Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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I started the Orville, into about 1/4 of the 2nd season. It's alright...they already wrote out my favourite character, but at least she parted in a better manner than her security officer counterpart in TNG...

It's alright. It doesn't quite fill that void left by TNG, and sometimes the scifi elements seem either cliched or closer to Sliders than Star Trek. I expected it to be funnier. I mean, some episodes are really funny, but most aren't.
There was rumours that she was written out because of conflicts with Mr. Macfarlane, as well as conflicting scheduling. However, I THINK she's coming back for the 3rd season. I THINK, I could be wrong.
 
Getting back to Strange New Worlds, the word is that it might be stuck in limbo like the Section 31 show. Apparently, Secret Hideout has this tendency to proclaim that a project is in the works, before actually having secured the money. That's what happened with Picard, they had that Comiccon announcement before actually securing funds, and Netflix had passed on it. However, Amazon saw an opportunity and gave them the money to do it.

However, like the other Secret Hideout/Bad Robot projects, the press releases to Section 31 nor Strange New Worlds have listed any International Distribution Partners nor any listings for the budget. Which means, it might not be a thing and may end up in the same spot as Section 31.

This is however, just rumour and educated speculation.
 
Didn't Discovery jump forward past the time of Next Generation?

It takes place about a decade before the Original Series.


So what happened to Pike in the prime universe?
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He was the captain in the first pilot, parts of which were worked into the episodes for The Menagerie story. I don't know if they say why he left the Enterprise.

He got promoted to Fleet Captain and started training cadets. He was injured in some kind of training accident. He got all the cadets out, but didn't make it out himself. Barely survived, clearly.

Not going to happen. This is the bridge of the Enterprise under Captain Pike now:


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ugh, why is Spock smiling?
Spock isn't smiling. Ethan Peck is smiling, along with Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn in that promotional photo :tongue:
 
It takes place about a decade before the Original Series.

Not anymore. They went over 900 years into the future at the end of season 2. They're now in the 32nd century. Next Generation, etc, takes place in the 24th
 
Not anymore. They went over 900 years into the future at the end of season 2. They're now in the 32nd century. Next Generation, etc, takes place in the 24th
... well... that’s a thing. That exists.

Clearly I need to watch season 2.
 
Not anymore. They went over 900 years into the future at the end of season 2. They're now in the 32nd century. Next Generation, etc, takes place in the 24th
Which, if memory serves, isn't that like the like the time period where the Federation figured out time travel. So is Secret Hideout going to ruining that now?
 
Which, if memory serves, isn't that like the like the time period where the Federation figured out time travel. So is Secret Hideout going to ruining that now?

28th Century was when they could communicate back in time, 29th was when they could physically travel. Daniels was from the 31st, so a century before Discovery jumped forward in time.
 
28th Century was when they could communicate back in time, 29th was when they could physically travel. Daniels was from the 31st, so a century before Discovery jumped forward in time.
According to Memory Alpha, the officially canon information site (or so it claims), the 29th Century is when the Federation has a couple of 'Timeships' in service. The Voyager Episode: Relativity is the main one I remember and is referenced. So... Apparently, Secret HIdeout is going to be playing there, or is this another 'Kelvin/Prime Universe' much up they've been trying to feed the fandom and failing.
 
I was quoting from Memory Prime as well (as the people the Suliban served were from the 28th Century). Discovery is in the 32nd, so 3 centuries later. That gives them plenty of room to do what they want without messing up what's been covered before. I doubt it's got anything to do with the Kelvin universe either. Why use that when the timeline they'll be using has never been shown before?
 
I was quoting from Memory Prime as well (as the people the Suliban served were from the 28th Century). Discovery is in the 32nd, so 3 centuries later. That gives them plenty of room to do what they want without messing up what's been covered before. I doubt it's got anything to do with the Kelvin universe either. Why use that when the timeline they'll be using has never been shown before?
So are they going to mention that the Federation have time travel craft? Are they going to mess around with that timeline again? Or do Secret Hideout prove once again, that they have no idea about anything but the cursory surface knowledge of Star Wars, I mean Trek?
 
