General Star Trek thread

Final part of the excellent Wolf 359 Massacre video series:

38 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered with the 2-parter "Encounter at Farpoint." which included an appearance by DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy passing the torch to the new cast and crew. Were you watching that day? What did you think? ~ From TrekMovie on 'Xitter'!

Has it been that long ago already? 2/3 of my life ago.

I loved Space Above and Beyond. It had this fantastic take on a space warfare with Earth having a proper "Space Navy" with everything that came with it.

But above all else, we kicked off the whole thing with R. Lee Emrey of Full Metal Jacket fame.

He's essentially the same character in this show. What gave Space Above and Beyond and even greater edge was that even Emrey's stone-hard Drill Sergent came across as terrified with the threat presented by the mysterious Chig aliens. It was the kind of edge we rarely got with Trek villians, with the possible exception of early Borg appearances.

It was a fantastic show, and a reboot (or even continuation) wouldn't be a bad idea. The show made a spirited attempt to use the CGI of the time, and it would certainly benefit from advances there over the past 30-odd years.

Jesus, right in front of me and I didn’t notice.

I’m doing a binge watch of S:AAB now, and it’s better than I remember. Haven’t actually rewatched since the 90’s.

I do notice a good few Trek faces poping up. There was one scene I just watched now where a Doctor on the USS Saratoga was one of the Enterprise E engineers in First Contact who got attacked by the Borg in the Jefferies Tube.

Paramount and Fox must have been pooling their actors from some shared agency/source back then.

Lip reading?

There does need to be a middle ground on series/episode length.

I have no problem with NOT having 22 episodes per season. Quality over quantity. However I think 10 should be the minimum. I also thing that episodes should be no shorter than 45 mins (The length of a traditional show). Some episodes of The Mandalorian were about 40 mins or even possibly less.

I get that SNW will have a truncated final season but that was instead of a (shudder - Don't mention that other thing) made for TV Movie. And will most likely be solely focused on winding up the SNW crew and bringing in the "TOS" crew. Well, as Spinal Tap would say: "The New Originals".

But look how the last season of Game of Thrones was impacted by the directors' impatience. Yes, there were other issues as well but the extremely truncated and rushed nature of the last season undid SO much of all the previous seasons.

"Hour Long" shows on TV stations had to be 45 mins to allow for ads etc. HBO etc did not rely upon ads so the shows tended to be closer to the hour to fill their timeslot. However streamers don't HAVE a time slot and an episode is an episode. "Hey, this season is 10 episodes long. Yeah, last season was 12 but this is just 2 fewer". Not so much.

Also, 2+ years between seasons really kills momentum.