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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming
  • Yeah, they announced the second season renewal very early - right around the time production on season one was starting.

    Hopefully it's a good sign.

  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming
  • The jacket looks really nice. It's a shame it's probably a crew thing.

  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming

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    www.startrek.com Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures

    Get an exclusive look at the incoming figures based on modern era series!

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    Residential Tenancies Branch 'emboldens' Manitoba landlords to hike rents under guise of repairs: study

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    Audit's advice for Manitoba health-care agencies surprising, 'ridiculous,' says health finance prof

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    "Axiom" spoilers

    So the Aetherians turned out to be...

    spoiler

    alternate universe Borgconians.

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    How very on-brand for STO!

    Jokes aside, the reveal was handled pretty well, considering the Aetherians have had giant "Secret Bad Guys" signs around their necks since their first appearance.

    The room full of plaques featuring the names of (former) Cryptic employees was rather touching.

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    "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?
  • Agreed, though it seems unlikely that we're going to get any more of it, sadly.

  • "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?
  • Sure, I don't think anything is absolute. But I think there's a general impression that as the older fans literally die off, there aren't enough younger ones to replace them, let alone expand the popularity of the franchise.

  • Star Trek Online: Unveiled is Now Live

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    "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?
  • I'm struggling to find it now, but I read a Jonathan Frakes interview last year (I think) where he expressed a similar sentiment.

    Basically, he said that the fans that he sees at conventions are getting noticably older, and there aren't as many younger people joining the fold.

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    Save 35% on Legendary Items

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    "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?
  • I think the current approach is the correct one, even if it produces a few misses here and there.

    A variety of tonally distinct projects, aimed at different demographics, telling stories.

  • www.playstartrekonline.com PC Patch Notes for 2/11/25 (Unveiled)

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    School funding rising another 3.4% in Manitoba to highest level in 7 years

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    A message from DECA Games
  • Well, I guess the DECA era has officially begun. We'll see what happens next...

  • Section 31 Got This One Thing Right About Star Trek
  • It seems to be improving now - it was over 10 days behind at one point.

  • Section 31 Got This One Thing Right About Star Trek
  • Hmm. This unfortunately only just made it through to the instance, thanks to the large lag we've been experiencing from lemmy.world.

    I guess I agree with the premise of the article to the extent that the ensemble cast was pretty charming, and I honestly wouldn't mind seeing any of them again in the future.

    The most "successful" part of the movie to me was Georgiou's arc - she's really the only character to get a complete arc in the movie, and it was admittedly pretty thin.

  • Charitybuzz Auction: Set Visit to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in Toronto

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    Trump promises 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports โ€” including from Canada

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    TrekCore Review & Giveaway โ€” New Star Trek: Lower Decks UniVersus Card Game

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    Analysis: A potential U.S. trade war has breathed some life into the fraught idea of shipping oil through Hudson Bay

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    www.startrek.com Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future

    The series' creator and cast look back at the series finale!

    Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future
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    www.ctvnews.ca Canada seeks stronger EU trade ties as both regions threatened by Trump tariffs

    Canada wants to deepen its economic ties with the EU and uphold global trading rules in the face of threatened U.S. tariffs, its trade minister Mary Ng told Reuters on Saturday.

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    9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast
  • I definitely wouldn't assume that any of Fuller's ideas were in the show being the first season.

  • 9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast
  • Like Brian, I would love to see an in-depth book about the first two seaons of Disco in particular.

  • 9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast
  • Related to this article, VFX supervisor for "Picard," "Strange New Worlds," and season 4 of "Discovery" posted this rather interesting thread to Mastodon:

    Reading the article going around about Bryan Fullerโ€™s Discovery, and peopleโ€™s โ€œWhat Ifโ€ scenarios reminds me of 2016 and my brush with it interviewing for the VFX department there:

    I got a chance to interview as a potential Compositing Supervisor. Itโ€™s a trend which continues today that some productions have small in-house groups to concept things, sometimes do shot work, directly interface with a show to do certain things faster and cheaper than going to vendors, like previs.

    I get to Los Angeles Studios downtown to talk to the Producer, and the first thing I notice in being in the offices; no real concept art to be found, no white board with scheduling info; I think I saw 3 pieces of artwork (only one of which was ever reflected in the show, but more about that later). No one really in the office yet, but it was also a late evening and they werenโ€™t in production yet.

