Star Trek General Discussion

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Last weeks discovery we learned that Michael is also a world class galactic championship poker player, inspirational speaker and fight corner person.

Picard is going to make her into a Q. This might actually be able to fix her character.

/sarcasm

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Looks like the Abrams-verse cast is returning for a 4th movie after all.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/s...na-1235021307/

I don't hate the Abramsverse cast, but the abramsverse needed to die. This is unwelcome news.

[Fuzz]

Maybe at the end of this one their timeline collapses, and we go back to the original one. No loose ends. "And that was the end of Abrams Star Trek".

[Monahammer]

Q snaps at the end of this season of Star Trek Picard, Picard is back on the bridge of the Enterprise E and somehow stops the Hobus supernova from ever occuring. The time loop implications also knock Michael Burnham's mother back into the right time so michael never winds up on Vulcan.

Last moment of the series is Picard telling the con of the enterprise e to set a course home.

Probably too much to hope for

[Harry Lime]

Abrams might be the worst thing to happen to Sci-fi in history, having a hand in the destruction of Star Trek and Star Wars, and mentoring Orci and Kurtzman. The debacle of D&D for GOT took some heat off of him, otherwise the heat to oust him and his cur would be molten. His selection of people to work with is mind boggling, and it's a credit to Simon Pegg that he had the credentials to muscle his way into saving parts of Beyond.

The casting director for the movies is probably crying in her soup, she did such a good job, gone to waste.

[OutOfTheCube]

I actually like all of the Abrams-verse movies, even the bad one (Into Darkness). 09 and Beyond are legitimately good Star Trek movies and they're all very entertaining with great cast and chemistry. Great special effects all around. And they got around any canon issues early on by just saying it's all an alternate universe so who cares.

Fun movies, and certainly leagues ahead of what the TV shows have been trying to do (while also ruining canon at the same time).

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Picard is going to make her into a Q. This might actually be able to fix her character.

/sarcasm

Michael would straight up dummy Q in a direct battle. I'm pretty sure she could leg sweep the entire Continuum and put them on trial for existing as such a barbaric primitive species.

[direwolf]

‘09 and Beyond were both terrific IMO. I’m looking forward to the 4th movie.

[sureLoss]

wrong thread

[Fuzz]

It feels like half the runtime of every episode is 1 on 1 emotional dreck. Every other scene is a tedious slog. The concept for the past 2 episodes have been good, but the execution is not working.

[CaptainCrunch]

Its also predictable. They destroy the DMA and a bigger one shows up. They simply solve problems now with incredible inventions that pop out of nowhere.


Oh my god super threat xyz is out there how will we beat it.


Engineer and Michael - "Actually it will be super easy, barely an inconvenience."

[Fuzz]

Also, maybe I missed the explanation as I zoned out, and it was embedded in one of those emotional slogs, but what was the deal with the "Galactic Barrier"? Why is it this crazy death zone? Isn't the edge of the galaxy just a lack of stars?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Also, maybe I missed the explanation as I zoned out, and it was embedded in one of those emotional slogs, but what was the deal with the "Galactic Barrier"? Why is it this crazy death zone? Isn't the edge of the galaxy just a lack of stars?

Reacquaint yourself with 'Star Trek V: The Search for God (who turns out to be a dick)'

The Great Space Barrier Reef is impenetrable unless you actually just go there and try.

It was a great film, super swearsies.

[Fuzz]

But that was the barrier at the centre of the galaxy, no? I think their was some original series edge of galaxy barrier stuff, but it's pretty baffling scientifically.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

But that was the barrier at the centre of the galaxy, no? I think their was some original series edge of galaxy barrier stuff, but it's pretty baffling scientifically.

I’d similarly expect a great thinning out of anything, like our own solar system’s heliosphere.

I also thought they travelling intergalactically already?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Locke

Reacquaint yourself with 'Star Trek V: The Search for God (who turns out to be a dick)'

The Great Space Barrier Reef is impenetrable unless you actually just go there and try.

It was a great film, super swearsies.

Also remember that in the original series Gary Mitchell was effected by the energy of the Galactic barrier when the Enterprise breached it and ended up with god like powers and quite insane.

[csnarpy]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

I actually like all of the Abrams-verse movies, even the bad one (Into Darkness). 09 and Beyond are legitimately good Star Trek movies and they're all very entertaining with great cast and chemistry. Great special effects all around. And they got around any canon issues early on by just saying it's all an alternate universe so who cares.

Fun movies, and certainly leagues ahead of what the TV shows have been trying to do (while also ruining canon at the same time).

As much as a I am a Trekkie, I’m completely with you on this. Overall these movies are great entertainment. It also helps to bring in a new generation of kids to the Star Trek worlds.

My kids (now 13 & 11) absolutely love all things Star Wars but really had no clue about Star Trek. Which is what happens when there is nothing current playing anywhere. So they’ve now seen the Abrams movies and are very excited to hear about a new movie being made.

(Meanwhile I’ll try to show them the originals but imo, they may be to “low brow” in the special effects for them .. frikkin kids these days, lol)

[Locke]

Originally Posted by csnarpy

As much as a I am a Trekkie, I’m completely with you on this. Overall these movies are great entertainment. It also helps to bring in a new generation of kids to the Star Trek worlds.

My kids (now 13 & 11) absolutely love all things Star Wars but really had no clue about Star Trek. Which is what happens when there is nothing current playing anywhere. So they’ve now seen the Abrams movies and are very excited to hear about a new movie being made.

(Meanwhile I’ll try to show them the originals but imo, they may be to “low brow” in the special effects for them .. frikkin kids these days, lol)

Trust me...the special effects in some of those original films is not really the issue. Some of them are just a mess.

You have to go into those films with an appreciation for the Universe and the characters and a bit of a sense of humour.

Like in STTMP when Spock goes space jet-packing through the Galaxy's sphincter or whatever. Sure, they probably thought that was a good idea at the time...

[timun]

Originally Posted by Locke

Like in STTMP when Spock goes space jet-packing through the Galaxy's sphincter or whatever.

V'ger's pulsating butthole

[Locke]

Originally Posted by timun

V'ger's pulsating butthole

Look....I love the Star Trek movies in a strange, comedic and generally irrational way, but I do love them.

I can enjoy them, I can laugh at them, but they're great.

And thats Star Trek. It can be taken seriously at some times and lightly at others which is why I love watching Star Trek documentaries about how the writers and actors balance that.

A lot of Star Trek has some preposterous storylines and they know and we know it and because its interesting and fun and we like the Universe and the characters and the ideas we just go along for the ride.

I havent seen STTMP in a long time, but my recollection was something along the lines of:

"They let them make more movies after this??"