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theinspectorst , 2 months ago to Star Trek in “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup.

But ... I thought the 2009 film was an origin story?

It was literally the story of how the Kelvinverse came to exist and it followed Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co from their Academy days.

theinspectorst , 2 months ago to Star Trek in ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed

That was my thought, I'm quite up for this. I enjoyed The Voyage Home, I enjoyed The Trouble with Tribbles - I wouldn't want all Trek to be like that but there is absolutely a place in the franchise for light-hearted takes on Trek.

theinspectorst , 3 months ago to Star Trek in Terry Matalas On Why Janeway And Harry Kim Weren’t In ‘Star Trek: Picard’ And The Fate Of The Enterprise-E

last couple of Picard seasons

I mean, that's a pretty astonishing statement to throw out there, grouping together probably the worst single season of Star Trek with one of the best...

theinspectorst , 3 months ago to /kbin in where are kbin admins?

I put in a request to take over a magazine last year when its previous moderator disappeared, and ernest actioned it pretty quickly. It looks like he hasn't posted for a month or so now though - hope he's doing okay. Running this thing must be a hell of a weight to carry.

theinspectorst , 6 months ago to Star Trek in Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI

The movie wasn't that well-liked and wasn't the perfect send-off for the original crew of Star Trek.

What a weird thing to say. I've always heard it described as one of the best TOS films and I always found the ending quite an emotional and fitting send-off to the TOS crew.

theinspectorst , 6 months ago to Star Trek in Let's remember some Star Trek games

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:25th_Anniversary(computer_game)

theinspectorst , 7 months ago to Star Trek in In a way, Tasha Yar's fate actually worked out really well for the series

Okay, but that's not really what they did with Sela.

Sela wasn't 'Tasha returned' - she had nothing in common with Tasha (in terms of personality or her role in the show) except for being played by the same actress. She clearly wasn't just a backdoor soap opera route for Tasha to return.

Also she was only actually in four episodes (on the first of which the character wasn't identified and Denise Crosby was an uncredited voice only). Sela's brief appearances were so memorable that we tend to forget how minor her role actually was across the span of TNG - Tomalak had a bigger role, for example.

theinspectorst , 7 months ago to Star Trek in Happy Birthday Terry Farrell

The Host - the one where Riker ends up hosting the symbiont.

theinspectorst , 8 months ago to Star Trek in So, do humans stink?

Yes! Have you met humans?

theinspectorst , 9 months ago to Star Trek in Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation

I had the same panic. That's not even the title of the article ('Voyager's Roxann Dawson Had A Chance To Direct Star Trek But Dropped It For Another Show') so, unless the website changed it, you have to wonder what OP was doing writing it that way.

theinspectorst , 9 months ago to Star Trek in Why were the TOS movies better than the TNG movies?

TMP and TSFS certainly aren't bad, they're just not at the extremely high standard of TWOK, TVH and TUC.

theinspectorst , 9 months ago to Star Trek in Why were the TOS movies better than the TNG movies?

Small sample sizes and idiosyncratic factors.

I agree that the 6 TOS movies on average are better than the 4 TNG movies on average. But if you remove Insurrection (which was fine) and Nemesis (which had a lot of flaws) from the mix, then that is no longer the case - so the question really becomes a narrower 'why is Instruction only okay and what went wrong with Nemesis?', rather than the broader 'TOS vs TNG' way you put it. If they stopped after First Contact, people would rave about the quality of the TNG movies.

Another way of looking at it is that if you alternatively removed TWOK (written and directed by Nicholas Meyer), TVH (written by Nicholas Meyer) and TUC (written and directed by Nicholas Meyer) from the TOS list then the comparison would also no longer be clear cut. In which case you could also phrase your question as 'why was Nicholas Meyer so good at making Star Trek movies?'

theinspectorst , 10 months ago to Star Trek in How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue

That's a fair point. On reflection, I also seem to recall that some of the Crusher and Troi convos were also literally about their personal relationships.

theinspectorst , 10 months ago to Star Trek in How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue

Wow - I hadn't realised Guinan was in that few!

theinspectorst , 10 months ago to Star Trek in How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue

Great point. I did think that Seven and Janeway (who I agree were a very prominent pairing - akin to the attention given to Data and Picard in TNG) would help Voyager, but then discounted it a bit by that pairing only even existing from season 4 onwards. I don't think that's enough alone to explain Voyager doing 42 percentage points better than TNG (44.9% vs 86.9%), but it would certainly have helped a lot!