    Kinda a red flag, but maybe the stuff was somewhere else I just couldnโ€™t see.

    I go through a pretty standard interview process, and when asked what questions I might have, I start with some pretty standard ones: How many hours a week? 60. How big a team? 20ish. What types of work are you planning on doing, concept, prep shots, actual shot production? All the VFX work of the show.

    OK big red flag.

    That is not enough to do this kind of show in the 2010s. Maybe a TNG show with TNG amount of effects an episode, but not modern TV.

    When do you start shooting? In months. Do you have scripts to breakdown and budget staff? No. Any scripts at all? No.

    WHAT? These two things do not go together, especially on a new show. Pilots for shows will float around for sometimes years being prepped and budgeted.

    Do you have art for phasers, transporters, warp, or even ships? They showed me like a temp transporter. And the 3 pieces of art on the walls. Maybe they had more and didnโ€™t want to show me. I did sign an NDA

    What kinds of shot pipeline do you have? We have Lightwave and Nuke. No I mean pipeline. Nope.

    At that point, I knew this was going to be a disaster and wanted no part of it. I finished up pleasantly with them, and got the hell out of Dodge. There is bootstrap small high performance team work, which Iโ€™ve been a part of, and thereโ€™s throwing yourself into a meat grinder. It didnโ€™t matter if they wanted me, I didnโ€™t want them. Which was crushing for a lifelong Star Trek fan.

    Months away from shooting and no scripts on a completely new show that was supposed to launch a streaming network is a recipe for disaster.

    Later, I found out that after spending millions of dollars in prepro, Fuller had โ€œdepartedโ€ and all those people were sacked. Fuller, while being responsible for some really loved shows, also has a history of lots of aborted projects, or projects he left really early on. But Iโ€™m sure other people actually know that story better than I.

    At that point Alex Kurtzman was brought in to actually make a show that could be produced. I went back to the VFX place I was working for, and would just be a viewer like everyone else. I wouldnโ€™t get a chance to work on Trek until 2019 working on Star Trek: Picard for DNEG.

    Anyway millions were wasted for nothing that was able to be shot. Just something to consider with โ€œWhat Ifsโ€ of Star Trek. I really hope someone writes a book about Star Trek production someday.

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    Contractors accused of rigging Manitoba Housing bids plead guilty, face fines
  • For whatever it's worth...

    Crown attorney Dan Manning told court there were issues with the case that led to this being a fair and reasonable deal. This included a key witness who entered an immunity agreement with the bureau and who the defence argued was unreliable and self-serving.

    A motion had been filed to get the charges thrown out because of the delay in charging the contractors, court heard, and there were issues with some of the seized evidence.

    "We normally would be seeking jail time for these kinds of offences," Manning said after the hearing. "But with some of the issues we had โ€ฆ we came to a fair solution."

  • Looks like federation times are back up with Lemmy.world again.
  • Looking at our metrics, there's a chance things are starting to improve now. It's too early to know for sure, though.

  • [PC] Anniversary XV Event
  • Yeah...I've been assuming they'll do a separate post for consoles closer to the date, but who knows with the new management?

  • Looks like federation times are back up with Lemmy.world again.
  • I'm not really interested in casting blame - the Fediverse is complicated, and can be affected by any number of things.

    All I can say is that we haven't been able to find an issue on our end, and at the same time, federation doesn't seem completely broken - just about 10 days slow, and only in the one direction.

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    Anniversary XV Event

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    Manitoba boosts health system workforce by 1,255 but staffing crisis remains, unions say

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    Looks like federation times are back up with Lemmy.world again.
  • I just want to provide a brief update on this.

    It's still happening. As near as we can tell, there's nothing we can do on our end. Federation from .world is just ~1.5 weeks behind, but it's still happening.

  • A shadow war on libraries: How a small town is on the front line in a fight to change what Canadians can read
  • School boards are also very vulnerable to this kind of coordinated attack:

    Low voter turnout, [Take Back Alberta leader David Parker] said, is the key to victory.

    "Albertans and Canadians are apathetic and lazy. They never show up," he said during another October 2023 speech in Calgary. โ€œYou could take over every school board in this entire province."