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If you could select your own Starship crew, who would you choose for each position? You can select from any series or movie and from any era. Bonus question: what would your ship’s name be?
Captain – Sisko
First Officer – Worf
Science – Spock
CMO – McCoy
Helm – Paris
Navigation – Chin-Riley
Security – Odo
Engineer – Scott
Counselor – Troi
Quartermaster – Neelix
ship name – USS Indefatigable or USS Temeraire
Captain Kirk
XO Spock
CMO McCoy (backed up by EMH)
Political Officer Garak (also functions as s31 liason)
Helm/Nav Gary Mitchell/Chief DeFalco (just messing with you, I don’t think I care about this one)
Engineer Scott (doubles as bartender)
Counselor Guinan
Security and Quartermaster Jellico (would really keep things in order)
Ship’s mascot Enemy Within’s Horndog
Ship’s cruise director Uhura, assisted by Kevin Thomas Riley and Reg Barclay — should have all the bases covered by those folks
Starship Challenger (have been naming ships in my stories CHALLENGER since the mid70s) or after they quit Starfleet, Privateer Sasquatch
I’d just like to get your individual thoughts on canon, and I don’t mean what is and what isn’t. I’m a little tired of the official properties having to all be ‘tied in’, particularly when they’re moving outside of the box of what Trek has been. I feel like they’re shooting themselves in the foot by trying so hard to have everything be canonical. It feels like they need to embrace the idea of telling good stories, and some of those should exist outside of canon. A good example is the upcoming office comedy. I pray they aren’t going to tie that in. Just embrace the format, make it good, but just let it exist outside of what we know. Not everything has to be explained.
Based on rumors that you have heard and your own gut feelings, what do you think that this “Star Trek origin” movie idea is about, and do you think that this movie will actually be made?
Well, for a 2026 release they were supposed to be getting into principle photography in a couple of months. So far, nothing.
I’ve been saying since Beyond that they’ll make another one….. someday. I stand by that.
Based on what we’ve gotten in trekfilms this century, I’d say it is about a 1/2hr too long, minimum.
Considering that they’ll probably go through several writers before giving up, I think the origin story versions will be about everything you can imagine, and that there’s virtually no chance any of them will go before the cameras.
Is the comments section where we are submitting the questions? I looked for a link to submit thinking you would want pick/choose the questions without everyone seeing them first (or what is not answered).
Yes, put them here please! Doesn’t matter if people see them.
If you could pitch the next Star Trek show. What would it look like? I love how your writers care about Star Trek and I think you’d have a great opinion on a new show.
I still think it would be fun to know if the Lower Decks episode title “Of Gods And Angles” and the wall-licking on Star Base 80 were possibly referencing Good Omens (referring to the “angle” misspelling and Hell’s “Don’t lick the walls” workplace poster as seen on that series. LD has referenced other stuff from outside Trek before, such as a line from BBC Sherlock in the Badgey episode.) But I don’t think a podcast episode could answer this (?), unless you were able to ask the writers…
Yeah, that’s more of a question for the Lower Decks writers than us.
Thanks, Laurie. Well as long as I don’t know, I’ll keep being amused at the idea that this reference would mean that Starbase 80 has worse office standards than Hell :-)..
Who would you each like to interview that you haven’t done so far, and why?
So many questions! What do you think the best, worst and most likely scenarios are in your minds for how skydance will impact trek? Also do you think given the current political climate that Star Trek will ever go back to making more overt political and societal commentary or just keep churning out action adventure (a la section 31) to try and “grow the fan base.”
I’d like a very detailed explanation of the business aspects of the Skydance-Paramount deal. How does this affect current series and what’s the future hold?
Ha! We would like that too.
Let’s see what the magic 8 Ball says….
“Reply hazy, try again.”
Which Star Trek celebrity, that you’ve interviewed or met, has genuinely surprised you the most in a way that you did not expect? Good or bad!
I know this site is Trek Movie, but should Trek have theatrical films? Trek films have never been “tent pole” films; they just don’t bring in the box office numbers that Star Wars movies, as an example, bring in. Is Trek better suited to TV? Meaning episodic or semi-serialized storytelling over more time than a 2-hour movie allows?
