StillPaisleyCat

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I was really impressed by that. Really felt it belonged on a cinematic feature.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Going to be that person and suggest the OP try Voyager.

It seems to be the most accessible of the older shows for younger, newer viewers. It was the most watched of all the classic shows on Netflix.

It covers all the classic tropes and provides endless fodder for memes here.

It’s uneven throughout its entire run, but also has some of the very best episodes ever. New fans really attach to the characters, and there’s no refuting that it unabashedly leaned into the weird.

Thanks for the encouragement!

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess I was already tired when I posted . Yes of course that’s ‘Car Talk with Martok’ but as I don’t believe that any new ones of those are in creation, this would be my own thing for c/risa.

I regret that I also just don’t have quite that level of trash talk in me.

Bad food metaphors though…

Thanks for the encouragement (and inevitably the pressure).😳

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great thanks. Working on the premiere now.

But I also need to sleep and work. Which means it will appear sometime tomorrow.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sounds like a great premiere.

More ideas would be welcome.

TAS has lots of feliniods (Caitians & Kzinti) & even some lemurians. But Spock wasn’t one.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We don’t know what be developed or not for the 25th century, but getting a new show developed and greenlit by Paramount is a long haul, and if they don’t like the initial draft pilots, they’ll keep at it.

Starfleet Academy has been in development as a show since at least 2018, with several changes of leadership in the team of creators. The original idea goes back decades to Harve Bennett. It’s finally got through the maze, let’s cheer that.

So, even if the senior executives are open and enthusiastic about an Enterprise G show:

  • don’t expect a formal greenlight announcement in less than a year after Picard S3’s finale (which is how long it took for SNW) and then another year to 18 months for production and post;

  • don’t assume that there won’t be major reworkings and/or changes in prospective showrunners from initial indications (as there was with Michelle Yeoh’s S31 which also changed showrunners),

Here’s some positive points towards Starfleet Academy

  • most fans were super sceptical about both Lower Decks & Prodigy but they are both well loved across generations;

  • “reopening the Academy after a hundred years” strongly implies this is in the 32nd century, post Burn, with a cast of largely new characters. Yes, we may see Tilly, some of the Discovery officers or (hopefully) David Cronenberg back as the mysterious Kovich, but that won’t be the principal cast of cadets;

  • the EP and coshowrunner Noga Landau was a senior writer with Henry Alfonso Myers on The Magicians. Yes, she took over running Nancy Drew for CBS Studios for the CW, but that was better rated when she did, and better than the usual CW teen targeted shows.

  • the other creator, and writer of the greenlit pilot was the head writer of the thriller Absentia (which has good ratings)

  • Tawny Newsome is a writer in the writers room.

So new time period, new characters, new team that has done good work for the target demographic. I’m hopeful.

There’s a scene in one TNG episode (before Miles & Keiko’s wedding?) in which Worf is at a console display scanning through option to replicate for a gift. It stuck with me.

So said Production Designer Tamara Deverell when she got samples from the original set from the Ticonderoga Set Tour in NY to colour match for that set in Discovery season two. She’s written about how that red is really orange.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space-themed media saturation? It’s an entire genre.

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