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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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This season is really shaping up to the the Summer of Rhys, which is an unexpected surprise.

I was glad to hear the bit about the Breen using transwarp tunnels - it was bugging me that they were seemingly able to zip around the known galaxy nearly as quickly as Discovery.

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This is really the kind of Trek-adjacent topic that c/quarks was set up for, but since this should be a definitive indiation that “Legacy” is not going to happen any time soon, I think we’ll allow it.

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'Star Trek' Franchise Reboot: Simon Kinberg Eyed for Paramount Movie

So now this just sounds like a Trek prequel, not specifically a Kelvin prequel.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-movie-franchise-reboot-paramount-1235904930/

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The strategy on the film side of things remains an incoherent mess, and I think we should all take this with a massive grain of salt as long as phrases like, “is in talks to,” are being thrown around.

But sure, okay. At this point, I’ll take any progress over no progress.

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I never pass up on an opportunity to share Simon Pegg’s thoughts on the matter - he wrote one of the films, so I think his opinion should carry some weight:

Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?).

This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s.

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Oh make no mistake, I’m on record as not really caring whether we ever see another theatrical Star Trek film. In my opinion, it’s a TV franchise at its core, and it can stay there as far as I’m concerned.

But I’m pretty sick of the tedius “will they/won’t they” shenanigans at Paramount.

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Yeah, my simplified headcanon explanation is that the Kelvin universe was always there, and Spock and Nero happened to tunnel into it.

If you want to add the wrinkle that the red matter implosion somehow created it (which the original film seems to suggest)…well, it’s more complicated, but it works, too.

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For some reason, TrekCore has many more stills than TrekMovie.

Good to see President Rillak out of hiding…

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At this point, I want whatever’s going to happen to happen already…

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Yeah, it’s hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.

I’ve never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn’t make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.

But as always, there are no true “good guys” at this level.

My favourite art from the first edition of Star Trek Adventures

Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures TTRPG is getting a second edition this year, and the last of the sourcebooks for first first edition has been published, so I thought I would go through the entire collection and share some of my favourite art from the game....

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Clicked for the Klingon/Andorian hockey game, was not disappointed.

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Captain Picard falls asleep; dreams of some dead people.

DISCO S5 has been phenomenal

Two episodes to go. I’m gutted this is going to be the end, just as the show truly found its stride and grew the beard. Feels a lot like the end of Enterprise. Every season has been better than the last, and the earlier episodes were pretty good. I recently started rewatching S1 after getting an IRL friend into it and he’s...

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I think it’s great that every season has its fans - I’m a season three guy, myself.

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Once again, I can confirm that this giveaway is legitimate - good luck!

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I found it unexpectedly upsetting when the shelving was taking hits from the Breen.

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I thought the “challenge” was a little on the obvious side, but then it’s the sort of thing that would be obvious to someone not undergoing it.

Book’s reaction to the Kweijian artifact was probably David Ajala’s best work on the series so far, really great stuff.

Moll usurped the Primarch perhaps a little too easily, but I like Eve Harlow’s performance enough that I really don’t care.

Lastly, it’s a small thing, but I thought the Badlands looked really great. They finally seem as hellish as they’ve always been described.

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The Breen might have the ability to destroy the Archive, but with Discovery gone, it wouldn’t gain them anything and how ever long it took them would be time lost for chasing Discovery.

That’s a hell of a gamble if your objective is to protect civilians (and likely a gamble they would lose, considering the Breen’s actions).

why didn’t Discovery prepare a fake clue?

I think the answer is the same - it’s not something you want to screw around with if you’re trying to save lives.

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Turns out holographic facsimiles of people you know get bored, too.

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the Klingon(?) lady

Efrosian, apparently!

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This is the first mention of a sa-te kru on screen, but the cat like predator from Vulcan/Ni’Var originated in a six page comic called “When Worlds Collide: Spock Confronts the Ultimate Challenge” written by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and drawn by Paul Pope that was published in a 2009 issue of “Wired”.

Okay, deep cut to something I didn’t know existed…

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Vulcans lie all the time.

When Vulcans do it, it’s called “hallucinating”.

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When it’s to help someone save face, it’s a totally different scenario - everyone knows that!

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I’m seeing speculation all over the map, so I’m going to withhold judgment.

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It does sound like they’re retaining the Star Trek license in some form - I wonder if that will include ships, and they just can’t talk about it yet.

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I’m hardly a TAS expert - I’ve seen it all, but only once - but I think “Yesteryear” is considered the highest point of that series.

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I’m also going to give a shout-out to “The Magicks of Megas-Tu,” The One Where They Meet Satan.

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In this case, I completely disagree - I think they’ve come up with something pretty unique and compelling.

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One thing that always bugged me about the mystery of the Breen is that it shouldn’t actually be a mystery - Kira and Dukat take the refridgeration suits off a couple of Breen in “Indiscretion.”

Introducing c/DoctorWho!

We’ve been interested in hosting communities that aren’t exactly Star Trek, but also make a certain kind of sense for this instance for a while. - Quark’s was the first step, and now we’ve decided to pull the trigger on !doctorwho - with the new season up and running, this seems like as good a time as any. Whovians new...

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Guess what! I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell sci-fi discussion spaces!

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“Up the Long Ladder.”

You’re choosing violence, and I love it.

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Yeah, I called “Darmok” unconventional because of the two-actor stage play aspect of it, but it’s a borderline case. I’ll allow it.

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Yeah, and that really underlines the point that the “representative” episode of each series probably has very different properties.

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I think we need to move past the idea that “average” equates to “bad” - by definition, most episodes are going to be pretty average, and that’s okay!

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“Civil Defence”

Yeah, I dig it. It’s also very heavy on Bajoran/Cardassian conflict, which I think needs to be in there to be most representative of the series.

Solid list all around!

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It does seem that RTD is going harder into serialization this time around - the Ruby story reminds me a lot of Clara’s tenure with Eleven (which wasn’t the best, but what can you do?).

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Is it wise casting a drag queen as a villain given all the anti-drag queen sentiment?

Gosh, what a loaded question! I think it ultimately boils down to a question of representation - these things shouldn’t be a problem in isolation, but they can be a problem if it’s part of a greater pattern. It does sound like Davies is intent on weaving queerness throughout all aspects of this series, so that will probably make a difference.

I was convinced the lost chord was going to be the mystery chord that opens A Hard Day’s Night.

I had the legendary chord from “A Day in the Life” in mind, which of course isn’t really possible on a single piano (at least, not to its full effect).

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