General Star Trek thread

Duet took me by surprise on a one of my DS9 rewatches. It is a far stronger story than what you would expect from a Season 1 episode…let alone a Season 1 Bottle episode that barely goes beyond the Security office.

Fantastic writing and of course acting from Harris Yulin as Marritza. One of those episodes that are perfect to just listen to.

So currently doing the rounds on my YouTube feeds are the usual Doomcock-esque characters declaring that Kurtzman-era Trek has essentially ended. Much of the commentary is based on this article:

https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/03/for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade-no-star-trek-tv-is-in-production-or-greenlit/

While those YouTube talking heads might be dancing around the imagined funeral pyre of Kurtzman's Trek career, I will only believe it once it is reported as real. Kurtzman has been "on his way out" of Trek production for the guts of 5 years now if those commentors are to be believed.

But the possibilty in itself is worth considering. With the possibility of Paramount buying WB, a lot of stuff might be on pause while they work out their finances, and if what TrekMovie are reporting is true…no new Trek is being made right now. Academy has wrapped for the Second season and SNW has finished entirely. If no 3rd Season of Academy is ordered, nor a new Trek show is made (like the rumored Star Trek: United with Federation President Archer) then…that's it for now. No Trek.

Some might call it franchise fatigue, and that it would be time to give the show a rest. This was the case by the end of the Berman era…but this potential new pause in Trek does not feel the same like it did last time. I feel that the franchise isn't as much "fatigued", but instead "worn raw" with the various poor attempts to actually continue the Trek story. Discovery lasted far too damn long when it was clear that it wouldn't work. Picard took 3 seasons to figure out what it could do well with just one season. All while Kurtzman's pet project Section 31 hung around the franchise like a multi-million-dollor albatros.

SNW and Lower Decks were good Trek, and deserved more resouces to keep going longer.

I'm a bit of broken record in this, but I firmly believe that Kurtzman was the wrong steward for a renewed Trek universe, and he served as more of a blockade to successful Trek than a sponsor of it. Good Trek appered to be made in spite of him rather than thanks to him. I do hope hope that if Kurtzman and his produciton house actually lose their Trek licence, that a new showrunner of Trek is carefully chosen this time (and not on the basis of having worked with JJ on the 2009 film). With any luck there is still a chance for good Trek in the future.

This is very good. 

It's AI slop.

Better than the one where they're all gearing up for Netflix and chill with each other anyway.

1,000 times this!

I don't mind seeing AI Slop, because some can be good. And interests me on what some people put thoughts into generating with it. Is that suppose to be Wil Wheaton in red. Doesn't really look like him?

An AI slop warning would be nice for people so they can chose not to play.

I know the channel it is from is coded top right, if people looked close enough.