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This is so nice…
What MLK said to Nichelle…
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Episode 1 of Prodigy is out, and I enjoyed it. It is very much a kids’ show, the protagonists are all teenagers and the level of peril is not… massive. But the dialogue is decent, the voice acting is very good, and the animation is a bit standard in its design but well-executed. Gonna keep watching for now, anyway.
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https://intl.startrek.com/news/the-journey-continues-star-trek-prodigy-renewed-for-season-two
- Prodigy renewed for Season 2
- Season 1 will be 20 episodes long, but with hiatus:
- Up to episode 5 on November 18th, then it will go on hiatus.
- Episodes 6-10 starting on January 6th until February.
- 11-20 later in 2022.
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Btw, this week the Center Seat documentary series premiered, the first episode covering the original three seasons of Star Trek.
There is an aftershow podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4II9Q2WCm7HFtI02HIUALX
Oh, and the most important Star Trek audio log ever, revealing many secrets:
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Confirmed:
https://deadline.com/2021/11/star-trek-discovery-netflix-deal-paramount-viacomcbs-1234875466/
Basically P+ wants its baby for the around the globe launches
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ViacomCBS wants full control, so they basically paid out Netflix to get out of the previous deal, looking ahead to the P+ european launch.
We have P+ down here in Argentina, but we are getting for example Lower Decks in full seasons, instead of weekly, so I hope they eventually change that.
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To our international #StarTrekDiscovery fans… pic.twitter.com/cX8m1m3h3O
— Star Trek (@StarTrek) November 16, 2021
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To our international #StarTrekDiscovery fans… pic.twitter.com/cX8m1m3h3O
— Star Trek (@StarTrek) November 16, 2021
Ah that’s a shame. Guess that’s the end of me watching it then.
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Ahoy matey.
#StarTrekDiscovery international fans like… #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/PwCGsYCOVM
— Eduardo Blake (@edublake) November 16, 2021
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We just found out about this ourselves. 😬😬😬
— Anthony Rapp SAG-AFTRA National & NY Board Member (@albinokid) November 16, 2021
I mean, just wow. These corporate gears REALLY need some oiling. Amazing how the global market is so cultivated for film— and the TV impacts are just ignored. The world #Netflix #StarTrek fan base is livid—and on 72 hours’ notice, too https://t.co/jkbN9D8L1N
— Larry Nemecek (@larrynemecek) November 16, 2021
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I might see if I can fill the gap by watching hourlong youtube videos of people crying.
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My fellow Trek fans…
I don’t know about this:
Granted, the series is over, but would it have been a little more interesting if there were more Tuvok and Seven scenes to have heard them discuss their logic and so on?
Maybe the writers feared both of them together would be too much of an overlap.The series went with Janeway and Seven in doing more adventure. Seven did take away from other characters. Not that she overwhelmed the others. Who knows?
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In TOS, it was Spock making a key observation, relaying the information to Kirk, and Kirk would use it to formulate the winning plan of attack.
Would that have worked in the later series?
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My fellow Trek fans…
I don’t know about this:
Eduardo mentioned it upthread:
https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/star-trek-thread/page/8/#post-78135
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We heard you 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery now premieres internationally this Friday. https://t.co/ymbcp08V07 pic.twitter.com/n2RnCYkXDg
— Star Trek (@StarTrek) November 24, 2021
Therefore, during this transition, we are doing everything we can to get the new season to you as soon as possible. Where Paramount+ is available in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay, and Venezuela, the first two episodes will be available Friday, November 26, with new episodes being released weekly. We are also offering Star Trek fans in these markets a new membership promotion on Paramount+ for 50% off for the first three months with code STARTREK.*
In Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service, will drop new episodes at 9pm local time on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a simulcast running on the Star Trek channel in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. This will begin with the first two episodes on Friday, November 26.
In the UK, Germany, France, Russia, South Korea and additional select countries, we are also making Season 4 available for purchase on participating digital platforms beginning Friday, November 26.
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Idiots. Pluto TV is utter crap.
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The Center Seat release schedule has been a little erratic since last week, yesterday they aired both episodes 3 (Phase 2/TMP) and 4 (Movies II-IV), which covers the four episodes that were going to air in the channel.
