Star Trek, episode 4 "The Naked Time"

But hey, we got 11 seasons of Earth: Final Conflict!

At around 1:00 a.m. on February 21, nine men wearing stockings and white gloves appeared in front of a janitor (38 years old at the time) who was on his night shift and threatened, "We will not steal or set fire. If you do nothing, we will not cause any harm." After that, they tied him to a chair with adhesive tape and plastic straps, locked him in the bathroom, and disappeared somewhere. Three hours later, when the janitor sensed that there was no sign of presence, he escaped from the bathroom on his own and came out to find that there were 447 desks and 9 chairs in the center of the playground, measuring 20 meters wide and 30 meters long.

The desks were arranged in the shape of the number 9 and the chairs arranged in the shape of a period next to the desks. Japanese news and the public spent days speculating what it meant. Theories from the occult to a protest of the Japanese government were seriously discussed on national TV.

In the end, the people involved were caught (all senior students of the school, the leader with a history of causing trouble) and the leader of the group admitted that he simply liked the number nine.

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%84%B8%ED%83%80%EA%B0%80%EC%95%BC%20'9'%EC%9E%90%20%EC%82%AC%EA%B1%B4

To summarize, Disney began work on a sequel to Tron: Legacy immediately. Legacy was meant to kick off a larger universe of movies and TV. As time went on, other expected hits flopped, and Disney acquired Star Wars and made it their new darling, the Tron sequel got shelved.

Jared Leto, who was going to have a minor role in Tron: Ascension, pushed to have a new movie made anyway, making his character the star. The result is that what was more of less going to be the third act of Ascension was fleshed out into a whole movie minus Sam Flynn, Quora, and Tron.

Imagine if Return of the Jedi was never made. Instead, the third act of the movie, the attack on the second Death Star, was turned into a whole movie but the continuation of the plots involving Han Solo, Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker were completely cut out. Then Wedge Antilles was made the star of the movie and he personally confronted Chancellor Palpatine and saved the galaxy. That's pretty much what has happened to the Tron franchise. :(

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 8 "The Price"

(This is just the tip of the iceberg...)

Inspired by @Kolanaki@pawb.social's riff on my spelling error.

Edit 2: Nobody saw that.

(I know there are spelling errors, I'm not fixing it.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41583953

THE STAR TREK FRANCHISE REWATCH PARTY

THE STARDATE CHRONOLOGY: PART I

"The what?"

For those that don't know, I just finished rewatching the existing episodes of The Orville over on that community. Since I've been wanting to rewatch "all of Star Trek" for a while now, I've decided to turn it into a community event.

"All of Star Trek, meaning ALL of Star Trek?"

Yes, e-ven-tu-al-ly.

"By Stardate?"

In order by Stardate and/or calendar date. Meaning the first two episodes in the list are The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before, because those two episodes occur the earliest, chronologically. For the most part, the official Stardate given in the episode or assigned to it by official sources is used and the calendar date is extrapolated, with rare exception where an episode or movie is "out of order" to correct a continuity issue. An explanation will be provided anytime that happens.

"What does 'Part I' mean?"

Part I = The original run of shows and movies first conceived by Gene Roddenberry & Majel Barrett and continued by... that other guy. Simply put, everything from the original Star Trek series through to Voyager and all the movies through to Nemesis.

"So, Part II would be..."

The Kelvin Timeline (Enterprise & the Kelvin movies). And Part III would be the modern timeline; Everything from Discovery to Academy, in chronological order.

"Why are you separating the old shows from the new shows? If it's chronological, then shouldn't Enterprise be first?"

Due to all the differences and changes seen in the timeline since Star Trek began producing prequel series, I ascribe to a three-timeline continuity. The original timeline (TOS, TAS, movies I~VI, TNG, DS9, VOY, & movies VII~X), the Kelvin timeline (ENT, & Kelvin movies), and the modern timeline (ENT, DIS S1 & 2, BNW, LD, PRO, PIC, DIS s3~5, S31, SA, and the Short Treks when they occur).

This post and rewatch isn't about arguing the validity of how I believe everything fits together, that's just how I make everything make sense without excluding anything. In addition to that:

• I want to watch the shows I grew up with first, then everything else. I also don't want to wait several years before watching The Next Generation (my favorite show and arguably the best of Star Trek). ;)
• Splitting the rewatch into those three groups also very roughly keeps the entire franchise in production order. The most-notable changes being TAS begins and ends within TOS, movies V & VI coming before the beginning of TNG, DIS is split into two distant segments, and BNW comes before all the shows that aired between it and DIS. Another way to look at it is: Part I is 20th-century Star Trek, Part II is Kelvin Star Trek, and Part III is the rest of 21st-century Star Trek.

I've spent a few years fine-tuning my chronological lists but I haven't watched through Star Trek in this order before. I'm using this as an excuse to test my work and see if anything needs fixing.

"Okay, whatever. So when is this happening?"

Starting this weekend, and continuing every weekend unless I am indisposed (or WWIII starts. In which case, I will move to Montana to help the surviving scientists build warp drive). Once Part I is completed (in a few years), Part II will immediately begin, and so on.

"How frequently? How many episodes per week?"

Two episodes per week, each with a separate post. This weekend, as mentioned above, is the two original pilots: The Cage & Where No Man Has Gone Before. To improve the speed of the rewatch, two-parters will be treated as a single episode (But differently-named episodes of an arc, such as in DS9, will not) and share the same post. If one or more of the episodes that week is animated (30 minutes instead of an hour) or a short, there will be three episodes that week.But if that week has a movie, the whole weekend will be exclusively dedicated to the movie.

