todd wrote:

It would be a shame for Trek fans if Tarantino won’t direct it but Smith has turned in a script he likes and they’ve done a lot of developing, so it might well be a gift for another filmmaker.

That’s not the way things work unfortunately.

If another filmmaker does take over the project they’ll want to stamp their imprint on it, and the script will be heavily rewritten, or even dropped entirely.