Category: Star Trek Musings

Walter Blunt To Reprise Role As Former Starfleet Captain

Captain Picard has seen better days, I’m afraid.

Source: https://trekmovie.com/2018/08/04/breaking-new-star-trek-tv-series-starring-patrick-stewart-as-jean-luc-picard-announced/

“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.

CBS To Produce MOAR Star Trek Shows In The Future

Source: https://trekmovie.com/2018/06/19/breaking-cbs-planning-to-expand-star-trek-television-franchise-alex-kurtzman-to-oversee/

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.

How Does Transformers Fight A Long Road Trip In Space?

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.

DTM Comics – Obscure Language

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.

SFB Picks Up

This Star Fleet Battles campaign that I’ve been playing with my brother since the tail end of last year has been stalled for the past couple months. Partly because of my recent injury that left me at home and partly due to other stuff coming up. I was home for a month and big brother was home for a month. And in that time, we’ve played probably one game… which is really, really sad.

But it looks like things are eventually going to pick up. Forty-three turns in and I’m looking to start work on my first Starbase. Just as well because the number of space or planet-bound installations (comprising mostly construction yards, base stations, and early-era docks) is miniscule compared to the 100+ starships and freighters I have to play with.

Also, we found ourselves some white hex sheets and are in the process of converting everything from graph paper to hex spaces. Turns out it’s not that complex of a system, but moving things around is a bit trickier in some regards.

Anyway, this was a completely random posting in what may very well be a series of them today.