Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[fireproof78]

Small universe is when you keep running into the same ppl again. Why GR wanted to not cast Colicos in Tribbles, iirc.

And no third Mudd show.

That ship has sailed.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Small universe is when you keep running into the same ppl again. Why GR wanted to not cast Colicos in Tribbles, iirc.

And no third Mudd show.

I thought he wanted Kor and later Koloth to be regular opponents. Dialog indicates Koloth and Kirk have clashed before.

Wasn't there a third Mudd in the works before the cancelation? And of course they did a Mudd episode in TAS.

 

[plynch]

I think I’m right that he indicated not to recast Colicos. Source, my 55-year-old brain. Specifically citing small uni syndrome. GR, not my brain. Unless it’s wrong.

Was the TAS Mudd recycled from an unused script? Pretty sure I read he or Freiberger nixed it.

Didn’t they reuse one of our 3 main Klingons in TAS too? In More Tribbles?

But GR was pretty hands off and turned it over to Dorothy Fontana, yes? TAS, I mean.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think I’m right that he indicated not to recast Colicos. Source, my 55-year-old brain. Specifically citing small uni syndrome. GR, not my brain. Unless it’s wrong.

Was the TAS Mudd recycled from an unused script? Pretty sure I read he or Freiberger nixed it.

Didn’t they reuse one of our 3 main Klingons in TAS too? In More Tribbles?

But GR was pretty hands off and turned it over to Dorothy Fontana, yes? TAS, I mean.

I think Koloth and Kor turned up on TAS. We also has Sarek and Amanda via Time Travel through the Guardian of Forever.

 

[Noname Given]

My dad's favored venue when seeing movies when I was growing up. Not sure why he disliked "sit down" theaters. But considering us kids spent more time in the play area than watching the films it makes sense. Plus he didn't have to pay a babysitter.

Probably because if you had a big family; a drive-in with a lot cheaper, and as a teenager, not only was a drive in superior for date nights if you wanted to do a little fooling around, it was also pretty easy to pay for one car of two people and then have the rest of your friends either hide in the back under a blanket, ( the ones we want to never checked very hard for extra people in the car), or drop them off outside and they could honestly sneak by and walk in and then walk to your car.

And they also had special nights where it was one price per car and you can fill it up with as many people stuff as you wanted.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Regular length pilot.

These shows don't really have "pilots" in the old sense anyway. They just have first episodes.

Yeah a pilot is just the script that gets green light for series. Not a pilot that’s filmed and then screened before getting the series order.

Although those still occasionally happen, like the adaptation of Stephen King’s DARK TOWER. They spent a year developing the pilot script, then filming the pilot only for the project to get cancelled.

From what I learned from my recent Entertainment Business Class, TV development has become more like movie development in the wake of streaming. One could make a living developing projects that never see the light of day.

 

[cooleddie74]

I think Koloth and Kor turned up on TAS. We also has Sarek and Amanda via Time Travel through the Guardian of Forever.

Koloth definitely did.

 

[Donald G]

Koloth definitely did.

And Kor turned up in "The Time Trap." Of the Big Three TOS Klingons, only Kang did not return in TAS.

 

[UssGlenn]

I think he even called Fleet Captain Garth of Izar "Garth" at least once.

Yeah, but Garth isn't his first (or last) name, he only has the one name, so if you drop the titles you are calling him Garth, regardless of familiarity.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, but Garth isn't his first (or last) name, he only has the one name, so if you drop the titles you are calling him Garth, regardless of familiarity.

So it's not Algar?

 

[cooleddie74]

Garth Brooks.

The thunder rolls and the Axanar strike.

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[cooleddie74]

"I'm gonna confine you to this cell and take over the Enterprise with your image!"

"No WAY."

"YES WAY."

"No HWAAAAAAY."

"YES WAY!!!"

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

"Marta... swwwwing!"

 

[danellis]

But yeah Starfleet was always portrayed in TOS as a small universe. Name one Starship Captain Kirk didn't address by his first name, compared to officials on states and outposts, and some of the diplomatic members that are formally introduced.

I thought that was a "Privilege/brotherhood of rank" thing: fellow captains addressed each other by their first name, irrespective of whether they knew each other or not.

Similarly, admirals always refer to captains by their first name, irrespective of whether they know each other or not.

dJE

 

[plynch]

I dont think we know who knows each other already or not. It always seemed they were familiar. I mean, there's only 12 or 13.

All that TAS stuff above does smack of small universe syndrome, eh? The fanwankery lives loudly within Trek.

 

[BillJ]

It is very small universe.

Unfortunately, that is simply the entertainment world we live in. People would rather know what Spock had for breakfast on June 3rd, 2258 than do anything new or interesting.

Is LD off doing its thing or is it heavily tied into legacy characters? Aside from the many Trek in-jokes.

Largely? Yes.

Spoiler: Lower Decks

Riker plays a bit part in the show and the Pakleds ("Samaritan Snare", TNG season two) end up being the big bad of season two.

 

[Tuskin38]

I wouldn't say Lower Decks is heavily tied into Legacy characters. They appear in like what a single episode a season?

I mean, there's only 12 or 13.

There's a lot more captains than that.

 

[plynch]

Only 12 like her in the fleet.

 

[Tuskin38]

Only 12 like her in the fleet.

Yes but there's more ships in Starfleet than just Constitutions.

Or do you really think they protected the entire federation with only 12 starships?