Star Trek Overload, an abundance of choice

[glend (Glen)]

So last night we had the season 2 finale for Star Trek Discovery, which brought together story arcs to setup for the now announced Season 3. Season 3 will air likely in the same months of 2020 as Season 2 has this year, Jan-April.
Then there was the announcement of the return of Jean Luc Picard in his own Star Trek series, set 20 years into the future from his last command. Patrick Stewart, reprises his role, and has been working with the writers to establish the direction for the new series, and likely getting EP credit. The new Jean Luc series is being produced by the Discovery EP so ensuring some continuity.
There is a possibility that there will be Discovery character spin offs, like Michell Yeoh (Admiral Georgio) getting her own series.

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Woke trash poured over a steaming pile of sh.... rubbish. Kill it all, burn it with fire

[casstony]

Have you tried 'The Orville' Barry? It's a spoof of Star Trek, quite humorous, but good sci-fi in it's own right.

The Orville does include social commentary that will offend some stick-in-the-muds, but it's more subtle than Discovery. Even original Star Trek offended some in its day.

Season 2 of Discovery has been woeful imho.

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Ha! yes Tony I love the Orville. Seth is a true life long sci fi fan. I am well and truly over classic sci fi shows being debauched and ruined by people who never cared or were even interested in the source material. Bunch of bloody seagulls the lot of them.

[Renato1 (Renato)]

Originally Posted by glend

Then there was the announcement of the return of Jean Luc Picard in his own Star Trek series, set 20 years into the future from his last command. Patrick Stewart, reprises his role, and has been working with the writers to establish the direction for the new series, and likely getting EP credit.

It will be interesting to see if the Picard series can be of interest to Star Trek fans - given the destruction of canon.

The Picard series can't strictly be 20 years after The Next Generation series, as the people making the series don't have the rights to the Original and Next Generation series - they have to make it around 25% different.

And they have the problem of the 2009 and later movies which destroyed the Vulcan homeworld.

So fans would have to accept that there are two parallel times lines they are following, one without a Vulcan homeworld and one with a Vulcan homeworld, but 25% different from what we used to love to watch.
Regards,
Renato

[glend (Glen)]

Originally Posted by Renato1

It will be interesting to see if the Picard series can be of interest to Star Trek fans - given the destruction of canon.

The Picard series can't strictly be 20 years after The Next Generation series, as the people making the series don't have the rights to the Original and Next Generation series - they have to make it around 25% different.

And they have the problem of the 2009 and later movies which destroyed the Vulcan homeworld.

So fans would have to accept that there are two parallel times lines they are following, one without a Vulcan homeworld and one with a Vulcan homeworld, but 25% different from what we used to love to watch.
Regards,
Renato

Well perhaps, but as Discovery is running with multiple time lines now, in multiple universes, i don't see that as a problem. I also recall that the old man Spock and Young man Spock existed in the same timeline in one of the recent Trek movies, where the older Spock said he intended to locate a suitable new Vulcan homework - so it could very well now exist.
I am sure the folks behind the production will be very careful with legacy issues, and timeline explanations; because they know there are fans that will call them on any implausible story line, if anything is implausible in this world.

[Renato1 (Renato)]

Originally Posted by casstony

Season 2 of Discovery has been woeful imho.

Not totally.

Plenty of good social commentary - men are aggressive and useless - and need powerful women to put them in their place. Poor old Captain Pike was getting talked down to quite often.

Apart from the obvious problems with the show - the paradox of Burnham going back in time to guide her previous self forward - my big beef was Spock's beard.

We've all seen "The Managerie" - where Pike and Spock meet the Talosians for the first time. Spock had no beard.

In Season 2 of Discovery, they meet the Talosians again - and at that time Spock has a beard.

And in the final episode of Discovery, we see that Spock is only the Man/Vulcan that he is and was to become, due to the influence and strength of his amazing adopted sister, and so he gets rid of his beard to become the Spock that we first saw in "The Managerie".

Doesn't add up - Spock's beard results in the season destroying it's own canon.
Cheers,
Renato

[inline_online (Dan)]

You Trekkies might like this.
I made it from 167 Sunbeam Sultana boxes, lots of string and a heap of glue.

[Renato1 (Renato)]

Originally Posted by inline_online

You Trekkies might like this.
I made it from 167 Sunbeam Sultana boxes, lots of string and a heap of glue.

Very impressive, thanks.
Regards,
Renato

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Sorry, but I find the Orville a bit childish

Any why on Earth anyone would want to name a ship after a green duck baffles even me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOEE2sDpLE