An Alternate Captain Shaw Death Scene Was Filmed For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ [UPDATED]

Hard is it to admit, what is Star Trek to the outside observer? Pajama uniforms, weird ugly saucer ships, cheesy fx and boring political/social commentary with an optimistic appeal. With all that said and done, the wider fandom is doing its best to adapt (or resist) to the new status quo. No matter how hard we try to live in the comfort zone and pretend everything is dandy. Trek is not and will never be what it once was. Enough with the pedestal worship! Sorry, but not everyone has a PhD on the finer points of the ***original series prime univorssssss***.

Because god forbid if you don’t kowtow to its loudmouth pseudo-intellectual purists who dominate the Trek internet spaces 24/7. That constant whining gets you blocked, kiddo.

That’s also the reason why the garden variety nitpicker Trekkie doesn’t get hired for any Trek production. It’s all talk until you actually work in actual productions, get back to me when you have some tangible results.

Fans have a right to block people.
And, I am sure some of us ,HAVE!
Why can’t creatives have the SAME right?

maybe the fans shouldn’t act like offended children because a TV isn’t to their liking in the first place?

While it’s true that creators should expect that nothing they create is going to be meet with universal approval. The simple fact is they don’t owe us a single thing. Period. They are hired by others, paid by others. They’re rewarded or punished solely off of how well a product does. Not based on how they interact with the public, unless it’s so offensive that their employers would feel it would damage their business model. And simply blocking a posters (if that is all that did happen) in no way shape or form is considered social unacceptable public behavior.

Well, I can’t say I really disagree – my post was a possible explanation on how David caught a block based on my similar experience, not a commentary on how Matalas should run his Twitter. A creator is entitled to curate their timeline to get the socmed experience they want, up to and including blocking people who *might* say something critical about their latest project where they *might* see it. And the fans are entitled to let that curation inform their opinion of the creator, including that they’re taking an unfair, thin-skinned attitude toward fan interaction. But I keep in mind a quote about these situations – “humans weren’t meant to be famous.” We aren’t mentally equipped to take constant bombardment of other people’s opinions, even the ones that seem neutral from an outsider POV. And I think folks forget that writers and show runners have less control over the final product than we like to think. The creatives generally just have to put on a good face regarding bullshit from on high, and those of us in the audience tend not to learn the truth of it all until the NDAs run out. So, even putting aside the actual toxic fans, I can easily see a creator getting tired of seeing criticisms about certain issues they didn’t have control over and can’t talk about freely, and just putting a hard stop on it. Or on the 300th person “joking” about them not knowing what a refit is. Or on anything that could, for the 500th time, be explained by there not being enough leeway in the budget, etc. On the fandom end of things, the blocks do sting, especially when there doesn’t seem to be a reason for it, but it’s still all low stakes hurt feelings – any of us who have something truly important to say to Terry Matalas probably have his actual contact info. Anything else can be handled with a mutual block and some healthy venting. No callouts required.