It’s arguably only Prodigy that has faced a similarly unfortunate fate

This is certainly true by the standards laid out, but I’m struck by the fact that the only new series that was more-or-less free of studio fuckery was Picard (which certainly had its own issues).

I think Shatner is complicated because (a) he’s 95 years old, and can’t be expected to be fully “in touch,” and (b) he has definitely had some questionable people handling his social media over the years.

Well, he’s certainly in a better position to know than any of us in the peanut gallery.

Let’s hope they get it over with and make an announcement sooner, rather than later.

Couldn’t read your comment beyond the first few letters, 0/10.

Hmm, that is a very interesting data point.

It does seem like Paramount+ has a problem with drawing younger people - stuff aimed at younger demographics doesn’t seem to last long (with the exception of Spongebob). I always thought SFA’s success was a bit of a long shot for that reason.

And ironically, merging with HBO Max might actually help with that, but it won’t come soon enough.

Well, damn.

There’s inevitably (and understandably) going to be a lot of speculation about what, exactly, led to this decision, but…in the absence of any further information, I’m just going to be bummed about it.

I don’t have a satisfying answer for that one - wireless power transfer is NBD in the TNG era, so maybe it’s just an extreme version of that?

Reno once had a line about replacing the warp plasma conduits with “polaric” ones, so maybe they don’t use plasma at all?

But the Athena seems to, so 🤷

I’ll go for a deeper cut and say the Nova class. Small, purpose-built, and pretty cool-looking.

I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.

In “Scavengers”, right after Discovery gets her refit, Saru says, “even her nacelles are now detached, improving maneuverability and enabling us to be more efficient in flight.”

I found this pretty puzzling, but it eventually dawned on me that the explanation is probably seen most clearly with Book’s ship. There are a few times when we see his ship rearrange itself on the fly to navigate the many, many debris fields present in the post-Burn galaxy - it looks like the detached bits let them dodge debris without actually changing their course or speed.

We do get a glimpse of Discovery doing something similar late in season 5, when they ram their way into the Breen dreadnaught - the nacelles tuck themselves up and behind the saucer, reducing the ship’s profile.

I’d like to see a little more scrutiny of the way the media reports on and frames these things, too.

There are far too many stories that basically start and end at “this government project will cost X millions/billions/whatever,” without putting any effort into exploring whether that’s a lot of money in context. It’s always going to sound like a lot without proper analysis.

It was a bizarre choice to exclude Sam and Quorra, but all things considered they did it pretty well. Shame we will likely never get the continuation that they laid the groundwork for.

Your comment reminded me that I still hadn’t seen Tron: Ares, so I rectified that tonight.

It’s…perfectly fine? It looked cool, it sounded cool, it had a basic plot that worked well enough. That meets the threshold of Tron expectations for me.

I assume you’re referring to Kurtzman, but it seems to be like that’s exactly what he’s doing? Of the six series we’ve had under his watch, he’s been the showrunner of two of them. The rest of them seemed to be fairly free to execute their creative vision, for good or ill.

That, I’m not so opposed to. No sense in visiting that time period if you’re not going to check in on the status quo of the neighbours!

The Rios one is a lot of fun if you enjoyed “A Piece of the Action”…

almost an anthology of legacy characters being visited by the Titanprise with the bridge full of offspring.

Oof, that would be real uninteresting, to me.

I’d watch it, and I’m sure they could do great things with it…but as presented, Terry Matalas’ vision left me pretty cold. Captain Seven was definitely the most compelling part of it all (and Raffi, I do like Raffi), but it mostly just seemed to be, “here’s a new Enterprise in that era that you miss!”

And that’s fine…but it doesn’t really point to a compelling story on its own. But take the basic premise, give it to another showrunner, and jettison Jack Crusher into the nearest black hole, and you have my attention.

thanks for the recommendation, BTW

Hey, you’re welcome! I stalled out on the Riker one, which I guess is the third one. I should pick it up again one of these days.

I don’t particularly want it to happen, based on what we saw in PIC’s third season, but I feel like Sirtis is a little…confused here.

The oldest cast members of the hypothetical series would be Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd - everyone else would be a recurring guest star, at most…