Star Trek

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20901439

Paramount’s latest round of layoffs is here and brutal.

Episode premise:

Kivas Fajo is determined to add the unique Data to his prized collection of one-of-a-kind artefacts and, staging Data's apparent death, he imprisons him aboard his ship.

We know that Data is later logically coerced to lie in "Clues" to protect the crew, but this appears to be a decision all his own. Or did he not in fact actually fire the weapon?

Random Trek Review: I am going to review random episodes of Trek shows using an online tool. I decided to start with random episodes of Voyager.

https://people.duke.edu/~noor/trek.html

It picked S04E07 ‘Scientific Method’.

The episode had something of an awkward start with Seven conducting unapproved “upgrades” inside the ship and getting a tisk tisking from Torres about working as a team.

This scene was followed by Torres having a secret rendezvous with Tom Paris. This episode is the beginning of their romantic relationship, and the episode wastes no time showing them aggressively sucking face. This was actually the plot teaser, as the two were being watched by some sort of mysterious malevolent pervert. At first we might suspect it is Rick Berman, but the episode soon reveals the truth.

Not long after, Chakotey and Neelix both fall ill in separate incidents. Chakotey ages rapidly and Neelix takes on traits of his grandfather’s species.

All the while Janeway is suffering from intense headaches which are making her surly and quick tempered.

The Doctor discovers the truth- It’s aliens.

Invisible aliens are aboard Voyager and performing medical experiments on the crew.

The aliens mostly disable the Doc, but he manages to communicate with Seven, who is then able to reveal the aliens’ existence to Janeway.

Janeway after long suffering from the alien induced headaches, quickly goes full Insaneway and steers Voyager into a sun, locking the controls unless the aliens leave. They do, and Voyager pulls out of its suicide course just in time.

This episode was immediately recognizable to me because the visuals of it are quite striking. They have lived inside my head ever since the first time I caught this episode on TV. The image of invisible aliens needling the crew with mysterious experiments is very creepy. This was an early example of the Doc and Seven working together to carry the show, which was unexpected so early. The makeup effects to age Chakotey weren’t exactly realistic, but they were very well done in a kind of over the top theatrical way. As for any kind of high concept idea or moral dilemma, I don’t really think the episode had any. There was an attempt by the alien’s dialog to create one as the alien mentioned that what they were doing to Voyager’s crew was medical research that would help it’s people, but the benefits were so nebulously defined and the refusal of Voyager to participate didn’t seem like it would ruin the only chance at survival for the aliens. It seemed more like Voyager was a test subject of opportunity, which made the refusal to cooperate a moral slam dunk. For added measure the alien, bizarrely assured Janeway that it wouldn’t kill very many crew members and would “merely” cripple most of them for life. Just in case anyone in the audience didn’t know who to root for. Janeway’s plan of steering Voyager into the sun didn’t seem particularly clever. It wasn’t a bluff. It wasn’t a fakeout. By all indications, she was really going to do it.

At least Tom and B'Elanna got a nice closing moment sharing a healthy salad at the end.

Per Variety

Hers was a great step forward for Asian-American representation in media. I can only hope that she has and will inspire others to achieve greatness.

There are 943 Star Trek episodes and movies if you include Short Treks and the Kelvin timeline.

As of today, having finished the second season of Prodigy (and if you do not watch it, you are missing out on so much!) I have seen all 943.

So, this is the thread for members of the 943 club and those who hope to get there.

As far as what has officially been announced for what's coming up, there will soon be a 965 club (10 episodes each of LD and SNW plus the Section 31 movie).

So let's talk about it, club members: Where did you start and where did you finish? What was your journey? I started watching TOS reruns as a toddler with my brother. I was born in 1977, so I remember watching the premiere of TNG and being so excited. I remember Nickelodeon broadcasting TAS reruns. I remember going to my first Star Trek convention the day after Star Trek V premiered and the hype was still enough for people to just be excited about a new Star Trek movie. I remember the premiere of DS9 and people unfavorably comparing it to Babylon 5. I remember the premiere of Voyager and the anger by some people online about a female captain and a black Vulcan. I remember First Contact exceeding everyone's expectations and Insurrection being a huge disappointment. I remember Enterprise being lackluster enough for me to give up, but being glad I came back so I could see season four. I remember the JJ movies and I was not pleased with any of them even though I saw them all. I remember not liking season 1 of Discovery but giving it a chance and sticking with it and then being excited about SNW because of Pike. I remember thinking that an animated Rick and Morty Star Trek was a terrible idea until I saw Lower Decks. And I remember saying animated Star Trek for kids just wasn't for me and now I rank a lot of Prodigy episodes amongst the best of Star Trek (the Kobiyashu Maru episode was incredible).

