Alex Kurtzman single-handedly drove the entire Paramount corporation into the ground, keeping his job the entire time, personally enabling Skydance to purchase the entire thing for the low price of $8 billion?
This to you is a sensible theory, and not mind-numbingly stupid?
My memories of this one are pretty fuzzy - looking at Memory Alpha, elements of it are ringing bells, mainly the recurring moon that Chakotay uses to remember he's dreaming.
It’s a neat episode.
I can get behind this sentiment. I don't think it's outstanding, but it's unique and does some things we don't typically see.
Indeed, and if you look at what Daley has said about this Trek film in the past...
I think the portrayal of Starfleet and the people that work within it have always been generally idealized versions of what the future could be. And while this [script] isn’t a cynical or nihilistic take on it, I think it does acknowledge that there are some bad apples in every institution that can have a strong voice and can really make an impact on that institution and everything it stands for.”
Serious, but not cynical or nihilistic.
There's hope, and then there's delusion...
it actually starts filming
Now you're dreaming.
That movie is indeed fantastic, but I don't think it has quite the tone I would want from a Star Trek movie.
I think their "Crimson Tide" comparison is pretty darned compelling. That's a serious movie with a lot of tension, but it's hardly a heavy slog.
I do wonder if they're dancing around NDAs and junk like that, too - writers really don't like to talk about stuff in the early stages.
Especially in a SF context where they’re not being clear if “timeline” means “somewhere else on the established timeline” or “a new alternate one”.
Unfortunately, I think that ship hath sailed. The word is used to mean both things fairly interchangeably, by fans and professionals alike.
In this context, I'm pretty comfortable assuming that they're looking at a new era within the regular ol' Prime Universe.
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No legacy characters, nobody that you’ve met before. A different time, not a different timeline per se, but it’s a little further in the future.
I don't actually think this is very ambiguous?
I think the odds of a tv series are less than zero at this point, but comics would be a great fit.
Nearly every time travel story ever told in Trek has been about doing whatever you need to do to preserve history. The aliens in the episode are a large-scale Edith Keeler, with the chief differences being the sheer scale of it, and the fact that unlike Kirk, Pike didn't have the steady voice of Spock insisting that this is what had to be done.
And, from the point of view of preserving known history, Pike's hunch was correct, and now he has to live with that.
So yeah, I think it's pretty interesting.
No matter how much people may want to portray this most recent era as a failure, I don't think there's any sort of data that would back that up (but if there is, I'd love to see it). This is from early last year:
Live Long and Prosper: How the long running Star Trek franchise continues to be a moneymaker in the age of streaming
You could sort of, probably make the case that the landscape has changed since then - the fact that there are no live-action series in development would certainly support that, though I don't think it really proves anything other than that the company is in shambles right now.
But the idea that the franchise has somehow been killed in the streaming era? It's essentially fantasy.