Separate topic: Where has the Kurtzman Era fallen short, and where has it excelled?
not so, ST movies were definitely tentpole movies for paramount in the 80s and 90s, with ‘voyage home’ and ‘first contact’ big box office hits.
and even the early kelvin films did well with the 2009 ST reboot bringing the series back to life.
it just now the stakes are higher and the ST movie franchise cannot match the bigger tent pole of MCU and others, especially worldwide.
Would you guys have preferred to see Orci’s ST3 (about the timeline under threat with Shatner returning as Kitk Prime) instead of the Pegg/Lin Beyond we got?
I sure would have, and I liked Beyond!
Yes please…
ok I’ll give it a shot. I used to work at trek in the early 00s. Some of my buds who still had connections to this new era told me very early on how the netflix deal for disco paid for the entire show and that anything else was gravy. Their words. I would love to hear a real discussion of what went down. After season 4 had been shot and ready to air if you all remember Paramount basically gives all that money back for S4 and tells Netflix to blow off. Netflix agrees. Paramount then pulls the rug out from fans overseas who lose their show because Paramount had no P+ infrastructure ready yet in most countries.
Then the Viacom CEO touts at a shareholders meeting how they bought Discovery back from Netflix and was proud they had it back in the fold all to themselves.
From a trekmovie article “As we increasingly transition to leveraging our particular franchises and original production for our owned and operated streaming assets, principally Paramount+… that, in turn, will create a decline in that third-party business over time as these deals roll off. I would note that as an example of that, we just took back Star Trek: Discovery internationally from Netflix. And so we now have that property globally. That’s clearly a core franchise for us, and it’s working.”
OK… but then when they get a chance to make their first season alone w/o the Netflix money (season 5) they cut the order to 10 claiming it was in line with the episode orders for the other series. Does anyone believe that?
THEN they cancel it before it even airs.
Paramount and Trek have had a rocky relationship from the start and there’s always been a weird relationship but this one was pretty insane and I still haven’t made much sense of it.
Would love to hear a discussion of this… an actual breakdown of those events. Did Netflix have rights to Strange New Worlds since it was a spinoff? Or the academy show? Did they hold any other financial interest in Disco or any spinoffs that might happen?
ANOTHER QUESTION
Of all the on hold/passed on Star Trek 4 projects (prequel, tarantino, pandemic, dad kirk son kirk… etc…) which would you love to see the new Paramount leaders this year come in and say… let’s do this one NOW? if any.
Re ST4 I wonder what the Matt Shakman version was going to be about .. The rest all seem to have had vague plot synopsis/hints of plot come out – SJ Clarkson/George Kirk/Relics, Tarantino/Gangsters/Piece of the Action meets Pulp Fiction, Noah Hawley/Space Pandemic/no familiar characters (possibly Rami Malik/Cate Blancett starring), Toby Haynes Trek Origins/set in early Federation days/creation of Starfleet .. but nothing for Shakmans ST4 (unless it was meant to be a continuation of the George Kirk ST4..?)…
Would we get to hear from the old podcast crew of Brian, Kayla, Jared, and Matt, maybe? I remember when they did a whole episode on Star Trek chairs. Good times.
Could you do an interview with Brian Volk Weiss from Nacelle Company’s upcoming Star Trek action figures?
I always liked the “inside baseball” nature of Trek discussions. Perhaps a deeper dive into good Trek, like Picard Season 3?
Is Star Trek fundamentally out of fashion? Star Trek’s core principle of institutional hegemony feels like it’s fundamentally outdated and even undesirable. Is it possible for Star Trek to plow ahead with such simplistic ideas about utopia that can’t tolerate internal criticism and conflict? Just curious how Star Trek can reconcile its universe for a modern audience.
I know, not a lightweight topic, but for me it’s making me rethink Star Trek’s relevance.
ST has always questioned how the ‘utopia’ of the Fed can function and whether it either works or can survive crises such as the dominion war and ‘the burn’.
but it will always be a goal worth fighting now more than ever in the current climate
I think Robert Wise said it very well: “It was not just the appeal of the space paraphernalia, but the spirit of hope for a better future, and above all, the human element as it was expressed in the characters.” (Return to Tomorrow)
If there is anything that sh/could be in fashion right now it’s hope for a better future and turning the lens on the human element in that.
