You can absolutely critique. But in your critique, to carry on with the analogy, you have to understand the differences between "undercooked" and "burned".
Which you don't seem to.
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You can absolutely critique. But in your critique, to carry on with the analogy, you have to understand the differences between "undercooked" and "burned".
Which you don't seem to.
It's simple shorthand of language now. It's hyperbolic and unfortunately impacts understanding.
I love hyperbole but it gets excessive
It's a byproduct of lazy rhetoric.
In this new interview Kurtzman speaks again of surprises coming up.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...-star-trek-discovery-finale-starfleet-academy
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...-star-trek-discovery-finale-starfleet-academy
I am guessing this is something to be announced at some bigger event (Comic Con, Star Trek Day). Movies, like Section 31, or a show?
Could be literally anything. As you say, streaming movies, new shows, short treks, long treks, something animated, something not animated, CG, documentary, game show...
But I'm excited to see what's in store, whatever it may be.
San Diego Comic Con is in July.
I'm not one who likes to do the whole "not Star Trek" or "Star Trek is this or that" but this reads like someone who misses the whole fucking point entirely:
Should we tell him about the 1960s?
Should we tell him about the 1960s?
Every generation needs their stories.
And?
And I think Kurtzman has a point about his son's generation, at least from my interactions with them.
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Yup, they've just lived through a cataclysm of a sort with the pandemic just as they got into high school. Now the world is increasingly in tatters and fascism is on the rise. Now more than ever, a show like Starfleet Academy makes so much more sense in the post-Burn era. That shining light of hope in the reconstruction after a dark era is that much more impactful. Kurtzman's viewpoint is spot on.
And Star Trek came out three years after the human race was at the brink of total animation.
It doesn't change the generational need to.tell new stories based on their experiences they've lived through not history they don't feel a connection to.
Again, so what? Every generation has it share of badness. When Star Trek came along, there was the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and kids being told that hiding under their desks would somehow save them. TNG came along amidst an entirely different pandemic, that was also mired in some pretty dark political rhetoric. Then there was that thing that happened just as Enterprise was about to start.
Calling the core conceit "halcyon" and unauthentic fantasy because today is somehow different than yesterday reeks of recency bias and come across as a little out of touch.
Again, we circle back around to how the future time is all arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant -- as noted by how Discovery never managed to used the time shift to any great end and instead just continued to bring back one familiar forehead appliance face after another.
In fact, I'm willing to bet that, amidst all the inevitable callbacks and shoehorned familiarity, the "thirty-second centuryness" will be nothing more than background flavor, where one could easily pick up the entire show and place it in any Star Trek time period and not have to change much [story/plot] at all. (Because that's how it's always been.)
Calling the core conceit "halcyon" and unauthentic fantasy because today is somehow different than yesterday reeks of recency bias and come across as a little out of touch.
Again, we circle back around to how the future time is all arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant -- as noted by how Discovery never managed to used the time shift to any great end and instead just continued to bring back one familiar forehead appliance face after another.
In fact, I'm willing to bet that, amidst all the inevitable callbacks and shoehorned familiarity, the "thirty-second centuryness" will be nothing more than background flavor, where one could easily pick up the entire show and place it in any Star Trek time period and not have to change much [story/plot] at all. (Because that's how it's always been.)
The funny thin about Kurtzman wanting to set this in the same timeframe as Disco because of the "uncertainty of the time" is that
thanks to the epilogue of Disco's finale, we know that "uncertain era" will turn out okay and society will not collapse in the next few decades.
True.
But I welcome Kurtzman and hid perspective. No, it won't make a difference and people will still hate it. But, for me, working with this next generation, this view resonates. Not because it is new or revolutionary but because it is this generation's story.
