I really think we need another reference point - I wouldn't say any of the "new" series seem particularly like Star Wars, aesthetically or tonally.
I also don't think Star Wars should have a monopoly on certain types of storytelling, but that's neither here nor there.
It's still on track to close within the next few months.
I have my doubts that the tv side of Trek will be affected too much, but maybe the new management will be able to remove some of the roadblocks on the theatrical side.
This is pretty thoughtful, and I get where you're coming from.
I do, however, think that the newer shows are frequently aspirational...but the focus has shifted toward doing the right thing in an environment that makes it difficult. There's a lot more emphasis on struggle, in a way that hasn't really been explored outside of DS9, and perhaps certain parts of ENT. That works for me, as I think it's the more salient message for the times we live in: there are always going to be struggles, the greatest dangers often come from within, and doing the right thing can be incredibly hard.
we rarely ever get any breathing room downtime with the characters!
I definitely get this - it's unfortunately something we're going to have to learn to live with, because I don't see longer seasons coming back any time soon (and honestly, they come with their own sets of drawbacks).
She did note that there are legitimate concerns about some parliamentarians potentially having problematic relationships with foreign officials, exercising poor judgment, behaving naively and perhaps displaying questionable ethics.
"But I did not see evidence of parliamentarians conspiring with foreign states against Canada," the report concludes.
"While some conduct may be concerning, I did not see evidence of 'traitors' in Parliament."
This is encouraging, but there needs to be a mechanism for these "problematic relationships" to be brought out into the public sphere (without it becoming a witch hunt).
We're looking in to it, but I'm not sure when a solution may be found. It's actually worse than you know when it comes to lemmy.world content making it to us - think days, not hours.
Yeah, it's wild.
The Fugitive Doctor has really caught on with people, and RTD has embraced the Timeless Child concept, so....maybe?
Yeah, it's a double-take of a sentence.
"Kerblam" was an interesting-but-flawed episode, and my memory of "Praxeus" is...fuzzy, at best.
The headline has since been changed:
Trudeau to fill Senate vacancies before retiring: source
we didn’t really learn much more about her than we already knew.
Yeah. I said in my original comment that the Georgiou storyline is the strongest one, but it still feels very much like the first chapter that sets up future development, rather than something that pushed her story very far forward. It basically positions her as realizing that maybe a "monster with a conscience" isn't so useless after all, and that she can work to atone for her past misdeeds.
Which is fine...but it's still a setup for future stories that may never happen. It very much feels like a series pilot, rather than a standalone movie.
I completely agree with all of the other stuff you mention about the other characters, and I think it just screams, "we tried to compress an entire season's worth of story into a single movie." A lot of stuff happens, but everything that would get us invested in the characters was cut.
The Fuzz reveal makes a lot more sense if if happens in, say, episode 7 out of 10.
But that being said, we can see Starbase 17 (two of them, in different locations!), Starbase 25 and Deep Space 3 across the treaty line
It's a very confusing graphic, but I think the line might intead represent the area of space in which Alok's team operates - it starts to animate as "Alpha Squad" is highlighted amongst the list of available S31 squads. But it certainly looks like a border, so it's ambiguous, at best. The entire sequence is also questionable, considering it contains "footage" of Georgiou in the 32nd Century.
This is a TOS-style stardate, but back then stardates were pretty much random, and given the state of stardates these days, tells us absolutely nothing about when this is set
At least one online Stardate calculator spits out a result of April 17, 2324, which sounds about right based on Garrett's age. I have no idea what formula is being applied to get that result, though.
While civil unrest and secession from the Federation would lead to chaos and Tasha escaping from the colony around 2353, that collapse wouldn’t start until around 2339.
A barely-related sidenote: I firmly believe that Turkana IV was an independent human colony, and never a Federation member. In "Legacy," Picard says that the planet "severed relations" with the Federation, which doesn't necessarily mean they seceded (and, really, the word "seceded" was right there for them to use). This would also help explain why the Federation allowed the planetary government to collapse the way that it did, with no apparent intervention.
I would be happy to see these characters again, under a different writer/director team.
I wonder if our boi Ash Tyler had something to do with that when he covered up what happened to Discovery (and, I guess, to Leland). Maybe he decided to remove Georgiou from that whole situation and falsify a record saying she disappeared some time later.
I also wonder if Ashy T. is still involved with S31 at this point - the man's a Klingon, so he's got the life span for it.