That’s a key difference between TOS Trek and TNG Trek. In TOS you had money, miners, etc. Kirk mocks the Federation bureaucracy while at the same time still believing in the Federation. It was nuanced partly because it was supposed to be today’s humanity making it despite the challenges.
TNG Trek has its roots in sci-fi for babys (and good cartoon comedy), everyone is happy, families on starships, no money, humanity is so great we teach the Q and don’t have to learn nothing. This of course was also boring as hell which is why the Borg, the ultimate collective, corrupting Picard came in and saved the show time and time again. DS9 basically rocks because it throws out a lot of the TNG nonsense.
I think a return to TOS Trek is warranted, it’s that working together despite everything not being perfect, we will make it and explore the universe, dilithium mining and all.
TNG actually came of age with its 3rd season, though with some good eps earlier like ‘measure of a man’ that dealt with big themes similar to the OS.
things getting tougher for the crew, starfleet and the Fed dealing with growing conflicts with klingons, romulans and later cardassians, the latter setting up the strengths of DS9 as a series.
first – there were only 6 total Borg episodes in TNG – the first being in Season 2 and even that one isn’t fantastic. 4 of them are part of two-parters so you can consider that one story, spread across the close and start of seasons.
TNG found it’s footing well before the final episode of S3 which brought back the Borg, mainly due to Michael Pillar and am improved story / script processes.
‘Q who’ is great with wonderful moments from Q and guinan as well as seeing picard dealt a bit slice of humility when faced with something like the Borg.
What’s your favorite animated show, Prodigy or Lower Decks?
(But you can’t go wrong with either option! Star Trek at its best IMO.)
Did you leave out the 3rd animated Trek show on purpose or simply forget about it? ;-)
Left it out on purpose. Just wanted to hear specifically about those since they are both new. I never watched TAS and it doesn’t interest me that much personally.
Obviously they can include that too if they want. I’m personally just interested in LDS and PRO since I seen and invested in those.
Full disclosure: I’ve never seen TAS either.
Ever read the Foster adaptations? Unlike the Blish works, they are mostly huge expansions on the episodes, and even though there are some false notes here and there, they are pretty damned good reads. I reread about half of them a few years back for the first time in decades and was still entertained.
And yeah, I picked up the TAS DVDs in their cute plastic box used for a few bucks about 15 years ago and still watch the occasional show, but most of them are not terrific.
Actually just remembered and watched the first TAS episode years ago but it just felt too jarring so never went beyond that. I’m tied the next episode is one of the best though and plan to watch that one at least.
“Yesteryear” is a classic Star Trek story in whatever format it would have been in, but it works well in animation. If you have any interest in TOS at all, the animated series is the genuine continuation of it.
Yeah I know that’s the one most people seem to love. I plan to watch that one at some point at least.
What story would YOU pitch to Nicolas Cage to finally bring him into the Star Trek universe?
Given my utter distaste for nearly all things Cage (would have paid money to see John Cusack instead of him in THE ROCK, and ADAPTATION and PEGGY SUE, the only three Cages I like and own in spite of his presence), it would have to be something so vile that nobody would ever greenlight it … maybe a Uwe Boll style Trek? I SPIT ON YOUR PHOTON BURIAL TUBE?
LOL – but c’mon: did you ever see Trapped in Paradise? Now that was fun.
I reached my Lovitz movie limit with THE WEDDING SINGER.
But at least it had the legendary Allen Covert.
I’d love to know how TrekMovie came to be and hear your most exciting and/or unnerving experiences while covering Trek during all those years. Did it ever get tiresome? Did it change the way you see the franchise as fans? Is it work or fun for you? Or both?
Laurie & Anthony, I want you both to answer this question individually. You are given the keys to the kingdom. You are placed in charge of TheTrek Franchise.
What is the first thing that you do? After doing that, what is your primary focus? In this scenario, You are in charge of, ALL aspects of Trek. TV. Film. Books.Merchandising. THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX! You guys are, IN CHARGE! HAVE AT IT!
I like this one.
I have several questions. First Who was the best interview you did and who was the worst?
