Ah yes. The "ample nacelles", as it were.
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Damn it, now I'm imagining the "Sir Cums Alot" scene from The Boys, except "Sir Cums Alot" is watching someone like James Dixon or Bernd from EAS giving a lecture on how Treknology and starship engineering works.
Sounds like the name of a Bond girl:
James: "What's your name?"
Girl (purring seductively): "Ample Nacelles."
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Hey, cut Bernd some slack; he’s an ok guy. James Dixon, however, is completely bonkers.
He has a blind spot with regards to U.S. law.
He's based in the UK. He and his sources see everything through a UK lens (He said Sony was going to buy Paramount. I knew that was not going to happen -- U.S. law prohibited it.)
If the UK system applied to Seven of Nine, P+ would've had to pay Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky for every single episode of Star Trek: Picard!
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He has a blind spot with regards to U.S. law.
He's based in the UK. He and his sources see everything through a UK lens (He said Sony was going to buy Paramount. I knew that was not going to happen -- U.S. law prohibited it.)
If the UK system applied to Seven of Nine, P+ would've had to pay Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky for every single episode of Star Trek: Picard!
He has a perpetual blind spot. Nothing he has said has ever been proven true on his own terms. Which is to say, when he’s been right, it’s felt circumstantial. Broadly, he’s consistently incorrect.
Note how wishy-washy he gets when he has to explain the particulars. Not just here, but anywhere. I’ve watched several of the guy’s videos through the years (I don’t feel bad for giving him a click; he gets so relatively few of them that this can’t be an especially profitable endeavour for him) and he tries to straddle the line between appeasing the YouTube anti-Kurtzman sphere and leaving the door open just an inch for more positive discussion. Presumably, because he’s a bit too intellectually savvy to make constant videos doing nothing but dissing modern Star Trek. Good on him for that, I suppose?
But look at the comments. Every video. He can’t help but attract the same chorus of boring sentiment that virtually every other person in his position has done on that platform. “No Kerman Trek!” “Kurtman in = bad! Kurtman out = good!” “Star Trek has been dead since 2005, Kurmen pisses on it every year.” These people can’t even figure out how to spell Alex Kurtzman’s name, but they sure do mention it on a daily basis.
My point is, Tachyon Pulse, or Sci Trek, or whatever you want to call it… it’s fueled by those hate clicks, its banners and thumbnails are designed to gather those people, and then the “exclusive” information which he provides is always so murky as to evade complete scrutiny, and never intrinsically accurate. Nothing he says can be verified. Oftentimes, it doesn’t pan out as he says it might. And he seems to think that television executives care about granular lore details in the products they make, which is… rare, at best.
I think it’s feasible that the guy has spoken with people a handful of times, but I doubt very strongly that those people are in prime positions to tell him anything of real consequence, and I could just as soon believe he makes everything up without exception.
This thread certainly felt like a trip down memory lane. I vividly remember the outcries against DSC, PIC etc, the derison, and the outright lies that persisted, despite a lack of credibility. A number of people claiming insider knowledge of Kurtzman's sacking, of the cancellation of shows, etc etc. The level of effort pumped into hating for the sake of it, it must have been exhausting.
You can't get a lot of YouTube clicks for your monetized channel without the 'bait'...
This moron is so fixated on Strange New Worlds, he's COMPLETELY forgotten about Starfleet Academy (Which is filming a full season of ten episodes. Post-production -- music, VFX, etc. -- takes another 6-9 months after that.)
Production on SFA S2 began on August 27th. Filming plus post should push the production schedule into Fall '26.
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I stopped watching pointless YouTube videos when I saw one where some 18 year old conspiracy theorist claimed that Zack from Saved By the Bell was actually asleep and dreaming everything that happened in the show, based on the theme song's lyrics. Because he consistently mispronounced the name of the principal, it was clear that he never even watched the show. That's when I realized that any moron can make a YT video, and I will never get that viewing time of my life back ever.
People just want their fame.
Of course not. It's a shortcut to it and presents itself as success except easier without as much work. It's created a whole generation of wannabe YouTubers who think they'll get famous.
The reality is far from the truth but doesn't change the desired motivation.
They occasionally make me laugh.
I haven't started. If someone needs to blather for an hour instead of making their point in a few sentences of text, they probably don't have a point. They're not explaining quantum physics or Lacanian psychoanalysis, they're talking about TV shows.
I think a whole lot of people are going to be disappointed when Kurtzman comes back (again).
TP (appropriate abbreviation) has been bellyaching about Kurtzman Trek (again). He was complaining about why the Discovery didn't look like anything seen on Trek before (it's a completely different class of ship).
P+ wants more female-led dramas (P+ CEO Cindy Holland wants a counterbalance against Taylor Sheridan's male-oriented universe).
Trek has something that fills the bill: #StarTrekLegacy.
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Usually when there's a regime change, everyone gets sacked in favor of the new people that the new bosses want running the show. This isn't anti-Kurtzman sentiment; this is simply reality. Why do you think that the present showrunners are ending SNW as quickly as they possibly can? Because they know they might not be around by this same time next year.
Five seasons was the absolute maximum regardless (Disco left after five seasons. Lower Decks left after five seasons. Yellowstone and The Equalizer were each cancelled after five seasons.)
Strange New Worlds was the latest in a series.
If Kurtzman WAS leaving, who's going to step in? P+ wants to expand Star Trek. Who would come in after him?
If SFA only gets two seasons, then that math is kind of meaningless. Because I don’t see that show lasting for five seasons (with one to two year breaks between those seasons.)
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