On January 16, 2025, it will have been 30 years since Voyager ruined Star Trek.
Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien developing new live-action Trek series
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I do feel they redeemed themselves considerably with Prodigy. Worlds apart in writing and acting.
So this is a historic occasion. Perhaps we can commemorate it with a coin.
Or a plate.
This interview with Tawny Newsome was posted over in the Lower Decks finale thread, and it is mostly about Lower Decks, but she does touch upon the progress for the show she's developing.
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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Star Tawny Newsome on Her New ‘Trek’ Comedy and Whether the Series Finale Is Really the End: ‘None of Us Are Done’
"Star Trek: Lower Decks" star Tawny Newsome discusses whether the series finale is truly the end of the show, and the status of her own "Trek" comedy.
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Not every show needs to be for you, so that's perfectly fine.
When did I say that every show needs to be for me?
"They’re Vorta, don’t mention the war."
I mean, I understand and respect that that is your position, but I have to admit I don't really understand that kind of attitude. Is it like, "Fawlty Towers is a thing that exists and I own it and no others need apply"? Or is it a "this is not what I watch Star Trek for" thing?
The former seems rather self-defeating to me, and I do see how you might feel that way if it's the in latter.
Except, it might actually wind up being a really good show despite the fact that it set in the Star Trek universe, not because of it. I'm thinking about how much I love Skeleton Crew right now. It's a show that's clearly set in the Star wars Galaxy, and it does have the familiar trappings of such. But the show is not about Jedi or Sith or the Force, it's about the kids and their story. These things are absolutely a part of the universe that they live in, but the show is really good in spite of all that, not because of it. It's flavoring rather than the meal. It certainly feels more like Star Wars to me than The Acolyte did, despite The Acolyte thoroughly attempting to tell a story that was connected to and expand the Star Wars story and could not be told in another sci-fi universe. If Skeleton Crew were a generic science fiction show who's intent was to emulate the feeling of The Goonies or Stranger Things in a science fiction setting, while creating a new universe of its own, it would still be a good story. The fact that it set in the Star wars universe is almost incidental. The same could be true with this Star Trek story.
The show skimped on set design (it was as if they transplanted houses from Stranger Things and plopped them into the SW universe.)
SW has had its own design vocabulary for nearly half a century now. How about ACTING like it?
The generic structure of the nine planets is a deliberate plot choice. A a testament to the boring whole "detached from the rest of the galaxy pre-planned community" feel of the place that adds to the rather dark mystery of what's actually going on there. It's meant to be an oddball and out of place setting in that universe. Also, that world is only the main setting in the first episode, in which the underlying dystopian feel of the place overwhelmed the suburban Utopia aspect of it.The show skimped on set design (it was as if they transplanted houses from Stranger Things and plopped them into the SW universe.)
SW has had its own design vocabulary for nearly half a century now. How about ACTING like it?
Also, this is a setting with over a million inhabited worlds. Is it really so hard to believe that someone might come up with a planned community that looks somewhat earth-like in a galaxy with that many inhabited worlds? In a galaxy where there are names like Luke, Ben and Ezra in use? Really? Seems like a thin argument to me.
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Uh, no. The "suburb" was a Star Wars take on that environment. It's set in a Galactic Empire/Republic with a wide range of environments from scruffy desert towns to glamorous palacios to redwood forests.The show skimped on set design (it was as if they transplanted houses from Stranger Things and plopped them into the SW universe.)
SW has had its own design vocabulary for nearly half a century now. How about ACTING like it?
But enough about Naboo.The show skimped on set design (it was as if they transplanted houses from Stranger Things and plopped them into the SW universe.)
SW has had its own design vocabulary for nearly half a century now. How about ACTING like it?
Alien names like Boba Fett and Greedo will only take you so far.
As well.ss use of WW2 surplus uniforms, ammo pouches and weapons with off things stuck on them, at most.
Star Wars has always borrowed heavily from Earth. Always interesting when things go "too far" and how that like exists for different fans.
But, I visited the Redwoods multiple times so Endor always had that Earth quality to me.
Much like nearly every planet in all the Stargate series looked like the Pacific Northwest. At least they were consistent... 
Must have been the same aliens who Scully and Mulder were afterMuch like nearly every planet in all the Stargate series looked like the Pacific Northwest. At least they were consistent...
It doesHow about ACTING like it?
