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Watch: Anson Mount’s Audition Tape For Captain Lorca On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’
  • He didn’t necessarily know that Pike would be an option. He likely didn’t know that Lorca would be an MU character.

  • Star Trek: Niles
  • Isn’t that what the sitcom Tawny Newsome is developing will be?

  • Most energy-efficient method to cook brown rice?
  • We like brown rice baked in an ovenproof dish with a cover.

    In a typical 1200 w toaster oven toaster oven, that would be 1200 w. We have a rice cooker but tend to only use it for large amounts.

  • Interview: Mary Chieffo On Returning To Star Trek For A New Flavor Of Klingon In ‘Lower Decks’
  • She brought such positive energy to fans during her time on Discover.

    Her Twitter was full of enthusiasm. CBS was so much less limiting of the actors’ social media engagement. Paramount really hasn’t done well by limiting engagement to the EPs.

    It’s unfortunate there hasn’t been opportunity for her appear in Strange New Worlds.

  • Some Star Trek TAS background art (more in body)
  • It won the only series Emmy ever for the franchise.

  • Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore: Interview with Bob Picardo
  • It sounds like he was in premed when he met his wife, but then went on a different track while she became a physician.

  • Vaporeon Pokémon in crochet!
  • I have been working up to making one of the Pokemon in this book.

    Thanks for sharing - I am all the more motivated now!

  • I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet?
  • Controlled technology and not easily built from scratch even by Starfleet engineers.

    The Relaunch novelverse expanded the concept and importance of industrial replicators. When Voyager returned to the Delta Quadrant, she led an small ‘Full Circle’ fleet that included a large engineering ship that did have industrial replicators large enough to reconstruct ships when severely damaged.

    Lowere Decks and Prodigy have brought industrial replicators into onscreen canon.

    Prodigy gave the Protostar prototype ship an industrial replicator large enough to construct shuttles. Lower Decks has shown the Cerritos and other ships tasked with delivering and bringing online very large industrial replicators on planets seeking Federation support.

  • Nacelle Reveals First Eight Star Trek Action Figures at NYCC... With Plenty of Character Surprises!
  • It feels like the chose them to fill in the gaps in the collections of fans across every show and the movies - but also to profile legacy characters featured in new productions.

    Rachel Garrett is surely there because of S31 and Jellico is more popular than ever after Prodigy.

  • I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet?
  • Most structural starship components would require large industrial replicators.

    These seem to always be centrally located and powered.

    What someone can do with a small home model would be quite different.

  • One handsome devil before he realized that he had a brighter future as an engineer in the space navy than he did in the Canadian Army.
  • I saw him at a con in the late 80s.

    By way of concession, when responding not so enthusiastically to questions from the audience about the shenanigans Shatner and Nimoy got up to in order to blow off steam during long shooting days, Doohan said that since he’d been in real combat in WW2, he had a different approach to work and not a lot in common with them.

  • Thoughts on spouse watch order
  • TNG movies are tricky in that they do embed a few spoilers.

    If your wife doesn’t get into DS9, I’d consider hopping over to Voyager. It’s uneven throughout its run, but has many ‘best of trope’ episodes, and has proved to be the most successful entry series to the franchise of all of them.

  • Silly monkeys.
  • He doesn’t want to hear because he is known for blurting things out to media and fans…

  • I know a few kids. They know what a DVD is.
  • If they’re in primary school, start them off on Odd Squad.

    It’s a madcap Canadian TVO Kids (TV Ontario) public broadcaster educational math show that was made with partner funding from PBS in the United States, and is now available online in many other countries.

    The creators and writers clearly knew and referenced Star Trek.

    ‘The Trouble with Centigurps’ ’ episode is a straight up Tribble Trouble homage with skip counting.

    Here’s a season one Odd Squad trailer.

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
  • Thanks for the heads up.

    I can see that there might be a need to ensure some consultation in a sub, such as a notice period. Especially so for users that might wish to delete their post and comment history before a sub goes NSFW or private, but this is just another step.

    As if being an early adopter in selling all their content to train LLMs wasn’t enough to justify avoiding the place.

  • ♬ Pretty Vulcan, won't you pardon me? ♬
  • Ok, what I’m seeing in this picture is Coneheads.

  • Interview: Jonathan Del Arco Talks “Borg Spin-Off” That Became ‘Star Trek: Picard’ And Hugh’s Surprise Death
  • Here’s another take.

    We know that everything was reshaped to flatter and entice Patrick Stewart to come back and play Picard.

