General Star Trek thread

I've so much trauma from the Ash story arcs. Please no more.

His plot was worse than everyone elses. It's also possible the actor didn't want to do it again.

I was wondering what Ash aka Clem Fandango was up to ... he is the lead in a new TV adaptation of Captain Nemo.

If it’s not back to TOS era I fully expect them to cheap out and set it at Picard times in order to re-use sets and costumes from it. At least then I guess we’d avoid yet another damned prequel.

It's actually SNW that recycles DIS sets. The courtroom where Lt Cmdr Chinn Reilly was put on trial for being an undocumented augment was a redressed Starfleet command centre.

The Mirror Universe in TOS was cool. There was also a very good book (Dark Mirror) set in the TNG era and IDW did a good comic series in the DS9 take of it around the idea that the Terran Empire still exists, albeit bottled up in the Sol system.

But DS9's take on it was poor and Discovery (like almost everything else about that show) was abysmal. Lorca was it's saving grace but they ruined that too.

Section 31 was very cool in DS9 mostly because of William Sadler's Sloan, but trying to revive the concept in ENT was a mistake and again Discovery ruined it (although I only watched the first 2 seasons so I missed how much worse things got).

So I've no interest in revisiting either concept really - especially not one made by the same bunch who are behind the worst Trek series made yet.

Hard pass on this "event" for me!

I could buy the black badges when they were operating in the open on a starship or starbase but the fleet to rival Starfleet's was ridiculous

I often felt that Discovery’s Section 31 had some glaring issues when it came to the Comm badges and even having a class of starship that any Fleet computer could recognise. But its biggest problem was when they brought in Space Hitler. Thereafter it seemed to mostly be a vehicle for Space Hitler to *twirl her moustache*, use her eeeeevil to forward S31’s mission and then do it all with attitude(tm).

Section 31 at that point appeared to mostly be a way for them to get Michelle Yeoh to play as a villainess and then gush over how *bad ass* she is. If she’s in the “special movie event”, I fully expect more of the same and for her to the central point of the thing, which is probably why it might be awful.

It’s a damned shame it went this way. In the first episode Yeoh played a pretty good Starfleet captain. Having Burnham as her first officer somehow actually worked. Yeoh’s Captain managed to anchor Martin-Green’s over the top train-wreak Commander, and a show built around that in the middle of the Klingon War would have been absolute gold.

But alas no….we got a Captian Burnham…..and a Space Hitler.

How about this? Never mind a “Legacy” show, but actually develop it as a proper movie. Jeri Ryan could carry a lead role in a Trek film if it was done right.

It would have to be written in such a way that people who are unaware of cannon wouldn’t be confused of where this movie would sit with the JJ-verse and the TV shows. In other words; it would need to stand on its own.

You could also do it on the cheap by reusing the Titan / Ent-G sets, keeping the cast from Titan (minus Raffi, please).

For some reason I’m imagining something done in the “space is big & scary” tone of The Motion Picture, but ideally with better pacing. Dealing with some big wierd unknown similar to V’Ger, which doesn’t require knowledge of past events in Trek.

Alas, I doubt any of that is actually possible.

"Too cerebral."

/s

You may have missed the reference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)#Overview

The galaxy's the limit with this show.

Someone suggested trekking through mountains as a new direction placing the cast on an already developed mountainous planet. So many people would be finally satisfied. Years ago the show was different to the movies. Why change a winning formula.

I agree we’ll never get it, I just wish we would! Even as much as I enjoy SNW, I still groan at the fact that one of the officers is a relative of Khan. The universe feels so much smaller when everyone has some sort of connections to someone else you know!

Funny enough La'an is the best character and would be even without all that Khan stuff.

Second best character Chapel would be better to if she wasn't Chapel and didn't get loaded with fanfic fantasies about herself and Spock.

Too cerebral.

Collapse of the Dominion and collapse of the Romulans leave huge power gaps and issues to explore but doesn't leave any opportunities for destroyed legacy ships to slalom through Borg cubes.

Ha, Star Trek maybe going back to NBC then? We’d come full circle to the beginning :P