Nicholas Meyer Discusses Discovery
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Midnight's Edge again? Yuk. Someone post the highlights.
They're not trustworthy and lie a lot.
Meyer, Nicholas Meyer, director of both "Wrath of Khan" and "The Undiscovered Country" will spread false information if the interview is conducted by ME???
I get that that channel isn't all that popular around here, but 10 mins in, I see nothing wrong with this interview?
It's very easy to use editing to distort the apparent meaning of what someone says in an interview -- to take things out of context and make it sound like they support a position they actually reject, e.g. (I'm aware of that being done with the Alien Autopsy special on FOX a couple of decades ago -- an expert who pointed out that the autopsy video was an obvious hoax had his interview edited to make it sound like he was confirming its reality).
They are well known to pure out lie. They make stuff up, claim they have inside sources for those lies and so on. They claimed DSC was canceled before it aired and Meyers was brought on to make another show to replace it.
Interviews can be edited and done in such a way as to spin and edit the narrative. Those guys are just dishonest.
The questions are short, Meyer's answers are long. I don't see or hear anything to suggest any tampering with his words or distortion of his intent. There is no narrative being pushed here that I can tell, except that only Meyer and Nimoy can make Star Trek movies.
What I do hear though, is Meyer giving lengthy and comprehensive sick burn to Star Trek Into Darkness, dancing around Star Trek Discovery, and giving more detail on the Khan series than I ever heard before.
Has it been published before that it was going to be called "Ceti Alpha V" and be a three hour, three night event?
Translation: They don't prostrate themselves before the altar of STD.
No, they're just full of shit.
No, they outright lie. I mean pure up totally created lies. My fave, they claimed an inside source told them, that DSC was canceled( about 2 months before it aired mined you) and that the studio was in a panic and Meyer's had been brought in the make a new show to replace the failed DSC and maybe save the franchise.
Not a word of that was true
Well, Meyer's comments do not support the notion that Ceti Alpha V (I can't find any earlier references to name than this interview) was made to replace Discovery, it being a three night event negates that possibility.
Now granted, I have not seen every ME video on Star Trek, but I have seen a few, and in none of them have I ever heard they claimed Discovery was, as in had been, cancelled. If they did, they messed up.
Can you point me to where they said this?
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Putting aside ME, the Khan/Ceti Alpha V miniseries is only slightly more appealing to me than the Emperor Georgiou/Section 31 show. That it's only in 3 parts means Nick has a specific story he wants to tell, which is good. But if it's just scenes before Chekov and Tarrell show up... meh.
I'm curious who they'll cast as Khan.
I'm curious who they'll cast as Khan.
I find it curious that so many people find the Ceti Alpha V story idea unappealing. Greg Cox wrote a story called "To Reign In Hell" and it was absolutely engaging. I'm pretty sure I read it in a day it was so interesting.
If this is anything like that, I'm all in. And...it's supposedly a mini-series, so what the hell do you have to lose? Should be a blast!
Oh, and ME is so full of shit, it's astounding.
If this is anything like that, I'm all in. And...it's supposedly a mini-series, so what the hell do you have to lose? Should be a blast!
Oh, and ME is so full of shit, it's astounding.
Haven't watched the video but I would assume that, if Meyer is indeed discussing it here despite no official announcement, then the project is dead and buried.
Even people who don’t like DSC very much think they’re full of shit.
Nick Meyer was probably asked for his input. "Hey, we want to make a new Star Trek series! You're the man behind the best Star Trek movies. Can you give us your input? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I like that! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Great. Thanks!" And that's probably it.
I see traces his influence with a situation similar to the Kobyashi Maru with the Shenzhou encountering a no-win scenario with the Klingons, Klingon pride in their culture and rejecting the Federation, and having a Starfleet Cadet as a main character.
Burnham being raised by Sarek is kind of like Saavik and Valeris being disciples of Spock, but with a different twist. Burnham isn't Vulcan but was raised that way and Sarek is a foster-parent instead of a teacher or sponsor.
I see traces his influence with a situation similar to the Kobyashi Maru with the Shenzhou encountering a no-win scenario with the Klingons, Klingon pride in their culture and rejecting the Federation, and having a Starfleet Cadet as a main character.
Burnham being raised by Sarek is kind of like Saavik and Valeris being disciples of Spock, but with a different twist. Burnham isn't Vulcan but was raised that way and Sarek is a foster-parent instead of a teacher or sponsor.
He was brought on board by Bryan Fuller as a consulting producer, which is kind of basically what you're saying -- someone who's not a member of the core staff but is available (on retainer, as it were) to consult on the show and provide the benefit of their experience or knowledge of a particular subject (for instance, the departed creator of a show often serves as a consulting producer, available to answer questions about the universe and characters and so forth but not directly participating in the writing process). I think he was brought on mainly for the cachet of his name, and because Fuller wanted to work with him. He wrote a draft of the second episode, but Fuller's successors decided not to go with it, and I think he was quietly dropped as a consultant after a while.
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