News Next live-action Short Trek has a working title and new director

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by The Butter Phantom, Apr 28, 2019.

  1. The Butter Phantom

    The Butter Phantom Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Working title is "Chaos Theory" and will now be directed by Mark Pellington.

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  2. The Butter Phantom

    The Butter Phantom Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Theory for director change: Olatunde Osunsanmi is directing episodes 5/6, 7/8 or 9/10 of the Picard series, so can't commit to both?
     
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  3. Lord Garth

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    Can't wait to see it!
     
  4. KennyB

    KennyB I have spoken............ Moderator

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    Sounds legit.....
     
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  5. guyute03

    guyute03 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I wonder if it will tie into Season 3, looks like post prod is done at end of this May.
     
  6. donners22

    donners22 Commodore Commodore

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    I assume we won't actually see Discovery or its crew, more likely they'll be around someone left behind or will be a little taste of where they've wound up.

    I just hope they manage to get them in a more prominent spot on Netflix this time.
     
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  7. The Butter Phantom

    The Butter Phantom Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I think that's just a placeholder date. Post-production work on Star Trek is done in Los Angeles, so the Directors Guild of Canada likely doesn't know or care about those dates.
     
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  8. Xerxus

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    I would have thought maybe it would be filmed in LA to share resources with the Picard series. But I guess all the discovery sets are available right now whereas the Picard ones will likely be under construction/in use.
     
  9. The Butter Phantom

    The Butter Phantom Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    They're sharing resources with Discovery, which restarts production right afterwards.
     
  10. Amasov

    Amasov Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Does that mean Jeff Goldblum is the lead? SIGN ME UP!
     
  11. Kpnuts

    Kpnuts Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Wait, Mark Pellington is a man's name. Are you sure that's right?
     
  12. The Butter Phantom

    The Butter Phantom Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Is this a shit attempt at a sexist joke?
     
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  13. Kpnuts

    Kpnuts Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I’m not being sexist. Discovery casting white males as either idiots (Conolly) or evil (Lorca, Leland) is what’s sexist.

    That and saying they prefer female directors. What a ridiculous age we live in where saying that is acceptable.
     
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    :rolleyes:
     
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    seigezunt Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Oh, goody. This again. Maybe we can get a "Mary Sue" and "reverse racism" thrown in for a trifecta.
     
  16. Kpnuts

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    Or do you mean a shit attempt at a sexist joke like Georgiou’s “tiny male brains” quote from earlier in the season? Hilarious to think of the double standards uproar if that had been a man calling women’s brains tiny.
     
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    Georgiou is a genocidal dictator from an explicitly racist and sexist universe. I get that they're slowly redeeming her, but she's still not supposed to be the perfect sign of virtue.
     
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    Soong-type Android Captain Captain

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    Only in Star Trek can you be a genocidal dictator and still be redeemed!
     
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  19. RuthlessNate

    RuthlessNate Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Stamets - A white male who is brilliant and not evil. Or does he not count because he's gay?

    But then, white men aren't the only men in the future. We've got Bryce, Rhys, and Culber all part of the core crew. They've all been shown to be competent and not-evil.

    You got a source on this quote? Here's Wikipedia's list of episodes with directors listed. Female directors are bolded:

    (EDIT: The following has been corrected because I mistakenly thought Olatunde Osunsanmi was a woman. I had it in my head that that was the name I saw for the director of the Picard pilot, and I knew the director was female. I forgot that it was Hanelle Culpepper who is directing that pilot. I've corrected the list and the math below.)

    Season 1
    1 - "The Vulcan Hello" - David Semel
    2 - "Battle at the Binary Stars" - Adam Kane
    3 - "Context Is for Kings" - Akiva Goldsman
    4 - "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
    5 - "Choose Your Pain" - Lee Rose
    6 - "Lethe" - Douglas Aarniokoski
    7 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" - David M. Barrett
    8 - "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" - John S. Scott
    9 - "Into the Forest I Go" - Chris Byrne
    10 - "Despite Yourself" - Jonathan Frakes
    11 - "The Wolf Inside" - T. J. Scott
    12 - "Vaulting Ambition" - Hanelle M. Culpepper
    13 - "What's Past Is Prologue" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
    14 - "The War Without, The War Within" - David Solomon
    15 - "Will You Take My Hand?" - Akiva Goldsman
    Season 2
    16 - "Brother" - Alex Kurtzman
    17 - "New Eden" - Jonathan Frakes
    18 - "Point of Light" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
    19 - "An Obol for Charon" - Lee Rose
    20 - "Saints of Imperfection" - David Barrett
    21 - "The Sound of Thunder" - Douglas Aarniokoski
    22 - "Light and Shadows" - Marta Cunningham
    23 - "If Memory Serves" - T. J. Scott
    24 - "Project Daedalus" - Jonathan Frakes
    25 - "The Red Angel" - Hanelle M. Culpepper
    26 - "Perpetual Infinity" - Maja Vrvilo
    27 - "Through the Valley of Shadows" - Douglas Aarniokoski
    28 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
    29 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II" - Olatunde Osunsanmi

    That's three female directors versus twelve male directors, with five out of twenty-nine episodes having been directed between these four female directors. That means roughly about 83% of Discovery episodes are still directed by male directors.

    Men are not being victimized by efforts to give females a chance. Directing in Hollywood is still overwhelmingly a male profession. Things are simply being evened out.
     
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  20. DaveyNY

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    Personally, I prefer Directors that produce really entertaining episodes.

    What their personal or physical preferred sex is, really doesn't come into play in my mind.
     
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