Possibilities Lower Decks Live Action version?
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as seriously as it gets on Lower Decks...
I fail to see the issue.
When I was a VERY small kid (maybe 4 or 5 years old) that's exactly what I had thought Wayne's World was. Obviously I've never seen either, but both seem to feature a blonde haired guy and a dark haired guy who like to listen to rock music. You can see how as a small child I would get them associated in my mind.
LDS in live action would only be inspired by LDS. While there is no reason for the show not to be canon in the looser sense of ‘body of work’, it is unlikely that the series will ever be perceived as existing in the shared audiovisual continuity (to within the ability of live action to follow the animation like animatics or reconstructions of an incomplete Doctor Who serial).
Pretty sure most everyone is accepting LD as canon in the tighter sense of "in continuity with the other series". That's the view of Mike McMahon, Alex Kurtzman, the "Star Trek Universe" team at large, and appears to be the view of CBS Paramount. The view of the few fans who discount LD (and TAS) for silly reasons will only go away further as the producers and production consistently place it within continuity of the live-action shows.
We don't need to see Boimler and Mariner or even hear of their exploits in Star Trek: Picard to accept that what they are doing in 2380 is a historical fact in the latter series. Given the wiki Memory Alpha's prevalence as a source and compilation of these facts, and its uncontested view that Lower Decks is in continuity with all other aired Trek, more casual fans will continue to accept it as happening in this world, and this will spiral into future creators down the road and the view that LD is not canon will become more and more harder to defend in the coming years.
I’m not saying it’s not canon, just not a literal part of the detailed continuity. Memory Alpha as a wiki has to describe what happened and cannot make judgment calls on whether this or that element is to be taken seriously. That’s up to the users to speculate on. What I’m saying is it just doesn’t make sense to me that if Picard on PIC were to ask for, say, security footage of the Cerritos on stardate 57xxx.x, he would see a 1:1 adaptation of the show, with the audio unchanged and animation ported over to live action. The prime-time animation format is what permits the bits of parody, so I just can’t see a live-action writers’ room not taking it with a chunk of salt.
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It would be told with the dramatic conceit of whatever series they appear in.
"Love action", you say?
I mean, the Human League were somewhat iconic and timeless and all, but...
My phone always does that for some reason. I guess it’s romantic in nature.
It'd be weird to have a full on live action version but a cameo in Picard or something would be cool.
They all do in the beginning...Her father seemed like a decent enough sort.
Even Admiral Kirk started out as an OK guy. Then he was demoting people, yelling at them, and blowing stuff up. It wasn't pretty.
The problem with LD characters turning up in live action (PIC, a Short Trek, or whatever) is that it constrains what they can actually do on LD, since nothing can happen to them there. Unless, as you say, it's a flashback.
So, they might have to...
...be creative?
...be creative?
I'd be happy to see a couple California class ships doing California class type things in Picard. Like in background shots or something like that, more Easter egg level.
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I think you mean "those old scientists" like Kirk.
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