And now my journey through Star Trek television and film is at a pause until more comes out. I hope the journey will not come to an end any time soon and there will be a 1000+ club eventually.

Welcome club members and club hopefuls!

I am so excited. Well, not so much for the games, but for the rest.

Lower Decks teaser trailer (last season. 😢)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTyLSP-sTM

Section 31 film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfXhCp2UVY

I'm least excited about the film, because I've never really been a fan of the Empress Georgiou character, but I'll give it a chance. Any new Star Trek movie is worth a chance.

The games seem a bit gratuitous.

Star Trek Fleet Command x Galaxy Quest crossover event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-erBp9EKcxk

Not a trailer, but a preview. A Lower Decks / Doctor Who mobile game: https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/star-trek-and-doctor-who-unite-for-intergalactic-friendship-day

Purchaseable: https://www.trampt.com/item/captain-proton-peril-from-planet-x-joe-boulden-lithograph-zUoj6XKy6l-5Xj?sort=new

I want to think Shatner put on Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols' wigs at home and talked about what a pretty lady he was while looking in the mirror.

(I did not write the text at the top, that's just how I found the image.)

A copy of the script is still in existence, but no one appears to have scanned it in- https://www.tvobscurities.com/2018/06/gene-roddenberrys-secret-defence-117-script/

Oddly, the produced script featured Ricardo Montalban in the lead role.

I made a joke post about watching all of Star Trek again and some people asked me about my viewing order,so I decided to make a more formal post about it.

(Save this post, I will be updating it as time goes on)

Let me ~~explain~~ sum up; I ascribe to the idea of three distinct timelines. One involving all of the original set of series and movies, one for the alternate timeline movies ,and one for the current set of series. This isn't a post to argue about what order is more accurate, this is just my collection of lists for others to enjoy if they so desire. I have my rationales for organizing everything this way.

RODDENBERRY TIMELINE: https://pastebin.com/wiPG3KEu (temporary link)

(I'm really distracted by important things right now, so I will have to add the others later. I also already know that there are a number of errors with the first list, I will update it in the future. Until then, enjoy.)

Star Trek: Continues can be watched for free on YouTube & here.

Collage by Revo-Collage @ DeviantArt.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_-_Core_Game_Book

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16629163

Supposedly for petty personal reasons:

The woman who controls the company, Shari Redstone, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week as she scuttled a planned merger with David Ellison's Skydance Media.

Redstone had spent six months negotiating a complicated deal that would have given control of Paramount to Ellison and RedBird Capital, only to call it off as it neared the finish line.

The chief reason for her decision: Her reluctance to let go of a family heirloom she fought very hard to get.

I cross posted this from c/Avatar, but I am a Trekkie too and don't like this one bit.

FYI previous articles seemed to imply the Sony deal is dead.

Seriously the only episode of the television that can get me to cry EVERY. TIME.

The Borg have transporter technology of some sort. They could easily abduct select people from orbit and leave, but instead they invade planets and assimilate every person. It seems highly inefficient to me.

Any ideas?

Hi all :)

I've recently watched the final episode of Discovery, and it's left me with some questions.

I'm just posting a line of text here to avoid any spoilers from showing up on people's timelines.

At the end of the episode, after the main story finished, Burnham went back to Discovery and spoke to Zora. She had a flashback, then took Discovery to some far off location to wait. Other posts I've seen have mentioned that this ties in to Calypso and seemed to suggest that Burnham's son also has something to do with it.

The problem is, I have no idea what Calypso is, and that's made me wonder what else I'm missing. I've seen the posts about the academy series and Section 31 movie, but can someone fill me in please?

EDIT: Thanks for the answers, looks like I need to watch the Discovery Shorts :)