In the History Vault streaming they are supposed to have episodes 5 (TNG), 6 (DS9) 7 (VOY), 8 (about ships), and 10 (which is a 1h25, about guest stars and I am guessing it is recycled from an announced but unreleased 2019 documentary, That Guy… Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars), but no 9.
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You can nab it via PS5 Dave.
Tried it out a couple of weeks back, I wasn’t impressed.
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I’ve never heard of Pluto TV.
It’s not considered a proper channel, it’s been downgraded to dwarf channel.
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Book 3 of Coda will soon be its way to me.
Everyone knows Trek books don’t have any affect on TV / Film and they have to follow the lead set by those. Clearly Picard blows this entire line sky-high, but it’s been going 20 years, has a rather loyal, niche fanbase so, despite not really counting, the line got a trilogy send-off. That never happens on reboots, so it’s great to see it here.
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https://www.startrek-resurgence.com/
Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative adventure game featuring dialog choices, relationship building, and exploration. Alongside dialog-driven role playing and rich branching storylines, you will also engage with the Star Trek universe in a variety of other gameplay styles, including shuttle piloting, phaser fights, tricorder scanning, stealth, and micro-gameplay mechanics.
Star Trek: Resurgence is a single player experience without microtransactions, DLC or other additional monetization models.
https://www.polygon.com/22826519/star-trek-resurgence-release-date-dramatic-labs-telltale-games
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Looks like Pluto isn’t available in Ireland at all.
800 years of oppression and now this!?
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Looks like Pluto isn’t available in Ireland at all.
800 years of oppression and now this!?
They’re never not at it!
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Two episodes:
There were a few courtroom dramas. One that comes to mind is the one that had this lawyer who for some reason was out for blood and she was on the ship turning everything into a witch hunt. In the end, Picard, I would say, goaded or baited her by quoting something and she went on this fanatical tirade exposing her madness right there in court. The Federation official saw the whole thing and just walked out. Later on, all charges were dropped. It was an interesting episode.
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Another one was on Voyager, when they went back to Earth in the 90’s. (The writers ignored the Khan story which was a big mistake.)
Anyway, in that timeline, a hippie in the late 60s discovered the 25th century timeship that crash landed, then spent the next 20 years reverse engineering the tech from that ship and became this engineering mogul. I don’t quite remember how Voyager got there, but the Doctor ended up with the holo emitter and was then able to go outside sickbay from that story on. -
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Well, that’s that. Coda brings down the curtain on 20 years of reading Trek books that I had no idea was going to happen when news of the DS9 relaunch and Avatar grabbed my interest so long ago.
I have to agree with the assessment that the first half of those years was stronger than the second, the mess with the Ascendants and the Destiny time jump took some recovering from, then along came the Hobus mess, that finally gets resolved and then along comes the Picard series to kill it all off. Whatta a revoltin’ development. Still, the books play the cards they get as best as they can and that is what happened, time after time. Does Coda erase all that? I can understand the view that it does, that my angle of greatest angle of interest DS9 did get shortchanged – I became hooked by so many other litverse strands but DS9 is where it started – but, for me, it succeeds on the final pages, with that sequence with the Prophets’ remembering all of it. That works for me, as does the final, final pages with Benny Russell.
Does it all work? No. The Riker plot was unbalanced, it went on too long in the negative and the endpart with Riker back wasn’t quite enough. Books 1-2 were stronger for me than Book 3, which staggered with the erasing of the timeline plot addition. That threw a spanner in the gears despite my expecting…. something. Talking of which, this was cleverly marketed. From the way the last Voyager books played out, I was suspecting Krenim temporal manipulations – I was, I suppose, half right. I was expecting a fair bit of carnage, that also played out. The smart move was telegraphing this generally, but not specifically. Knowing the type of story this was going to be informed my response to it, but did that stop any of the deaths stinging? Nope, and that is testimony to the writing. Each of them felt fitting, but none more so than that set for Klag and Martok.
Does it then work as a finale? For me it does. I can’t say I followed all of the time travel stuff across the trilogy but that’s also part of the fun too. The Borg earth worked well too. As to the future of my interest in Trek generally, this, combined with the changes to how TV Trek is accessed, with Paramount slinging it onto their to-be-launched-at-some-point streamer and that I lost all interest in Discovery with that terrible Georgiou two-parter in series 3, does all add up to a rather perfect jumping off point. I don’t want to add another streaming subscription, I can’t say I’m grabbed by Picard – as a freebie bundled with Amazon Prime? Ok, as something to be paid for separately? Nope.
