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After the disastrous Section 31 trailer, we could all use some good news. There isn't any.

New ‘Star Trek’ Series in the Works from Justin Simien, Tawny Newsome

The 'Dear White People' filmmaker and 'Lower Decks' voice star are working with Alex Kurtzman on a live-action comedy.

The Star Trek Universe keeps expanding at warp speed.

Justin Simien, the writer-director behind Dear White People and The Haunted Mansion, and Tawny Newsome, one of the voice stars of Star Trek: Lower Decks, are in development on a new live-action Star Trek series for Paramount+.

The announcement was made Saturday during the Star Trek Universe panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con by Simien, who was moderating, and Newsome, who was on stage.

The new series is intended to be an action comedy that, according to Paramount, centers on Federation outsiders who are serving on a gleaming resort planet. Not only that, their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant.
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Standardized Profile said:
the Borg Queen
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The BQ still doesn't make sense to me. Why would a collective mind need a queen? The Borg seem "more human" with the BQ than without.

Standardized Profile said:
After the disastrous Section 31 trailer, we could all use some good news. There isn't any.
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There is good news: you can just ignore post-JJ ST.

ToroidalBoat said:
2 Star Trek "headcanons" I like:

1: The "official canon" as it was in 1975 plus the animated series (if that wasn't "canon").

2: The "official canon" as it was in 2005, minus that animated series (if that was "canon").​

(so the first option is just a TOS world)
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ToroidalBoat said:
The BQ still doesn't make sense to me. Why would a collective mind need a queen?
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All minds are collective minds. Every one of us is a system of discrete neurons and subconscious mental processes, all of which result in an emergent, singular identity. That was the Borg Queen in First Contact. She didn't see any distinction between herself and the Collective, except perhaps a functional one. ("I bring order to chaos," the Freudian ego, Latin for "I.") It was a really smart concept, even if they only hit on it by accident. But the Voyager writers had no idea what to do with it.
 
Just finished DS9. My expectations have been met. Worf continued to be fucking awesome and incredibly autistic, just the way I love him. The Cardassians are my favorite race now. Odo turned out to be a great character and his rivalry with Quark was always highly entertaining. Even some characters I expected to be grating and underwhelming like Bashir or, hell, even the Great Negro Ben Sisko himself turned out pretty fine.

Sometimes the dialogue and overall vibe got a bit too generic-military-action-movie-y for my taste during the action arcs (I don't really know how to describe it better but TNG didn't have this problem) but grim realism in sci-fi has always been my favorite flavor of the genre and it more than made up for any such blemishes.

Onto Voyager next.
 
WTBOnlineFather said:
Just finished DS9. My expectations have been met. Worf continued to be fucking awesome and incredibly autistic, just the way I love him. The Cardassians are my favorite race now. Odo turned out to be a great character and his rivalry with Quark was always highly entertaining. Even some characters I expected to be grating and underwhelming like Bashir or, hell, even the Great Negro Ben Sisko himself turned out pretty fine.

Sometimes the dialogue and overall vibe got a bit too generic-military-action-movie-y for my taste during the action arcs (I don't really know how to describe it better but TNG didn't have this problem) but grim realism in sci-fi has always been my favorite flavor of the genre and it more than made up for any such blemishes.

Onto Voyager next.
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DS9 had the right balance of grim-dark sci-fi where the situation gets worse, but the characters don't become grim-dark themselves. Sisko does shady things every now and then like nuking a planet, but he doesn't come across as an awful human being.

ToroidalBoat said:
The BQ still doesn't make sense to me. Why would a collective mind need a queen? The Borg seem "more human" with the BQ than without.
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It is implied in First Contact that the Queen came about as a result of human individuality and Picard's repressed sexuality. She was retconned into BoBW because absorbing the human experience also means absorbing the human need for companionship.

I prefer my explanation; the boobs house extra processors.
 
Standardized Profile said:
The Section 31 trailer looks even worse than I imagined, and I wasn't imagining anything good.
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At least the comments are gold.
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It really feels like they take episode ideas and try and make shows out of them. The strength of the Star Trek format is it could be any genre from week to week. It can be an action show, a legal drama, a mystery, a holodeck fantasy, a spy show, literally whatever the fuck you want. Just make a show about a big ass ship like in TNG, have the crew be likable, professional, thoughtful people that adults can respect and kids can look up to as mature role models, and put them in whatever situations you want. Have some big storylines but be primarily episodic. If you don't want to do that, you aren't playing to the strengths of the franchise for TV.
 
I wish the classic beam-style phaser effects were more common in nuTrek. Ever since the reboot it’s been 99% generic scifi laser bolts. Sure they always had blaster style weapons too, but the beams were iconic in the same way the lightsaber is for star wars.
 
Crossposted from the Dr. Who thread. (thx to @Morethanabitfoolish)
Doctor Who and Star Trek are officially crossing over, with David Tennant's iconic Tenth Doctor and his future wife River Song meeting characters from the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks series.

The crossover will take place as a limited-time event beginning 1st August in two mobile games: Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Badgey Directive and Doctor Who: Lost in Time.

Events in both games will show different perspectives of the same wibbly-wobbly space-time macguffin, with Ten onboard Lower Deck's USS Cerritos and River Song joined by crewmembers Lieutenant Brad Boimler and Ensign Beckett Mariner.

Both mobile games are developed by the same studio, Eastside Games, which specialises in making licensed spin-offs for major TV series brands. Each offers their own selection of new stories for their respective franchises, unlocked via collecting a large cast of characters.

This is, as far as I can recall, the first time Star Trek and Doctor Who have joined forces in the world of video games - though the two long-running sci-fi series have nodded to each other multiple times over the years.

The latest season of Doctor Who included Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor making reference to visiting Star Trek, the latest of various references in each show to the other. Most notably, Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor teamed up with the legendary Jean-Luc Picard in an eight-issue comic book series back in 2012, which saw the pair fighting a combined threat of the Cybermen and the Borg.

Behind the scenes, showrunner Russell T Davies has said he's attempted to get an actual TV crossover episode made where the Doctor visits the Enterprise - though, so far, it's yet to happen. Perhaps this could be used to gauge interest?
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And yes, i've already pointed out there was a comic...

And a webcomic of this.

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polyester said:
Because ant colonies and bee hives have a queen, and that's what the Borg were modeled after..
I don't think it goes deeper than that.
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and since it was a movie, perhaps they thought that the Borg needed a face so that the audience would know who to root against.
 
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