Star Trek

[andersonh1]

Re: Starfleet Academy - it doesn't look like a show where anything interests me, other than Robert Picardo being in it. I'm assuming he's playing the holographic Doctor, because of course that character could easily survive into the far future. Maybe I can find some clips of his scenes once the show starts.

[Sparky Prime]

Yeah, I'm not sure what they're going for with this Starfleet Academy series based on this trailer. The way they present the students makes it feel more like Starfleet's school for misfit special kids. Star Trek isn't the X-Men. I love seeing Robert Picardo in it, but... Nothing else really grabbed me about this trailer.

[Sparky Prime]

The Kelvin timeline is dead. After numerous directors and writers have been attached to and gone over the past decade, Skydance/Paramount CEO David Ellison says they've "moved on" from the idea of doing a 4th film with the JJ Abrams Star Trek cast.

Frankly, I think it's for the best to leave the JJ Abrams films behind. Sure it helped relaunch the franchise, but they were not well written movies.

[andersonh1]

The Kelvin timeline is dead. After numerous directors and writers have been attached to and gone over the past decade, Skydance/Paramount CEO David Ellison says they've "moved on" from the idea of doing a 4th film with the JJ Abrams Star Trek cast.

Frankly, I think it's for the best to leave the JJ Abrams films behind. Sure it helped relaunch the franchise, but they were not well written movies.

I agree, and I think it's better to just end it than keep floating the idea of a sequel that isn't going to happen.

I'm not a big fan of recasting... to me Shatner is Kirk, and Nimoy is Spock, etc. That being said, they did cast some good actors who could certainly have done a good job of recreating the characters if they'd been given better material to work with. I enjoyed the movies for what they were, despite some major gripes, but they really should have been a lot better than they were.

[Sparky Prime]

Thomas Jane and Kai Murakami have been reportedly cast to play Dr. McCoy and Sulu in the series finale of Strange New Worlds.

Which means all of Kirk's senior staff, save for Chekov, will be represented in the series. I've been expecting this. It has been pretty clear the creators of SNW have been building towards Kirk's era as the Enterprise captain. Which, to me, is a mistake. This show should have focused on Pike and his crew of the Enterprise, and any references to TOS crew (save for Spock as the only established member of both crews) should have been used sparingly. Honestly, I'm a little surprised they're apparently not going to shoehorn Chekov in somehow, or just ignore his age like the 2009 film did.