Well, I mean, Discovery did the whole "Previously on Star Trek" thing with using Cage footage so I feel like that ambiguity is pretty much gone, at this point.
Why the soft reboot?
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Only the Talosians know.But is it Cage footage or Menagerie?
*meaningless distinction argument*
*evil laugh*
That "Previously on Star Trek" was one of the coolest things that I've ever seen in Star Trek.
"...commander of the space vehicle Enterprise."
Yes, I'm easily entertained.
I guess with the "soft reboot" Discovery is now no longer a prequel show, right. It's now a... future show or something.
I imagine they'll be ramping up the marketing fairly soon. I guess the two new characters that were just introduced are part of the first wave, then we'll get a few more. Hopefully more on Cleveland Booker, Book, aka my new favorite Star Trek character (that I know nothing about outside of his British accent and the way Brits say "shurt" instead of shirt)...
Anyway.
Oh, and with any luck, a new trailer in the next few weeks.
Yup. Prequel status falls to SNW.
This statement, like the ones about backlash leading to Culber's resurrection and changes being made to the narrative direction of The Rise of Skywalker, is false.
Adult Spock's involvement in the second season of Discovery was announced on April 16th, 2018, almost exactly two months before Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts were fired (their firing was announced on June 14th, 2018).
No.
It was April 14, 2018 when Jonathan Frakes said the second season would feature a child Spock, and that article even notes there are no plans to include a grown up Spock in the season. Indeed, we had no indication grown up Spock would even be in the second season until Ethan Peck's casting was announced in August 2018, which given the timing would line up perfectly with the notion that the decision to include adult Spock in the season wasn't made until after Harberts and Berg were fired.
Discovery defies categorization. That's what I like about it.
There's also the fact that TOS - "The Cage" episode was added to the series syndication package (and aired) after the full color version of the pilot was discovered and restored. Yes it never aired during the network run (1966-69); except for the footage used in the second season episode, "The Menagerie". But the episode itself now airs regularly on any local station that broadcasts the TOS syndication package.
^^^
Ergo technically it is now actually canon.
One weird thing about "The Cage" to me is that the only place you can stream it is on Netflix, everywhere else you have to watch "The Menagerie(s)." And, yeah, it's on YouTube, but you know what I mean.
You also can't buy the individual episode digitally anywhere either, just "The Menagerie(s)."
Fingers crossed that there won't be any behind the scenes drama this season and going forward. Let's see what it can really be.
With all the shows in development I do wonder what kind of budget Discovery will still have. I remember Variety saying it was 8 to 8.5 million per episode during season one. I didn't notice any drop-off in season 2, if anything it got bigger. In season 3 I suppose you can get away with barren worlds for most if not all of the season due to the story, so hopefully everything will be fine. And everything we've seen in the teaser looked nice.
You also can't buy the individual episode digitally anywhere either, just "The Menagerie(s)."
Yeah, and I guess it's now finally in it's right spot. It took a couple of seasons to get there, but now it's where it should be.Discovery defies categorization. That's what I like about it.
Fingers crossed that there won't be any behind the scenes drama this season and going forward. Let's see what it can really be.
With all the shows in development I do wonder what kind of budget Discovery will still have. I remember Variety saying it was 8 to 8.5 million per episode during season one. I didn't notice any drop-off in season 2, if anything it got bigger. In season 3 I suppose you can get away with barren worlds for most if not all of the season due to the story, so hopefully everything will be fine. And everything we've seen in the teaser looked nice.
I thought it was great in the first and second season, nicely relying on established continuity and making a lot of wonderful; homages.
Star Trek: Stargazer, or course.
The long-in-development Starfleet Academy series is rumoured to be set after season 3 of Discovery.
Yep.
Digificwriter has a tendency to pronounce things as facts which are just flat-out wrong.
Adult Spock was really not in the cards when Harberts and Berg were running the show. For the second time in two seasons, the season-long story arc was jettisoned and redirected when the producer in charge left.
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^ I'm not wrong just because I don't draw the same conclusion from the facts as you do.
Wikipedia's information on Season 2 of Discovery directly cites the article I linked to and makes no distinction between the inclusion of Spock as a child or as an adult, and the strict control the site tries to maintain over its content being accurately attributed and factually representative makes it a reliable source.
Also, the way that television is produced does not allow for the kind of significant revision that you and others believe occurred in regards to the shifting of showrunners in both the first and second seasons, nor does the rigorous reality of the general casting process - which we know happened as per Alex Kurtzman (“We searched for months for an actor who would, like them, bring his own interpretation to the role. An actor who would, like them, effortlessly embody Spock’s greatest qualities, beyond obvious logic: empathy, intuition, compassion, confusion, and yearning.”) - match up with the narrative that the decision to bring in Adult Spock was only made in late June of 2018.
Wikipedia's information on Season 2 of Discovery directly cites the article I linked to and makes no distinction between the inclusion of Spock as a child or as an adult, and the strict control the site tries to maintain over its content being accurately attributed and factually representative makes it a reliable source.
Also, the way that television is produced does not allow for the kind of significant revision that you and others believe occurred in regards to the shifting of showrunners in both the first and second seasons, nor does the rigorous reality of the general casting process - which we know happened as per Alex Kurtzman (“We searched for months for an actor who would, like them, bring his own interpretation to the role. An actor who would, like them, effortlessly embody Spock’s greatest qualities, beyond obvious logic: empathy, intuition, compassion, confusion, and yearning.”) - match up with the narrative that the decision to bring in Adult Spock was only made in late June of 2018.
You're wrong because you insist that your beliefs are facts and that your interpretations of second-hand information are the only correct ones.
You make wrong declarations frequently, and the specifics of that have been documented on these boards repeatedly.
You were wrong in your last such declaration in this thread and you were corrected.
As I noted in the remainder of my most recent comment (which you conveniently chose to ignore), Alex Kurtzman stated that the search for Adult Spock took months, which is a direct refutation of the idea that they only decided to bring in that character in late June of 2018 that goes above and beyond the citation that The Wormhole "corrected".
June to August is “months”.
"Wikipedia is a reliable source." I'd say that's the part where you lose credibility, but that just begs the question "what credibility?"
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