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The short, Skin a Cat, was absolutely terrible.
It was very…. Adult Swim.
Well, yeah, it’s from the guy who did Too Many Cooks and stuff like that for Adult Swim.
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The short, Skin a Cat, was absolutely terrible.
It was very…. Adult Swim.
Honestly, it made me think of Sealab 2021, except it wasn’t as funny.
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Really enjoyed the first two eps of Lower Decks. I like that they promoted the crew and didn’t just keep the characters trapped in the same place for the entire show.
The Voyager stuff was a bit full on but making an entire show about Twovix was a ballsy move, loved seeing Salamanders as well.2 users thanked author for this post.
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Well, the shorts are from the guy that made Too Many Cooks, so I was expecting something like that.
And the trailer clearly said not canon!, so the weirdness level expected was increased :p
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Second very Short Trek is here:
https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/very-short-treks-holiday-party-chapter-two
And you can read the related comic here, released weekly:
https://comicreader.startrek.com/64f9f9a0f1875847eb6f9719
https://comicreader.startrek.com/64fb53f0f1875847eb6f971f
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Spock is one sick bastard.
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I definitely feel like they were trolling with Saru in his 32nd century uniform on the Shenzhou bridge.
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So, are these videos supposed to be funny?
If they are, they have failed miserably.
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I thought the first one was hilarious!
This second one, not so much.
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Are these shorts supposed to be funny? If they are, they are failing miserably.
That was terrible.
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Yeah, I’m not feeling them much myself aside from the meta jokes like deliberate recreation of Filmation’s animation mistakes. I laughed more at this week’s Lower Decks than all the Very Short Treks so far combined. The comic the same guy is writing for the website is better, but even there it’s OK more than great.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Blu-ray & DVD Release Date Announced – CBR
…Strange New Worlds Season 2 with over two hours of special features, including exclusive deleted, extended and alternate scenes, and so much more. The second season of the fan-favorite Star Trek series will be available to own on physical formats on Dec. 5th, making it the perfect stocking stuffer for this holiday season. The 4-disc DVD, 4-disc Blu-ray and 3-disc 4K UHD collections feature every thrilling episode…
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Not really, the Klingon War from series 1 of Discovery is more important to the backplot. The events of the series 2 finale are important to the plot of the first episode, but all you need to know is there was a big space battle and Discovery travelled a thousand years into the future but the official story is that the ship was destroyed
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I liked this one more than the first three
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Much better. 🙌
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It’s the best of the bunch so far but that’s not a high bar to cross.
Casper Kelly is behind the ST shorts but this one really made me think of his short, “Too Many Cooks”.
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Watched 2 episodes of Strange New Worlds. Really liked it. Not _everything_ about it, there were definitely things that mildly annoyed me. But it might actually be the best Trek spin-off for decades.
Do I need spoiler tags? Probably not, but I’ll be cautious about what I say.
The first and main reason for why I fell in love with it at literally the opening credits: the opening credits. Best credits since at least TNG, primarily for having the proper music and voice-over, but also because… that’s… that’s… **the** Enterprise
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These shorts were absolute garbage. They really shouldn’t have bothered with doing them in the first place.
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These shorts were absolute garbage. They really shouldn’t have bothered with doing them in the first place.
To be fair, the same sentiment can be applied to way too many films and television shows that have been made and released in the last few years.
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To quote Theodore Sturgeon: 90% of science fiction is crud. But also: 90% of everything is crud”
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https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-netflix-paramount-streaming-1850918603
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Another great ep of Lower Decks. The Black Mountain and the Koala stuff is very funny and I love the way Boimler is completely unphazed but all the subjugation going on.
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Tendi being enthralled by the sand on the beach was so sweet, and I love that they went along with AGIMUS just to find out what he knew about the Bynar ship.
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Lower Decks just keeps on being the best. Clone baby!
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Banck again to say just how happy Lower Decks makes me. The “Lower Decks” tie in was just brilliant, just an emotional punch.
I was very surprised to see “Not Tom Paris” show up again.1 user thanked author for this post.
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Yeah, it was very impressive writing to set up Mariner as being a contemporary of the cadets in the First Duty, so of course she and Locarno know each other too. Nice twist ending on that front.
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And damn if that wasn’t a fantastic finale to boot!
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And damn if that wasn’t a fantastic finale to boot!
It really, really was. They’ve done such a great job with this show, it’s full of heart while still being really funny.
And I loved the Tom Paris joke.
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The Paris joke, the Mark Twain callback, and the paywall all made me cackle like a madman
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I really wish I cared. There’s the parts to make a really great show, but they’ve mostly stuffed it up over 4 seasons.
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there’s a whole bunch of stuff by Una McCormack on there, and while I haven’t read any of the ones on there she’s consistently one of the better writers I have read. Her book The Never-Ending Sacrifice is easily the best Trek novel I’ve read, and I’ve heard good things about some of her ones that are on the list. I saw a Titan book as well and I read like 5 or 6 of those and they were pretty decent in general. New Frontier might be worthwhile, I read the first mini-book many years ago but never went any further.
