This is a Florida joke waiting to happen.

Oh, also:

TRANSPORTER SHOWER

My initial reaction was about how stupid it is to open a theme park attraction themed around a series that’s been cancelled, but then I thought about how this thing must’ve been in the works for several years, and now I just feel sad for the people who worked on it.

hoping his character’s death – in the full context – would make more narrative sense.

Chabon had some lovely and interesting things to say about self-sacrifice being the ultimate expression of the individuality Hugh spent his life working toward, but unfortunately I didn’t think any of that came through in the final product.

Heh, I don’t think I agree with either of these takes.

It seems to me like season 1 was very much Michael Chabon’s vision - indeed, they’ve said in interviews that it didn’t bear much resemblance to the original pitch that sold Stewart on the series.

I’ve always felt that Chabon had a lot of great ideas (and to be frank, I still think that first season is the best “Picard” season), but was perhaps too inexperienced to get those ideas implemented in a timely and affordable fashion.

Del Arco not being informed of Hugh’s death is a bit of a non-issue, I think - the guy was a guest star, so it wouldn’t be right to expect them to treat him like a principal cast member.

Covering the era from The Original Series, to Star Trek: Enterprise, and the films, the franchise is known for celebrating the beauty of exploration and analyzing ethical dilemmas largely based on societal issues.

Interesting - I guess the newer stuff is covered by a separate license.

The Mastodon version of this Lemmy post should contain the link (and does, when I look at it).

I think we have to assume it is - there’s kind of an unspoken contract with the writers that any universe containing the trappings of the Mirror Universe must be the Mirror Universe.

And there’s certainly precedent for the shows and movies nicking elements from novels and comics. It doesn’t have to mean that the works have been “canonized,” but it’s nice to see them using bits from those stories when it suits them.

This is probably well beyond the scope of what these nights are about, but I do wonder what they did with the “Picard” season three bridge set.

I actually don’t have a satisfactory answer to my own question.

Star Trek was a prominent part of the popular culture when I was a kid, so it was easy to have a basic knowledge of TOS without actually seeing it.

I think I probably saw Star Trek IV first, and the first episode I can clearly remember watching is “Unification II”, though I’m pretty certain I saw something before then.

I was mostly concerned about the docking pylons being too realistic, but I can’t guarantee that wouldn’t happen, either.

It looks cool, but potentially dangerous?

I think the episode implies ethical issues, but stops well short of spelling them out. The fact that Kingsley concealed the childrens’ true natures for as long as she did suggests that their research was not on the up-and-up.

My best guess is that the station’s research, on paper, fell within Federation regulations, but their actual work did not. But that’s stretching pretty far, given that no one explicitly raises the issue.

This is the first I’ve ever heard of a login required at star trek dot com.

It’s mainly a charity thingie - TrekCore has a summary.

Maybe more importantly, it doesn’t look like they’re doing any panels on Star Trek Day this year.

I’ll be seeing you

In all the old familiar places

That this heart of mine embraces

All day through

Interesting take. Do you have an example?

IIRC he acknowledged it was well-made for what it was.

Honestly, I think he just realized he had no choice.

The conflict between Roddenberry and Meyer is pretty well-known, but I agree it would be…interesting to see the original documents.

Maybe he can play both…

Apparently it was an Ira Behr thing:

Ira Steven Behr has a fascination with the Battle of the Alamo and he and Hans Beimler included a reference in “Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”. Later, Ronald D. Moore and Rene Echevarria began to include references in their scripts. Some fans thought that the writers were hinting the series would end with a battle like the Alamo, which the writers had no intention of doing, having already featured such scenes in “The Way of the Warrior”. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ?)

Follow-up question: do we want to start one, in this space?