It’s been a strange pattern of activity across the various corporate properties. Star Wars. Star Trek. Aliens. Terminator. Bond. All with various revivals, but which also tended to involve burning down what came before without putting much onto the scorched earth that resulted. Invariably, in the case of Bond, it’ll reboot, probably true for a couple of the others too. Wars? My interest in that will probably reduce with the end of the High Republic which I’ve really enjoyed, but continue with the odd D+ miniseries. For Trek books? This is the end of the line but an end like this, where corporate reboots are concerned, so rarely happen. For that I have to give the writers and Pocket Books their due, they did not have to do this. I’m happy that they did.
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Apparently, Picard S1 didn’t really excite anyone (apart from the cameo scenes where we saw some old TNG characters stop by and visit)
Synths? Huh?So they went to the old sensational material of bringing back Q, the Q/Picard relationship, alternate reality, a plot to go back in time to fix the past, and so on.
They know that more fans will get on board for that.
“Seems like nobody liked our super-nostalgic Star Trek series. So let’s make sure to make the next one ULTRA-nostalgic! Surely that will fix our problems!”
Cameos and old characters will always get fan chatter, but it’s not what actually keeps people watching and being excited for a show.
I don’t think I’ll watch the next season of Picard, much as it hurts because I love Patrick Stewart.
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I liked S1 because I liked the synths story(didn’t hurt that I thought the twins were very attractive), the characters were good too, I liked the nomad and the captain as well. I am looking forward to S2.
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Picard Series 2 will begin on March 3rd
Strange New Worlds will begin on May 5th and has been renewed for a second series
DISCO has been renewed for a 5th series
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And Picard S2 trailer is out:
(not geolocked)
https://intl.startrek.com/news/the-official-star-trek-picard-season-two-trailer-has-arrived
Welcome to the road not taken. 💫 #StarTrekPicard #StarTrek https://t.co/bpxokj5q5H pic.twitter.com/lOquhyR2PC
— Star Trek (@StarTrek) January 21, 2022
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And Picard S2 trailer is out:
(not geolocked)
Speaking of, it’s been confirmed it’ll still be on Prime outside the US. I guess either Paramount Plus didn’t bother trying to buy it back, after the mess that was the Discovery removal, or Amazon didn’t take what they were offering.
Still no launch date on Paramount Plus over here.
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So Prodigy’s back on hiatus. I enjoyed this batch of episodes well-enough, the way the characters came together at the end felt earned, there’s been plenty of fun moments along the way. And then that cliffhanger moment! And we don’t have a date for episode 11 yet!
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Easy for him to say, he never had to watch those shows.
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Yeah but they always leave out the second half of that quote.
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Easy for him to say, he never had to watch those shows.
You know you can just not watch something if you don’t like it? Like I still haven’t seen Enterprise or a chunk of Voyager.
Really? But then how would the internet know my opinions?!
Seriously, I haven’t seen most of Enterprise or Voyager either. I highly doubt that I will be back for more Picard unless there is some seriously positive word of mouth about it, which really is a shame as I enjoy Patrick Stewart. I just can’t help myself with Discovery, though, which is in no way a good show (although better than it used to be) but has a certain charm to it nonetheless. It’s like that video of Liam Gallagher being interviewed by a bunch of five year-olds but in space.
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Really? But then how would the internet know my opinions?!
Does the internet need to know your opinion?
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Really? But then how would the internet know my opinions?!
Does the internet need to know your opinion?
Does the internet need anything? Besides all the porn.
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Does the internet need to know your opinion?
I don’t need to know it.
I demand to know it.
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This is about porn, right?
I’m going to have a long and hard think about this.
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I’m going to have a long and hard think about this.
as opposed to your sex organ which is soft and short.
:ta dum:I’m here all week. Try the veal.
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Try the veal.
I’m not into bestiality.
Yet.
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I’m not into bestiality.
Yet.
Well, the weekend is just starting….
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I don’t know what to believe any more!
