Scifi TV Discussion Thread

[Tarsonis]

Except they knew where that ship was and weren't getting blasted to hell by a cloaked Warbird.

I mean Kirk and Sulu didn't fire randomly into infinite space hoping to get a hit, they suffered the damage until they had a tracking torpedo. Riker did a similar thing here, so similar they reusused the photage of the Bird of Prey blowing up.

The Bird of Prey was not cloaked though, it was sitting right in front of them. The technobabble solution was actually forcing it to cloak and therefore drop its shields.

Here is literally the only shot Riker fired before that, while the BoP continued hammering the Enterprise:

Right it's been a while since I saw Generations. Anyway going back and watching the scene there's a throw away line from a Klingon Bridgd Officer saying "Our Shields are Holding" which implies that the enterprise is returning fire, but it's happening off camera.

[Auristania]

Picard et in Arcadia ego.

Eldritch Abominations clamber through the Portal until Picard Speech, then Abominations all go back to R'lyeh.

If only HP Lovecraft had known about Picard Speech, he would have written romantic Comic Opera.

Fed totally hate Synths until Picard Speech and entire FEDERATION is willing to die to protect Synths AND their Eldritch Abominations.

Romulans were Correct. If Synths then Abominations, that's logical, Captain.

Romulan Empire consists of 2 factions of Warrior Nuns plus 2 Outsiders: Narek spock Lanister doesn't fit in in the all female Secreter police than the regular Secret Police; Legolas Elinor don't fit in among the Ninja Nuns, Nunjas.

[Juristonia]

wut

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

wut

what are you responding to with "wut?"

[Auristania]

Star Trek Picard is a sequel Sci Fi TV show reprising Patrick Stewart, as Captain Picard in Star Trek the Next Generation, yet another Sci Fi TV show.

If you are still having problems with grasping this difficult concept of Sci Fi TV shows, and or sequels please consult TV Tropes, Computing Forever, Steve Shives, Lindsay Ellis, MauLer etc etc etc.

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Star Trek Picard is a sequel Sci Fi TV show reprising Patrick Stewart, as Captain Picard in Star Trek the Next Generation, yet another Sci Fi TV show.

If you are still having problems with grasping this difficult concept of Sci Fi TV shows, and or sequels please consult TV Tropes, Computing Forever, Steve Shives, Lindsay Ellis, MauLer etc etc etc.

It really bugs me that you put Lindsay Ellis and Steve Shives on the same list as Computing Forever and MauLer.

We all know what Star Trek Picard is, don't worry. We all understand it's a sci-fi TV show. Who are you addressing this to?

[Morrdh]

So got an idea for a Trek story, but not sure on how I'll do it format wise; RP, fan fic or something else.

Basic premise is Trek meets Down Periscope.

Set during the Dominion War and with Starfleet hurting for personnel, an officer with a poor record gets landed with the command of a training ship. Reasoning being that it would free up more experienced officers for the front line, give cadets a bucket load of practical training and allow normal peacetime operations to be maintained.

The ship I'm thinking is an old Excelsior-class that is overdue for a refit, though said refit is rather low on the priority list as shipyards are being used to repair battle damaged vessels. Likewise, the cadets are about average in ability but Starfleet needs bodies in uniform. Most of the officers/instructors on the ship likewise don't have shining records or have been pulled off the retiree/auxiliary list.

As I said, not sure on what format to do for it...may do it as a RP if there is enough interest.

[Jedi Council]

So got an idea for a Trek story, but not sure on how I'll do it format wise; RP, fan fic or something else.

Basic premise is Trek meets Down Periscope.

Set during the Dominion War and with Starfleet hurting for personnel, an officer with a poor record gets landed with the command of a training ship. Reasoning being that it would free up more experienced officers for the front line, give cadets a bucket load of practical training and allow normal peacetime operations to be maintained.

The ship I'm thinking is an old Excelsior-class that is overdue for a refit, though said refit is rather low on the priority list as shipyards are being used to repair battle damaged vessels. Likewise, the cadets are about average in ability but Starfleet needs bodies in uniform. Most of the officers/instructors on the ship likewise don't have shining records or have been pulled off the retiree/auxiliary list.

As I said, not sure on what format to do for it...may do it as a RP if there is enough interest.

Star Trek RPs are very hard to so right. Because it is such a hierarchical system contained within a small space, there is not a lot of room for characters to take the initiative or interact apart from what the Captain orders. In the two I have been involved in, they fell apart largely because the player who took the role of Captain could not keep up, and could not keep creating orders and story lines to keep the crew engaged.

If we can solve that problem, it would make it much easier

[Morrdh]

So got an idea for a Trek story, but not sure on how I'll do it format wise; RP, fan fic or something else.

Basic premise is Trek meets Down Periscope.

