General Star Trek thread

They chickened out of it because of the cost and there lack of an Imagination.

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a43633986/star-trek-section-31-michelle-yeoh/NI

Yeah, hopefully it's a once off thing and then they move on from the 32nd century and Discovery nonsense. Straight to streaming film rather than a series is the best compromise I suppose.

Hopefully the Academy show quietly vanishes into production hell and we can move forward a bit more along the vein of Picard season 3

I'd agree that Picard seasons could be made into movies. Especially the current season. There's a lot less silly & pointless filler, like in Season 2 (remember that time-wasting FBI story mid-season?) but I there is a lot of fat that could have been trimmed away to make it into a 3/2-hour story. All of the Riffi stuff could have been binned since it seemed superfluous and if the intention of her scenes was to introduce Worf as her Intelligance partner...they could have just done that another way in minutes. Beyond her being Seven's ex, she's got very little reason to be there, and if you could edit her out I don't think it would matter too much to the plot.

I'd concure *a bit* that without the TNG references this would appear somewhat Discovery-ish. However I do get the sense of a crew that this working together as a team to solve a problem, which was always at the heart of a good Trek story. Discovery ditched that to make Burnham use plot-magic to single-handedly save the galaxy every other week. As long as the remember the "teamwork" bit and forget about the "magic heroine" approach, it could still be good without TNG cast near it. This current batch of Picard, and SNW gives me some hope that this is still within their abilites.

Finale coming up.

Feeling a bit hyped in advance.

Are they really thinking of rebooting voyager? What form?

Dreadful idea

I watch the odd episode of voyager. It has good episodes but overall the characters are boring bar about 2.

Perhaps 3

Plus they had two good ideas - a mixed crew of maquis and star fleet plus lost in space.

The execution of both were terrible

They'd want to be careful that a Janeway show doesn't step on the toes of Prodigy. They've done a great job with their first season.

I like Prodigy a lot but it exists in an alternate universe/timeline in my mind. Just too many inconsistencies with the live action canon for my head canon to resolve.

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I miss the semi awkward social interactions of old Trek. In nu-Trek the characters are too snazzy, sassy and sarcy. In Picard for example, none of the characters, for example, Worf, feel like their old selves where there was that level of formality, high minded idealism and ultimately awkwardness. Marina Sirtis was effectively playing herself rather than Troi. Picard would have been better if we had the old crew back for 3 seasons rather than one short mission as well. The uniforms also looked too cool e.g. leather biker jackets. I would have preferred Picard et al to be wearing standard issue Starfleet uniforms. Hell, they should bring back the spandex catsuits.

The spandex catsuits were causing issues for the cast in their prime - would be torture now for them!

https://www.fastcompany.com/3022935/how-star-trek-killed-something-worse-than-klingons-spandex

Yes, we should have no character growth whatsoever and nothing should ever change. A character who was somewhat socially awkward and who was played quite a lot for laughs ("Prune juice! A warrior's drink!") should still be socially awkward around his friends and comrades, three decades later, despite having been an officer, a diplomat, an ambassador and a spy.