News Star Trek: Section 31 Movie with Michelle Yeoh Announced!

[fireproof78]

I'm not convinced that a S31 movie that no one wants and has had overwhelmingly negative word of mouth will bring in the views.

Getting Michelle Yeoh for a cheaper price and wanting to be in on a project is probably what they are counting on. Stewart and company are only going to get more expensive, so regardless of reception of Season 3 the cost was going to increase. Same with Lower Decks.

I don't care what people want; I'm curious where Trek might go. Hopefully strange, maybe even new.

 

[Phily B]

I'd rather it wasn't rehabilitation of space Hitler in charge of space genocide orgnisation tbh.

 

[fireproof78]

I'd rather it wasn't rehabilitation of space Hitler in charge of space genocide orgnisation tbh.

Yes, many feel that way.

But, I'd rather see the "flower of humanity" as Spock describes MU humans as being able to actually grow.

It might end up poor. But I'm willing to at least try because we see Georgiou capable of evolution. And that's what Trek is about.

 

[Farscape One]

I'm not convinced that a S31 movie that no one wants and has had overwhelmingly negative word of mouth will bring in the views.

If you are in charge of a franchise, and the first project a recent Oscar winner wants to work on is something in your franchise, you find a way to make it happen. That's not a resource you just let slip through your fingers, because that opportunity may never come again.

Plus, that can give a boost and exposure for STAR TREK. That is a good thing.

 

[Happy Hopping]

1) but knowing the movie does not require "oscar quality" acting, does she still get the extra money that an oscar winner is entitle to?

2) "Lower deck" is cartoon, like it's not the same as an actual tv show / episode / movie. If there is nothign left to watch, I rather view "The oriville" than cartoon

 

[The Wormhole]

1) but knowing the movie does not require "oscar quality" acting, does she still get the extra money that an oscar winner is entitle to?

Yes.

2) "Lower deck" is cartoon, like it's not the same as an actual tv show / episode / movie.

Actually, it is.

If there is nothign left to watch, I rather view "The oriville" than cartoon

Whatever, you do you.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'd rather it wasn't rehabilitation of space Hitler in charge of space genocide orgnisation tbh.

No one's forcing you to watch it. Just don't watch.

If you watch, you're contributing to its views and contributing to its ratings. This is a business. They don't care if you liked it, they care if you watched it. Ratings are the bottom line. If you watch no matter what, you can be taken for granted. And if they decide to make another one, you will have helped to have contributed to that decision. So, do what I do when there's something I'm not interested in or don't support: Don't watch it.

But since I've been looking forward to this for literally years, I will be watching. Whether or not all the fighting over it was worth it remains to be seen. Just like with everything else here. The fighting takes on a life of its own to the point where it no longer has anything to do with what we actually watched. It's just "My Side vs. Your Side" with whatever's currently on being the latest battle front.

 

[Phily B]

No one's forcing you to watch it. Just don't watch.

If you watch, you're contributing to its views and contributing to its ratings. This is a business. They don't care if you liked it, they care if you watched it. Ratings are the bottom line. If you watch no matter what, you can be taken for granted. And if they decide to make another one, you will have helped to have contributed to that decision. So, do what I do when there's something I'm not interested in or don't support: Don't watch it.

But since I've been looking forward to this for literally years, I will be watching. Whether or not all the fighting over it was worth it remains to be seen. Just like with everything else here. The fighting takes on a life of its own to the point where it no longer has anything to do with what we actually watched. It's just "My Side vs. Your Side" with whatever's currently on being the latest battle front.

I just think that making a positive spin on space genocide organisation led by space Hitler is bad.

 

[Nerys Myk]

2018 actually, beginning with the first season of Short Treks. Prior to that, Disco's entire first season was released on Sundays.

Thursday was when my local showed TNG.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I just think that making a positive spin on space genocide organisation led by space Hitler is bad.

Who's saying it will be a positive spin?

 

[The Wormhole]

Thursday was when my local showed TNG.

I remember when I first started back when I was a kid, TNG was on Saturdays and DS9 Sundays. Then after TNG ended, DS9 was on Saturdays, as was Voyager when it premiered, and it stayed that way until DS9's final season/Voyager's 5th, where the two shows were on Wednesdays and Thursdays, respectively. Then Voyager took Fridays for its last two seasons. Enterprise was on Thursdays for its first season, Wednesdays for Seasons 2 and 3 and Fridays for the fourth.

 

[Quantum21]

I've noticed the publicity machine has started with Section 31. It's only 2 months till release.

There will be haters but I think it will be very popular.

 

[James Cole]

Total minutes watched is the important metric for Nielsen. But, if Netflix's standards are SOP throughout the streaming space, the most important thing is the 28 day completion rate. Streamers really pay attention if something in the middle of a program starts making many people switch off. I'll have Paramount+ anyways thanks to Black Friday and Dexter. So my plan is to give S31 a chance, and if it does something to piss me off, I'll stop watching. Good way to demonstrate I'm interested in future Star Trek projects on P+, just not anything and everything, regardless of quality.

Craig Sweeny is a very capable writer and showrunner. There's a decent chance this turns out to be relatively well written, multiversal canonical considerations aside. I can judge the marketing, but I can't judge the actual product just with the marketing we've already been given.

 

[Lord Garth]

Looks fun, looks energetic, nice production values, I like the main supporting characters, Michelle Yeoh is entertaining as usual, and it looks like it breaks the mold of a Star Trek movie, which is what a spin-off movie should do. I can already tell I'll like it better than any cinematic Trek movie after First Contact.

"Inquisition" and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" it's NOT, I might as well say this right now, but I'll like it just as much in its own right. It feels very much like its own thing. It even feels distinct from Discovery.

Looking forward to it! I wish they'd go for Rated R, not PG-13, but not a big deal.

 

[cooleddie74]

Looks like the Cheronians managed to avoid complete extinction during TOS.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Looks like the Cheronians managed to avoid complete extinction during TOS.

Bele or Lokai's group?

 

[cooleddie74]

Yes.

 

[Farscape One]

Yes.

A very Vorlon answer.

 

[The Wormhole]

Bele or Lokai's group?

The guy in the trailer is black on the left and white on the right, which would make him the same ethnicity as Bele, AKA the dominant one.

 

[cooleddie74]

Maybe some of them managed to flee Cheron before the planet self-immolated and that guy in the trailer is one of the children or descendants of those who managed to flee the race war.