Set during the Dominion War and with Starfleet hurting for personnel, an officer with a poor record gets landed with the command of a training ship. Reasoning being that it would free up more experienced officers for the front line, give cadets a bucket load of practical training and allow normal peacetime operations to be maintained.

The ship I'm thinking is an old Excelsior-class that is overdue for a refit, though said refit is rather low on the priority list as shipyards are being used to repair battle damaged vessels. Likewise, the cadets are about average in ability but Starfleet needs bodies in uniform. Most of the officers/instructors on the ship likewise don't have shining records or have been pulled off the retiree/auxiliary list.

As I said, not sure on what format to do for it...may do it as a RP if there is enough interest.

Star Trek RPs are very hard to so right. Because it is such a hierarchical system contained within a small space, there is not a lot of room for characters to take the initiative or interact apart from what the Captain orders. In the two I have been involved in, they fell apart largely because the player who took the role of Captain could not keep up, and could not keep creating orders and story lines to keep the crew engaged.

If we can solve that problem, it would make it much easier

Yeah, was thinking of making the Captain an NPC and have people play the cadets or lower ranking officers.

[Tarsonis]

Star Trek RPs are very hard to so right. Because it is such a hierarchical system contained within a small space, there is not a lot of room for characters to take the initiative or interact apart from what the Captain orders. In the two I have been involved in, they fell apart largely because the player who took the role of Captain could not keep up, and could not keep creating orders and story lines to keep the crew engaged.

If we can solve that problem, it would make it much easier

Yeah, was thinking of making the Captain an NPC and have people play the cadets or lower ranking officers.

The ethos of ST is discovery. I think a proper ST RP would have to run like a DnD set up. 0ne person is the DM, and the rest are the crew. You could still have a person play the captain, but like the DM they'd have to be fully committed. And the hierarchical structure would be a unique test of a person's RP ability, limiting their actions to the confines of the context.

[Jedi Council]

Yeah, was thinking of making the Captain an NPC and have people play the cadets or lower ranking officers.

The ethos of ST is discovery. I think a proper ST RP would have to run like a DnD set up. 0ne person is the DM, and the rest are the crew. You could still have a person play the captain, but like the DM they'd have to be fully committed. And the hierarchical structure would be a unique test of a person's RP ability, limiting their actions to the confines of the context.

This is the issue I have run into.

The only other alternative I see is it being set in a Colony or Space Station large enough for players to develop their own relations and plot lines.

[Tarsonis]

The ethos of ST is discovery. I think a proper ST RP would have to run like a DnD set up. 0ne person is the DM, and the rest are the crew. You could still have a person play the captain, but like the DM they'd have to be fully committed. And the hierarchical structure would be a unique test of a person's RP ability, limiting their actions to the confines of the context.

This is the issue I have run into.

The only other alternative I see is it being set in a Colony or Space Station large enough for players to develop their own relations and plot lines.

Deep space 31

[The Huskar Social Union]

Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock, and Number One Return for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

New show coming that will focus on Captain Pike.

[Juristonia]

So apparently we're getting yet another ST show.
A Pike one this time.

https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-anson-mount-rebecca-romijn-ethan-peck-cbs-all-access

On the one hand, yay.
On the other, STD, Picard, Section 31 still in the works. They might be over killing it a bit.

[Juristonia]

Damn, Huskar. Stop being so fast.

[La Paz de Los Ricos]

Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock, and Number One Return for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

New show coming that will focus on Captain Pike.

Yeah, why are they rebooting all the characters which have already been rebooted? Especially the new Spock, it just seems so disrespectful to keep going with this new Spock after Leonard Nimoy passed.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock, and Number One Return for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

New show coming that will focus on Captain Pike.

Yeah, why are they rebooting all the characters which have already been rebooted? Especially the new Spock, it just seems so disrespectful to keep going with this new Spock after Leonard Nimoy passed.

I dont think it is disrespectful. Nothing wrong with having new actors play old characters. And apparently enough people wanted it so.

Damn, Huskar. Stop being so fast.

Hah thats what she said.



Wait.

[La Paz de Los Ricos]

Yeah, why are they rebooting all the characters which have already been rebooted? Especially the new Spock, it just seems so disrespectful to keep going with this new Spock after Leonard Nimoy passed.

I dont think it is disrespectful. Nothing wrong with having new actors play old characters. And apparently enough people wanted it so.

Damn, Huskar. Stop being so fast.

Hah thats what she said.

Wait.

Yeah, but if they were gonna keep going with rebooting Star Trek, they should have just kept the Kelvin Timeline going. By Nimoy's passing, we already knew and loved Zachary Quinto, and there had been an official "passing the torch" between Nimoy and Quinto in 2009.

If Pine hadn't wanted so much money, we would've gotten a fourth film after Beyond. Considering Beyond was so good, it seems like the Kelvin Timeline was finding its own footing when they just cancelled it. Reminds me a bit of Enterprise...

