General Star Trek thread

Starfleet captains running the Dominion War didn't know of their existence yet they were openly operating in TOS time?

Not a chance

Because it's the same as saying, "We're part of a secret branch of intelligence that doesn't exist." As said above, it's beyond stupid. Pure pantomime crap. Mind, it's only one of a litany of fundamental issues with Discovery...so much so that I really only see it as high budget fan-fic sludge.

Some circles like the higher Admiralty probably? Whispers, shadows, the odd rumour perhaps elsewhere....and full on plausible deniability for everything including its actual existence for everyone else. It's the only way to have it interesting and enjoyable.

The black insignia, black leather outfit and stealth looking black ships just kept reminding me of

A secret ship, with secret officers on board who don't officially exist, manned by regular Starfleet crewmembers who don't bat an eylid to any of it…

Its bad, real bad, even by fanfic standards.

By classifying it, you're acknowleding its existence...

The ship, sure, yeah, makes sense there's classified tech out there being field tested.

Section 31 on board in public view advertising the fact they exist yet don't exist? Hmm...

You know what would be cool? If AI could be used in a way to bring all Star Trek characters to life. Imagine being able to ask the character any question you wanted. I would ask Worf who was the biggest threat the Borg or the Dominion and who scared him more.

Which character would you ask a question to and what about?

I did a rewatch of Enterprise a few years back. There are some rough episodes, and I was never a massive fan of the Xindi story, but there are some pretty good episodes in there that I started putting on the random Trek episode while cooking rotation. Also when I saw the Season 5 plan for the refit version of that ship I was quite disappointed not to have seen it in the show.

I think streaming certainly helped for season 3 anyway. Enjoyed it a lot watching the episodes mostly back to back whereas I lost interest first time round. (Similarly for DS9 as a whole).

Prequel film in the works as well.

The “Star Trek” prequel will also be produced by J.J. Abrams, who has overseen all “Star Trek” movies through Bad Robot since 2009’s “Star Trek,” which he directed…

Is this yet another prequel film done by JJ but one that isn't set in the JJ-verse? Jesus, there's a question to ask...shows what a toilet they've made of movie Trek. Diluted to the point of apathy at this stage.

If it's a JJ prequel then it's technically prime universe unless it's in the tiny slip of time between the Kelvin incident and the JJ movies.

Paramount are hoping for this new film to be released in 2025. Not a hope unless they mean Christmas 25. I think 2026 would be better in time for the 60th anniversery of Star Trek.

Still there has been a lot of false starts so I will not believe this is happening untill I see some real movements.

Having gotten through the guts of Season 1 this week, I am in agreement with this.

I found the first couple of episodes a slog, but it's not as bad as I remember .

The Greatest Generation lads referred to Tucker as Chief Engineer George W Bush and now I can't unsee it. It's uncanny

I like the way SFDebris calls Mayweather "Travis 'I've been to space you know' Mayweather"

He played W for a few lines in American Made

I didn’t mind the TMP costumes as much myself. They seemed like an interesting transition from the TOS uniform to the classic Movie-era uniform. I think Phase 2 were even just going to use a slightly updated TOS uniform before it got turned into the movie.

However, I kind of wish they stuck with the admiral uniform Kirk wears at Starfleet Command. I liked that one, I feel that they should have rolled that out to the whole cast.

I just cannot get on board with the costumes. They're unforgivable.

I don't like much of the movie era costumes but the motion picture stuff was the worst of 70s awfulness.

The maroons look good in isolation but I hate how disconnected they are from all other uniforms. They should have colour coded them.

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While the plot and special effects of Star Trek V are awful, the character interplay in the movie is some of the best in the franchise imo. Enough to elevate it way above the likes of Discovery, Abrams Trek etc. imo.

Never a fan of the surprise siblings plot. Sadly it wasn't to be the last time Sarek threw secret children at us.

But the interplay between the characters is really what makes it. Also I do love the "what does god need with a starship" scene.