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ValueSubtracted, in 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Sets Filming Window & Episode Count
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If you recall, there was all this noise around Season 1 and Season 2 of Discovery because the streaming service, they were like, ‘Oh, it’s like a turnaround on a cop show.’ I’m like, ‘No, you don’t understand. It’s eight months of visual effects turnaround, and we’re not gonna rush that.’

I most certainly do not recall that, and it says a lot about the people running CBS All Access at the time.

Corgana,
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Idk, “It’s like a turnaround cop show” kind of sounds a lot like “Screw you I don’t want to pay for another streaming service”. Perhaps he just misheard absolutely everyone.

reddig33, in How Star Trek's Future Works - Money, Work and Property

Gold pressed latinum only makes sense to me if there are some things that can’t be replicated. Has it ever been explained?

yyyesss,

Correct, latinum cannot be replicated: en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

and for some additional color: …stackexchange.com/…/why-can-latinum-not-be-repli…

ValueSubtracted,
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Correct, latinum cannot be replicated: en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

This link doesn’t lead to a statement that latinum can’t be replicated, because that’s never actually been established on-screen. It makes sense and is almost certainly true, but it remains fanon.

Wooster, in Melissa Navia Talks “Incredible Things” For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3
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I wish the actors were cleared to reveal little things… otherwise these interviews are just barely interactive NDAs.

ValueSubtracted, in ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP
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I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.

Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):

“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’

I think a story being a little too “inside baseball” and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we’re talking about ideas like this:

The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.

The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.

The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series’ biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.

And regarding the Jurati Borg…I don’t know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.

aniki, in Today I finally finished my office background MSD

Have you heard about my lord and savior WLED? You could build an extremely powerful backlight system with no seams.

github.com/Aircoookie/WLED

OpticalData,

The nanoleaf was mostly because I had them in a cupboard and thought this would be a fun use, but I already have designed on a V2 with better lighting and accurate static borders

Lwaxana, in Sleep Playlist recommendations
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Not what you asked for but this is what does it for me:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8

ericjmorey,
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Thank you

GaraksOtherButtBuddy,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_Pg-Vc_yQIf you want the DS9 ambience

badcommandorfilename, in Why don't ships onboard sensors detect medical emergencies

I think the canon reason given for this and other “why didn’t the ship’s computer just stop them?” situations that it’s a privacy violation to just go around scanning people without their permission.

Although they do seem to do a lot of “scanning for life-signs” so who knows?

inappropriatecontent,

scanning for life-signs

Yeah, and I’ve never figured out the security feature that makes scanning for life-signs more effective when you sign a little song to the computer. But sometimes I guess it’s just more urgent to know, little life signs, where are you?

badcommandorfilename,

It’s based on the same technology that makes you turn faster in Mario Kart if you tilt your head and turn the controller like a steering wheel.

qantravon, in Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink.

I fully agree. In this vein, I also think that Romulans and Vulcans should prefer green-tinted lipstick rather than red. In a few episodes in DS9 they actually did this, but most of the time they just default to red and it really doesn’t feel right.

medusa,

I feel like a lot of it is “translated” to match human emotions. That person wouldn’t actually be considered attractive, but the movie makes them attractive in a weird way so humans can relate. Green lipstick on a Vulcan would be EXTREMELY off putting to a human, in literal stark contrast. To make a Vulcan “attractive” it would be on human terms with our sexy red lipstick or… it may have the wrong effect and not tune emotions in properly to the scene. It’s a huge reason why I hated watching Star Trek with a particular individual I know. “THOSE TWO SPECIES COULDN’T BE BREEDING! THE HORMONES ARE ALL WRONG AND THEY DIDN’T DEVELOP IN THE SAME…” and on and on.

The blushing thing absolutely should be green, but I get why it wasn’t characterized as such. Friggin apes.

funkless_eck,

not the biggest fan but doesn’t TNG suggest that all (most?) biped races in trek share a common ancestor?

hglman,

Yes it does, i think there is a tos episode that hints at that as well

ValueSubtracted, in Interview: Tawny Newsome On ‘Lower Decks’ Season 5 And Star Trek Love In ‘Starfleet Academy’ Writers Room
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I mean, it’s an Academy. So there are teachers, there are students – I am being so careful, but you know there are teachers, right?

Well, those spoilers probably got her fired…

TheGoldenGod, in Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description)
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Dear God, if these exist, there’s no excuse for the sound quality Paramount+ pushes out. 😢

Fans need these, if you ever do this project, thank you!

OpenStars, in Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com]
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Just wait till HG Wells Time Machine comes true and a bunch of almost blind underground mole dwellers predate upon the idiotic surface dwellers who never think past the needs of today. Oh.

Infynis, in TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works
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I hope this is his swan song. Patrick Stewart is amazing, and I love Captain Picard, but he’s not Harrison Ford. The franchise will be fine without him. We don’t need to play out Too Short a Season in real life

EarMaster,

Three seasons of PIC were already a mistake. The only good thing coming from it is the possibility of a Riker cooking/baking show (which I would totally watch).

Apollonius_Cone,

In rewatching the original series and TNG thereafter, the consistent factor, regardless of the early special effects, was the scripts. The dialogue was always great. In ST: Picard, the dialogue is trash.

phoenixz,

Everything about ST Picard is trash. Dialogue, script, Character behavior, 50 years of fransche history ignored, it was all written and executed by people who don’t like star Trek, cast excluded though I just don’t understand why any of the vast was on board with this turd. We’re they so desperate for money?

lordnikon,

it’s even worse than that they write characters that are not in the world of star trek but written like they are fans of the star trek. that might work for a comedy like lower decks but it stunts growth of the franchise.

since we can’t make new stories or ask new questions. They are just stuck in a circle of reference and the bare minimum of a story / scavenger hunt to get to those references. Terry Matalas has said this himself.

But hey at least we have unedited versions of the originals unlike star wars and I hope all the actors got big paydays in their golden years.

Wooster, in Stream Star Trek Prodigy, Now on Netflix!
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Damn! It’s Aaron Waltke himself! Will do my part good sir! 🫡

GlassHalfHopeful, in Fan made “Star Trek: Prodigy” Netflix Poster
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Last I heard, Paramount ditched the show. And I just confirmed it’s no longer on their service.

Is Netflix really going to be showing Prodigy again or was that just added for fun?

GoodAaron,

Netflix has picked up the license for the series. First 20 episodes of Season One drop on Netflix this Christmas, and Season Two is coming in 2024 — with the potential for more.

Taleya, in The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them

trek is not here to teach morals though. It’s here to entertain

Solumbran,

The main interest of science fiction is to explore the moral and social effects of current, past or hypothetical events and technological discoveries. It could be basically called “philosophy through futurology”, and sci-fi without morals is just that, futurology.

Star Trek from the very beginning was like that, with things as simple as explaining that peace, unification of humanity, democracy and elimination of poverty and starvation are all linked and necessary to have a good world.

I guess you’re one of those “stop making shows political” people? Sci-fi shows are by essence here to teach morals, and even if it is unintentional the concept of imagining a future where humanity grew implies applying morals to the show. It’s not avoidable.

Taleya,

nope.

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