General Star Trek thread

The cadet who had been put in temporary command by the captain before he died and went off the rails on power and sedatives, though to be fair the entire crew went a bit unhinged!

And all portrayed by 30 year olds with perfect skin.

Very well said. I've gone as far as to just stop considering Discovery as canon, so I really couldn't care less what they do with it's spinoffs. I've yet to watch SNW, that's coming up soon for me, and by all accounts it's good which is good to hear, but Pike and co didn't need Discovery to be good, in fact, it was the other way around.

What new series have been commissioned?

Im not watching the last series of discovery.

I don’t put a lot of truck into the word “woke” as a complaint, since it’s a bit of a catch-all overused by some that ignores the real issues behind a production.

If you mean that this new show will have the same problems with tone and production quality as Discovery, then I share those concerns. The 32nd Century of Discovery is very unappealing and they’ve done a very bad job at presenting a type of Trek that I personally want to watch anymore. They don’t seem all that good at writing for character arcs, and I think that’s going to be essential for a show based at the Academy.

But yes, if this is just going to be more of the same as what we got in Discovery, then they really shouldn’t bother. Might be cancelled faster than Discovery.

It basically lists all the worst things about Discovery.

Dominion show?

Oh no. Why not go forward. Another prequel!!

Plus If its another dark set I'm definitely not going to watch it.

I opted out of superman and lois for the same reasons.

The dark sets

Anyway the future ain't bright for star trek.

But the money men who ultimately call the shots must be making money to proceed

I will give you that those shows are promising but the first two seasons of Picard were not that great.

As to Superman both seasons were not that bad but the sets are doing my head in

If I get more dark lighting on any show I'm not tunning in

We have yet to see what star trek academy will be like but the title smacks of biceps and T and A.

But whatever floats your boat!

IM thankful my son became a star wars fan instead of Trek after hearing this.

It's nothing to pass onto a boy.

Such an old fashioned way over thinking. What is it you do not want to pass onto him?

What if he came upto you tomorrow or in 5 or 10 years and Said he feels he is the wrong gender and wants to transition. What would you say or do then?

That's a bit of leap from a light-hearted joke.

The original 1979 film was a joy. I saw it as a boy.

So, ever since I bought my ‘RITOS’ T-Shirt from the Star Trek webshop, I’ve occasionally gotten spam from them into my inbox. The spam most contained fairly inoffensive Trek branded tat. Nothing annoying, or worth buying, just ignorable stuff.

But then I got their First Contact Day email, and saw this:

Random character names from the movie in a generic font, and a Starfleet symbol at the end. What annoys me about this is the pure laziness of that. It barely makes sense as a Trek T-shirt, and without the symbol it’s just text. You could use dozens of other sources to make the same T-Shirt yourself and yet they’ll charge a premium for that. The blatant lack of effort just winds me up.

Also the text probably won’t last long. My RITOS t-shirt was illegible after far too few washes. Although I’m still hopeful that Trek show’s might get better, this kind of crap from the merchandising makes me concerned about how healthy the brand will remain.