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Struck with space herpes and PTSD from countless battles, chronical masturbator Jean-Luc Picard continues to scare elderly women at the mall near Starfleet Headquarters.
New star trek series...with Picard?!
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So, any word on Wil Wheaton joining this production?
I am not prepared to receive the dagger thrust to the heart that would be a "Captain Wesley Crusher"
I am not prepared to receive the dagger thrust to the heart that would be a "Captain Wesley Crusher"
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TBH, this feels like a desperate attempt to recapture the magic of a franchise whose time has passed. I love Star Trek, but that kind of optimistic exploration premise is unfashionable now. Recent iterations of the franchise have felt like Trek in name only, relying on nostalgia and recycled ideas to cover for boring stories.
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I think this franchise is pretty resilient, it's just that whoever is in charge fails miserably to give audiences what they want.
There have been a couple successful iterations of Star Trek, and to feel true to the heart of the franchise, all it takes is a show that's about following a manifest destiny to explore the unexplored and to reach for the unreachable.
TNG and DS9 excelled at worldbuilding and the diplomatic and political aspects. Voyager - for all its faults and failures - at least gave us this idea of exploring the unknown in theory. In that regard, it's even better than TNG, even though the show was not that good overall.
The last 2 shows were just not that appealing to most people. STD suffers from SJW-Syndrome, Enterprise was... just really unappealing, though I can't even say why. It just felt awkward, down to the opening theme. Whenever I saw the Doctor (Flox, or whatever), I was wondering whatever hell race that guy was supposed to be and how much the alien design clashed with TOS. Flox in particular was grating, since it was like putting Neelix and the EMH through a blender.
They just need to combine strong, likeable characters with an interesting setting and decent writing and there is a chance to really get things going. TOS, TNG, DS9 had all these three. VOY had two of this (I would argue). The other, new shows, seem to meander around 1 of these things.
Point is, at worst we'll have to wait a few years for a new, decent show to come around. ST has been dormant for years at a time, so even with the most recent shows, it will pull through somehow. Hopefully, the SJW trend will die down eventually and we'll get stuff untainted by that crap.
Strangely enough, given TOS' stance on race-relations, current social topics do have a place in ST, it's just way to hamfisted in STD.
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I dunno about you guys, but I can't wait to see Captain Nog.
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So what would be the in-universe this would happen? I know Star Trek Online has info about Picard retirement being in the early 2500's and at this point despite being an mmo it's more faithful to Star Trek then either the last few official projects or the people in charge of Star Trek
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She's an admiral so it's a given that everyone knows to keep her chained to a desk.
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I don't even want to think about how badly Social Justard Trek writers would fuck up the Ferengi... They'd probably just watch like 20 minutes of their first TNG appearance, and assume that's the most development the Ferengi ever got. (I highly doubt that anyone currently writing for Trek has seen DS9)
Zaryiu
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So would that be better or worse than if they used the Ferengi in ENT as a basis for all Ferengi?
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Probably worse, but TBH... I like to pretend that Enterprise isn't canon.
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I prefer to think parts of it are canon, I haven't seen all of it but some of it is okay in my opinion
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