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All this exposes some dangers in using transporters and replicators as a narrative tool. These technologies totally made sense from a production standpoint—especially the transporter—but their implications for everyday life are so fundamental that it becomes really important to place...

In Discovery, The Federation was portrayed first as a dysfunctional puppet of a shadow organization (Section 32), and then as an ineffectual remnant in a post-apocalyptic context. In Picard, the Federation is depicted as a corrupt and compromised mockery of its higher ideals in a setting that...

I'll accept that the word "Utopia" may be the problem here. If we're talking about a society in which everything is literally perfect, it's obvious that there isn't much room for drama there. My meaning is a society in which the larger human problems—poverty, war, bigotry, crime—have been mostly...

Yes, I agree. I don't think that it's necessary for the Federation to be depicted as dysfunctional, dystopian or decimated for Star Trek to be an interesting premise with engaging characters. My contention is that those narrative choices are too easy, too obvious. To preserve a more-or-less...

Hmm—I guess you could say that. It seems to me that Picard presents a Federation that has become undermined and isolationist long before achieving anything like, say, Galactic unity. The show spends most of its time in lawless backwaters that seem to have nothing to do with the UFP as it was...

I just want to affirm that idea. The thing that really frustrated me about DISCO season 3 was that after taking the crew for a giant leap into the future, the writers fell back on the tired and predictable trope of placing them in a post-apocalypse. To me that seems like sheer laziness. Why...

Doesn't that sound familiar? If we're trying to think of actual issues at the edge of society and ethics that Star Trek could take a risk by exploring now, this hits the nail on the head.

I like that! I’d be interested in a series about an archeological crew. Some of my favorite episodes have to do with uncovering glimpses of the galaxy’s ancient past. Each season might focus on a single expedition.

Without pretending that they were perfect or timeless, I think that the core ideals Gene R. wanted to explore in his original concept for Star Trek are still worth exploring. Namely: Human society can get better, not worse, over time. Exploration and discovery are at least as interesting as...

I recently read an article on Inverse in which Akiva Goldsman kind of admits how sloppy the writing has been in modern Trek incarnations. This has been my main source of dissatisfaction with Discovery and Picard. The visual inconsistencies and Kelvinization of the series would be tolerable if...

Guilty as charged. More accurately, it doesn't resemble the subjective amalgam of Trek that makes something feel "Trekky" to me after a lifetime of viewing. For me, what Discovery is missing the most so far is the episodic and familial feel. It's focusing so much on a single character that it...

I was hoping for something that felt (aesthetically and thematically) more like Star Trek's television roots than Abramverse, and was disappointed in this regard. The production design, pacing and mood overall just seemed to take so much from Abram's bible that it was impossible to ignore or...

I heartily agree. One of my favorite aspects of any Star Trek series is how its setting feels like home over time and its characters feel like family. I'm really looking forward to seeing Discovery's more serialized storyline, but I'm concerned that this familiar aspect will be lost in seasons...

Does anybody remember this tweet from Bryan Fuller? Unless it was a joke or something major has changed in production, these look very different from the uniforms we see in the trailer. I suspect that everything we see in the trailer takes place in the first episode of Discovery, and I...

I would agree if we were discussing the writing of a textbook. But Star Trek is a science fiction story. As science fiction, it has a certain responsibility to speculate within the boundaries of actual science as it develops (read: Still no lightsabers); but as a story it has a responsibility...

Thanks, Cyfa!

Whenever possible, I'm in favor of finding creative explanations for anachronistic technology rather than trying to retroactively catch up with existing technology. Star Trek is a story, and I think that anytime the internal rules of the story are bent or broken, it weakens the whole narrative...

Does anyone know what reference the Reddit thread is based on? I've kept up with Discovery news pretty closely and that particular statement from CBS doesn't ring a bell. I watched Star Trek as a kid and I watch it with my kids. I personally would be pretty disappointed if that couldn't be...

I relaxed over the New Year weekend by whipping up this model of a starship in what I'm calling the Utopia class. It's still missing plenty of details and I'm thinking the warp nacelles might look too exposed or something. Happy 2017, everyone!

My guess right now is that Discovery is an antique, lost or abandoned starship that has been pressed back into service—possibly after a retrofit. The demo reel conveys the sense that the vessel has been drawn out of hiding. Possibly, the name Discovery is a clue to the discovery of the ship...