I'm not sure how he does not make sense in that world. He seemed to work perfectly well in that world to me.
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x06 – “Come, Let’s Away”
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And next week it might not be,
IMHO Shaw worked in spite of the writing, not because of it. Having experienced him at conventions, Todd Stashwick is a genuinely fun guy and I think he managed to make more with the material than what little was on paper. He was basically the grouch you loved to hate, but he portrayed him with enough likable mannerisms and quirks to still care about him.
Yes, I like episodes 2, 4 and 5 the best, though the overall story arc still hangs over the show as a whole.
I admit though, my thoughts on it are not entirely my own. When you have had a close friend tell you in no uncertain terms what Star Trek SHOULD be and should NOT be... it might be a while before I can judge it fairly.
That said, I am more a lover of thoughtful science fiction than shooting bad guys. I think my favourite episode of all time is Phage (VOY), where the antagonists were themselves suffering.
The TWOK comparison doesn't strike me as all that meaningful. The episode has a few loosely similar elements: a villain with a vendetta, a trap, Starfleet cadets, deadly peril. The specifics of how it combines those elements are far too different for a close comparison to be of much interest, much less so to justify using that comparison as a basis for talking about what "Trek" "should" or "shouldn't" "be about."
For example: Khan in TWOK is an explicit Ahab analogue, the overall story of that movie is about age and mortality, the stakes are apocalyptic, and Kirk's boatload of children are mostly nameless extras. Put it side by side with this episode, and these core elements are all either inverted or irrelevant, which wouldn't be true if the comparison was worthwhile.
(If you want to get all "Gene's vision" about things, what Trek "should" be about is character-driven stories. This seems to fit that mandate to me.)
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AI image generation (at least the paid versions) have become pretty good at having facial consistency - the more training data the better - e.g. either unput a whole bunch of pictures of the person, OR use a public figure (which they did here in Kirk).I wouldn’t be too sure about any of that. Even if AI was employed, I doubt it would just randomly put sunglasses on one of the characters. I’m pretty certain this was done deliberately as some sort of inside gag. (Either prompted to give him glasses or drawn that way.) But I wouldn’t take the glasses alone as an indication that it must necessarily be AI. As @Mudd noted, even if they used AI this most certainly would have gone through a process of being polished by a human artist. The face of what seems to be the captain character appears to be decently consistent from panel to panel, which is something AI tends to get wrong, too. I wonder if they used photos of a production member as reference for the face (either for a human artist or AI). If you look closely you’ll also notice that the control panels on the bridge (?) use the same kind of future LCARS design as they used on set. So they certainly didn’t just prompt an AI to generate some generic “Star Trek comic”. At least some thought and work went into this.
I wonder if they are somehow setting up Pickford saving the day in the season finale or something like that. Would be kinda in keeping with the idea that they are individuals, each one with their own strengths and weaknesses, which seems to be kind of the theme of the show. I for one would enjoy Pickford getting her moment in the limelight.
Typical AI giveaways are getting the same details inconsistent - for example in the upper & lower panel (close-up vs full body) Kirk's face is positioned almost identical towards the "camera" - but the hairline is very different in both pictures. A human painter would be more consistent here. Also the whole style is very ai - background colouring (shades in rock, panels) are often more detailed than the foreground comic-booky outlines.
But you're also right, it's definitely also photoshopped afterwards - AI would never be able to put such proper text into the speech bubbles.
But overall - it's very obvious AI (again - the 6 fingers being the big one) - so it all took an editor like one or two hours to create a full comicbook, instead of hiring a real artist for background work for several days.
(I'm not anti AI btw like many creatives are - this here would be a perfect use case - if they wouldn't have such close-ups of it that make it obvious).
Forget it Jake, it's the internet.
He doesn't fit for me.
I'm waiting for the mental tic-tac-toe match
FYI redressing sets is perfectly fine! And they did a reasonable good job with it.
Only drawback was the SNW set is still in use by it's primary show, so they couldn't go as far in redressing it as previous shows often did when they had a mothballed set (e.g. VOY completely revamping the Ent-A bridge for the USS Dauntless, USS Equinox and various alien ships, or DIS season 2 re-arranging the USS Shenzhou bridge for the Section 31 ship).
Only drawback was the SNW set is still in use by it's primary show, so they couldn't go as far in redressing it as previous shows often did when they had a mothballed set (e.g. VOY completely revamping the Ent-A bridge for the USS Dauntless, USS Equinox and various alien ships, or DIS season 2 re-arranging the USS Shenzhou bridge for the Section 31 ship).
Heh, I noticed that Braka actually has a tic-tac-toe game shaved into the left side of his hair. That detail fascinated me once it came clear.
And then Starfleet HQ in S3
In that same vein though not everyone is going to be cut out for Starfleet.I wonder if they are somehow setting up Pickford saving the day in the season finale or something like that. Would be kinda in keeping with the idea that they are individuals, each one with their own strengths and weaknesses, which seems to be kind of the theme of the show. I for one would enjoy Pickford getting her moment in the limelight.
Trek reused the nixed Phase Two set components for decades. Those panels and walls lasted almost thirty years in some cases and across four different series and about ten movies.
I think the Betazoid girl's sideboob was visible in at least one shot in bed.
Indeed. But we know Pickford isn't cut out for it already so the only plot and character development we have to move forward is her either proving she IS cut out for it or saving the day and by doing so sacrificing herself - her Spock in the Warp Core moment.
Sandro got his chest out a bit too.
I did notice they tried very hard to hide her nipples though.
You're right. I guess that's why but there really wasn't much seen that you wouldn't see with some swimsuits, for instance. Just odd for a TV-14 episode of a show to have the nudity content warning.
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