General Star Trek thread

Yes he did and it was yes and then I'm First Contact too but he could turn it off by then.

Why is the art in NFTs always so bad?

Now I'm hearing this in Brent Spiner's voice:

NFTs are aslo the scourge of my cohorts in the cartooning world. Loads of art being pilfered by Crypto-charlatans and resold as "NFTs" to people who barely even know what they are. At least Cryptocurrency has the pretense of pretending to be money, but NFTs are just a way of buying bragging rights and very little else.

I do wish for both to go away, and I really wish that established studios / companies would stop trying to lend this nonsense legitimacy. I believe Disney are also going to release their own NFT thing.

What are NFTs? Never heard of them before thankfully as they do not sound good.

Does anyone know what time the new Picard episodes land on Prime each week? Tks

EDIT: Nevermind, I was counting the episodes wrong, it's there.

EDIT 2: This isn't my day, no it isn't, so if anyone knows please let me know. 🤷‍♂️

A bit off topic for Trek but always happy to share a little. I host my own webcomics here:

(Yes, the URL is based on my Boards name :P)

The webcomics are on haitus because in the past couple of years I have also been working with a print publisher here in Norway on an anthology series (you know, like Discovery was *supposed* to be). They even got me to do a cover in one of last year's volumes:

I based the kid's uniforms heavily on the TNG uniform, with some changes. My contribution to the antology is "Last Day: Stand Tall" a comic I drept up based on the lyics of "The Final Countdown". A couple of kids go to a summer camp in space just before the Earth suddenly explodes. The story involves their various adventures while they cope with the idea living the rest of their lives on a space-station and their grief.

I also do yearly collaboration book with a manga artist in Japan which we do in both Japanese & English.

Sort of on-topic, Trek does have a lot of impact on how I write this stuff, and later batch of Trek has been at least helpful in showing me how to not write a sci-fi story.

1000UTC so it's 1100 now.

What the fk is a Trek scholar ?

He also has a masters in whingebaggery by the sounds of it.

These guys aren't necessarily wrong in the points they make, like Discovery is poorly written and does lean too heavily on it's own moral absolutes, but honestly it sounds like they're just using Discovery as a sort of proxy argument for 'the good old days' when men were in charge and a strong work ethic and strict military discipline were aspirational goals.

"There aren't even any men 😭"

If TV was better when that was the case is arguing in favour of that actually a bad thing if you want better TV? I don't think that is their position though ability over identity is probably closer to what they want.

Paragraph one: TV wasn't better before

Paragraph three: The Simpsons used to be better

Bit of a contradiction, no?

No one says every episode of older Star Trek was better but averaged out it definitely was. Pick 5 random episodes of anything pre-Discovery and 5 from after and I can guarantee the former would be better quality in everything bar special effects than the latter.

One thing that often gets my goat is whenever they reference a show / idea as "Betraying Roddenberry's vision".

FFS, I don't think Trek would have made it out of the 90's if Gene had lived and had his way for the entire TNG run. DS9 would have been a shadow of itself, if it had happened at all.

Detractors of Discovery etc...should stop parroting that particular line. Discovery is only betraying the concept of a fun sci-fi show. It doesn't need to follow the Holy Edicts of the Great Bird for it to be good Trek....it just needs to be Good Trek!