Author Topic: Star Trek Thread part 2: The Kurtzman Strikes Back (Read 89838 times)

chronovore · « **Reply #361 on:** June 22, 2021, 08:21:09 PM »

Yeah, I really feel like they mishandled that whole aspect of his character. It was better in DS9, just a bit.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #362 on:** June 22, 2021, 09:29:04 PM »

I've always liked that. Same with Keiko being a flawed character. It made the series feel grounded for me.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #363 on:** June 23, 2021, 05:14:13 AM »

Got to admit, future alex comes back in time to tell past alex to be moar klingon and that worf is actually awesome and to stop being not a big fan of worf isn't my favorite episode.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #364 on:** June 24, 2021, 04:46:25 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #365 on:** June 26, 2021, 02:14:52 PM »

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #366 on:** June 26, 2021, 09:05:58 PM »

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #367 on:** July 05, 2021, 02:40:50 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #368 on:** July 05, 2021, 02:42:18 PM »

MMaRsu · « **Reply #369 on:** July 17, 2021, 11:50:10 AM »

https://twitter.com/chryztfer/status/1416162611939483654

https://twitter.com/itsnotaloudguy/status/1416246536753713153

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #370 on:** July 19, 2021, 11:54:33 AM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #371 on:** July 19, 2021, 07:13:19 PM »

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #372 on:** July 20, 2021, 01:48:25 PM »

https://twitter.com/On_TheBounce/status/1096246644729933824

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #373 on:** July 21, 2021, 07:45:44 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #374 on:** July 25, 2021, 10:43:55 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #375 on:** July 28, 2021, 01:58:05 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #376 on:** July 31, 2021, 09:32:05 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #377 on:** August 01, 2021, 10:10:52 PM »

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #378 on:** August 03, 2021, 02:41:07 PM »

https://deadline.com/2021/08/alex-kurtzman-mega-overall-deal-cbs-studios-secret-hideout-stephen-king-1234806977/

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Additionally, Kurtzman will remain at the helm of the growing Star Trek franchise for the next six years.

Jesus wept.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #379 on:** August 04, 2021, 05:03:27 AM »

Sideshow Raheem · « **Reply #380 on:** August 14, 2021, 08:08:17 PM »

Don't want to be that guy who whinges about the Star Trek but... The latest Star Trek: Lower Deck is out, and it's an homage to and parody of "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

In it, Beckett (the female lead) cures the Mitchell character by kicking him in the balls multiple times.

benjipwns · « **Reply #381 on:** August 15, 2021, 10:25:47 PM »

https://twitter.com/joel_eisenberg/status/1426890985099784198

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #382 on:** August 17, 2021, 07:56:17 PM »

MMaRsu · « **Reply #383 on:** August 24, 2021, 04:55:33 AM »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/winteriscoming.net/2021/01/26/star-trek-michael-dorn-worf-spinoff-series/amp/

MMaRsu · « **Reply #384 on:** September 03, 2021, 04:29:15 AM »

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1433538284546789377

MMaRsu · « **Reply #385 on:** September 03, 2021, 04:34:27 AM »

REMEMBER THE BORG?

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Tasty · « **Reply #386 on:** September 03, 2021, 07:22:18 AM »

Quote from: MMaRsu on September 03, 2021, 04:34:27 AM

REMEMBER THE BORG??

ENDLESS TRASH!!!

Tycoon Padre · « **Reply #387 on:** September 03, 2021, 09:58:23 AM »

Quote from: MMaRsu on September 03, 2021, 04:34:27 AM

REMEMBER THE BORG??

Remember when Picard snapped the queen's fuckin spine in two with his bare hands? Cuz he was mad she gave his boyfriend Data skin so that she could fuck him instead? That's some Star Trek baby

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #388 on:** September 04, 2021, 04:14:13 PM »

Picards a robot now and datas super extra dead, so they can now fuck

benjipwns · « **Reply #389 on:** September 10, 2021, 01:55:30 PM »

GOG is adding Activision era Trek games:

Away Team is complete trash, do not touch.

