Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.
One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.
It’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.
In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.
I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.
Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.
I think the cranium size was the biggest “miss” in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.
There’s absolutely no reason to think any show is being made “instead of” another.
Edit: And as Newsome herself stated, this series has not been greenlit. It may not get made at all.
I don’t think you needed [sic]
Just wanted to make sure - I stumbled over that sentence when reading it!
It’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.
At SDCC CBS sent us a synopsis, essentially a workplace comedy on a vacation planet – not Risa, not in the Federation. So are those fundamentals are still the same?
Those fundamentals are the same. But what I can tell you is what we’re really working on exploring, are the sort of overlooked sections of what happens when a world and a culture that is not that was not [sic] in the Federation. What happens when they decide to be?… So Federation outsiders and what’s kind of the nitty gritty involved with joining the Federation and involved with… yeah, I’m really struggling [to avoid spoilers]
That’s an interesting adjustment…
I like the Circle trilogy - the Bajoran government being unstable is a fun element to those early seasons.
It’s a shame Shakaar was such a dud of a character, and the series sort of lost interest in the Bajoran civilian government as the Dominion and Kai Winn started to take up all the oxygen in the series.
Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y’know, cooking.
I’d be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.
Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.
They quickly came to realize that that’s too many triticales.
I wonder if she might recognize some scents from her holodeck…adventures with Shaxs.
For me, it’s hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:
It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.
I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.
They had no time at all - filming was already complete.
They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.
I think the word “movie” is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour “event” episode.
SirPatStew has shared the anecdote, but it’s reportedly something that Roddenberry said.
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.
“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
“Brown”