    He kept refusing and keep on insisting on Picard’s life should be a reflection of his own.

    But the suits at ViacomCBS (and later Paramount) put priority on greenlighting anything they could get with Picard as a character.

    So, whatever initial concepts with and without Picard were all sacrificed in the end in order to indulge Stewart enough to play the role.

  • New Star Trek Action Figure Line Coming From Nacelle
  • It’s absurd. Our kids ended up playing Star Trek with Playmobil’s space and ‘Future Planet’ planetary exploration lines. (I doubt these even still exist.)

    When the Star Trek line finally arrived it was only TOS.

  • Voyager takes a wrong wormhole at Albuquerque
  • All of which begs the question “How is it that Jeff Goldblum has not yet appeared in the Star Trek franchise”

  • It's good to be Locutus
  • And this is why Discovery and other new shows are only getting 5 seasons.

    Contracts are for 7 calendar years not seven seasons.

    With problems launching new shows, COVID-related slowdowns and a writers strike, Discovery managed to produce 5 seasons in 7 years.

  • Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15)

    Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration.

    These include the MMP Star Trek Online, but also single player games Star Trek Bridge Crew and Star Trek Resurgence (a choose your own path role play game).

    We’d waited until Resurgence came to Steam, because we did want to buy it from Epic, but decided to be even more patient and wait for a sale so we could get it for our teens as well. I’ve been playing in parallel with one of our teens and debating the impacts of our very different choices.

    I have had Bridge Crew since 2022, but we got copies for the teens yesterday. One is into it. It requires running an Ubisoft account synched to Steam which can be annoying, but otherwise G2G.

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    Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence

    Having reached my exasperation on the total lack of information from Bell Media on a Canadian release, I asked @GoodAaron@mastodon.social if he or the Hagemans could share any information. Here is his reply on Mastodon.

    It’s great to have EPs who will engage with us.

    I’m still gearing up my recipes for a Star Trek Prodigy Soirée for the premiere!

    In case you haven’t seen this, CBS entertainment sponsored a social media influencer to develop watch party ideas for the Prodigy Season 1 finale Supernova Soirée .

    I’ve been experimenting and building on some of these ideas for the premiere of season two. One of Canada’s favourite ice cream brands has this interesting suggestion for A triple-berry yogurt sorbet float punch that seems very Star Trek Prodigy themed.

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    Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global
    variety.com Paramount Global’s Top Marketing and Communications Exec, Julia Phelps, Is Leaving

    Julia Phelps, Paramount Global's executive VP and chief communications and corporate marketing officer, is leaving the company.

    Paramount Global’s Top Marketing and Communications Exec, Julia Phelps, Is Leaving

    More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

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    'Ivory Tower', likely aka 'Starfleet Academy' preproduction rumoured to start in March

    The Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario) ‘Hot List’ compilation of Ontario-based production information has been updated with a new CBS Studios show ‘Ivory Tower’ to begin Accounting & Art Department preproduction in March.

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    Friends don't let friends try. . .

    While all TAS episodes had some kind of moral lesson, S1 E10 was an outright criticism of substance use.

    M’Ress and Scotty, unwittingly exposed, end up enamoured then incensed with one another. One is never sure how different that is from a Caitian’s usual romantic style.

    Chapel comes off badly in this one. As Spock puts it “A few moments of love, paid for with several hours of hatred.” It’s all the more poignant given SNW’s deepening of their backstory.

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    James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022
    trekmovie.com ‘Picard’ Makeup Designer Reveals ‘Star Trek 4’ Pre-Production Shut Down In 2022 Over Script Issues

    James MacKinnon has doing one more feature film as the last thing on his Star Trek bucket list.

    ‘Picard’ Makeup Designer Reveals ‘Star Trek 4’ Pre-Production Shut Down In 2022 Over Script Issues

    As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022.

    James MacKinnon, longtime makeup designer, shared some context during an interview on his work on Picard and future ambitions. He explained that he was hired by Matt Shankman in 2022 to work on preproduction but was fired after a week when the work shut down.

    > “We were supposed to shoot in the middle of [2022] and it was supposed to come out the following year [2023], but I think a script rewrite went in a different direction.”

    This aligns with previous comments from Zoe Saldaña that creative issues around the script were a factor in the movie not going ahead.

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    'The Trial never ends . . .' Global premiere! Migleemo - Hemmer : Fix that which is broken #1

    I have realized that I need a new editing tool that will let me use panels with more than 6 frames.

