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Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com)
Zorro shares a report from Entertainment Weekly: The first-ever official Star Trek comedy series has been ordered. CBS All Access has greenlit an animated series from Emmy-winner Mike McMahan, a writer on Adult Swim's sensation Rick and Morty The half-hour series is titled Star Trek: Lower Decks and will tackle the Federation from a comedic perspective, focusing "on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships." Fans will recognize the Lower Decks title as referencing the name of one of the best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The first-ever official Star Trek comedy series has been ordered.
They should just allow The Orvile to use actual Trek artwork and names....
Anyone else thinks that feels more Star Trek than Discovery*?
*which is not bad and there shouldn't be a difference between classical technobabble explaining away everything or some magic mushroom stuff doing the same... but it feels more fantasy than Trek usually was.
bickerdyke
I canceled my CBS ALL access after they sent a cease and desist letter to a fan made enterprise exploration game called Stage 9.
Star Trek is for fags and fuckin losers.
Is that why you clicked on it?
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There's too many transgenders!! There's too many Muslims!! There's too many FUCKING BROWN PEOPLE!!! *sniff* *sniff* An' they're all comin' a'git me in my sleep!!
Straw man much?
I don't give a crap about the races of the characters, but I do care when every character that doesn't belong to some minority group is either evil, a fuck-up, or both. Benjamin Sisko was an awesome protagonist, but apparently somewhere along the way the writers forgot how to write engaging characters and now only make a checklist of diversity requirements without actually making the characters interesting. Diversity is fine, but when that's all that a character has that character becomes a one-dimensional uninteresting caricature.
And fucking hell, was it really necessary to make the Klingons sound so retarded by having them speak with a pause between each word? And don't get me started of space mushrooms.
>"CBS All Access has greenlit"...
and thus almost nobody will see it.
There's too many transgenders!! There's too many Muslims!! There's too many FUCKING BROWN PEOPLE!!! *sniff* *sniff* An' they're all comin' a'git me in my sleep!!
Straw man much?
I don't give a crap about the races of the characters, but I do care when every character that doesn't belong to some minority group is either evil,
I hope that IS a minority....
I don't want to see a gay couple making out in an SF series, but I don't want to see ANYONE who should rather get a room there either. Even the decontamination gel fan service in the Enterprise pilot was unnecessary and misplaces. as are the space mushrooms.
Benjamin Sisko was an awesome protagonist, but apparently somewhere along the way the writers forgot how to write engaging characters and now only make a checklist of diversity requirements without actually making the characters interesting. Diversity is fine, but when that's all that a character has that character becomes a one-dimensional uninteresting caricature.
Yes, but no ST series got that right in a first season. Worf was nothing but aggressive, Q nothing but annoying, Data was the oblig Spock copy. They all started with exactly one character trait Deana Troy even with just one single line: ("Captain! I can sense something here") And in all series they got more complex and interesting. (DS9 mastered this, VOY not so...) so there is still hope for Discovery. What's interesting that they are already bringing their 2nd line of characters into position. Lt. Owesoku and that red haired girl with the metal face implant are ready to replace whoever they killed of in the first season trying to get the G.R.R. Martin Memorial Award
bickerdyke
I actually think the bulk of the problems with Discovery isn't due race. It is just a story that doesn't fit into the Star Trek Universe. It seems more of a plot for its own sci-fi show, but they realized it sucked to much to make any money on it, so they just put the Star Trek logo on it, and changed the names of the alians around to match the names of Star Trek aliens, And made sure all the good guys space ships had a saucer section and nacells.
For the most part diversity in shows has been getting much better. They are actually playing real people with issues that doesn't always center around their race or gender, or sexual preference.
Now if only they can make the computer geek seem like a real person, and not the basement cheetos eating sub human.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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+1 insightful
bickerdyke
If you are going to be a traditionalist there just needs to lights shined in the captains eyes. I think they need at least 5 spotlights shined on them.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
There are FOUR LIGHTS!!!
Really?
TOS peeps seem to think it showed how much lower ranks were looked down upon.
A whole episode about how the bridge crew's shit didn't stink...
No thanks you.
Stop it, you've killed the franchise, this won't help.
Thank god for The Orville.
End of Line.
...would be to make it like Sealab 2021
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
I hope they dock at Deep Space 9 once in a while and for the love of The Founders please get Armin Shimerman again to voice Quark and Max Grodénchik to voice Rom. If you want to see how good Star Trek comedy can be, watch The Magnificent Ferengi.
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This sounds a lot like John Scalzi's "Redshirts" - a great novel with characters transitioning in and out of "The Narrative"- Highly recommended.
What is old is new again...
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That only seems good when made by the idiots who inhabit Hollywood.
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cured ? If the current hysteria is not going to ease up and go they will be no curing anything but heteros will be required to engage in promoted activities to get enough points to get to academy and then on board.
What happened to the evil orange man? Will he have extra powers (before his demise of course)?
The implication is still that the population didn't need/have glasses.
Doesn't Kirk have glasses in The Voyage Home?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Don't leave that there, Lana!
Do you want Tribbles, Lana?!
