News The ongoing next Star Trek movie thread

[Tiran O'Saurus]

9 years since the last Trek movie. That’s a longer drought than NEM - 2009. Paramount has not stopped pumping out content for streaming. But they have abandoned the movies entirely.

It has been zero years since the last movie. I know Section 31 sucked, but it was a movie.

 

[oktay]

It has been zero years since the last movie. I know Section 31 sucked, but it was a movie.

That movie should be counted as a TV movie. It's a high budget movie compared to movies that are only broadcast on TV. It's been 9 years since a Star Trek movie was last released in the cinema.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It has been zero years since the last movie. I know Section 31 sucked, but it was a movie.

It's as much a Star Trek movie as Robocop: Prime Directives, Stargate Continuum or Babylon 5: Last of the Rangers were.

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

That movie should be counted as a TV movie. It's a high budget movie compared to movies that are only broadcast on TV. It's been 9 years since a Star Trek movie was last released in the cinema.

A TV movie is still a movie, though? If they'd said theatrical movie than sure, it's been a while, but nowadays the only difference between a movie and a TV show is length.

 

[Dukhat]

What about the Tawny Newsome show?

You'd have to ask Tawny. So far, she's the only one who was talking about it.

It has been zero years since the last movie. I know Section 31 sucked, but it was a movie.

A TV movie is still a movie, though? If they'd said theatrical movie than sure, it's been a while, but nowadays the only difference between a movie and a TV show is length.

Section 31 was produced by the TV producers, not feature film producers. It was a glorified TV pilot. It's as much a 'movie' as Encounter at Farpoint was.

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

It was a glorified TV season, now. Notice how it briefly paused for a murder mystery? That would have been an episode. No modern pilot would work as a movie.

 

[BillJ]

Section 31 is the same as the Voyager TV movies from the 90’s, for me.

 

[Ovation]

There was a Section 31 movie?

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

Section 31 is the same as the Voyager TV movies from the 90’s, for me.

I guess the difference with Dark Frontier is that it was part of VOY, and even had episode numbers. It was just a particularly long episode. There's no show for Section 31 to be part of, so I view it as a movie.

 

[Yistaan]

Section 31 was produced by the TV producers, not feature film producers. It was a glorified TV pilot. It's as much a 'movie' as Encounter at Farpoint was.

Section 31 aside, just because a movie is made for tv doesn't automatically make it bad. There are a fair number of Tolkien fans who prefer the animated made-for-tv Hobbit movie as opposed to the 3 theatrical live action movies that came out, feeling that it did a better job of capturing the spirit of the book (and going by Christopher Tolkien's knowledge of his father and his own dislike of the live-action films, there's a good chance if JRR were alive he'd prefer the made-for-tv movie too).

 

[UssGlenn]

broadcast on TV

Pet peeve of mine, I don't think the word broadcast should apply to streaming (although the dictionary disagrees with me). Broadcast should mean over the air and freely accessible, hence the "broad" part. And if you have to apply it to the internet, it should only apply to free streams. Anything on a pay service isn't "broad".

 

[Yistaan]

Pet peeve of mine, I don't think the word broadcast should apply to streaming (although the dictionary disagrees with me). Broadcast should mean over the air and freely accessible, hence the "broad" part. And if you have to apply it to the internet, it should only apply to free streams. Anything on a pay service isn't "broad".

Richcast

 

[Dukhat]

Section 31 aside, just because a movie is made for tv doesn't automatically make it bad.

I don't recall mentioning that.