Star Trek 4:

spronk said:

only tangentially related but there is a Galaxy Quest documentary coming out, its screening via fathom events this upcoming tuesday at 7pm at a few theaters. A really bizarre day and time, and only the shitty theaters around me so i'll just wait for the VOD

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary | Fathom Events

By all accounts, it was a movie that beat all odds: Surviving a set fire, the loss of a powerful director, and a studio that didn’t understand what it had, “Galaxy Quest” turned into a pop-culture phenomenon that would “never give up, never surrender.”

www.fathomevents.com

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if i see it one of the "usual places" i'll send you a pm.

The Galaxy Quest documentary is by the Fandom/Screen Junkies people, really should support them by paying for it if you want to watch it.

Arbitrary said:

Trek into Darkness was awful but the third one was a perfectly acceptable space adventure. I'm fine getting more of that.

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Alot of that had to do with Simon Pegg.

Big Phoenix said:

Am I the only one who thinks they fucked up by not using Intergalatic?

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It's a callback to that terrible opening scene in the first film where kid Kirk steals his stepdad's car and speeds off a cliff while Sabotage plays.

But picking a different Beastie Boys song might have been amusing as well.

Falxy-US said:

I'm just curious if any of it was budget related? I mean, it had to be pretty cheap to film most of it in modern day San Francisco instead of hours of space sets ???

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i think they had the cash, but they had to change things up and time travel was the thing back then. who knows

Dom said:

It would have made for an amazing two-part episode. It was really damn weak as a movie though

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There's an episode that's exactly the same but Picard doesn't disobey orders and it's Wesley that insurrects.

Frenzied Wombat said:

BH though, and this will be an unpopular opinion, I didn't even like TNG the TV show. Every character was a boring diversity hire cliche, and most of the episodes were about intergalactic feelz. The Borg was the only saving story arc.

Imho, it's TOS, then Voyager, Deep Space Nine, then Enterprise, then TNG.

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My nickname for Voyager's captain has been Den Mom Janeway for as long as I can recall. Voyager's proximity to the Borg and Species 8472, before they turned them into lame ass mimics, saved the show for me. That and some of the doctor's episodes when he wasn't giving those tiresome romance lessons to 7 of 9.

Chris said:

There's an episode that's exactly the same but Picard doesn't disobey orders and it's Wesley that insurrects.

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It like, yeah, was an episode... Federation hiding in the hills watching and something happens... just no worf zit and trio's firm tit jokes.

The TNG movies all suffered from "bout dat data!" Syndrom... I hope Picard does not lead too much on him

Goatface said:

Next ‘Star Trek’ Film To Be Directed By ‘WandaVision’s Matt Shakman; Script By Lindsey Beer & Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Matt Shakman has made a deal to direct the next untitled Star Trek film for Paramount and Bad Robot's JJ Abrams.

deadline.com

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I don't care about the gender of the writers right up until it's being framed as a selling point. This is just one news blurb so it's whatever but if we are constantly hearing about female writers female writers female writers that's not a great sign.

edit - Geneva Robertson-Dworet wrote Captain Marvel. Beer's writing credits look to be nothing? She's attached to some decent looking things in per-production or that have been announced but I have no idea how she landed those gigs.

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I don't care about the gender of the writers right up until it's being framed as a selling point. This is just one news blurb so it's whatever but if we are constantly hearing about female writers female writers female writers that's not a great sign.

edit - Geneva Robertson-Dworet wrote Captain Marvel. Beer's writing credits look to be nothing? She's attached to some decent looking things in per-production or that have been announced but I have no idea how she landed those gigs.

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this is where the Star Trek brand is at. you know there will be a female captain and claim it was the first woman captain and she broke all the glass celings from sexist star trek beurocracy to get where she is. the plot will be focused around an evil white man who is planning on destroying a planet's(Earth) climate and needs to be stopped. blah blah blah, the script writes itself. nobody cares anymore because Star Trek has been dead for a long time now.

mkopec said:

They cannot do this because Star Trek world is based around a society that has went through all that and finally reached its utopia. In other words sexism, racism and all the other isms dont exist anymore.

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-laughs in clownworld where your sexist canon no longer exists.

there used to be 13 doctors in Doctor Who as well.

mkopec said:

They cannot do this because Star Trek world is based around a society that has went through all that and finally reached its utopia. In other words sexism, racism and all the other isms dont exist anymore.

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I'm guessing you didn't watch Picard.

I envy you.