There will also be a master post containing links to every entry watched so far. The master post will be linked to in each rewatch post.

"Where will you post?"

Here on c/startrek on lemmy.world. This is for the greatest amount of exposure to subscribers and non-subscribers alike and to get the best odds against the instance collapsing a few years into the run, which would force me to re-upload everything somewhere else. I also don't want to make ANOTHER Star Trek community just for this.

"Where can I see the list for Part I?"

Right here.

This list is complete, but I still need to finish adding notes to each entry. The content of those notes will be included with each entry anyway. (The list also includes a fan production, which is explained in the description. Ignore those for now. I'm either going to skip those episodes entirely or watch them alongside the first six movies.)

I hope you will join me in wasting the next several years of my life doing this!

"See you, out there." - Q

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41583953

THE STAR TREK FRANCHISE REWATCH PARTY

THE STARDATE CHRONOLOGY: PART I

"The what?"

For those that don't know, I just finished rewatching the existing episodes of The Orville over on that community. Since I've been wanting to rewatch "all of Star Trek" for a while now, I've decided to turn it into a community event.

"All of Star Trek, meaning ALL of Star Trek?"

Yes, e-ven-tu-al-ly.

"By Stardate?"

In order by Stardate and/or calendar date. Meaning the first two episodes in the list are The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before, because those two episodes occur the earliest, chronologically. For the most part, the official Stardate given in the episode or assigned to it by official sources is used and the calendar date is extrapolated, with rare exception where an episode or movie is "out of order" to correct a continuity issue. An explanation will be provided anytime that happens.

"What does 'Part I' mean?"

Part I = The original run of shows and movies first conceived by Gene Roddenberry & Majel Barrett and continued by... that other guy. Simply put, everything from the original Star Trek series through to Voyager and all the movies through to Nemesis.

"So, Part II would be..."

The Kelvin Timeline (Enterprise & the Kelvin movies). And Part III would be the modern timeline; Everything from Discovery to Academy, in chronological order.

"Why are you separating the old shows from the new shows? If it's chronological, then shouldn't Enterprise be first?"

Due to all the differences and changes seen in the timeline since Star Trek began producing prequel series, I ascribe to a three-timeline continuity. The original timeline (TOS, TAS, movies I~VI, TNG, DS9, VOY, & movies VII~X), the Kelvin timeline (ENT, & Kelvin movies), and the modern timeline (ENT, DIS S1 & 2, BNW, LD, PRO, PIC, DIS s3~5, S31, SA, and the Short Treks when they occur).

This post and rewatch isn't about arguing the validity of how I believe everything fits together, that's just how I make everything make sense without excluding anything. In addition to that:

• I want to watch the shows I grew up with first, then everything else. I also don't want to wait several years before watching The Next Generation (my favorite show and arguably the best of Star Trek). ;)
• Splitting the rewatch into those three groups also very roughly keeps the entire franchise in production order. The most-notable changes being TAS begins and ends within TOS, movies V & VI coming before the beginning of TNG, DIS is split into two distant segments, and BNW comes before all the shows that aired between it and DIS. Another way to look at it is: Part I is 20th-century Star Trek, Part II is Kelvin Star Trek, and Part III is the rest of 21st-century Star Trek.

I've spent a few years fine-tuning my chronological lists but I haven't watched through Star Trek in this order before. I'm using this as an excuse to test my work and see if anything needs fixing.

"Okay, whatever. So when is this happening?"

Starting this weekend, and continuing every weekend unless I am indisposed (or WWIII starts. In which case, I will move to Montana to help the surviving scientists build warp drive). Once Part I is completed (in a few years), Part II will immediately begin, and so on.

"How frequently? How many episodes per week?"

Two episodes per week, each with a separate post. This weekend, as mentioned above, is the two original pilots: The Cage & Where No Man Has Gone Before. To improve the speed of the rewatch, two-parters will be treated as a single episode (But differently-named episodes of an arc, such as in DS9, will not) and share the same post. If one or more of the episodes that week is animated (30 minutes instead of an hour) or a short, there will be three episodes that week.But if that week has a movie, the whole weekend will be exclusively dedicated to the movie.

There will also be a master post containing links to every entry watched so far. The master post will be linked to in each rewatch post.

"Where will you post?"

Here on c/startrek on lemmy.world. This is for the greatest amount of exposure to subscribers and non-subscribers alike and to get the best odds against the instance collapsing a few years into the run, which would force me to re-upload everything somewhere else. I also don't want to make ANOTHER Star Trek community just for this.

"Where can I see the list for Part I?"

Right here.

This list is complete, but I still need to finish adding notes to each entry. The content of those notes will be included with each entry anyway. (The list also includes a fan production, which is explained in the description. Ignore those for now. I'm either going to skip those episodes entirely or watch them alongside the first six movies.)

I hope you will join me in wasting the next several years of my life doing this!

"See you, out there." - Q

Cast listing from the movie Last Days in the Desert.

This seemed like a good idea at the time.

Worf sacrificed many spinal columns to make this video.

Christmas Eve on the Enterprise-A! Includes a tour with the Polaris Express and a visit from St. Nick himself! You'll never guess which Starfleet organization helps him with his task! Hope you enjoy this video! If you want a longer version you can play looped with your own music, let me know in the comments!

Spock: "Captain, request permission to leave the bridge. I am unwell."