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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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.
The jacket looks really nice. It's a shame it's probably a crew thing.
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So the Aetherians turned out to be...
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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.
Agreed, though it seems unlikely that we're going to get any more of it, sadly.
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.
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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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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.
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Well, I guess the DECA era has officially begun. We'll see what happens next...
It seems to be improving now - it was over 10 days behind at one point.
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.
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I definitely wouldn't assume that any of Fuller's ideas were in the show being the first season.
Like Brian, I would love to see an in-depth book about the first two seaons of Disco in particular.
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 Fullerโs Discovery, and peopleโs โWhat 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. Itโs 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 werenโt in production yet.
Kinda a red flag, but maybe the stuff was somewhere else I just couldnโt 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 didnโt 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 Iโve been a part of, and thereโs throwing yourself into a meat grinder. It didnโt matter if they wanted me, I didnโt 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 โdepartedโ 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 Iโm 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 wouldnโt 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 โWhat Ifsโ of Star Trek. I really hope someone writes a book about Star Trek production someday.
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 โฆ we came to a fair solution."
Looking at our metrics, there's a chance things are starting to improve now. It's too early to know for sure, though.
Yeah...I've been assuming they'll do a separate post for consoles closer to the date, but who knows with the new management?
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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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.
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. โYou could take over every school board in this entire province."
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