Thankfully she's a photonic lifeform and will thus never need to actually wear an EV suit.
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I mean... that will be the result (not bringing in any new fans /fully relying on the old fanbase).
But it's certainly not the intention - I'm sure Kurtzman had a fantastic elevator pitch how this show is going to connect with a completely new, younger audiences and break out a lá Wednesday or Stranger Things.
Nobody really ever starts out with the intention to do by-the-numbers, bland stuff.
That usually just happens once everybody has to put their money where their mouth is, and everyone, in a thousand small decisions, veers back into their personal comfort zone and delivers the stuff the same way they've always done.
Of course not. Everyone has to get themselves excited about what they're working on. I really do believe that Alex Kurtzman wants to make something for his kids and he was thinking about the future and the literal next generation.
Now that I know what to look out for with Paul Giamatti, I'm prepared for that. Holly Hunter is fine, like I said before. I don't have a problem with any of the adult characters. So, really, for me it's all going to come down to what I think of the Cadets and if I'm invested in the stories about them.
One time, when I was a college student myself, my friends went to go see the first Harry Potter movie and I got dragged along. I couldn't believe it. I was thinking to myself, "I'm 22 and I'm going to a Harry Potter movie?!" But I went. I didn't want to be left out. And I ended up liking it, even though i was twice the age of the characters. Now I'm in my 40s and twice the age of college students, but I'm hoping my experience with Starfleet Academy will be similar to my experience with Harry Potter. But we'll see.
To be brutally honest, though, whether I end up liking the series or not, I only expect it to go the two seasons. I really don't think Alex Kurtzman's contract will be renewed. I'm just being up-front with all of you about what I think. But -- if this series clicks with me -- that doesn't mean I won't make the best of it and enjoy the ride anyway, while it lasts.
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I'm sure her photon can be reconfigured to look like an EV. And given some of the crazy noggins in Starfleet, they must have quite a selection of helmets.
If David Ellison is expecting people to come rushing back into the theaters, it is not going to happen.
Feature film actors are now doing streaming series (Harrison Ford, Nicole Kidman, Holly Hunter, Helen Mirren, Gary Oldman). What's more, Marvel has been having problems with the MCU films (they've been underperforming at the box office).
Dislikes are not public, there is browser addon that estimates them, but I'm not sure how that works.
the addon doesn't show true dislikes, that figure cannot be seen by addons.
My main concern with SFA, and it has been this way since 2017 with other Star Trek projects, is with the quality of the stories being written. They have struggled with story, plot, and characters for a while now. If they can do at least a modicum of decency with all three for this new series, it will have met the lowest number of expectations I have for any Star Trek production in the Kurtzman era.
Needs to go back to the basics of telling good science fiction stories.
I've been reading Harlan Ellison short stories off and on over lately, and I am now reading what I've been missing on TV.
That was never Star Trek's forte or even raison d'etre. The "science fiction" is there to serve the actual plot.
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Nope, we've seen the EV storage lockers multiple times.
Though of course, they shouldn't even be needing EV suits in the 32nd century.
Try watching it on youtube itself, they do this weird thing now were they massively cut the quality on any embedded media.
That's because the budget doesn't allow. Realistically the multispecies Federation/Starfleet would have multiple suit configurations.
I forget, why exactly wouldn't they? Can all species exist in the vacuum of space unprotected in the 32nd Century? Or is this a programable matter thing?
Midriffs are back in style.Also science fiction:
No it isn't, because the EV suit lockers in Lower Decks were the same.
Because the same forcefield technology that allows mobile emitters to work could just as easily protect someone from vacuum.
Though yes, also programmable matter.
It had a budget too.
But apparently it doesn't for ... (tech the tech) reasons
I guess they never should have scrapped those belts
The presumably AI photo of MU T'Pol makes her look extremely malnourished. Jolene Blalock is a slim woman, yes, but she's not that slim.Also science fiction:
TAS was ahead of its time.But apparently it doesn't for ... (tech the tech) reasons
I guess they never should have scrapped those belts
