StillPaisleyCat @ StillPaisleyCat @startrek.website

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. . . and so we, step by tiny step, lure yet another one in.

Stella Grimes and her father appear briefly in “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad.”

It’s the only Discovery season one episode that stands on its own without the serialization, although Mudd himself appears in an earlier one. He also is the focus of a wonderful Short Trek written my Mike McMahan. All strongly recommended.

Such a fetching couple.

And yes, I am read/willing to not only post Mudd memes, but to feature the happy couple in some Migleemo-Hemmer supported therapy.

I was really impressed by that. Really felt it belonged on a cinematic feature.

Going to be that person and suggest the OP try Voyager.

It seems to be the most accessible of the older shows for younger, newer viewers. It was the most watched of all the classic shows on Netflix.

It covers all the classic tropes and provides endless fodder for memes here.

It’s uneven throughout its entire run, but also has some of the very best episodes ever. New fans really attach to the characters, and there’s no refuting that it unabashedly leaned into the weird.

Says a lot that she can look so great with the full muppet wig.

Not sure I have much more to add at present.

I do have a related profile on Mastodon however and follow Trek folks who are active there.

So, if you’d like I could keep filling in for that platform as others join or get active.

There are more production folks on Mastdon

• Aaron Waltke EP Prodigy has an ID here as well as @goodaaron@mastodon.social
• Brian Tatosky - vfx supervisor SNW, Disco S5, Picard S3 @virtualbri@mastodon.online

Also, a few Treklit authors are on Mastodon:

@DavidMack@wandering.shop is quite active, as are

unamccormack@wanderingshop

James Swallow - jswallow@mstdn.social

@daytonward@mastodon.social hasn’t posted since February.

Thanks for the encouragement!

I guess I was already tired when I posted . Yes of course that’s ‘Car Talk with Martok’ but as I don’t believe that any new ones of those are in creation, this would be my own thing for c/risa.

I regret that I also just don’t have quite that level of trash talk in me.

Bad food metaphors though…

Thanks for the encouragement (and inevitably the pressure).😳

Great thanks. Working on the premiere now.

But I also need to sleep and work. Which means it will appear sometime tomorrow.

Sounds like a great premiere.

More ideas would be welcome.

TAS has lots of feliniods (Caitians & Kzinti) & even some lemurians. But Spock wasn’t one.

We don’t know what be developed or not for the 25th century, but getting a new show developed and greenlit by Paramount is a long haul, and if they don’t like the initial draft pilots, they’ll keep at it.

Starfleet Academy has been in development as a show since at least 2018, with several changes of leadership in the team of creators. The original idea goes back decades to Harve Bennett. It’s finally got through the maze, let’s cheer that.

So, even if the senior executives are open and enthusiastic about an Enterprise G show:

• don’t expect a formal greenlight announcement in less than a year after Picard S3’s finale (which is how long it took for SNW) and then another year to 18 months for production and post;
• don’t assume that there won’t be major reworkings and/or changes in prospective showrunners from initial indications (as there was with Michelle Yeoh’s S31 which also changed showrunners),

Here’s some positive points towards Starfleet Academy

• most fans were super sceptical about both Lower Decks & Prodigy but they are both well loved across generations;
• “reopening the Academy after a hundred years” strongly implies this is in the 32nd century, post Burn, with a cast of largely new characters. Yes, we may see Tilly, some of the Discovery officers or (hopefully) David Cronenberg back as the mysterious Kovich, but that won’t be the principal cast of cadets;
• the EP and coshowrunner Noga Landau was a senior writer with Henry Alfonso Myers on The Magicians. Yes, she took over running Nancy Drew for CBS Studios for the CW, but that was better rated when she did, and better than the usual CW teen targeted shows.
• the other creator, and writer of the greenlit pilot was the head writer of the thriller Absentia (which has good ratings)
• Tawny Newsome is a writer in the writers room.

So new time period, new characters, new team that has done good work for the target demographic. I’m hopeful.

There’s a scene in one TNG episode (before Miles & Keiko’s wedding?) in which Worf is at a console display scanning through option to replicate for a gift. It stuck with me.

So said Production Designer Tamara Deverell when she got samples from the original set from the Ticonderoga Set Tour in NY to colour match for that set in Discovery season two. She’s written about how that red is really orange.

Space-themed media saturation? It’s an entire genre.

While not of the same quality as MGM’s 1950s landmark ‘Forbidden Planet’, ‘Atlantis’ was a spectacular film, and influenced a lot of 1960s science fiction, including some of the ‘gods in space’ in Star Trek TOS. Some of the set designs seem resonant too. Worth tracking down and watching.

Here are a few more images.

‘Pig-guy’ isn’t wrong unfortunately. As a young kid who saw this in first run, I recognized the prosthetic makeup of the Tellarites in TOS Journey to Babel as a rehash from the 1961 feature film ‘Atlantis, the lost continent.’

In the movie, a prisoner has his head changed into a pig-face. He eventually gets horns too.

Here’s the only production photo I can find of the scene.

Roddenberry seemed to like to lift a lot from MGM science fiction movies since they were high production value for the era. The movie was the kind of idea that would appeal to Roddenberry, a primitive but heroic fisherman is accidentally brought to the technologically advanced, godlike but immoral Atlantean society.

Uhm, I liked the Discovery and Short Treks version of Tellarites better. Much better.

Don’t like that SNW is reverting somewhat.