Second, do you think Star Trek should be more Standalone or more serialized? or both like X-Files.
and finally Do you think the modern era of Star Trek is dumbed down a bit in the sense that they are getting away from using big science-fiction concepts in the stories?
Not a question really, just a wish list item… waiting for DS9 to get a multi-part HD video release similar to how TNG released many of their 2 parters as stand alone blu-ray movies. Would be a way to test the marketplace without fully investing in remastering the entire series (which I know is one of the core issues with an HD release of the entire series)… curious what people think. D
My silly, related question to this would be: why doesn’t some uber-geek billionaire gift Paramount/CBS $10 million to do full HD remaster of DS9? 10M is pocket change to some of these guys; and you can’t tell me none of these tech nerds are Trek fans.
Jeff Bezos is a fan apparently and even had a cameo in Star Trek Beyond.
However, I have doubts that any of the billionaires would simply gift the money to Paramount so that Paramount can make more money from DS9. And Paramount would probably not want to share their profits with anybody.
if he really was a ST fan then he wouldn’t be cozying up to the orange one.
The same reason they keep doing things to screw people and the world over … because they are still somehow all about making (and keeping) more $. I think I can count the number of altruistic billionaires on my thumbs and still have a couple knuckles left over.
If you’re financing altruistic projects, there are thousands of better candidates than remastering DS9.
So if some ultra-high-net worth angel investor were to commit to remastering DS9, yes, there has to be a business case behind it.
Is there an existing Star Trek character whose origin story could be told (successfully) in a movie or as part of a series?
Can Trek be good when it’s filling things in, or is it always at its best fleshing out new stories and events?
The one thing I think could work is the Kobyashi Maru origin story. Just give us people to care about and it could be its own standalone story. Off I go!
“Can Trek be good when it’s filling things in, or is it always at its best fleshing out new stories and events?” – This is a great question to ponder!
I think the successful amalgamation of those approaches might be the key. You’re doing a new story/event that happens to take place at a time that lets it fill in a piece of history in a way that resonates forward and backward to Treks we’ve seen.
I’d add that including some tangential relation to real-world events that is not heavyhanded might also be welcome.
I know, ‘set the bar a little higher, why doncha?’ …
Apologies John. I had posted same question (below) prior to noticing your post.
No worries!
What happened to the Shuttle Pod and it’s crew? They seem to have largely vanished.
What do you think the optimal number of episodes for a Star Trek season is? We’ve had everything from 26 back in the Berman era to 10 in the Kurtzman era. My personal opinion is 15 because it gives time for a season arc with some one-offs sprinkled in, but would love to hear your thoughts since you know the industry.
My question(s) would be related to movies: Should Trek focus on mid-budget movies instead of going for tentpoles (which for Trek, have rarely succeeded at the levels hoped for)? And is that what the streaming movies are supposed to capture? [Though S31 seems to have largely failed, if only at critical reviews but maybe not viewing numbers?]
I see a lot of good opportunity for an anthology of mid-budget Trek movies drawing on different elements of the established universe. Focus on some deep sci-fi/Trek ideas and don’t shoot for a billion dollar box office and I think that would be sustainable.
Roddenberry set TNG a century after TOS so he could tell new stories,
Then, in the ‘90s, all the series existed in the same time period (until Enterprise),
But lately we’ve had a bunch of shows (and a movie) all set in different time periods – pre TOS, pre TNG, post TNG, post post post post TNG, etc).
Even for someone who’s been following Trek for years, all that jumping around can get confusing.
Should new Trek shows pick one time period and stick to it, especially if the goal is to attract new fans without alienating existing ones?
Which one and why?
I wish Discovery was a 25th or 26th century show from the beginning and then just make other shows in that century with new characters like how TNG-Voyager did it in the 24th century Just start completely over in a new era and build out new stories. And they could still bring in legacy characters from time to time like Riker or Tuvok.
But mostly focus on one era and build that up . And it would be easier for new fans to jump into since the shows all be in the same time frame and you don’t need to care about the older shows at all.
If Star Trek never existed, what would your job/passion be now?
Competitive knitting?
Anthony and Laurie, describe your mirror universe evil counterparts.
Has it ever been explained why Deep Space Nine didn’t become a “UPN Show” after the network’s launch? It seems like something that would have happened and it isn’t like shows have not changed “networks” before.
