Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

And Phage.

 

No. Do not go there.

 

Which? Berman and Braga getting Trek right or DW being cancelled?

It happened before...McCoy goes out, Stewart comes in. Bakula goes out, Eccleston comes in.

 

Who being cancelled, though Berman **** all over Enterprise and Trek as a whole with the Enterprise finale, IMO.

Besides

Spoiler: Who spoilers

Moffatt's leaving at the end of Series 10 and Chibnall's taking over in series 11. Who's not going anywhere for at least another few years.

 

Thompson did a decent job, especially in Dark Frontier where she cranked up the Borg dominion aspect of it, but Krige just nails it, especially in First Contact. Seeing her back for the Voyager finale was great. Makes you wonder why they didn't just use her the whole time.

 

Right, so Bryan Fuller's dropped out of Discovery.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/dont-freak-out-too-much-about-the-latest-star-trek-dis-1788260493

So, as someone points out: "So, it’s been delayed, they’ve lost their showrunner, it will be on the garbage CBS All Access service, and there hasn’t been any casting news yet? When can we start freaking out?"

 

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Which would be all well and good if there was any casting news or if they have even started filming, neither of which I think anyone has heard about. We are something like 6 or 7 months from when this is supposed to premier. This is starting to feel like a smoke and mirrors thing. Let alone that the CBS All Access could very well be DOA before DSC ever hits the web.

 

It's one villager tweet away from being Star Trank.

 

Ermmmmmmmmm..... damn. That just ... not so good. But it seems Fuller is still guiding the grand arc of the show and the pilot scripts. Poor fella just has too much dang work!

 

Fuller was the only reason I had any optimism. He has the creativity and drive to make good, innovative Trek after a bunch of shallow retreads and a misguided prequel series. Kurtzman is staying on and two guys I've never heard of are now the showrunners. And CBS.

 

I love Thompson. Her episode of DS9 playing Lenara Khan was amazing. Pretty sure I fell in love with her in that one.

 

That was unexpected...

 

Refresh my memory please, who was Lenara Khan?

 

Dax's ex wife person.

 

Oh, the one who kissed Terry Farrell! Some people are born lucky.

 

I ain't hitting the panic button yet. 1) There are a lot of "showrunners" who don't specifically run a single show day to day (Shanda Rhymes, Howard Gordon of 24 / Homeland, Greg Belranti superhero shows) but they all have a very distinct and similar vibe. And the Variety article, I believe, mentioned that Fuller wouldn't be day to day but he's still the guy at the top. 2) Nick Meyer is on the writing staff, dangnabit. The guy hasn't written any bad Star Trek, ever.

 

BigAl6ft6, yeah all the good things that happened in the TOS film series were due to Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer.

 

Wouldn't quite go THAT far, I always think Shatner's performance in the movies added a lot, especially in Star Trek IV (and the whole cast chemistry in that movie is great). And lets not forget producer Harve Bennet who was basically given Star Trek ("Make for less than 35 million $%&*$ dollars!" was his marching orders and, lo, Wrath of Khan). But, yeah, Nick Meyer is good at this whole Star Trek thing and even if he only pens one script for Discovery, I'd be happy.

 

Belated Happy Birthday to...