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billmason

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  • 2 New (Webtoon) Star Trek Series Announced

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  • Naturally I'm watching debates about the canonicity claim break out in assorted places.

    As far as I can find, the whole “it’s canon” claim comes from Webtoons in their press release, and no one from Paramount is being quoted making that claim. Unless there’s a separate Paramount press release I can’t find.

    So this whole claim is just silly.

  • Interview: ‘Strange New Worlds’ Cast Hypes Seasons 4 And 5, Talks Hope For ‘Star Trek: Year One’

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  • I find the idea that anyone is still talking about "Year One" with a straight face pretty frakking hilarious.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • Yes, let's finish celebrating this 60th anniversary in style! 😂

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • Here's another one to ponder.

    I commented on social media that even though the press reports say the question is open, his "farewell" letter in the reports read to me like someone on the way out talking to his successor. And Brian Tatosky (one of the VFX team) replied:

    Yes, SFA being cancelled is part of ending his tenure of Trek once we finish the work we have.

    So it sure seems like the end of the road.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • Unfortunately, they did a cliffhanger.

    Now you have to wonder if they can untangle it into one coherent finale episode, and if Paramount will even give them the approval to untangle it in the first place.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • Here's the first (big FWIW/grain of salt/etc) thing on the decision that's I've seen (besides the TrekMovie article note that 'it's no secret that the show didn't Nielsen chart'). From author Mike Chen on Bluesky.

    From the few insiders I know, viewership was actually above expectations and this was more of a "future of the franchise" corporate decision. I'm expecting Trek to be in flux as there are SO MANY variables. Everything from tech stocks to Iran to midterms is impacting Paramount.

    Leaving the link to his post here for reference but he has his posts hidden unless you're logged into Bluesky.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • There wasn’t a goodbye letter at the time of the Variety exclusive — but Deadline and everyone has it now.

    So you're saying Variety added it after the fact? It was there when I saw it, which was like 15 minutes after the time of publication.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • If so, I’m wondering if someone leaked the specific detail of the termination of Starfleet Academy with the hope of a fan campaign to save it…

    Having a "goodbye letter" from Kurtzman etc released with the announcement doesn't really scream "stealth leak" to me. IMHO.

  • ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

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  • Random reactions:

    • Disappointed but not surprised.
    • Even though the article leaves this an open question, I will be surprised if Kurtzman returns after this.
    • At least they didn't memory hole S2 as a tax write off.
    • I wonder if they will attempt (and be allowed to attempt) to rework the S2 'cliffhanger-ish/lite' ending into something else, or if it's just impractical to rework a "part 1 of 2" episode into a 1 episode contained story.

  • Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis

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  • I feel like she kind of missed the part where no one was clamoring for her and Frakes and any other TNG cast member you care to name to headline the thing.

    But it'll never happen anyway. If anyone was even considering it, I doubt they would have let IDW start a new comic book series that's broadly the same idea.

  • It's Thursday, but no new Trek airing. What are you guys watching instead?

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  • Biding my time until Daredevil: Born Again drops season 2.

    And waiting on For All Mankind season 5, but the trailer for it really didn't do anything for me so I'm not as pumped about its return as I've been in prior years.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon"

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  • Oh shit, that was fun. I hate having to wait now. Also, the end credits are sublime and must be paused and read in their entirely. This is non-negotiable.

  • Exclusive Update On The ‘Star Trek: Year One’ Series Pitch And Status Of The ‘Strange New Worlds’ Sets

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  • Personally I'm happy if there are no more pre-TOS series. And I really am "meh" about Paul Wesley's Kirk so I don't need a series with him in the lead.

    I mean if they make it, I'll check it out. But I'll be perfectly fine if they just don't.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine”

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  • Quieter episode but I enjoyed it. I wasn't expecting a Genesis story this season from what's been said, but I was glad to get one.

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x06: “Come, Let’s Away”

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  • The Furies are part-Lynar, which makes their inner ears sensitive to high sonic frequencies.

    Just wanted to note that Lynars are a throwback reference to "Chain of Command Part I".

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x06: “Come, Let’s Away”

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  • The title is from Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act V sc iii: "Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage”.

    The line also appears in "Romeo and Juliet" and perhaps might be taken as an allusion to the Caleb/Tarima relationship.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"

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  • I hadn't heard that, other than they got his blessing basically (and the licensing) and he was given a copy of the script to read. Cirroc Lofton seems to be the one that was as close to hands-on involved as you can get when you're not a writer of the script.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"

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  • Presumably it's a combination of "thank you for what you contributed to Star Trek" and maybe a way to acknowledge him letting them license the final scene narration off of an album he did some 20 years ago.