One reason might be that it was because DS9 was in the middle of its run in syndication when UPN started. Likely it had existing deals with the stations running it that would not allow for it to be put on a broadcast network.
With all of the effort the current Star Trek showrunners and producers seem to be putting into chasing the concepts of other sci-fi properties and even non-sci-fi genres, such as comedy, do you think that Star Trek is no longer viable as a serious sci-fi property that can be based solely on its own concepts and mythos? Does it need to stop being Star Trek to be successful now?
Could you see Lower Decks returning in the form of maybe 2 or so one hour “specials” a year? Something akin to how South Park makes specials just for Max?
Is Star Trek still relevant when we have thought-provoking sci-fi such as FOR ALL MANKIND?
(Binge watched FOR ALL MANKIND over the past two weeks. How I ever missed this superb series when it first came out, I’ll never know…)
All the Apple shows are superb: For all Mankind, Dark matter, Silo, Foundation & Severance. Jeez they make great sci-fi. It’s a great time to be alive. Nutrek looks feeble in comparison sadly.
Yeah, For All Mankind is far superior to any of the Star Trek output since Enterprise ended. But it’s no surprise, as its got Ron Moore and other great writers on it.
It feels like a prequel series to ST.
I’ve been binge-watching FAM over the last couple weeks, and have 3 episodes in season 4 left to watch tonight. Except for the 1st ep, I’ve dug them all, and been blown away by parts of most of them. How I’m gonna make it till nov or whenever s5 drops, I just don’t know …
It really is HOW THE SOLAR SYSTEM WAS WON (the working joke title Clarke had for his early work on 2001 a space odyssey.)
My wife and I do wonder about how it seems that the middle-east gaza aspect seems to not get mentioned at all … but that’s a pretty minor carp.
The newsreel intro for the fourth (I think) season actually said there was some kind of civil conflict in Saudi Arabia in the FAM universe. That suggests Iranian involvement, and that Iran would pour resources into that conflict rather than funding Hizbollah and Hamas.
I really think Ron Moore and staff ought to get a feminist of the year award given how so much of the series revolves around the decisions and actions of female characters (and to be fair, that includes the only serious villain, at least in season 4.)
But I also wonder if those folks — it seems wrongs to even call them that, let alone think of them as human — who have taken the upper hand politically recently seem intent on rewriting progress and purging history from the history books watched this series and learned all the wrong lessons from it. I could easily imagine some thing like Stephen Miller watching FAM with a notebook on his lap, taking notes on how to do the wrong things for the wrong reasons, inspired by the characters who either did the right thing for the wrong reason or the right thing for the right reason.
Not human! I suppose it would be right to exterminate them, then. I can think of some people you can ask for advice about that.
Rabid dogs become indiscriminate killers — why indulge them owing to their condition? Rabid dogs aren’t really your pets anymore, because the relationship is gone. But the responsibility is still yours to deal with the situation.
More specifically, my honest belief is that the actions and apparent thoughts behind them are not humane, not in any defensible way, but instead just driven by malice and personal gain. With that kind of mindset, anything is possible, from defying court orders and the constitution to public executions for those who are only guilty of opposing monstrous deformations in the state.
Wow, that’s a healthy attitude about a majority of your fellow citizens. Nothing can go wrong there. Except a Holocaust or a Gulag here and there.
How, exactly, is anyone “purging history”? Be specific.
How’s this for specific? https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history
I’m probably talking to thin air at this point, but am also wondering if the waybackmachine is already being targeted by the government. More and more I’m thinking that I need to go back to keeping paper hard copies of everything, because you really don’t know anymore about what will be available via the internet from day to day or hour to hour (or how much of the real record will be getting rewritten all to Hell.)
You’re not talking to thin air. I’ll stop there….
Has Laurie started watching Doctor Who yet? And how much does she love it? :)
Is Star Trek still Star Trek?
And what makes/made Star Trek unique?
First off, very happy you guys are doing this! I have been wanting to see this for a long time.
I asked these questions back in December but will bring them up here again. For Laurie, since you worked on the After Trek show that was originally the Discovery after show, I always wanted to know how you got involved with it and what the experience was like? And why do you think it didn’t continue?
