NakedMoleRat
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This is starting to look like a big budget Sid and Marty Croft production.
Star Trek comedy series in development
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The problem with that is people still watch and it all contributes toward the streaming numbers which are an even more accurate measure of viewership than the old Nielsen system and it seems enough people are watching for them to make more of this terrible excuse for Star Trek. And so the Kurtzman contact gets renewed year on year.
The "it's bad but I still watch" or "it may not be the quality we deserve but it's entertaining enough" kind of attitudes all contribute to viewership.
I'm not telling people not to enjoy anything, fill your boots, get what you can out of anything you want to watch. But, that does mean we will never get anything better when the powers that be know "this is good enough".
I gave up on Star Trek when Enterprise got cancelled and have only watched one episode of Disco and one of Picard season one and knew straight away this wasn't the Star Trek I knew and loved.
We will never get what we had between 1966 and 2005, I'm just grateful I have the DVDs and Blurays so I can revisit those great stories and characters whenever I need some quality entertainment.
Prop Collector
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They're finally giving the fans what they've been begging for lo these many years.
universaljoint
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It seems to me like the IP holders of Star Trek are doing everything they can to make Star Trek as non-Star Trek as possible.
SNW seems to be taking the comical turn into nonsense (see a crossover with a cartoon (that I actually liked) and a musical ep, and a ship that flies like a fighter jet). We have a cartoon that while I find incredibly amusing and good, should be considered more parody than it apparently is. Prodigy, while it looks good, it still seems too goofy in so many regards. The new S31 movie just sounds like a bad joke. And Starfleet Academy: 90210 sounds like it's going to be another discovery soap opera.
And now a comedy series...
Here's Star Trek. Just create as many shows as possible, call them Star Trek, add some ****** uniforms and LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of empty references, and call it all good.
I know it's not going to be popular because of so many people's hate on for Disney, but I wish they owned Star Trek. For all of Disney's misses, they still manage to put out a lot of decent things. Even their misses are far superior to what Star Trek is now.
SNW seems to be taking the comical turn into nonsense (see a crossover with a cartoon (that I actually liked) and a musical ep, and a ship that flies like a fighter jet). We have a cartoon that while I find incredibly amusing and good, should be considered more parody than it apparently is. Prodigy, while it looks good, it still seems too goofy in so many regards. The new S31 movie just sounds like a bad joke. And Starfleet Academy: 90210 sounds like it's going to be another discovery soap opera.
And now a comedy series...
Here's Star Trek. Just create as many shows as possible, call them Star Trek, add some ****** uniforms and LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of empty references, and call it all good.
I know it's not going to be popular because of so many people's hate on for Disney, but I wish they owned Star Trek. For all of Disney's misses, they still manage to put out a lot of decent things. Even their misses are far superior to what Star Trek is now.
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Starganderfish
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I was going to say the same thing. They seem bound and determined to NOT make Star Trek, and instead just slap the Trek label on whatever crap their stable of talentless writers pump out. You’d think that given every show has between 20 and 40 producers in it’s opening credits, someone in that moras would have some hint of talent?
In all of the dross, would it kill them to just make one show that actually felt like Star Trek?
I do have to disagree with the Disney suggestion though. The Marvel TV shows have been a seriously mixed bag with some real stinkers, and their film projects have been floundering recently. Then you take a look at Star Wars and the movies have been almost universally disastrous and the TV shows are again, a massively mixed bag.
For every great Andor or …damn I’m struggling to think of a top notch MCU TV show… I guess Loki?… for every good show Disney pumps out with their acquired IP’s, there seems to be 5-10 times as many flops. Now sure, that’s statistically better than Trek which seems to be almost ALL flops, but it’s not super compelling.
The best fan argument for Disney taking over Trek is that they also own Fox, so they have a long-standing if tumultuous relationship with Seth McFarlane who is an avowed Trek fan and is the only guy to actually produce a recognisably Trek(ish) show in the last 20 or so years. I would actually be interested in McFarlane producing an official Trek show. Honestly, if you absolutely had to make a Trek comedy show, McFarlane could do it a lot better than this Simien guy that Paramount has hired. HIS credits seem to be one moderately successful Sundance Indie film a decade ago and nothing else really of note…
I keep hoping that Trek will redeem itself but every new tease, hint or announcement is another nail in a coffin that is 90% nails by this point.
universaljoint
Member
The Orville is probably what they're shooting for... And will fail dismally at it because they don't get what Seth MacFarlane understands: Star Trek, comedy, and how to tastefully merge the two.
NakedMoleRat
Master Member
Live action comedy.
Wagon train to the dumpster.
BB43MAN
Sr Member
What's going on with the writers/showrunners at CBS/Paramount? I thought it was bad with the "idea" of "Students/90210 In Space!" but, now I can only imagine the commericals for this comedy concept: "Don't miss the next episode of the wacky hijinks where Lt. Grabber has to give a massage to a horny Gorn!"
Don't give them plotlines for free
NakedMoleRat
Master Member
I submit to to you…
Star Trek: Squirrel
Because who doesn’t love the zany antics of those little rascals?
Star Trek: Squirrel
Because who doesn’t love the zany antics of those little rascals?
This is what happens to s franchise on its final stages. You turn it into a comedy and a parody of the original. Happened to the classic universal monsters. Once they stopped being scary we got comedy films with those characters.
Then you have to wait until everyone has forgotten those old movies before you can try and reboot again.
Then you have to wait until everyone has forgotten those old movies before you can try and reboot again.
They could do an action/comedy where Kirk & Spock make an epic illegal run to deliver a freighter full of Romulan Ale back to Earth. Along the way Kirk picks up a cute half-Borg girl fleeing from a wedding, with an irate bumbling Klingon captain in hot pursuit.
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NakedMoleRat
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Tom Paris is testing an experimental shuttle craft capable of reaching warp 10.
Janeway gets caught up in the hilarity and at warp 10 they trigger an evolutionary change, turn into large salamanders and start a family on an alien planet.
No…wait…
Janeway gets caught up in the hilarity and at warp 10 they trigger an evolutionary change, turn into large salamanders and start a family on an alien planet.
No…wait…
You kidding? He'd be a freaking dynamo!!!
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