… And Buck Rogers wasn’t. Neither was Space: 1999 after they changed the format.
Sounds interesting. There are always certain crewmembers I don’t like, and it will be nice to not be stuck with them. OTOH, there are usually a few characters I do like, and it will suck knowing they won’t be around long.
Pretty much all of Star Trek is still in “the future,” actually.
All of that can be done in the TOS/TNG window. The Voyager era is too removed.
That would probably be too much apparent aging for the Trekverse. Remember when McCoy was 137, he didn’t look a day over 100.
How so?
In a film, Picard speaks with Admiral Janeway.
Black Mirror. The aforementioned American Horror Story. Oh, and probably most on point, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Seems they’ve been doing pretty okay recently, actually.
Speaking of things that haven’t been on TV in twenty years, I’m not sure the design decisions made for a TV show in 1989 are all that relevant to the current media landscape.
Apparently CBS streaming is $6/month. Which is almost as much as netflix but with a lot less content (don’t know if there will be abything besides Star Trek that I would watch).
But it gets [strike]better[/strike] worse – it will also have commercials.
I don’'t advocate piracy. But I understand the temptation to pirate the new Star Trek series.
The people behind it (Brain Fuller, Nicholas Meyer) bode good things, but that is asking a bad price/performance ratio.
If it is good, maybe I’ll get the eventual DVDs
Brian
If it is worth it.
Yes, but the Voyager series added a slew of improbable additional concepts to the Trekverse. Actually each series had some real stretches, but Voyager was the biggest pile of them, and for a generally weak return.
Has CBS said yet if the show will eventually be shown on the CBS broadcast network, or be otherwise available not through the streaming service? Because I’m almost certainly not going to subscribe just for this show. And while I pay a ridiculous amount for a cable subscription, I’m not going to pay for Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and CBS and Showtime and HBO and Acorn streaming services instead, even if it ends up costing less.
Meh, there are warp nine lizards, and there is Spock’s Brain.
Not that I remember. So we have a faster means of travel, some weapons to fight the Borg, temporal shielding, better medicine, and that’s about it. (I’d add sentient holograms, but we had Moriarty and Vic Fontaine in other series.) None of that adds anything significant to the universe.
The problem I have with putting it post-VI is that there’s still so many limits due to what we know happens in TNG. Enterprise ran into the same problems.
I also am not sure I can get into an anthology, since the best Star Trek worked on its characters.
And I want Star Trek to get away from the gritty crap going on now, so I don’t really want characters who can die. I want optimism back. Everyone talks about this being a golden area for television, but so much is too cynical–the Internet is where the good stuff is.
Not that it matters. I will not pay for it, no matter how good it is. CBS is a fucking free over the air station. And streaming online is even cheaper. I’m tired of this greedy bullshit.
Streaming only is begging to have it pirated. I was wondering though, how easy is it to subscribe to Netflix or other streaming service, watch a whole series, then quit the service? I had Netflix years ago before all the streaming stuff, but I eventually quit. Can’t remember how hard it was to quit. I hate monthly subscription anything.
A female captain and Borgs with boobs?
Star Trek does have a problem with technology creep. We have better shields, they get better weapons, so we get even better shields… they should stick with what they’ve got and tell good stories, and let the cool high technology mostly be scenery.