For Anthony, when Prodigy started, you were reviewing it with your niece and nephew which I loved reading, at least in the beginning. But then you stopped reviewing it with them. I wanted to know why? Did they just lose interest or did they at least continue watching the show through both seasons?
I wish it had continued. The host and format was better than Wil Wheaton’s show.
Star Trek in recent years has become a bloated mess. Can anybody say the Current Generation is really better than past series? The recent movie has been widely panned despite the efforts of the usual suspects trying to put the lipstick on the… The stories are bloated, largely uninteresting and when attempting positive social commentary, bear none of the subtlety of past series. SNW being the welcome exception.
I’ll say it’s as good as previous iterations. Every era had its hits and misses.
Question for the podcast! I often wonder at the level of interest modern Trek (Discovery onward) is attracting compared to the Berman era. The streaming ratings, and very different TV landscape, obviously make this harder to judge. Some say the fanbase is aging and there is little interest in modern Trek. On IMDB, DSC has 141k votes, SNW has 63k; it’s contemporaries are The Orville (103k), The Expanse (180k), Foundation (105k). Of course, that is hardly a reliable benchmark. (I should clarify, I do enjoy the new shows). Would be interested in Tony and Laurie’s thoughts.
Berman era Trek could be seen by a wider margin of people at the time being on TV. Unfortunately NuTrek is on a streaming service majority of the country doesn’t have or want. It’s probably a big reason why non fans don’t even know these new shows exist at all and makes it harder to attract them when no one but Trekkies are talking about them or know what they are.
My own family is proof of this. My mother just learned literally a month ago about SNW because the actor who plays April is on another show she watches, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air reboot show. She was surprised when he talked about being in a Star Trek show in an interview discussing it. She literally called me up and asked me if I ever seen it and wanted to know what it was about.
But during the 90s, we knew about the other shows even when we didn’t watch them because they were advertised everywhere and you saw the merchandise for them in stores, etc. So easier to get people attention back then versus now.
Even some other Trekkies I know in real life don’t watch most of these shows because they refuse to pay for it or they think Abrams/Kurtzman Trek sucks.
I would LOVE a discussion about recent (nuTrek) retcons and classic Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT). In other words, how did Discovery, Picard and Strange New Worlds retcon TOS and TNG and Enterprise and DS9? We can argue all day what is and isn’t canon (please don’t!), but as an example SNW established that the Khan’s rise to power was supposed to happen in 1992 (correct, matches “Space Seed”) but “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” establishes that time has changed and now Khan is still a child in 2022 — I would LOVE to hear the podcast groups thoughts on RETCONS — and for you, what works and what does not. Could be a great discussion!
Star Trek has lasted long enough to become effectively a Genre unto itself…In fact, Favorite Show Fans vs Each Other vs Generalists have driven both debate, social bullying and yes, creativity: illustrate Fan Write-ins for The Original Series Season 3, Te Animated Series, Discovery’s Adventure Turn, Picard’s Seasonal Changes, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy’s extension, and more. Where do we go from here, and how do we weed out the haters crumb chewing about other’s preferences??
What does god need with a starship?
ENTERPRISE should have riffed on this with Porthos. What does dog need with a starship?
…..to boldly pee where no dog has pee’d before.
What happened to your sister podcast The Shuttlepod? I guess there was some overlap but it had a bit of a different vibe and I liked their energy.
And, would you ever consider a crossover with another podcast or YouTube channel (e.g. Trekyards) or are you all sort of competing with each other? After all crossovers are a fine Trek tradition :-)
bruce french r i p
Could the Tarantino Trek film still get made (esp now there’s seemingly no ST4 on the horizon) and was it really going to be ‘Piece of the Action’ meets ‘Pulp Fiction?’ rated R? The writer has said there was some timetravel involved so they’d probably be going back to 1920s earth (not another planet like POTA) , and Tarantino said he didn’t understand the alt timeline (to which Abrams agreed) so would be set in the prime timeline with Pine etc as younger versions of Prime Kirk etc (although doubt it would’ve been much if an issue to make sure it was set in kelvin timeline)
QT seems to be moving away from films and towards working as a playwriter, novelist
Everything what you just said is why I’m glad it never got made. Youre going back in time to fight Chicago gamgsters? Why? Seriously, why? It just sounded really really bad.
