I can't join them on the picket lines, but writing letters? I'm in! Sadly, my missives won't be on Star Trek themed stationery. Paramount marketing team, get cracking on that. LLAP WGA & SAG/AFTRA.
Permanently Deleted
The Thing (1982) is another favorite film of mine. It's a lot more faithful to John W. Campbell's novella, "Who Goes There?" than the 1951 film, but I enjoy both takes.
Permanently Deleted
I don't have a favorite, but many favorite science fiction films. Here are a few of them:
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Dark City (1998)
Thing From Another World (1951)
I think Tendi is always great. The moment of her going full on Orion Pirate was absolutely wonderful. "That thing has a tooth remover?" "Shh. I'm pirating! Let's go!" (s3e6)
Yes! I'm not even going to try to imagine how LD will handle a Tuvix situation, but I'm betting it will be good. If I had a list of things that would never be LD episodes, that episode title that's a play on the name of a Harlan Ellison short story, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," would be on that list. Mr. Ellison's short story is the antithesis of humorous. But, LD continues to pleasantly surprise me.
Rolling with those are LD season 4 titles, oh, there's more Badgey. That he was still around was set up before, but this is a possible confirmation. I think Badgey and Peanut Hamper have the most out there performances. I'm both intrigued and appalled at the possibility of a new Badgey appearance. I can't tell from the titles, but I'm hoping for a William Boimler appearance in season 4.
Go team Star Trek fans! LLAP.
"The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses."
"Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it."
Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall
This is the narrative the AMPTP started with, and they were fine with it. Add to that Bob Iger's you did not just say that ... yes, you did, comment. Yet, they are surprised the Snidely Whiplash type of messaging cast the AMPTP in a bad light? So now they hire a new crisis PR Firm.
AMPTP, stop spending time and money trying to look better to the public. Get to negotiating.
Strange no ENT representation in the promotion. Also strange, isn't that Murf from Prodigy on the right side, middle outer edge of the Animated Celebration promotional image? If it is, I'm not going to read anything into it. I don't see any other Prodigy characters, but sharper eyes than mine might.
I get what they were going for with the song, but it's a swing and a miss for me. I think the opening credits montage fits perfectly with the show, but not the song. When I watch ENT, the only time I don't mute the sound during the opening credits is for "In a Mirror, Darkly, Parts 1 and 2."
" ... another 'space theme for nerds,' so to speak ... "
Not so to speak. Exactly that. Give me the orchestral story telling. Give me that epic space theme.
Lol. That was it. I'm glad TNG had more seasons, getting better and better as time went on.
Yeah. The TOS cast did movies, but there's a difference between doing a film and doing a weekly series. TOS was comfort viewing, and fans were going to fan in wanting more of the same.
What? Meta and its ilk pulled this just to be petty? I don't understand how behavior like this doesn't result in an immediate exodus from those platforms. At least as fast as is possible.
I'm aware. So is the newspaper article this post is about.
A lot, I think. At the time of TNG's initial broadcast, TOS was omnipresent in syndication. And outside of TAS, the only Star Trek series at the time. Star Trek fans watched the heck out of TOS. Then, the Star Trek movies with the TOS cast. The first four films were released before TNG first aired.
Thanks for the clarification.
I think that Meta and Twitter playing games with people's lives is loathsome. Meta and Twitter could have allowed for news links during the emergency. The money cost would be negligible for Meta, but be possibly lifesaving for people in the area of the emergency. But, Meta seemingly isn't about people, outside of using them as commodities. Twitter (I'm not playing the name game with that one) is continuing its slide into whatever self-made miasma awaits it. I'm not surprised by either platform's behavior. Just very disappointed.
There were Star Trek fans at the time screaming from the rooftops about how TNG would ruin Star Trek. Before TNG even aired. But, there were also Star Trek fans who, while disappointed to not have the TOS crew back, were curious about what TNG was going to bring to the table. And, really happy to have a Star Trek series again. But, "Curious Trekkies Wait to See What's What with TNG" wasn't going to sell as many papers and stir up as much drama.
Just a question, not a judgement. Meta states, " ... that government sites and other sources that disseminate information aren't subject to the ban." Is it that news sites have more up-to-date and relevant information than government sites?
Henry Alonso Myers, one of the SNW executive producers, said in an interview that, " ... people are gonna say, "There's no tension because we know everyone survives." And we wanted to say, "What if not everyone survives?" And part of that was also to see our characters go through loss."
With TV series, the "kill off a well liked character so that the audience knows this is serious," approach frustrates me. I think it's lazy. What I think is difficult is having a strong story with strong writing that makes the audience believe that a character(s) is in peril in the moment. Hemmer's death did nothing to change that legacy characters (Pike, Spock, Uhura, and more) are not going to die during SNW. Being Star Trek, I have to say that at least they won't stay dead.
I think that they had lightning in a bottle with Hemmer. That was the time to rethink killing him off. The "seeing the SNW characters go through loss" rationale is shaky and doesn't ring true to me. From TOS through PIC, the main characters have grieved the deaths of any they cannot save.
The EP explanation of needing Hemmer's demise in order to grow Uhura as a character is ridiculous. In SNW, Uhura is already dealing with loss. Hemmer being there to help guide her growth through such turmoil makes a lot more sense to me than piling on more grief and loss.
Henry Alonso Myers Interview: Star Trek Strange New Worlds, July 7, 2022
Yeah, I'm a frustrated fan of Hemmer.
TOS has such episodes.
Yonadans in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" s3e8.
To a lesser extent the people on Beta III in "The Return of the Archons" s1e21. They don't know how to work the technology, but they fear more than worship Landru.
Maybe the people on Gamma Trianguli VI in "The Apple" s2e5, although I don't remember whether or not they were descendants who lost knowledge of technology and just started worshiping Vaal.