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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I think it's pretty great, yeah.

The story feels very much like an extended episode of Star Trek.

None of that is true.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm not the one to ask.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago (8 children)

"Legacy" is an imaginary show. It's never been put into development, and there's no indication that will change.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume you don't care about spoilers, but just in case...

Discovery season three spoilersThere have indeed been some significant setbacks over the centuries.

First there were the temporal wars, the full ramifications of which have not been fully explored, but were likely pretty devastating.

These were followed by the one-two punch of a dilithium supply crisis, followed by "The Burn," which caused most of the existing dilithium supplies to go inert and/or explode. This had the effect of making interstellar travel extremely challenging, and many planets became isolationist in the name of protecting themselves.

These issues have all been resolved, but they had a large impact on the development of...everyone, really.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you recall, there was all this noise around Season 1 and Season 2 of Discovery because the streaming service, they were like, 'Oh, it’s like a turnaround on a cop show.' I’m like, 'No, you don’t understand. It’s eight months of visual effects turnaround, and we’re not gonna rush that.'

I most certainly do not recall that, and it says a lot about the people running CBS All Access at the time.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Correct, latinum cannot be replicated: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

This link doesn't lead to a statement that latinum can't be replicated, because that's never actually been established on-screen. It makes sense and is almost certainly true, but it remains fanon.

Yeah, if the article was just her being evasive about season three spoilers, I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it.

My cynical take is that season three was pretty shallow overall, and I'm not sure there was anything in it that would make someone say, "wait, what?"

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 73 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.

Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):

“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’

I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:

The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.

The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.

The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.

And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

2FA should be working now!

 

It should also be found at the official site, but the actual clip doesn't seem to be working right now.

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