Star Trek vs Chicago gangsters of the 20s, Tommy guns vs hand phasers, wise cracking pop culture quoting Kirk & Spock in suits (carrying heaters), extreme Trek violence (graphic disintegrations, transporter malfunctions, warp speed deaths, gangster shoot ups), guardian of forever/time travel? (QT is a huge fan of City on the Edge), possible Shatner appearance? (bc QT loves shatner). QT regulars in cameos/supporting as various starfleet,klingons,orion slave girls etc? (SLJ, Roth, KRussell, Waltz, Pitt, Robbie) I’d love it!
No one ever mentioned the Guardian of Forever was part of the movie. Just sound like something you wanted in it.
And none of that sounded like Star Trek, just an excuse to pew pew for two hours only with StarTrek characters in it. What happened to seeking out new life and civilizations? To be inspired or hopeful? Not watching Fratboy Kirk and Spock shooting Tommy guns and popping off popular culture refrences. The whole thing sounded ridiculous and just made a mockery of the franchise. Glad its dead.
All that said though, it couldn’t have been worse than Section 31 I guess.
I was just hypothetical based on Tarantino saying on that podcast he did few years ago where he brought up City on the Edge and said something like if he ever got the chance to do a Trek film hed do like a big version of that or Yesterdays Enterprise. so maybe in addition to Gangsters/Piece of the Action thered have been elements of City on the Edge (and maybe Yesterdays Enterprise) .. so Margot Robbie as Edith?
That ship sailed years ago. Then it sank. And broke up into tiny pieces. In the Mariana’s Trench, where no one can ever get to it again.
That’s a negative, ghost rider…..
Could you talk about the state of Star Trek novels? There has been much fewer releases in the past several years.
Next year is Star Trek’s 60th anniversary. It also is the (tentative) release year for the Trek origin movie. Any updates…cast, story, director, producer…etc? I’m not connected to the podcast, but if you have any info could you send it via my email? Much appreciated.
No updates. It’s been very quite on the Trek theatrical projects since 2016.
I’m a little hesitant to ask a question related to politics AND business, but…
I was just listening to The Town (which I believe Anthony is a fan of?), and they were talking about Trump threatening the Skydance merger because he believes CBS was too easy on Kamala Harris in an interview last year. He’s basically demanding a $10 billion bribe to allow the deal to happen.
Since both Shari Redstone and the Ellisons are Trump supporters, the host Matthew Belloni seems confident the deal will still go through.
Assuming it does, and Skydance becomes the keeper of Trek, do you see challenges for the producers of new making shows and movies in a media environment that demands such fealty to power? I think Trek is best when it asks provocative questions rather than outright telling us how to feel about an issue (or, say, having a politician guest star). But since even journalists asking questions is now considered a sign of disloyalty, and many media outlets are tripping over themselves to appease Trump, for example by deleting trans characters from shows, I wonder what this will mean for our beloved franchise.
(Apologies for the run on sentence, and thanks for making a great pod!)
Is the kelvin ST4 totally dead now ..
Nothing’s ever dead. I’m guessing they’ll be stopping the CPR soon, though.
What Star Trek merch, that has never been created (as far as you know), would you most like to buy?
That’s a great topic, one I hope they choose.
For the better part of three decades, I’ve craved the idea of an Earth globe that shows our planet after the Borg have done their number on it in the alt-future of FIRST CONTACT.
It may be due to the fact that from age 7 to 40, I always had an Encyclopedia Britannica globe that was painted black where the oceans were, so I came to like a certain amount of stylization (also thought a globe of Giedi Prime from DUNE would rock.)
Also, ever since I first saw it as a kid, I have always wanted to have something like Sulu’s targeting gadget that pops up out of his helm console. The way it unfolds while slowly rising is something I am just captivated by. Nowadays, I think it would have to actually do something, like be a retina-scan for signing into my desktop computer. Oh man, the more I think about it, the more I really like this cool but ludicrous notion!
I don’t care what anyone says/thinks…..
I LOVE ALL STAR TREK!
Simple as that. 🖖LL&P