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None of that is true.

I'm not the one to ask.

"Legacy" is an imaginary show. It's never been put into development, and there's no indication that will change.

I assume you don't care about spoilers, but just in case...

BC's plan is to stay on daylight time.

If you recall, there was all this noise around Season 1 and Season 2 of Discovery because the streaming service, they were like, 'Oh, it’s like a turnaround on a cop show.' I’m like, 'No, you don’t understand. It’s eight months of visual effects turnaround, and we’re not gonna rush that.'

I most certainly do not recall that, and it says a lot about the people running CBS All Access at the time.

Correct, latinum cannot be replicated: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

This link doesn't lead to a statement that latinum can't be replicated, because that's never actually been established on-screen. It makes sense and is almost certainly true, but it remains fanon.

Yeah, if the article was just her being evasive about season three spoilers, I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it.

My cynical take is that season three was pretty shallow overall, and I'm not sure there was anything in it that would make someone say, "wait, what?"

I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.

Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):

“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”

I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:

The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.

The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.

The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.

And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.

Yeah, I've been trying to decide if I have a place for it. Maybe on one of my KDF characters...

2FA should be working now!

I'm not a fan of the season, but some more time to let things breathe would have been welcome.

Since Lemmyvision is a homo sapiens only club, startrek.website will not be able to participate directly, and Spock's rendition of "I'm the X" is sadly ineligible.

But this is pretty cool!

My immediate thought was "Hotter Now" by Lu Kala. It's a bop.

I'm not sure to what degree the PD would apply in a situation like this:

• As is tradition, I must point out that whether a species is warp-capable influences whether Starfleet can make first contact, but even if they can, the PD itself applies to all civilizations, and Starfleet is compelled to minimize their interference.
• Cultural contamination/interference is minimal, since it's one individual entering the Federation's sphere of influence. Ethically, they should probably help the person return home, assuming they want to.

The closest analogue I can think of is Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV, and the Federation put her to work in pretty short order.

We've had 2FA disabled, because it wasn't working properly at one point. This is a good prompt to look into getting it up and running again, so thanks for bringing it to our attention!

This is also the advantage of public broadcasting - they can put more emphasis on that sort of thing without worrying about profit.

All of which is to say, support your public broadcasters, people!

Pretty efficient, keeping the sandworm on the inside.