Star Trek: Section 31

I think I could like it a lot more if it didn't have generic cyborg man and tiny alien in golum man.

That's saying something coming from a person who looks like they have a Michael Bay Transformers avatar 🤣

My god, they are like the worst type of knock off sh1te you'd see being flogged off on Moore Street when there is a Taylor Swift or Rihanna concert or something in town. Can practically see Da-knockoff buying a load of t-shirts for 2.50 in Penny's and Ma-knockoff and the kids ironing on the dodgy homemade transfers.

Oh absolutely but you wouldn't expect it from official merch. It looks like the very definition of Temu or Ali-Express (unless I missed a point and it was just Cookie-based advertising instead of official merch)

Anyway, I LOVED S1 of SNW. Thought it was the best season 1 of any trek (Although you could argue that their Disco episodes could be considered S1). Season 1 knocked it out of the park. Season 2 less so but still great. And looking forward to season 3.

But

If a forced break after the reception of this movie and the general "meh" attitude of the academy series requires a break for a couple of years to replan/reevaluate? Then I can live with that. A breather is not always a bad thing or sign of lack of interest. Give us one more season of SNW. Then break for 3-4 years and come out with something totally unrelated to Disco or Picard series it's anything else.

I will suffer the loss of Lower Decks and SNW if we could get away from the rest of the current generic dross.

LD and SNW work because the people involved see these shows as Trek and not product and it is glaringly obvious. The rest? Make a CW series.

But. If you sacrifice the the superb LD and SNW for sh1te then....

It was a very different TV environment, and I do miss the 20+ episode seasons it used to produce. The main problem is how many consume a TV show these days. With transmission Television you had to fill a programming block to get your advert revenue. That was built around the high broadcast season of TV channels, thus needing those 20+ episodes. You also had a much leaner production. Fairly often TNG-era Trek episodes were being shot only a couple of months ahead of first broadcast. With a handful of exceptions for block-buster episodes, they hadn’t the luxury to rewrite or reshoot too much. They had to get efficient and efficiency led to longer seasons.

But the streaming world is very different. There’s no advert block to fill, and depending on budget there doesn’t seem to be much stigma in reshooting stuff. They’re not being pushed by other factors to make 20+ episodes, and so they happily wallow in the new norm of only 10.

This routinely annoys the hell out of me when I find a new show I like these days (Silo for example; f*cking brilliant) but know that I’ll only get 2-3 months of new stuff before I have to wait a whole year…or longer…for new episodes.

oh dear god.

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I. Just l.

It's his bosses need firing and they probably will be when the takeover is complete. Paramount+ has been mostly a disaster.

Kurtzmann is locked in until at least 2026 and because it's his production company who hold all the physical and digital designs it will be much cheaper to extend that deal. So don't hold your breath.

That's not the point. Reusing assets is cheaper which is why we saw stupid stuff like Discovery shuttles in Picard.

If the new owners want quick returns they will just stick with Kurtzmann. And why wouldn't they when you have fans praising SNW which is the only currently running show.

now that I’ve calmed down a wee bit…

I will admit to not watching it all. The Vulcan accent though. Why?

"And why wouldn't they when you have fans praising SNW which is the only currently running show."

What do you mean currently running? Season 2 ended ages ago and we are still awaiting season 3. Anyone know what the story with Prodigy is? Is it finished now or what?

Thank. Yes I looked it up after. Forget they had cancelled it. Such a pity.

Yes a big miss by Paramount there such a pity.

Got about 45 mins into it in two sittings. The Vulcan is really into "you couldn't make this **** up even though they just did" territory. I dislike him less than the Juggernaut dude though.

Juggernaut dude just makes no sense for what we have seen in Star Trek. There is just absolutely no need for all that bulky tech.

save yourself the inevitable hangover. Don’t.

Well watched the lot. Doesn't get any better in the second half. At least it's something to shut up the sanctimonious "All Trek is good Trek" doses.