I mean, don't get me wrong, more Anson Mount would be awesome, but it feels a bit weird to keep going with this new premise of semi-rebooting the Prime Timeline.

So got an idea for a Trek story, but not sure on how I'll do it format wise; RP, fan fic or something else.

Basic premise is Trek meets Down Periscope.

Set during the Dominion War and with Starfleet hurting for personnel, an officer with a poor record gets landed with the command of a training ship. Reasoning being that it would free up more experienced officers for the front line, give cadets a bucket load of practical training and allow normal peacetime operations to be maintained.

The ship I'm thinking is an old Excelsior-class that is overdue for a refit, though said refit is rather low on the priority list as shipyards are being used to repair battle damaged vessels. Likewise, the cadets are about average in ability but Starfleet needs bodies in uniform. Most of the officers/instructors on the ship likewise don't have shining records or have been pulled off the retiree/auxiliary list.

As I said, not sure on what format to do for it...may do it as a RP if there is enough interest.

Also this sounds hella cool.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I wish we got a star trek 4 from the kelvin movies. Beyond was such a surprisingly fun movie.

[La Paz de Los Ricos]

I wish we got a star trek 4 from the kelvin movies. Beyond was such a surprisingly fun movie.

One of my favorite Trek productions of all time. I remember watching Beyond in the theater and having a huge dumb grin plastered on my face the whole time. All the actors was really stepping into their roles, the adventure was uniquely Trek, overall it just really felt like the original spirit of Trek was making a return. You could really see that the movie was made with love. Also had such beautiful send-offs for both Nimoy and Yelchin.

So, when compared to that masterpiece, I hope you'll forgive my vengeful loathing for Discovery.

[New haven america]

Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock, and Number One Return for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

New show coming that will focus on Captain Pike.

Well Captain Pike was one of the best parts of STD season 2 so who knows, this might actually be wort-

The series premiere was written by Akiva Goldsman (with the story by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet). Goldsman, Kurtzman and Lumet will serve as executive producers

Never fucking mind.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock, and Number One Return for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

New show coming that will focus on Captain Pike.

Well Captain Pike was one of the best parts of STD season 2 so who knows, this might actually be wort-

The series premiere was written by Akiva Goldsman (with the story by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet). Goldsman, Kurtzman and Lumet will serve as executive producers

Never fucking mind.

lol knew that would be your reaction

[New haven america]

I wish we got a star trek 4 from the kelvin movies. Beyond was such a surprisingly fun movie.

We are getting a ST 4 though.

Just not the original time travel one involving Chris Hemsworth.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I wish we got a star trek 4 from the kelvin movies. Beyond was such a surprisingly fun movie.

We are getting a ST 4 though.

Just not the original time travel one involving Chris Hemsworth.

Are they making another movie?

[New haven america]

I dont think it is disrespectful. Nothing wrong with having new actors play old characters. And apparently enough people wanted it so.

Hah thats what she said.

Wait.

Yeah, but if they were gonna keep going with rebooting Star Trek, they should have just kept the Kelvin Timeline going. By Nimoy's passing, we already knew and loved Zachary Quinto, and there had been an official "passing the torch" between Nimoy and Quinto in 2009.

If Pine hadn't wanted so much money, we would've gotten a fourth film after Beyond. Considering Beyond was so good, it seems like the Kelvin Timeline was finding its own footing when they just cancelled it. Reminds me a bit of Enterprise...

I mean, don't get me wrong, more Anson Mount would be awesome, but it feels a bit weird to keep going with this new premise of semi-rebooting the Prime Timeline.

So got an idea for a Trek story, but not sure on how I'll do it format wise; RP, fan fic or something else.

Basic premise is Trek meets Down Periscope.

Set during the Dominion War and with Starfleet hurting for personnel, an officer with a poor record gets landed with the command of a training ship. Reasoning being that it would free up more experienced officers for the front line, give cadets a bucket load of practical training and allow normal peacetime operations to be maintained.

The ship I'm thinking is an old Excelsior-class that is overdue for a refit, though said refit is rather low on the priority list as shipyards are being used to repair battle damaged vessels. Likewise, the cadets are about average in ability but Starfleet needs bodies in uniform. Most of the officers/instructors on the ship likewise don't have shining records or have been pulled off the retiree/auxiliary list.

As I said, not sure on what format to do for it...may do it as a RP if there is enough interest.

Also this sounds hella cool.

Actually the reason the original ST 4 got canceled was because Chris P. was annoyed that everyone would be taking a substantial pay cut to fund Chris H.'s return, who in turn would be the higher earner despite only having previously appeared for 3 minutes in 09.

TBH, I have no idea why Chris H. is so in demand, he's only been in like 2 good movies, and has the worst saga in the MCU, so... It's because he's hot, isn't it?

Also, Bad Robot probably couldn't wait to bastardize the Prime Timeline.