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    New Excelsior Release

    Then I'm glad you've avoided the death sentence, although I'm sure your first choice would have been "let's have a thriving comics industry." That sounds awesome! Yeah, we're still chugging away. Season 5 just ended, Season 6 coming up! And we did an episode with Nichelle Nichols, Walter...
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    New Excelsior Release

    JOHNNY NEMO! You're still afloat, too! I lost all your contact info years ago and have been therefore unable to tell you when we're putting your art up places! I've been crediting you on the IMDB, though, and hoping you'd see something and reach out and say "hi" again someday! How you doing...
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    The Star Trek iceberg

    Alright, these still stump me, months later, plz help: Surak Was An Internet Blogger Prod Nero Buddy The Smiling Vulcan How The Federation Economy Works (unless the meaning here is "nobody knows" or "if you've thought about it longer than the writers of First Contact, you get the points")...
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    The Star Trek iceberg

    Tumblr sent me here. Lots of obscure '70s/'80s fan fic (good!), but not enough obscure modern fan fic (at least after Tier 4). Suggested inserts: Tier 5: Star Trek Aurora Tier 6: Aaron Vanderkley Tier 7: The Divine Celestial Imperium Tier 8: The first 58 seasons of Star Trek Anbar
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    New Excelsior Release

    It's got art, too! Like the man said, it's at StarshipExcelsior.com and hopefully on all the podcatcher services the kids are using these days. Between Stitcher and Castbox and Spotify, it's harder to keep up with all of them than it was in 2007! :) I feel in my heart that maybe this is going...
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    The First Hour of Space Command is Out

    It's so bad it's fine. Judging by some of the responses in this thread, I get the feeling lots of folks here consider quite a bit of professional televised sci-fi unwatchable as well. Space Command is merely mediocre.
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    The First Hour of Space Command is Out

    I'm through the car ride, about ten minutes in. This is indeed mediocre, but better than, say, "The Last Outpost," or the entire first season of Babylon 5 (which eventually got great but boy it didn't start there). I've certainly watched a few episodes of a series on weaker material than this...
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    Finally Watching Discovery - Was I Supoosed to Hate This?

    Never thought I'd see a random page from The Mirror Universe Saga on here, but I approve!
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Short Treks 1x01 - "Runaway"

    This was very flawed. Someone pointed out that it plays like a fan film, but there are a good few 15-minute fan films that know to how to use the short format to make the stakes clear and have the action decisively pivot on discrete human choices. This... didn't. It was crowded, muddled, and...
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    Your lips to the Great Bird's ears!
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    Yeah, I tried this -- just pretend it's an independent sci-fi adventure and see where it goes -- and then they spent an entire episode buried deep in Sarek/Spock backstory before hopping over the Mirror Universe. And now we're spending the first few episodes of s2 with the Starship Enterprise...
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    I don't have time for a big reply right now, so I just wanted to say that, even though I disagree with a bunch of what you wrote, this was a real good post. Thanks for writing it.
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    This has basically been my sense of The Orville. Now, I want to be clear here: I don't like The Orville. I don't think the jokes are funny, many of the characters are very irritating, and the format is outdated. People say, "Oh, it's TNG," but really it's much closer to the worse parts of ENT...
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    Well, I gave my answer back on page 1, but, at least for me, the key elements are (1) exploration of the universe leading to discovery of the self, and (2) believable characters -- not necessarily interesting characters (Sulu, Malcolm, most of the cast of TNG), but people who act like...
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    Yes, and this is even a point I have made before. But I think the post-Enterprise era is the first time that the complaint is actually true. A stopped clock is right twice a day and all that. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT Suppose CBS rolled out a spinoff of Blue Bloods, centered on one of the kids. They...
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    Les Moonves Leaving CBS...

    I have big questions about whether and how the CBS online strategy is pursued in the post-Moonves era. Do they continue to champion CBSAA as their primary thrust into the online space? Does CBSAA continue to be a home for original content? Do they keep the same subscriber goals? Do they start to...
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    How is/isn't Discovery Star Trek?

    To me, Star Trek is summed up in two documents. First, this exchange from "All Good Things...": Second, this passage from the Star Trek Writer's Bible 1967: Now, is Discovery part of the Star Trek canon? Yes, absolutely. It is a television show released under the Star Trek name by the...
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    Les Moonves Leaving CBS...

    I haven't heard his name attached to much in the Discovery era. I did hear he saw the show before it launched and liked it, which was my second or third warning flag for Discovery. I heard Moonves's name attached to a lot of stuff in the Voyager and Enterprise eras -- not stunning, since he was...
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    Ethan Peck cast as DSC's Spock

    Hey, now, Stephen Manley is a fantastic dude who did a great job. Don't you be mouthing off on Stephen Manley!
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