Posted on 08/11/2016 9:59:59 PM PDT by TBP
To boldly go . . . back to 1995!
Wednesday at a Television Critics Association panel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Bryan Fuller, executive producer of “Star Trek: Discovery” (premiering in January on CBS, then airing on CBS All Access), revealed that a woman will be the new show’s main character.
But this isn’t the typical self-righteous Hollywood back-slappery that launched a thousand Medium.com essays. Nor is it the Girl Power! casting of summer’s “Ghostbusters” flop, nor the newly announced all-female “Ocean’s Eight” caper. “Star Trek” has always done diversity the right way.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
In the opening episode, the Star Ship's departure will be delayed by 45 minutes as we hear the Captain call out from her quarters: "I'm almost ready....just give me a few more minutes!"
Finally someone I agree with. :-) Hated Janeway. Even after they loosened that helmet hair.
In the real world she got us Obama indirectly. Divorced her candidate husband. Should have gone along with his fantasies and Obama would still be on the streets of Chicago.
No, silly. She’ll stop and ask for directions.
I hope this new captain doesn’t need an MD with a valium pen at her side all the time!!
Having said that, I want to put in a word for guest star Tricia O’Neil as Captain Garrett in a TNG episode called “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. I thought she was quite good.
And I also want to mention the first captain, Jeffrey Hunter. Would have been interesting to see where the show went with him.. however, Shatner was the man, and still is, imho!!
Janeway was a joke
Voyager was an insult to viewers.
Not even worth giving this future fiasco a chance. This was supposed to launch subscription CBS? now worth the price even if free.
Sex in the City enterprise edition?
I did not go spend money on star trek jjverse II or III.
I do not give money to be insulted and PC propagandaed.
(and actively discourage others to skip too)
Stinks of trying to reboot the ST Voyager disaster.
LOL - Kudos on your tag line:
“(The way to deal with crime is to go from electric chairs to electric bleachers.)”
BTW, you nailed it on the actual interplay of the characters as Ego, Super-Ego and Id.
What TOS capitalized on and is missing in the spinoffs is that unique sense of humor and playful interplay among the main characters. All the actors seemed to be having a lot of fun and enjoying their work.
Star Trek: Generation Snowflake
I didn’t remember that. I watched Enterprise as I have the others. I liked it. I like how thei different series fill in the time gaps with different crews. I like the latest movies. I think they did a good job with the new cast playing the old folks.
an yes, the various crew narrating at the end. At first I missed it at the beginning and was glad to hear it again
Of course some old jokes. Boldly go where no MAN has gone, Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno and so on.
“When we get into real combat with women occupying front-line roles, it is going to get men killed as well. But in the liberal worldview, you have to break eggs to make omelettes, right?”
Current ROE: Somebody has to be the first casualty before they can return fire with the unit’s lawyer’s OK ... just a bunch of omlettes in the end.
jjabrams was just cutting and pasting from TOS. There was no real story or plot. Essentially just cookie cutter “save the cat” (a book to read by the way) timing.
Whoever is in charge of the franchise at paramount should be fired, their staff fired and their staff’s staff.
“Enterprise was unwatchable. Here they were, going into deep space for the first time, discovering new civilizations and new species...with all the wonder of ordering a cheeseburger.”
Yep. An almost like each week at a different fast food joint with no memory of which one was visited in the prior week - but that rule applied to the entire Star Trek series so it was not really anything unexpected or new.
Frail little girls will soon make up the significant potion of US combat forces based on that premise ...
there are PC zombies that watch tv no matter what.
star trek beyond would have killed off any other franchise. The money was not there. PC is unprofitable. Suits have an agenda not profit.
True!
One more thing:
These superhero females are uniformly and abnormally thin to the point of unhealthy anorexia.
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