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Star Trek tried to retcon Sela and it really doesn’t fit her character
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Just discovered there are a bunch of TNG/DS9 era Star Trek novels in the audiobook section of Spotify. Anyone got any recommendations?
If you want good Klingons, Keith R A DeCandido’s stories were excellent.
David R George III did a lot of the good stuff, as did Una McCormack and David Mack.
If you go from the start to the end, be aware Pocket Books sabotaged it massively by laying off the editor, Marco Palmieri, coordinating it all a few years in. Then they mandated a tine jump. It took a while for the line recover, but it never got back to what it had been.
They did a few event stories too – Unity was the first, then Destiny, which was excellent and had really good follow through for the aftermath, especially some of the Typhon Pact stories.
Ultimately, it all ends with Coda, a cataclysmic reset due to the Picard series being done. But there’s a lot of good stuff long before you get to that point.
Also, in audio, Andrew Robinson recently did a reading of the Garak story he wrote, A Stitch In Time.
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I’ve watched through most of s5 of TNG this week and it’s largely enjoyable. The episode with Kelsey Grammer was a bit disappointing though: having him credited at the start was misleading for how little he’s in it.
I really like Picard’s midlife crisis suede captain’s jacket. Especially as no-one else gets one. Starfleet uniform policy is weird.
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I love the hell out of that jacket uniform, it looked so good.
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Kenneth A Mitchell, who played Kol, Kol-sha, Tenavik and Aurellio in Star Trek Discovery died yesterday. He had ALS and had been using a wheelchair since 2019 – the role of Aurellio was conceived specifically to allow him to appear in DISCO series 3.
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Onto s6 of TNG and even as someone without any real nostalgia for TOS (although I suppose every SF fan has a base amount even if they don’t particularly care for it) the episode with Scotty is quite fun. Love the big “I used to work here” vibes of him annoying Geordi in Engineering.
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S6e7. Oof. That kid playing de-aged Picard; what was he aiming for with that voice? It can’t be his natural speaking voice, surely, and it’s not anything like Stewart. It’s so weird and I’m amazed he’s actually British.
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Humans are really a bunch of frat guys going “Bro, check this shit out!” while successfully doing Jackass-level stuff WITHOUT getting hurt.
The Romulans flex and humans go “Do you even lift?” while kicking their asses.
Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites just stare and go “FUUUUCK”. Humans go to them and say, “Y’all think THAT was crazy? We gonna turn that shit to ELEVEN. Y’all want in?”
At that point, they realize they are better off working with these insane monkeys than trying to fight them.
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I saw the first two episodes of Discovery season 5.
I had been racking my brain beforehand trying to remember where things were left in season 4. Turns out that since then we’ve had two seasons of Picard, two seasons of Strange New Worlds and two seasons of Lower Decks! Crazy.
I’ve been rather irritated with this show in the past but was pleasantly surprised with just how fun these two episodes were. The show plays so much better with Michael being in charge of the ship already, rather than wasting so much time on her having to convince her captain to go along with her plan. Shame they didn’t get to this set up sooner.
Minor spoilers…
So the season is just going to be an extended version of The Chase from TNG? I still prefer the episodic approach to Star Trek but, hey, fair enough. That story was broad and crazy enough to suit Discovery pretty well. But who exactly was filming the footage from the TNG episode the characters used here?
Saru survived the “HE WAS JUST ONE DAY FROM RETIREMENT!” trope, good for him.
Is Fred dead? I guess it doesn’t matter too much as the show is ending but the actor did a fantastic job as a Soong synth and I’d like to see him again somewhere.
The new number one looks to be a welcome addition, in all his “Jonathan Banks in Breaking Bad” surliness. Sometimes all you need to quickly solve an emergency problem is someone to yell “hey, smart people, do something smart!”
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I had been racking my brain beforehand trying to remember where things were left in season 4. Turns out that since then we’ve had two seasons of Picard, two seasons of Strange New Worlds and two seasons of Lower Decks! Crazy.
It’s because they had finished principal photography on the show when Paramount decided to cancel the show, and went through a round of rewrites and reshoots to give the show more of a conclusion – presumably ending with Discovery adrift in a nebula like in Calypso.
I also thought the episodes were fun romps and I hope they keep that energy and threat level, just once I’d like the threat to not be one capable to destroying all life in the galaxy
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Strange New Worlds has been renewed for series 4, but Lower Decks is ending with series 5.
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I just heard that John Trimble passed away earlier today. Along with his wife Bjo, they were a beating heart at the centre of early Trek fandom, and they organised the letter-writing campaign that got TOS renewed for series 3.
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Simon Kinberg in Talks to Produce ‘Star Trek’ Movie Franchise for Paramount
“The project is said to be set decades before the events of the 2009 movie that was directed J.J. Abrams, likely around modern times. It is said to involve the creation of the Starfleet and humankind’s first contact with alien life.”
