50 Years of Star Trek - RIP

[Tim]

@taniwharugby Apart from a couple of flat episodes, The Orville has been pretty good this year. They are better at telling one major story per episode, and creating relatable characters.

[taniwharugby]

@Tim yeah a few in S1 were flat too, thought the gender re-assignment ep was silly.

Good series though given I am not a Trek fan!

[Tim]

@taniwharugby said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

yeah a few in S1 were flat too

Season 2 has a higher "good ep" hitrate so far, IMO. I think that any sci-fi show that does old Trek style "idea of the week" stories is going to be a bit hit or miss. The "misses" are a lot better with a good cast of characters though.

[Tim]

BTW @Kirwan, you might be interested in this:

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It's Michael Piller's short book about how his production of Star Trek: Insurrection went wrong, despite best intentions from all involved. Pretty good outline of how movies are made (from the writing and planning, rather than filming, point of view).

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[Tim]

Latest Orville episode was very good.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

Latest Orville episode was very good.

Yep, they wrapped it up well. Fucking great space battle! Kept the kids enthralled.

[Tim]

@Kirwan One of the best battles since DS9. Really, really fun. A hint of Star Wars there?

[Kirwan]

@Tim yeah, felt like return of the Jedi and some of the prequels. Real stakes with lots of good guys buying it.

[Kirwan]

Going to put my guess in for the Red Angel for STD. I think it’s the ship AI from discovery in the future.

Lots of the short cuts features have paid off in the main series.

[Tim]

Picard series characters:

ThatHashTagShow  /  Mar 1, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: STAR TREK: PICARD Series Update With Character Breakdowns

Information on the Picard Series is still coming out slowly. But these character breakdowns give us the clearest picture yet of what to expect.

Seems to be a "team of rogues and misfits".

[Kirwan]

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How can you fuck up the Talosians? They look terrible, the originals were played by woman with male voices, and looked creepy as fuck.

These generic aliens look awful.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

Picard series characters:

ThatHashTagShow  /  Mar 1, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: STAR TREK: PICARD Series Update With Character Breakdowns

Information on the Picard Series is still coming out slowly. But these character breakdowns give us the clearest picture yet of what to expect.

Seems to be a "team of rogues and misfits".

Not sure what to think about this. Not sure I care too much seeing Picard in a Firefly like knock off.

[Tim]

@Kirwan Agreed.

[Kirwan]

I still love The Cage, half the reason I’m enjoying Pike so much. Going to be pissed if they screw this up.

What’s happened to the death penalty for anyone travelling to Talos IV?

[Tim]

@Kirwan Dunno, I've stopped watching STD.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

@Kirwan Dunno, I've stopped watching STD.

I’m pretty close. The Blues have steeled me for hate watching.

[Tim]

@Kirwan The two are very similar. Despite little change in the squad/crew etc, we get some hopes up at the start of the seasons anyway.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

@Kirwan The two are very similar. Despite little change in the squad/crew etc, we get some hopes up at the start of the seasons anyway.

Especially when you can see pieces of a great series. Just do the Pike prequel series on the Enterprise, and blatantly copy the episodic structure (and focus on story and characters) of The Orville.

[Tim]

@Kirwan said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

Just do the Pike prequel series on the Enterprise

Yup. That would be too easy or something ...