“Make Star Trek Great Again!”
Yeah, you might want to rethink how you come off with your rhetoric.
News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+
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“Make Star Trek Great Again!”
Yeah, you might want to rethink how you come off with your rhetoric.
I don’t think that meets the Alice’s Restaurant movement protocols.
Will you be selling coffee to pay for the wages?
STOP!
IN THE NAME OF LUVE STUPIS!
BEFORE YOU BREAK STAR TREK!
THINK IT O-O-VER!!
IN THE NAME OF LUVE STUPIS!
BEFORE YOU BREAK STAR TREK!
THINK IT O-O-VER!!
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The new StopLuveStupis campaign has so far been met with indifference and ridicule among fans. Created in objection to the Star Fleet Academy spinoff of Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, the campaign has left fans wondering just why the hell anyone would take these shows so seriously. As the "Stop Luve Stupis" campaign thus far fails to arouse any fan interest whatever, Twitter users continue to ignore it entirely, with the exception of one or two who take a few moments to mock it.
"All is Possible," which introduced the premise for the Starfleet Academy spinoff, was a single episode of a television series which provides no realistic indication of what such a series may be like. All experience suggests that some episodes of the new show will be better than others and that it will remain largely within the half-century Trek tradition of espousing humane values, albeit in often superficial, feel-good ways.
The announcement of Noga Landau as one of the showrunners has met with similar disinterest from fans. Most people who watch and enjoy Trek have only a passing awareness, if any, of the writers, directors and other off-camera production personnel. Having worked on Star Trek: Discovery does suggest that Landau is familiar enough with the franchise to carry on the traditions of reassuring repetition that have marked the property for decades.
No one really cares that the "Stop Luve Stupis" campaign exists, or is impressed with its grandiose manifesto. As fans go on with their daily lives, an indefinite number do chatter away on message boards and social media, wondering idly which Trek actors from previous shows will either feature or cameo in the new series, often suggesting unnecessarily complicated scenarios involving time travel, parallel universes and cloning. Jeffery Alan Combs is mentioned occasionally, as is, inexplicably, Nicholas Meyer.
The question on everyone's mind is why anyone would conceive and attempt to mount an online campaign to kill a future TV series based on a brief press release that provides no real information on setting, cast, budget or creative direction. Only time will tell, but one thing is for certain: the "Stop Luve Stupis" campaign is not going to make a dime's worth of difference to executives at Paramount+.
Either watch the show or don't. Life is too short to work yourself up about a damn TV show you know nothing much about yet.
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Outstanding.
I now regret posting the "dozens" video clip. It clearly was a generous estimate.
You don't have the 'right' to determine what "makes Star Trek great". You also don't have the 'right' to act like labeling yourself a 'fan' gives you carte blanche to engage in ridiculous behavior without other people calling you out for said behavior.
You want to tell other Trek fans to "deal with" the fact that you're misappropriating that term (fan) as if it gives you some level of justification for your ridiculous, futile, and solitary attempt to pick a fight with the rights holders of Star Trek? Why don't you "deal with" the fact that this Starfleet Academy series is happening and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
We'd better do something about this travesty to the franchise now BEFORE THERE'S STILL TIME.
I'll warm up the car.
This is the part that makes me the most sad. By declaring something "not Trek" and other similar rhetoric it claims a level of exclusivity that would push other fans out. It misses the point of a franchise that espouses diversity of opinion and points of view by claiming there is only one right way to do Star Trek. And that's something I see repeated over and over again from fans. And it's frustrating and makes me sad.
Reminds me of Frank Burns from MASH:
Blake: What about individuality?
Burns: Well individuality is fine as long as we all do it together.
First time the Trek fandom has reacted to a new live-action Trek series announcement with a resounding "u-hu, ok"
That's because the idea is so old, it feels as innovative as a new "CSI: another city" spin-off.
Biggest mistake is setting it in the 32nd century. That setting has nothing to do with familiar Trek - doesn't look like it, doesn't feel like it, different technology, different world-building (where are the Klingons?), and most of all - entirely different Starfleet.
That's because the idea is so old, it feels as innovative as a new "CSI: another city" spin-off.
Biggest mistake is setting it in the 32nd century. That setting has nothing to do with familiar Trek - doesn't look like it, doesn't feel like it, different technology, different world-building (where are the Klingons?), and most of all - entirely different Starfleet.
Is this satire?
Yes, yes please! Please be fucking different! Stop with the stale leftovers of Trek that people find comforting.
These are features, not bugs.
Hardly.
But you know, when there are currently five Trek shows in production people aren't going to jump up and down like they did in 77 or 86 or 2009 or 2016...
Creating Star Trek that doesn't look or feel like any other iteration of the IP isn't a mistake.
lovetoops doesnt even make it onto the Group W bench, and you know what kind of people sit on the group w bench.
litterers, mostly.
Then why make it Star Trek? (Apart from the obvious commercial reasoning).
The idea should be a new angle within an established universe.
If I make a show called "Star Wars: Bounty Hunters" I'd expect it be a new angle (bounty hunters) within the familiar Star Wars universe.
It would be weird if it instead were a "Dog -the Bounty Hunter" spin-off that is bookended by two droids talking about a remote planet in the far future in another galaxy.
Who is Luve Stupis?
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