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Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation (trekmovie.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Love this. I don’t agree with the sentiment that Trek is being overdone - I’d rather have a slate of options and sit through the “bad” than have to wait years to get anything close to good.

Like, I enjoyed parts of Picard, but on the whole, it didn’t work out (maybe given the serial nature of each season, or cramming pretty ambitious ideas into 10 episodes each season). But I’ll take that any day over having to wait a week at a time for a “filler” episode.

Still hoping for a Klingon focused show… would love anything where a federation vessel isn’t the primary setting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I totally agree that I love the variety of options! But I would be very happy if one of the options was that we get filler/bottle episodes for a few weeks per season, but every season is 26 episodes long. They could just spread the budget for 10 episodes across all 26, and make the VFX less... shiny.

(Of course, I don't actually want actors to be worked to the bone like they were in the 90s...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

As it’s Tawny Newsome, I’m giving it a chance.

My dream trek show, though, would be a semi-anthology that explores different crews (mostly non-Federation, but maybe one), sort of like if LD:”Wej Duj” was a series. Each crew would have a self-contained 50 minute plot, and then you would have them meet up for a finale (hopefully in two parts) with a meetup of each crew.

The one episode idea I have would be called something like “Cetacean Ops”, featuring a Starfleet vessel commanded and mostly staffed by aquatic (and some amphibious) life forms, except for main engineering. In addition to exploring what the heck whales do in the Federation, we could explore the dynamics of how non-aquatic and aquatic crew interact and try to prevent loneliness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Bring back LDs damnit

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Please, no.

LD was great, it worked well as a genuine love letter to the franchise let's leave it at that. We don't need a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, thriller, sitcom, etc. spin-off of Star Trek.

They're going to Star Wars-ise Star Trek and kill the franchise the same as Disney is by over-doing it (and Marvel) into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't The Orville already cover this anyway? Without screwing with an existing franchise for jokes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The Orville was never funny, and it got much better when it stopped trying to be. Star Trek has a pretty good track record with humour. Especially where Newsome is concerned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I noped out of that show after the episode where the entire engineering crew spends an hour trying to access the ancient secret data vault that is…some girls iPhone. Trek definitely has better humor as well as poignant and serious topics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I think The Orville improves over time - I initially hated both Isaac and Gordon, but they do good things with them later.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 12 hours ago

We don’t need a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, thriller, sitcom, etc. spin-off of Star Trek.

Am I remembering this correctly or is this from the Mandela universe I'm originally from...after the reboot of Battlestar Galactica finished, they made a prequel to it which was a soap opera/personal drama set on Capricus or whatever the planet was called? For some reason?

Why am I also reminded of the Geico cave man commercials that some idiot also made a TV show about?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Every reddit-brained geek said the same thing about LD and then ended up liking it so I'm glad Paramount isn't listening to the fearful fans.

Risk is our business!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They've cancelled Discovery, Prodigy, Picard, Lower Decks, and you're worried they're going to over-do it? If they do it much less, there wont be any Trek left!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, the fact that they had 4 shows to cancel at once is a sign they are over-doing it .

I'm fine with waiting years before we get another Trek, it's nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sure, I’d understand your sentiment more when all those shows were being announced, rather than after they’ve all been canned. Right now we’re looking at ten episodes plus the Section 31 special in the coming year, which doesn’t seem like over doing it to me. But I was raised on seasons of twenty-plus episodes, so maybe I’m spoiled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've cancelled Discovery, Prodigy, Picard, Lower Decks

Was Prodigy canceled again after it was revived for a second season? Or is there still a chance for a third season?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huh, I thought I’d heard Netflix cancelled it, but according to everything I see on Google they just haven’t announced anything one way or the other. It’s been long enough that I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Star Trek always had some levity. And all the other new Trek has always felt too serious - they've been constantly saving the Federation/humanity/Galaxy/universe. If they need to make a funny show in order to tell a funny story, then fine. Go for it.

[–] SreudianFlip 3 points 20 hours ago

You mean like SNW which is peppered with regular jokes about the captain's appearance, especially hair? Especially the musical episode where the Klingons aggressively sing and dance "why you only call me / when you got your problems". Took that one pretty far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We don't need a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, thriller, sitcom, etc. spin-off of Star Trek.

That is exactly what I want to see. The Star Trek universe is one filled with such hope, and I want to see that in a day to day capacity.

I think Lower Decks handled it perfectly and if the same crew can produce a live action show in a slightly different scenario then I'm in.

Besides one show isn't going to kill Star Trek. Star Trek has some real stinkers out there (and a new one is coming in January).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I want to see more of the Neo-transcendentalists and their society. I love the bisexual swinger vibes, but I also understand why Andy Billups bugged out and joined starfleet.

Sometimes you just want to clean a plasma coil without all the drama.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't a ton of the episodes deal with life outside the federation, boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before and all that? Hell, DS9 took place on a space station outside the federation...

Or do they mean outside Starfleet? I wouldn't mind that show, it'd be nice to see the daily lives of people in or out of the Federation who aren't part of a pseudo-military style organization.

Also... Risa was part of the Federation. Unless that was retconned with nu-trek or something...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Don’t a ton of the episodes deal with life outside the federation, boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before and all that? Hell, DS9 took place on a space station outside the federation…

I think it's a stretch to say that they do. The primary characters are nearly always Starfleet/Federation characters, and the events of the episodes are generally seen through their eyes, even if they are technically outside the Federation. The main exception would be the DS9 Ferengi episodes, but there's really only a handful of those.

Risa was part of the Federation. Unless that was retconned with nu-trek or something…

The only reason Risa came up in the article is because the pitch of the new show is that it's set on a resort planet, and people unfortunately lack imagination and assumed that meant Risa, even though the pitch also said it was set outside the Federation.

This interview confirms that the setting is not, and has never been, Risa.

We'll see how it all pans out. I feel somehow skeptical that the Federation perspective won't worm its way in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

star trek {ship name} exploring the galaxy as primary mission plz and thank u

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For some reason this quote popped into my head:

Q: The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be [...] learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is that not Strange New Worlds?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

it's so close. but we know at the heart of it it's the "wtf happened to pike?" show

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Or TOS... TNG... Voyager... Enterprise...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I think a Star Trek series without Star Fleet being the main focus would be amazing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I've wanted an Outside the Federation show for a while. I hope they bring back Cassidy Yates. More Maquis would also be sick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Finally! I'm willing to bet it's gonna take place on a cafe or gumbo shop.