Star Trek General Discussion

[Cybersnark]

Remember that the burn is several hundred years after the time of Picard. It's natural for civilizations to have rises and falls.

Notably, the Burn is not the first time we've flirted with a post-apocalyptic series. Star Trek: Final Frontier was a planned animated series in the mid-aughts. It was to be set in the 26th century, when large swaths of the galaxy had been devastated and rendered impassable by a war using Omega weapons, causing the Federation to swing toward fascism.

There used to be an official site with a couple of scripts and storyboards, but it appears to have been lost.

(Ironic that they say that the post-9/11 philosophy is outdated. If anything, the idea of needing to defy and redeem the fallen Federation seems even more timely.)

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Saw the video. That's pretty cool and had two eps set up too. I feel like the flavor would have been touched by some Enterprise some.

The Burn might be hundreds of years after Picard but still, hurts to kinda wipe the old captains away.

Starfleet Academy is post Burn?!? Why not post Picard? C'moooon!

 

[Axaday]

So that's it? Discovery crew stayed in the far future where the Burn is going to happen?!?! Is this addressed anywhere?!? Like, nobody believes that the Burn future is going to be all canon, right? Right?

We're probably never going to see for or against, but the presumption would be that it isn't going to be avoided.

 

[The Predaking]

Saw the video. That's pretty cool and had two eps set up too. I feel like the flavor would have been touched by some Enterprise some.

The Burn might be hundreds of years after Picard but still, hurts to kinda wipe the old captains away.

Starfleet Academy is post Burn?!? Why not post Picard? C'moooon!

I have been hoping for a Star Trek Legacy series since we saw the ending of Picard Season 3.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Still sick so watched section 31.

I'd say it's a typical heist movie, star trek or no. My first choice as the mole was wrong (I thought it was the lady who died, cuz y'know, it's always the one least likely, haha). Kinda sad funny cyborg guy died (I recognized the name Robery Kazinsky whatever as a dumb jock side character in that She's the Man comedy). Best new person is the squid really. Good he survived, haha.

Was this suppose to be a TV series? There seemed to be cuts for it.

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Anyhow, that's it, right? I'm done with all video trek media?

 

[Dekafox]

Yeah, it was originally going to be a TV series, then they cut it down into a movie just to get it released, after it spent years in production hell.

 

[Axaday]

I have still never seen that. Does anyone like it? It is the only Star Trek that I've never seen, so I guess I am supposed to get to it anyway?

 

[Thefakelink]

It’s just as easy to ignore it altogether.

 

[The Predaking]

So, we finally finished Star Trek Prodigy. Loved the ending! It may be a kids show, but it really works well as a Star Trek series. Loved that we got some more story after the fact and linked up with the Mars attack, and it gave us a little hope that the Federation would continue to explore with the Protostar A.

Although, one thing doesn't sit right with me. Why is the Federations shutting down the academy? Now is the time to recruit and train more people.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Prodigy got very epic actually. I wouldn't classify it a kids' show, like, if the cast was just older, there would be no reason to.

 

[The Predaking]

So, I have realized something, reading through your watch through of all the Star Trek series. I realized that I have not seen all of the TOS episodes. I watched it in syndication growing up on Fox as a kid, and a few tapes we recorded of classic episodes.

So I started watching some episodes I have never seen:


The Ultimate Computer.

No Idea how I never saw this episode. Kirk and Bones psychology conversations about Kirk's feelings for the M5 is great. The resolution to the M5 problem was sort of lame, but I did like how the other captain figured it out.


I love how by the time we get to TNG, the ship is basically using M5 like computer from this episode. Everything is automated and done by the computer that can speak to you in normal conversation.







Spock's Brain.


An interesting little story, formerly advanced aliens using ancient technology to remove Spock's brain to act as a computer controller for the female's underground base. Kirk and crew have some interesting scenes tracking the aliens, and Mccoy gets his iconic, "A child could do it!" scene. Another somewhat lame ending for this episode though given the serious nature of it.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

There's two eps of Strange New Worlds! But I'm waiting to watch it with friends.

Also borrowed this escape room type puzzle game that's Trek themed. Also waiting to play it with Trekkie friends.

 

[The Predaking]

So I just watched season 3 episode 4, And the Children Shall Lead.


Overall, it wasn't a bad episode, as I thought it was really advanced for caring about the kid's psychological damage. Still, one they started fist pumping, I don't see why they couldn't just whack them over the head and throw them into the brig. It seemed that the extent of their powers was limited to mental control of people only, and even Kirk showed that that control could be beaten. Still, the ending was good, but Kirk never went back for his away team that they left on the planet. One nitpick, why did the transporter even work if they were out of orbit?

 

[Ceir]

Game time!

Picked up a copy of Star Trek: Captain's Chair recently. It's a VP-acquiring deckbuilder with some neat mechanics, the gameplay is pretty standard daisy-chaining engine mechanics to claim cards and gain VPs, and there are a couple of options for solitaire mode. The base set has six characters: Picard, Shran, Koloth, Sisko, Sela, and Burnham; and I've done at least basic run-throughs with the first three in Stupid Bot solitaire mode, plus trying a two-handed game of Picard vs. Shran that came out closer than I expected. (Stupid Bot basically turns it into a solitaire puzzle for 'score as high as possible', as opposed to the actual automata that plays cards and actively opposes you.)

It's dense and crunchy for its size, lots of keywords and icons and if/then/when mechanics; and it's a Wizkids game so everything's maybe just a little too overengineered and fiddly. I'm not normally big on deckbuilders like this, but for me it's the Star Trek factor - I wouldn't have gone for the original game it's based on, something called 'Imperium'. But I do appreciate the variety in what you get, they're not afraid to pull deep cuts for cards, and the expansions look like some more fun characters - more TOS, Lower Decks, Disco, and Enterprise rep.

 

[Daith]

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

We also got this....

I'm sure the Tellarites are very confused at this point.

 

[Donocropolis]

Took the family out to California for a week. We hit the Sequoias and Disneyland. You know what's right in between those two things? THE rocks. The Vasquez rocks. My wife had me pose for a picture and then edited it a bit:

I'm the one on the left.

Luckily, I was able to form a rudimentary lathe.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

I'm finally going to watch the new Strange New Worlds eps with friends this Sunday. It would be five eps to group watch (plus the gorn part 1 ep of last season.). Can't wait.

 

[The Predaking]

I need to get caught up on SNW myself. I just got a new projector, so I might use that to watch it.

 

[Ceir]

I'm finally going to watch the new Strange New Worlds eps with friends this Sunday. It would be five eps to group watch (plus the gorn part 1 ep of last season.). Can't wait.

SNW is not without its flaws, but it's certainly the most fun I've had with modern live-action Trek so far. The show clicked for me really quickly, and it's such a different tone from Disco or Picard; which of what I have seen , I haven't really enjoyed all that much.

Speaking of (re)watching, I'm pushing myself to up my treadmill/stationary bike time by running one-episode sessions, and I've made the perhaps ill-advised decision to start TNG in order. Does anyone actually care about TNG spoilers at this point? 'cause I'm probably going to slap out a few sentences of commentary on episodes once a week, or whenever.