Predictions for Star Trek under Skydance?

[Steve Roby]

You fail to make the key distinction between Nazis in space and space Nazis.

Clumsy though it is, "Patterns of Force" at least had a message. "Zero Hour" is just Berman and Braga trashing the joint on the way out the door.

 

[valkyrie013]

Days of Yor is when Lower Decks and Prodigy were airing..

Sad Sad days when your best content, be it Trek or Star Wars.. Is the Animated series.

As For Enterprise. The whole thing was winding down, hell they were just reusing Voyager scripts at some point. Enterprise as a Concept was outstanding, but they gave them like 5 minutes to get it together after Voyager, and just done the same script formula from Voyager. It died becasue they let it die, and no one showed up for sub par writing. Like now.

 

[Mudd]

You fail to make the key distinction between Nazis in space and space Nazis.

Seriously?

This is just rhetoric to press a weak point, hardly a "key distinction."

Both brought in Nazis for the dramatic visuals and audience association. No other reason.

Would there be a straightforward way to tell the TOS story about a Federation academic wrongheadedly instituting a dictatorial regime to rescue a local culture?

Of course - in fact, it requires nothing but a few swipes of an editor's pencil.*

They just couldn't resist the melodramatic appeal of the iconography.**

You can fabricate an argument about the dramatic impact of the association, but that's all it is - making stuff up. Especially given the preposterous implausibility of the scenario.

No excuses can overcome that. "Planet of the Space Nazis."

A big part of why it's one of early Trek's worst.

*Easy as turning Romans into Romulans.
**And the budget savings.

 

[Steve Roby]

Seriously?

No, not seriously. It was like a joke. But...

Both brought in Nazis for the dramatic visuals and audience association. No other reason.

Would there be a straightforward way to tell the TOS story about a Federation academic wrongheadedly instituting a dictatorial regime to rescue a local culture?

Of course - in fact, it requires nothing but a few swipes of an editor's pencil.*

They just couldn't resist the melodramatic appeal of the iconography.**

Five years before Star Trek premiered, my parents were Canadian military stationed at bases in France and Germany. The war wasn't much more than a decade past when they were stationed overseas. When they married and got an apartment in Germany in 1961, their civilian landlords wouldn't talk about the war. If they found something like a Nazi-era 5-pfennig coin, or a Wehrmacht belt buckle, it wasn't something to show off, because people would freak out. Nazi stuff was a lot more than just visual impact in the 1960s. When Rod Serling used it in The Twilight Zone, he wasn't being allegorical, he was being blunt. So, in its way, was Star Trek shortly afterwards. In "Zero Hour," Braga and Berman were just leaving a wacky cliffhanger Manny Coto would have to resolve. Not really the same thing.

 

[Mudd]

WBD Shocker! Says Paramount Sweeter Offer Might Lead To Better Deal Than Netflix, Will Continue Talks With David Ellison Company

Warner Bros. Discovery said its board has determined that the revised proposal from Paramount could reasonably be expected to lead to a better offer.

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"Netflix declined to comment." I'll bet!