Tasty · « **Reply #390 on:** September 10, 2021, 02:02:24 PM »

Wow, there's a lot of Star Trek videogames.

benjipwns · « **Reply #391 on:** September 10, 2021, 02:20:18 PM »

The Activision era was pretty good for Trek games because a lot of them were designed as games first and then brought the Trek stuff into play rather than going "okay, we've got Trek, now how do we make a game out of it?" Elite Force is one of the better examples of this, they went to a good FPS team in Raven, gave them the Quake 3 engine, a fully modeled Voyager and voices from the entire cast and they made a good FPS out of it with lots of Trek trappings. The Armada games are similar in that they designed them as strategy games and kept what worked for that.

Not that there weren't good earlier Trek games (and GOG has many of them) just that they were really hit or miss.

Tasty · « **Reply #392 on:** September 10, 2021, 02:59:29 PM »

The IP is definitely very malleable to different properties. It's kinda good in retrospect TOS ended early (despite the Trekkies developing) and TNG hard-reset things with a new century and cast (and that TNG was good, too.) The fanbase and IP holders both realize the value in semi-serialization, and not focusing on the first era for nostalgia-bait (outside some crowdpleasing episodes here and there, of course.)

Though, Disco and Abramsverse going back to the TOS well goes against that. Just like I hope that Game Freak is done with blatant genwun pandering, I also hope ViacomCBS moves past mining TOS (and now TNG with Picard). Disco S3 was a decent start, throwing the crew out of TOS era entirely.

Tuckers Law · « **Reply #393 on:** September 10, 2021, 04:55:46 PM »

I’m still nostalgic for multiplayer of Elite Force 1, it was a nice “different flavor” of good ole quake 3.

benjipwns · « **Reply #394 on:** September 10, 2021, 11:24:44 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #395 on:** September 13, 2021, 12:00:51 PM »

Episode 5 of Lower Decks was actually good. Hope it's more like that in the future.

Tasty · « **Reply #396 on:** September 13, 2021, 01:06:30 PM »

For some reason I had a dream I sat down and watched Lower Decks.

No clue why. Maybe I should?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #397 on:** September 13, 2021, 01:10:40 PM »

I mean it's not great so far, but I watch it when I need something to do for 20 mins while I eat and not feel compelled to start another episode. It's fine for that.

Tasty · « **Reply #398 on:** September 13, 2021, 01:11:40 PM »

Yeah subbing to Paramount+ is ugghh

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #399 on:** September 18, 2021, 10:01:53 PM »

Lower Decks is growing on me. The last half of season 1 had some fun episodes. Started season 2. Think it might just have needed to find its footing. It's at its best when it's pointing out the absurdities in previous StarTrek and at its worst when it tries to do family guy-level gag jokes, however, there seems to be less of this as it goes on. I think actually having a few sincere moments would make the show good.

Also like half the voice actors are my favourite comedians so that helps.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #400 on:** September 19, 2021, 07:31:34 AM »

Lower Decks is on Amazon Prime over here, because after the fucking mess that was Discovery and Picard, Netflix and Amazon obviously stopped bothering trying to outbid each other for streaming rights, and I get the feeling Lower Decks was thrown into the deal for free when they suckered Amazon into paying actual money for Picard

Which yeah, it is the best thing in NuTrek right now.
Same as how Harley Quinn cartoon is way better than any of the CW DC shit, despite ostensibly being played for laughs at the IPs expense.

chronovore · « **Reply #401 on:** October 06, 2021, 02:36:45 AM »

Yeah, I'm able to watch Lower Decks on Amazon Prime Japan, and it's pretty fun. It's playful and self-referential, which works for us geeks, as RedLetterMedia are so found of hounding and yowling about.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #402 on:** October 10, 2021, 07:35:34 AM »

Oh hey, trailer for Discovery Season 4 and it looks like a big shake up; this season there is a big potentially universe ending mystery box and burnham is going to be at the centre of solving it.

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #403 on:** October 10, 2021, 08:00:19 AM »

MMaRsu · « **Reply #404 on:** October 12, 2021, 08:11:54 AM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #405 on:** October 13, 2021, 07:33:12 AM »

https://twitter.com/sickeningjar/status/1447894767061409796

Uncle · « **Reply #406 on:** October 13, 2021, 09:16:07 AM »

given the necessity and propensity for space missions to have to take into account every possible eventuality, you know it was somebody's responsibility for planning what to do with his corpse if he just has an old age heart attack or something