News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+

[eschaton]

Personally, I don't think the shows need quite the production value they have currently. I think they can use some old tricks... use more stock footage for the ship. You can use the same exterior flyby more often, it's ok. Use less expensive locations/set dressing. I don't think it would kill any us to have some more planets that look like... the forests of Ontario, Canada.

There absolutely are examples of gratuitous use of CGI in pretty much every season. Things like the weird funhouse universe inside the turbolift shafts at the end of Season 3. Or a number of uselessly cluttered 3D displays which don't actually make anything clear. Some of this really does feel like busywork for the VFX team, not something that either the script or the pacing of the show really needs.

 

[fireproof78]

I think SNW has a good blend. Pike,Number One,Spock,Uhura,Chaphell,M'Benga were all characters we have seen before and also now we also Have Kirk and looks like Scotty for next season as well. But the show still feels both modern and traditional at the same time.

It's Chapel.

And SNW, for all the enjoyment I get, has too much Kirk, Uhura and Scotty.

 

[Jayson1]

I got to disagree. I think it's got a good blend. Thing is with the new show though you would still only have two legacy characters with big parts and that would be Seven and EMH. I wouldn't count guest spots because those could even amount to nothing more than a cameo. I feel all the other characters still fit into the category of new characters. Raffi I guess maybe being the except since she was around from Picard season 1. Everyone else would be from Season 3 or brand new.

 

[fireproof78]

I got to disagree. I think it's got a good blend. Thing is with the new show though you would still only have two legacy characters with big parts and that would be Seven and EMH. I wouldn't count guest spots because those could even amount to nothing more than a cameo. I feel all the other characters still fit into the category of new characters. Raffi I guess maybe being the except since she was around from Picard season 1. Everyone else would be from Season 3 or brand new.

Which is too many for me.

 

[evilchumlee]

It's Chapel.

And SNW, for all the enjoyment I get, has too much Kirk, Uhura and Scotty.

I'm with you on that.

Kirk should have been a one shot, if even that. Kirk showing up should have been like the Luke Skywalker moment from "The Mandalorian". Not just like... he's there all the time for reason and almost at this point just a part of the cast.

Uhura is fine but the show does skew a bit heavy to her. We still haven't had an episode focusing on Ortegas. I'd say the show is Spock heavy too but... I can excuse that, because he's a good Spock, although i'm very much over the "trying out human stuff" Spock. Enough.

Scotty remains to be seen. I wouldn't say his literal one appearance was "too much". I am sure though that we will be "treated" to him many more times now.

On the OP topic, I dislike Tilly less in DSC S5. I wasn't a fan of akward Tilly. I like the new, alittle bit more experienced and crushingly optimistic Tilly. I'm not sure she can carry a show as... presumably if not the "main" character, one of them.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm afraid I must dramatically disagree with you!!!

...Legacy wasn't proposed by the network.

But it is ridiculously awful.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's Chapel.

And SNW, for all the enjoyment I get, has too much Kirk, Uhura and Scotty.

He means Starfleet funny man Dave Chaphell.

 

[Quinton]

I got to disagree. I think it's got a good blend. Thing is with the new show though you would still only have two legacy characters with big parts and that would be Seven and EMH. I wouldn't count guest spots because those could even amount to nothing more than a cameo. I feel all the other characters still fit into the category of new characters. Raffi I guess maybe being the except since she was around from Picard season 1. Everyone else would be from Season 3 or brand new.

Yep. Sounds great.

 

[Markonian]

did this shuttle have a class name? I forget if it did

In Star Trek Online, this class of shuttlecraft is officially called 32c. Federation Shuttlecraft.

 

[Mudd]

Kirk should have been a one shot, if even that. Kirk showing up should have been like the Luke Skywalker moment from "The Mandalorian".

No. The more the better.

 

[HotRod]

I kinda love Paul Wesley as Kirk, so I say the more the better.

 

[cooleddie74]

Wesley is charming. Honestly, he's usually the best part of any episode he's in.

 

[fireproof78]

Hard pass on Kirk.

 

[HotRod]

I'd be absolutely down for a SNW/TOS sequel/continuation series with Paul Wesley in command. Keep who they need to keep on the Enterprise and have Number One promoted to Captain and take La'an and Erica with her to her own ship that we can periodically check-in on.

 

[Mudd]

Let him keep La'an and Ortegas. We don't need Sulu any time soon.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, Sulu's a physicist anyways on the ship's science lab staff when he first comes aboard. Not like he'd have much if anything to do if he DID get cast to appear.

 

[fireproof78]

I'd be absolutely down for a SNW/TOS sequel/continuation series with Paul Wesley in command. Keep who they need to keep on the Enterprise and have Number One promoted to Captain and take La'an and Erica with her to her own ship that we can periodically check-in on.

I would be ok with this.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, Sulu's a physicist anyways on the ship's science lab staff when he first comes aboard.

That's his brother Walter.

 

[Jayson1]

Next old character that returns needs to be Doctor Boyce. Time to see him and Pike reunited and drinking a couple of martini's.

 

[cooleddie74]

Jeffrey Combs is just waiting by the phone. I mean, he's playing me right now, but still. I do have my phone nearby.