    A private message with a recommendation would be appreciated sincerely.

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    Tired of 'Car Talk' with Gowron? Here's the podcast c/risa really needs...

    Anyone interested?

    I can see so much potential for guidance from a telepathic Aenar engineer & an avianoid counsellor.

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    Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy'
    www.startrek.com New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced

    The all-new original series from CBS Studios will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets!

    New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced

    While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show.

    Will be keeping an eye out for information about preproduction design work starting up in Ontario.

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    What kind of weird really engages and trends with Trek fans?

    My contribution to the fediverse’ #MakeYourOwnMoopsyMonth challenge.

    Be gentle, I’m a novice meme-creator.

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    Kevin + Moopsy meme challenge - because why not?

    It’s October, and Trek’s new adorable horror is being unfairly usurped in trendiness by a character who appeared in all of two TOS episodes (even if the grimness of his personal backstory rivals La’an Noonian-Singh’s).

    So, Moopsy + Kevin memes. . . I dare you.

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    Yeoh's S31 movie preproduction complete?

    We know from Kurtzman’s messaging at NYCC recently that Michelle Yeoh put her Academy Award star power towards ensue that her Section 31 ‘movie event’ moves forward on Paramount+.

    Checking in on the Director’s Guild of Canada Ontario round up of information for its members (Hot List), there’s been an interesting update.

    While ‘Dovercourt’ (working title alias for the direct to streaming movie) still has a bold ‘POSTPONED’ due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, it’s moved from the ‘Preproduction stage’ section of the list to ‘Production.’

    What does this suggest?

    It would seem that the key preproduction production design work in Toronto has been able to be completed since the WGA strike ended.

    Like SNW, the crews in Toronto are basically ready to go into production once the actors’ strike is settled. Logistically, it’s not entirely clear that both could shoot at the same time as they share some of the same crews, but it is encouraging.

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    Question - Star Trek Explorer Presents short story collections from Titan Bookstores - are they simply compilations from the magazines or new content?

    I’ve been enjoying the very short stories by Treklit authors in the recent issues of Titanbooks Star Trek Explorer magazine.

    I see that they’re promoting anthologies of short stories, with a new third one due to be released soon. However, it’s not clear if these are just compilations of previously published stories from the magazine, new content or a mix of both.

    Anyone have the earlier releases?

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    NYCC Starfleet Academy confirmation

    StarfleetAcademy ‘will be funny’ according to Alex Kurtzman.

    He’s also confirmed at the NYCC panel today that the writer’s room is back at work after the WGA strike.

    Given the heavier #thriller background (Absentia) of one showrunner Gaia Violo, and youth supernatural CV (TheMagicians; NancyDrew) of Noga Landau the other, sounds as though Tawny Newsome is there to bring some lightness and fun.

    I’m really looking forward to seeing more in the 32nd century StarTrek.

    I’m also pleading 🙏 let David Cronenberg’s Kovich be involved.

    I would love so much to have some of The Magicians mysterious vibe with so true humour mixed in. Glad to know that they’re going for something less earnest than the tone of Discovery for this show, it didn’t seem to be working in the Discovery episode with Tilly and the cadets.

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    Star Trek, including timeloops, meets Hallmark

    StarTrek actors have a strong showing across the Hallmark movie offerings this year.

    — Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo have supporting roles in ‘A Biltmore Christmas’

    — Dan Jeannotte (Sam Kirk in StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds) is the lead in ‘Our Christmas Mural’

    — Ronnie Rowe Jr (Lt Bryce in #StarTrekDiscovery) leads in Christmas with a Kiss’ (working title), a Mahogany Presents romance (Hallmark’s Black-focused line)

    — Mira Kirschner (Amanda Grayson in #Discovery and #SNW) is the principal in a romance about a woman discovering her Jewish heritage in a 2022 movie ‘Love, Lights, Hanukkah! that will be rebroadcast this year.

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    Another spoken word album is coming from Bill Shatner
    www.udiscovermusic.com William Shatner Announces New Spoken Word Album, ‘BILL,’ Featuring Joe Jonas And Brad Paisley

    William Shatner has announced a new spoken word album, ‘BILL,’ with guest features from Joe Jonas, Brad Paisley, and more.

    William Shatner Announces New Spoken Word Album, ‘BILL,’ Featuring Joe Jonas And Brad Paisley

    Not sure we needed another album from Shatner but you have to admire his indefatigable creativity.

    This one will feature Brad Paisley and Joe Jonas.

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