Sums up my thoughts here just fine, methinks.
A show about Section 31, no matter who’s in the center seat, doesn’t resonate with me much in the slightest. I think I’ll stick with (Pi)Card Talk.
Source: https://deadline.com/2018/11/michelle-yeoh-star-trek-spinoff-talks-cbs-crazy-rich-asians-1202498617/
A couple weeks ago, I post a quick little video showcasing some gameplay from the amazing Stage 9 fangame, which was a nice little interactive simulator that let you run around the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D and do a bunch of little things… like phasering everyone in sight like a crazy man and blowing up a small research outpost with a photon torpedo. It was a fun time and I wanted to do more of these little videos to showcase what I thought was a pretty cool little fan project.
Little did I know that a couple weeks prior, CBS sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creators, prompting said project to shut down, never to be seen again.
So… yeah. Terrible timing on my part, I suppose.
I understand the CBS mindset here; they’re just protecting their IP and I think the whole Axanar thing has put them on a bit of an edge that some would consider the brink of madness. It’s sort of the same way Nintendo is with fan games and rom sites. I’m not mad or sad or anything like that because that’s just the way things are. I’m just happy to have been able to sample this slice of Star Trek fandom before it went away forever.
And perhaps most importantly, I wish the creators of this wonderful project all the best in their future endeavors and offer a thank you for their brief moment in the sun.
Captain Picard has seen better days, I’m afraid.
“It’s not going to be the same Jean-Luc Picard,” says Sir Patrick Stewart on returning to the role he made famous a quarter-century ago. “He may no longer be a captain in this new series. And how can you blame him? He went from being Captain of the Enterprise to Facepalming Legend to Family Guy fodder and even suffered through the Emoji movie. It’s going to be an interesting series, regardless.”
Of course, that’s not the series we’re going to get… but hey, at least it’s post-Nemesis for those who care about that sort of thing.
And a doodle of the U.S.S. Yorktown coming out of said wormhole.
The Enterprise, obviously, has better things to do.
So with Discovery being a hit of sorts, CBS is going to maximum warp on Star Trek and plans on shooting out multiple series based on different settings. Some of these include one based on Starfleet Academy, a Khan limited series, an animated series of sorts, and one that might bring back the bald captain who controls the skies.
Now whether all this comes to fruition or not is another story, but it’s nice to see that there’s some semblance of Star Trek to look forward to in the future. Out of all these ideas, I wouldn’t mind seeing another animated series, since we really haven’t had one since the 70s. If we do go that route, may I suggest you stick with a traditional animated style and stay away from the CG stuff? That style of animation is usually hit or miss and I don’t want a CG series that looks worse than the cutscenes in the old Elite Forces computer games.
Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-idw-comic-is-mashing-up-star-trek-and-transformer-1826960426
IDW announced a four-issue mini-series starting in September that will featuring a crossover between the Star Trek animated series from the 70s with the original 80s Transformers, which is precisely the sort of ridiculous crossover concept you’ve come to expect from IDW, considering their crossovers with Doctor Who and Planet Of The Apes.
I’m sure this’ll be good fun. IDW has been consistently been putting out some really good Trek comics these past few years and those other crossovers were fun reads if nothing else.
Just remember… the man who was captain of the Starship Enterprise would go on to play poo.
Fuck emojis.
A potential future for the French Language as well as a meme-able image gets mashed together in this quick little TNG photo-comic thing… the first of what I’m hoping is many.
Some notes:
– Despite being a thriving country in the 24th century, French has been relegated to an obscure language spoken by very few people, much to the chagrin of Capt. Picard, who controls the skies according to Wil Wheaton. This explains why most Frenchmen have British accents.
– The Picard Double-Face-Palm Manuever first made its appearance in the TNG Season 3 episode, The Offspring.
– And yes, on a couple occasions, Picard did indeed say “merde” at least twice in the early seasons of TNG… and nobody chided him for his language because he was the Capt. Picard who controls the skies.
dtm666 