So are they going to mention that the Federation have time travel craft? Are they going to mess around with that timeline again? Or do Secret Hideout prove once again, that they have no idea about anything but the cursory surface knowledge of Star Wars, I mean Trek?

I guess we'll find out when Season 3 drops
 
I guess we'll find out when Season 3 drops
You will, I won't. Discovery proved all I needed to know about Secret Hideout. I fought through Picard because I was hoping, against hope, that maybe Sir Stewart could somehow elevate the show. Instead... We got this.
 
I just had this random question pop up in my mind. It seems like the ships stay in service for over a hundred years. Don’t they eventually retire ships as they become outdated? I know Enterprise was rebuilt, but why not just retire the name? I guess the merchandising answer is $$$ but I was thinking “in universe”.
Hmm... old reply, but here we go.

The Constitution class was a workhorse exploration vessel of TOS and there was wreckage of many at Wolf 359 after the engagement with the borg. Many think they were emergency recommissioned from the fleet museum and this could be the case. the Excelsior, the direct successor of the Constitution was still in active service in great numbers during the Dominion War, as was the older Miranda design which was only slightly newer than the Constitution.
In TOS Era, ships seemed to have been refit about once a decade and lasted upwards of 50 years, but there was never any canon answer to this. The TG era ships are designed to be mudular and the Galaxy class (TNG Enterprise-D) was designed to last 100 years of service with regular 20 year complete refits. Entire decks of the Galaxy (Deck 8 for sure) were left as open space to allow for mission specific modules to be swapped out. With the Borg invasion and then the Dominion War, all Starfleet ships were recalled and refit at the onset of those conflicts, instead of their 20 year schedule. This is confirmed in writer discussions and the tech manuals.
Interim ships like the Excelsior was around 80 years base don on screen appearances and ship designation numbers.
So they do last a good long while... unless... plot happens.
 
Plot summary of The Cage and The Menagerie:

Astronaut is captured by psychic aliens and subsequently escapes. After being crippled in a terrible space accident, he accepts a gig working for his former captors as a porn star.

This is actually correct.
I... can't actually argue that assessment.
 
We now know where the money they got from the Simon & Shuster sale deal is going. To try and prop up CBS All- I mean Paramount+
 
We now know where the money they got from the Simon & Shuster sale deal is going. To try and prop up CBS All- I mean Paramount+

There's a lot of good programming on P+. Given I don't have cable or regular tv, being able to watch all the CBS shows I like matters more to me than Star Trek. I have yet to watch Picard, and only got half way through Season 1 of Discovery. Star Trek is hardly the only original programming on the service. There's likely as many fans (if not more) of The Good Fight as there are for Discovery and/or Picard
 
There's a lot of good programming on P+. Given I don't have cable or regular tv, being able to watch all the CBS shows I like matters more to me than Star Trek. I have yet to watch Picard, and only got half way through Season 1 of Discovery. Star Trek is hardly the only original programming on the service. There's likely as many fans (if not more) of The Good Fight as there are for Discovery and/or Picard
The problem for ViacomCBS is that it's CBS All-Access repackaged, and THEY know it, so they're instead of dropping Star Trek and letting it rest, they're trying to use Star Trek as a selling point. And after the disaster that STD and STP were, it's probably not going to work. But hey, stranger things have happened.
 
Yeah, I was gonna say the unofficial nickname for Discovery is "DISCO" because the usual 3-letter abbreviation would be either "DIS" or "STD."

JG
 
Yeah, I was gonna say the unofficial nickname for Discovery is "DISCO" because the usual 3-letter abbreviation would be either "DIS" or "STD."

JG
Disco is what the 'fans' and CBS wants it called, due to the fact that it's acronym is somewhat unfortunate.

But I think STD fits. It's caused by bad decisions, afflicts the young and simply won't go away.

That's a joke, Kids.
 
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