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New Star Trek TV series

Started by Deanjam, November 02, 2015, 04:58:55 PM

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Alberon

Next gen style rank pins?!?

Worst Trek Ever!!!1!!1!

mothman

There's a "future" commbadge used in. various dream & alternate reality episodes, with the rank represented as bars behind the Starfleet delta. It looks cool - but only if you're a higher rank. An Ensign (one bar) would just look silly. I've not noticed the pips on the badge yet, obviously, but I guess it makes sense, sort of.

Malcy

Was really disappointed with the trailer. I've been in the 'give it a chance camp since details started to come out that people didn't like but I just don't know anymore.

Seems the main character will he a Vulcan acting Human that will constantly be in disagreement with her superiors. The Klingons are fucking horrendous as well...

Cloud

Heh... racists and sexists are mad.  Who'd have thought we'd be back to the 60s in these attitudes and having to start again!

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/05/racist-star-trek-fans-decry-discoverys-diversity-revealing-they-know-nothing-about-star-trek/

Lemming

The article mentions it, but the very existence of bigoted Star Trek fans is completely bizarre. You have to wonder what's going on in some of these fuckhead's brains where seeing anyone who's not a straight white cis man on screen is a hideous aberration, and indicative of a Cultural Marxist SJW Takeover.

What's even more unusual to me is that I've bumped into a surprising amount of Star Trek fans online who are firmly anti-communism, anti-socialism and anti-welfare, which makes less than zero sense given absolutely everything the show tells us about the Federation.

Alberon

Maybe the internet was just younger back then and fucktards were less likely to be on it, but I don't remember all this crazy crap twenty five years ago when DS9 was on. Though I suppose Avery Brooks did have the decency to be male.

It's just like religion. Twats just think it mirrors their own prejudicies exactly rather than whatever it is actually preaching.

mothman

https://youtu.be/3I3y3_QmBsQ

Much if the rumour - and that's all it is, remember - rumour, about the troubled production isn't new. The video's attempts to draw causal links between ST:D, Axanar and The Orville feels a bit like an Adam Curtis series of coincidences .But there's some food for thought on how the show is being marketed, and to who, and as what. If it is a total reboot, then that feels like they;re shooting themselves in the foot. It's the "Cumberbatch isn't Khan... actually he is, surprised?" gaffe all over again.

Phil_A

Jesus, I didn't realise just how badly Star Trek Beyond tanked(even though we all predicted it would). Guess they won't be asking Pegg to write any more.

mothman

But it's not a bad film. It's easily the best of the three. The promotion & marketing sucked. So, yes, it's not fair, but Pegg will probably carry the can for it.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Phil_A on June 02, 2017, 10:29:24 PM
Jesus, I didn't realise just how badly Star Trek Beyond tanked(even though we all predicted it would). Guess they won't be asking Pegg to write any more.

I know it wasn't what the studio had hoped for but it wasn't that bad, taking $160 million in the US and $343,471,816 in total. I've no issue with Pegg writing the next one either, I just wish he wasn't acting in it.

Skip Bittman

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on June 02, 2017, 10:51:46 PM
I know it wasn't what the studio had hoped for but it wasn't that bad, taking $160 million in the US and $343,471,816 in total. I've no issue with Pegg writing the next one either, I just wish he wasn't acting in it.

Yeah but they don't see anywhere near all of that, that's split with all the distributors/exhibitors getting a huge slice. With a budget of $185 million and marketing a terrifying amount as well. They would need to make more than double that back, I heard they lost like 70 million or something, and dvd/bluray is nowhere near what it used to be. Hence nobody having much of an appetite for some dopey "George Kirk" time travel movie.

greenman

The problem really with the marketing for me wasn't the lack of it but that it seemed to be content with just pushing it as the continuation of the previous couple of films even though Into Darkness didn't really have the most amazing audience response. I nearly didn't bother with it but I'd agree it probably turned out to be the best of the recent Treks.

I'm guessing Paramount took the full hit here themselves to unlike something like say the Ghost in the Shell film that had a lot of Chinese money involved(guessing they took there own domestic gross?). Whats more unlike films like that I see recent Treks as obviously geared for cinema release, doesn't really strike me as something many people are going to want to own, especially if it ends up being the finale for this version.

mothman

http://trekmovie.com/2017/06/19/star-trek-discovery-to-premiere-on-september-24-split-first-season/

So, Monday 25th September for Netflixers. But another of those interminable two-month-off breaks halfway through, for Thanksgiving (y'all), Christmas, New Year, some other weird US public holidays too no doubt, like Vice Presidents in Labour Memorial Day or whatever.

Alberon

That's one way to kill momentum.

I also note from the press release that the time the pilot episode airs on CBS might be pushed back due to American Football.

I've gone from really really excited to quite dubious about the new Trek. We'll finally know in three months I guess.

purlieu

It's not a series if it's split, it's two series. Some shows have separate series that are broadcast closer together than this.

I've not been following this too closely, but is the female lead really called Michael?

Mr_Simnock

Watched a trailer and my word does it look shit. Absolutely crap lines given with all the ability of a school panto.

Alberon

Can't sleep. So here's a picture of Jason Issacs as Gabriel Lorca, captain of the USS Discovery



The picture gives you the first hint at what the Discovery's bridge is like.

Malcy



daf

Ooh - they can do a Dr. Who Star Trek crossover at last! *

* (Both series haven't been on air at the same time since the 60's)

Blumf

Is that one panel (4 down, 2 left) supposed to be wonky?

Not liking this grim-dark moody lighting.

Alberon

The horror channel is reshowing Star Trek: Voyager.

Now that is not so much moody lighting as just plain overly dark. You can barely see anything in a lot of scenes, which is a blessing I suppose.

Presumably that Transporter Room is from the Shenzhou. Let's hope the Discovery one is less shit.

Malcy


mothman

Phasers! Look to be design elements from the classic TOS phaser, but also the shitty-looking "laser pistols" from The Cage."

Malcy


purlieu

Oh yes, that looks continuity-laden and tedious. God, let's just have some new adventures in space please.

Malcy

TrekMovie have a look at the new communicators, Klingons & the Discovery ahead of the Comic-Con panel. The shit has holes in the saucer!

mothman

Yeah. Holes in the fucking saucer. That's some inept fanboy-level design, right there. Not even in my own inept fanboy starship designing days would I have done that, and I once designed a ship with two spherical primary hulls (based on the USS Pasteur from the TNG finale "All Good Things...") and called it the USS Baywatch.

Blumf


Gwen Taylor on ITV

Quote from: Alberon on June 22, 2017, 03:40:13 AM
Can't sleep. So here's a picture of Jason Issacs as Gabriel Lorca, captain of the USS Discovery



The picture gives you the first hint at what the Discovery's bridge is like.

Certainly gives a first hint at what the Discovery's teal and orange budget is like.