I'm curious... I've heard this theory about The Questor Tapes before, but since I've never watched I've wondered if anyone can confirm.
Does the characterization of Data seem to be based off of the ideas they had in the movie for Questor?
Why the hate for Alex Kurtzman?
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Does the characterization of Data seem to be based off of the ideas they had in the movie for Questor?
They should all be supporting each other, throwing in universe nuggets around, since everyone loves interconnectivity.
At this point I wondering if it's a worthwhile thought experiment to go through plots of TNG and remove new aliens, like the Borg or Q or the Conspiracy parasites, and replace them with a connection to TOS?
THE BORG could be another EXO III android experiment gone wrong.
The Q are just Trelane's race, complete with aping period attire.
The parasite's just the Denevean flying pancakes only more evolved.
You definitely could, but you don't grow the universe that way.
It's been a year, but I do seem to remember getting that aha reaction a few times vis a vis Questor and Data.
Kinda like how Decker and Ilia are proto-Riker and proto-Troi.
Agreed but that's how I feel stories are being pitched in Trek right now. Go back to TNG, the golden child of Trek, and pull a random character or event.
Come up with a newish character who knows the old character and witnesses the event.
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Profits.
They marinated themselves in the lore (Lower Decks had a callback Easter egg in just about every scene!
)I think I'm in a weird spot in fandom. I absolutely loved Picard season 3. Yet I have virtually no interest at all in Legacy. The Adventures of Seven, Raffi, and Jack just doesn't appeal to me at all.
No, you're against everything in New Trek.
I'm open to someone else having the reigns, a decade would be long enough IMO (that goes for anyone in charge), but the one thing that has me concerned has nothing to do with who's in charge of the franchise. Instead, it's this: What form is censorship going to take during the next four years? If you get my drift.
The only thing that tempers this concern is that I'm forced to admit tackling social issues isn't one of New Trek's strong suits. I wish it was, but it's not. It's also not something New Trek focuses on that often. So, the censorship coming in might not change things as much as part of me is worried about. One way or another, we'll see.
The only thing that tempers this concern is that I'm forced to admit tackling social issues isn't one of New Trek's strong suits. I wish it was, but it's not. It's also not something New Trek focuses on that often. So, the censorship coming in might not change things as much as part of me is worried about. One way or another, we'll see.
Trek has survived even MORE stringent censorship (Southern stations didn't want to air the kiss between Kirk and Uhura. There was the anti-LGBTQ+ era of the 80's and 90's.)
Trek has always pushed boundaries. It's what it's done since 1966.
Streaming exists in a Wild West regulatory environment. You can do things on a streaming network that aren't possible on a traditional broadcast network like NBC or CBS (People have to subscribe to a streaming network. It isn't sitting in the living room waiting for Little Johnny to turn it on.)
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I think that part of Trek has always been vastly overblown. Look at “The Cage”. Very, very white. NBC had to push diversity, advertisers wanted diversified programming because minorities were becoming more affluent and had money to spend.
Indeed. TOS may have pushed some boundaries and that is commendable. But come the TNG era and we get less and less. It either kept pace with the shows of it's time or was actually behind.
It's safe to say Elon Musk is at least a casual Star Trek fan from all the references to the franchise he's dropped over the years (someone should try and ask him TOS vs TNG). There's an admittedly small chance that something NuTrek related could go viral on X that then rises to his attention level. CBS spent how much money on this? Wait, there's video of Alex Kurtzman saying he wants to use Star Trek as a platform for political messaging, and another video from PRODIGY season 1.0 Blu-ray talking about wanting to indoctrinate children into certain values?
The 2004 Janet Jackson Super Bowl half time incident held up a CBS sale of some TV stations for almost two years. Skydance will eventually need to get FCC clearance to buy the CBS TV stations and potentially the FTC over the studio. Some CBS executive just might be going "you know, Elon is a Star Trek fan, so....."
Musk demanded we form Starfleet Academy on X. Robert Goddamn Picardo pointed out that Starfleet is founded on ideals that Musk has derided, but would be very happy if we followed them.
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