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And the critiques of Michael Burnham and the way she’s written and portrayed can’t be ignored.
Yes they can, and should.
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The show’s pretty explicit about her not being right all the time, though.
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I saw the season. It wasn’t discussed in depth here so I didn’t post much on it.
To the point of it being the Michael show: I get it that she was for the most part a Mary Sue, but then again
all the Star Trek shows revolve a lot on the captain’s arc. It’s nice for a change to see a black woman take
center stage tbh.The ending was a little strange. She gets to the boss character and it turns out that the place wasn’t even theirs.
The universe is about 14B years, and if the place preceded the billions old people Micheal saw…
The puzzle wasn’t that tough either. To get in, you just had to be clever and athletic enough.I didn’t like Raynor at the start because of that avalanche, but he had a nice redemption arc, almost like not liking
Shaw in Picard at first.Breen = Daft Punk 🤣
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I just wish we’d have gotten to see Fuller’s version of the show.
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Paul Giamatti has joined the cast of Starfleet Academy in a recurring role, apparently as an antagonist.
Prodigy series 2 will be on Netflix on July 1st
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Paul Giamatti has joined the cast of Starfleet Academy in a recurring role, apparently as an antagonist
He was forced to drink a merlot and has been evil ever since.
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Over the weekend, I watched the latest episode of The Acolyte.
The episode was a flashback/origin. For me, it was just meh. I am having a hard time caring for any of these characters or the story. Everything just feels so bland.
The Star Wars universe really needs some sort of Children’s Protective Service. If you are an orphan (or even if you aren’t), you get the short end of everybody’s stick. Then again, an orphanage in SW will probably be an absolute gulag.
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Everything just feels so bland.
It’s just so… Dull. No excitment at all and that cult song was terrible. Who cleared that?
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Mary Wiseman, Robert Picardo, Oded Fehr and Tig Notaro are all going to be in Starfleet Academy.
Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien are working on the first live-action Trek comedy
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Yeah, that Section 31 trailer does not sell me it.
Pity. Star Trek has some cash for a change and that’s what they’re doing with it.
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It’s also trying wayyyyyyy too hard to be cool.
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Fair. (At least if we’re talking David-Ayer-Suicide-Squad.)
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“very Suicide Squaddy”
I think you have stumbled onto something.
Saw a commercial last night for Borderlands, and “very Suicide Squaddy” fits that to a T.
The look and feel and soundtrack.In less than 15 seconds you can find out this Eli Roth movie that releases on Aug. 9th has been in post production for 3 years.
Must be based on other media (I assume video games) as the fan base HATES the casting of Kevin Hart and for a multitude of reasons they know that this movie will “crash & burn”.Very Suicide Squaddy indeed.
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“very Suicide Squaddy”
I think you have stumbled onto something.
Saw a commercial last night for Borderlands, and “very Suicide Squaddy” fits that to a T.
The look and feel and soundtrack.In less than 15 seconds you can find out this Eli Roth movie that releases on Aug. 9th has been in post production for 3 years.
Must be based on other media (I assume video games) as the fan base HATES the casting of Kevin Hart and for a multitude of reasons they know that this movie will “crash & burn”.Very Suicide Squaddy indeed.
(Heh! My phone agrees as after the word ‘very’ it gives me the rest including the spelling of ‘Squaddy’).I can honestly say I have not seen one bit of advertising for this movie. I did not know it even existed until you posted about it.
That can’t be a good sign.
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I saw trailers for it on social media a while ago. But yeah, doesn’t seem like they’re pushing it very much. It also looks very silly.
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How can a film starring Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Arianna Greenblat NOT be a success? Even Eli Roth couldn’t screw it up that badly….could he?!
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And Section 31 is out on January 24th
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Those were some good Lower Decks today. Goodgey peeking out over the side of the shuttle was adorable.
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Those were some good Lower Decks today. Goodgey peeking out over the side of the shuttle was adorable.
Big fan of bearded Boimler performing the Riker maneuver when asked to take command. I’m really going to miss this show.
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A lot of random action shots and very little sense of what the show will actually be about.
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I love her, good casting overall, and it works very well on paper.
Hope it executes in a movie format.
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No one excited for the lower decks finale? The first part was amazing and some very old shippers are now very happy.
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I was a bit back and forth on part 1. Like it was very blatant fanservice but it played with it in some smart ways. William Boimler being the one to be jaded about stuff was a nice touch for sure. And the alternate Mariner was great.
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I love the whole gag of Bradward becoming a good officer by growing the beard. Lovely touch.
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Well, he did still scream and fall over a bunch of stuff. And I love that they animated alternate takes in the trailers to hide his dodgy beard, the same way they hid the lieutenants’ pips last year.
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What a show. Sorry to see it go, but it went out on top.
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Yeah, it’s up there with TNG and DS9, and who could have seen that coming when they announced an animated comedy about the ensigns on a crappy starship?
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