Because this is how you get Tribbles.
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But ended up being a better Star Trek than we have had in a long time.
I hope that IS a minority....
I don't want to see a gay couple making out in an SF series, but I don't want to see ANYONE who should rather get a room there either. Even the decontamination gel fan service in the Enterprise pilot was unnecessary and misplaces. as are the space mushrooms.
I've been watching Star Trek Voyager on Netflix lately - For some reason I never watched it during it's run.
What is interesting is how a series with the first ST Woman Captain, and many different women in the command structure, such as B'lanna the engineer, managed to make the female leads credible, likeable and relatable. I have been incredibly impressed on how Mulgrew's character Janeway, managed to be both a credible commander, and yet still unmistakably feminine. She deserves any and all the accolades she may have received.
Contrast today's version of leader women, who are ersatz men but with an attitude belling insecurity. And the addition of gratuitous non-standard gender characters
And remember Kes, (Jennifer Lien) the adorable tiny alien lady? I'll just leave this here: https://www.cbs17.com/news/sta... I mean, what the hell happened to her?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Kes *shudder*
The most boring character ever. And the only idea the producers had to make her a bit less boring were long blonde hair....
And I don't want to argue over Janeways feminity.... I'd rather remember Kiry Nerys in a dress on the piano in Vic Fontaine's bar....
bickerdyke
Wow it took over 20 minutes for that setup! I was expecting only 1 minute.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
CBS can bite me. They've shit all over enough good stuff that happened to not directly serve their corporate interests, but that served long-time Trek fan interests, and that's left a bad taste in my mouth that isn't going away.
As someone else was saying, I'd rather watch The Orville. Much more possibilities there, judging by what I've seen so far, and it doesn't shit all over anything or anyone.
TNG was 30 years ago (premiered in 1987)
They stole my comedy script from 1990! lol
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Anyone remember Haultrek? It was a webcomic that sounds a little like what they're planning here--only the authors decided to back away from the Star Trek angle and re-brand it as "Freighter Tails." www.mzzkiti.com
While it kinda died over the years, it had potential.
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Which he sold as an antique... The point was that he valued the classic idea of having reading glasses, not that they were required.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
I thought Kirk got reading glasses because he was allergic to the drug that cured the nearsightedness that comes with age.
No matter where you go, there you are.
I only watched one episode after a friend convinced me to watch it after we had lunch. It was just dumb and nothing was working. The first obvious thing was that it was too hi-def so that it had too much contrast; it seriously reminded me of daytime soaps shot on video instead of film. The CGI was obvious and had the feeling of a video game. I know I didn't understand the backstory, but none of the plot made sense, the motivations were silly, the dialogue was awful. And just like Enterprise and Voyager it decided to completely toss out all canon and set the story in a completely different dimension/universe/galaxy so that the writers could make up whatever shit they wanted.
It was a rather shameless rip off of the plot from dark matter on sci-fi.
Right down to the asian being a war leader in an alternate universe. So shameless it was funny.
America makes something animated and its a sitcom wow never saw that coming
What is interesting is how a series with the first ST Woman Captain, and many different women in the command structure, such as B'lanna the engineer, managed to make the female leads credible, likeable and relatable. I have been incredibly impressed on how Mulgrew's character Janeway, managed to be both a credible commander, and yet still unmistakably feminine. She deserves any and all the accolades she may have received.
I hadn't thought of that aspect of the show. What is striking is how it wasn't a terribly big deal and didn't disrupt the story. Nowadays when they womanize a series it is thrown in your face.
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They should just allow The Orvile to use actual Trek artwork and names....
Well they would also want Orville to appear on CBS and that would cost money for that switch to be made.
..., inspired by.
As would licensing Scalzi's "Red Shirts" which they seem to be, uhhh,
Yes. He was allergic to Retinox-5, or whatever it was called.
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Oh bullshit, STD has a ton of straight white male characters who aren't portrayed as evil or incompetent. Let's see, there's....ummm....ummm....uh....ORANGE MAN BAD!
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What is interesting is how a series with the first ST Woman Captain, and many different women in the command structure, such as B'lanna the engineer, managed to make the female leads chttps://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12813097&cid=57542709#redible, likeable and relatable. I have been incredibly impressed on how Mulgrew's character Janeway, managed to be both a credible commander, and yet still unmistakably feminine. She deserves any and all the accolades she may have received.
I hadn't thought of that aspect of the show. What is striking is how it wasn't a terribly big deal and didn't disrupt the story. Nowadays when they womanize a series it is thrown in your face.
Exactly. And they did it in a very convincing fashion. There were some references to sexism, especially by the Kazon humanoids, but they were handled well and matter of factly. All of it worked together. And it couldn't be made today.. Today's version would be the woman dominating the men, with an attitude of superiority, yet if a male disagreed with them, they would have to visit the ships psych doctor because of severe mental anguish. there would be episodes where it was found out that a male crew member was found ot have winked at a woman without her express permission when they were in grade school, and they had to kill him as an example and to keep the other males in line.
It would be called Star Trek - Social Justice Universe. And yes everyone, that is satire on my part.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.