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I’m really freaked out that disco is getting good? The first contact stuff is nicely done and the character work is enjoyable. I don’t know what to believe any more!
The 4th series is usually when a Trek show finds its stride.
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The TNGang is getting back together
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-picard-season-3-end-1235125486/
The mission continues. See who is joining the cast of #StarTrekPicard Season 3! pic.twitter.com/HMBc9wyAFa
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) April 5, 2022
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I haven’t started season two yet. Is it so bad they’re having to promote season three already?.
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I haven’t started season two yet. Is it so bad they’re having to promote season three already?.
Most people think it’s an improvement, and it’s been the most popular thing on Amazon Prime all month, so I guess not.
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They forgot the biggest reason: Captain Benjamin motherfucking Sisko.
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He is there as the great single dad role.
You know, it was Avery Brooks that changed the ending of his character.
As you know, Sisko fought Dukat in that cave (some kind of Christ vs antichrist battle)
and Sisko ascended to the other dimension. It was said that he was not coming back but
Avery told the showrunners that it would look bad saying Sisko was an absentee black father to
his son and pregnant wife. So they put it in that he would return to the station.But my favorite scene was that episode where they were infected and were making out with each other.
Bashir and Kira (that episode led to the actors getting together irl), Jadzia and Sisko.
In the end, Bashir figured it all out and said the infection would wear off in a day or two ,
Then he said he was heading to Kira’s room to f her and supposedly take advantage of her
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I’m really freaked out that disco is getting good? The first contact stuff is nicely done and the character work is enjoyable. I don’t know what to believe any more!
I don’t believe a word you’re saying. I refuse to be drawn back into this mess of a show.
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I’m really freaked out that disco is getting good? The first contact stuff is nicely done and the character work is enjoyable. I don’t know what to believe any more!
I don’t believe a word you’re saying. I refuse to be drawn back into this mess of a show.
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Finally finished season 4 of Discovery and I enjoyed it.
The last 5 EPs are just well done, clever sci fi where they give the other characters time to grow.
I might even try season 5 now.
Nothing makes sense any more!!
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Finally finished season 4 of Discovery and I enjoyed it.
The last 5 EPs are just well done, clever sci fi where they give the other characters time to grow.
I don’t believe a word you’re saying. I refuse to be drawn back into this mess of a show.
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Finally finished season 4 of Discovery and I enjoyed it.
The last 5 EPs are just well done, clever sci fi where they give the other characters time to grow.
I might even try season 5 now.
Nothing makes sense any more!!
Mods, I think Uncle Retrospective’s account has been hacked. Please check to make sure this isn’t Russian shenanigans.
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Nyet my friend. It just got it’s shit together.
I’m as stunned as you. I haven’t see Piccard yet though. I’m sure it’s still shit. ✌️
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Mods, I think Uncle Retrospective’s account has been hacked. Please check to make sure this isn’t Russian shenanigans.
Personally, I think he’s been replaced by mirror universe Uncle R. We should check the status of his facial hair to be sure.
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mirror universe Uncle R
Holy fuck you guys, it’s Auntie Unreflective! RUN!
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mirror universe Uncle R
Holy fuck you guys, it’s Auntie Unreflective! RUN!
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No.
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Don’t you mean “nyet”, comrade?
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This is perfection:
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Don’t you mean “nyet”, comrade?
Da.
I mean yes. Of course….
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Interesting take from Jolene Blalock on her own character
Did You Know: Jolene Blalock Loves Star Trek, But Has Major Criticisms For One Character
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If people are looking for an honest opinion on Picard and don’t want to venture into the spoiler thread:
It’s fixed a bunch of problems from series 1, but is generating new ones in their wake. One of the big frustrations people had on here was that it felt like it took the characters ages to get to The Artefact. Here instead of having a set goal from episode 1, it takes the characters a few episodes to figure out what they need to do, and they keep getting sidetracked with additional complications. I’m still broadly enjoying the show, the dialogue is good, the actors are great, it looks amazing – it’s just not clicking right in a different way to it not clicking just right last year.
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How to kill interest in Strange New Worlds
1 – Place on Paramount Plus
2 – Do not launch globally
3 – Let the internet spoil it all by the time you get around ti launching it in various countries.
Success.
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