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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Beams Down to New York Comic Con this Saturday to Preview Starfleet Academy Season 2 and MoreEnglish
2·1 day agoI have no idea what the situation is, but I’m glad they’re (a) still planning to air the second season, and (b) are willing to promote it.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Beams Down to New York Comic Con this Saturday to Preview Starfleet Academy Season 2 and MoreEnglish
2·1 day agoIt was picked up very early for Season 2, which has yet to air, and then cancelled.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Beams Down to New York Comic Con this Saturday to Preview Starfleet Academy Season 2 and MoreEnglish
1·2 days agoLooking at the website, there are a couple of Trek-related things TrekCore didn’t mention:
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•HBO Max and Paramount Plus will merge into a single streamer under SkydanceEnglish
7·3 days agoIt doesn’t really make a lot of sense to run multiple streamers. It’s kind of wild that Disney is still keeping Hulu alive, despite a heavy degree of integration.
It’s a pretty big project, though - could take years.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•The one episode you'd share to get someone into Star TrekEnglish
6·3 days agoVoyager: “Nemesis”
This is actually a very interesting pick - I tend to think it’s a mistake to try to start someone on an episode that would be considered among “the best,” since after that there’s nowhere to go but down. “Nemesis” fits the bill of something that’s reasonably interesting without being spectacular.
I’m very bad at answering the core question, but I think the beauty of the franchise is that it has a little of everything to offer, and you can tailor recommendations to the person’s tastes.
Do they like medical dramas? Procedural mysteries? Musicals? Gritty war stories? There’s something in there for everyone.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Alberta Separatists Offered U.S. Access to Water and Oil Royalties for Independence Help, Globe Reports | Culture AlbertaEnglish
1·4 days agoYeah, I omitted High Treason, because it obviously doesn’t apply.
And the laws sound treason are pretty much entirely focused on facilitating a foreign military invasion. Based on what we know so far, I don’t think there’s anything there that would hold up in court.
But like I said the last time this came up, by all means, investigate away. I just think it’s far more likely that they’d get nailed on lesser charges like foreign interference-related stuff (but I don’t really know anything about our foreign interference laws, save that they seem to be woefully inadequate).
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Alberta Separatists Offered U.S. Access to Water and Oil Royalties for Independence Help, Globe Reports | Culture AlbertaEnglish
5·4 days agofound that it did
How so?
Every one commits treason who, in Canada,
- uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;
Not so far…
- without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an agent of a state other than Canada, military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that he knows or ought to know may be used by that state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada;
Maybe? I don’t see military or scientific secrets being described here, but I’m open to the possiblity if there’s any evidence.
- conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);
Again, not so far.
- forms an intention to do anything that is high treason or that is mentioned in paragraph (a) and manifests that intention by an overt act; or
Again, not so far.
- conspires with any person to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) or forms an intention to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) and manifests that intention by an overt act.
And that’s another maybe, but I don’t see anything in this article that screams “military or scientific secrets.”
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Rod Roddenberry On How New Paramount Wants “To Do Right By Star Trek”English
6·5 days agoNo matter how much people may want to portray this most recent era as a failure, I don’t think there’s any sort of data that would back that up (but if there is, I’d love to see it). This is from early last year:
Parrot Analytics Streaming Economics System shows how the long running Star Trek franchise has been a reliable money maker not only for Paramount+ but other streaming platforms around the globe. From Q1 2020 until Q3 2024 our model estimates that shows and movies in the Star Trek franchise have generated over $2.6B in subscriber revenue for major streamers globally.

You could sort of, probably make the case that the landscape has changed since then - the fact that there are no live-action series in development would certainly support that, though I don’t think it really proves anything other than that the company is in shambles right now.
But the idea that the franchise has somehow been killed in the streaming era? It’s essentially fantasy.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Rod Roddenberry On How New Paramount Wants “To Do Right By Star Trek”English
62·5 days agoAlex Kurtzman single-handedly drove the entire Paramount corporation into the ground, keeping his job the entire time, personally enabling Skydance to purchase the entire thing for the low price of $8 billion?
This to you is a sensible theory, and not mind-numbingly stupid?
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Let's talk about Waking MomentsEnglish
3·6 days agoMy memories of this one are pretty fuzzy - looking at Memory Alpha, elements of it are ringing bells, mainly the recurring moon that Chakotay uses to remember he’s dreaming.
It’s a neat episode.
I can get behind this sentiment. I don’t think it’s outstanding, but it’s unique and does some things we don’t typically see.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Alto high-speed rail project could cost more than originally thought: budget watchdog | CBC NewsEnglish
9·7 days agoA megaproject going over budget? Unthinkable.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
3·9 days agoIndeed, and if you look at what Daley has said about this Trek film in the past…
I think the portrayal of Starfleet and the people that work within it have always been generally idealized versions of what the future could be. And while this [script] isn’t a cynical or nihilistic take on it, I think it does acknowledge that there are some bad apples in every institution that can have a strong voice and can really make an impact on that institution and everything it stands for.”
Serious, but not cynical or nihilistic.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
4·9 days agoThere’s hope, and then there’s delusion…
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
5·9 days agoit actually starts filming
Now you’re dreaming.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
8·9 days agoThat movie is indeed fantastic, but I don’t think it has quite the tone I would want from a Star Trek movie.
I think their “Crimson Tide” comparison is pretty darned compelling. That’s a serious movie with a lot of tension, but it’s hardly a heavy slog.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
3·9 days agoI do wonder if they’re dancing around NDAs and junk like that, too - writers really don’t like to talk about stuff in the early stages.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
4·9 days agoEspecially in a SF context where they’re not being clear if “timeline” means “somewhere else on the established timeline” or “a new alternate one”.
Unfortunately, I think that ship hath sailed. The word is used to mean both things fairly interchangeably, by fans and professionals alike.
In this context, I’m pretty comfortable assuming that they’re looking at a new era within the regular ol’ Prime Universe.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” TimelineEnglish
9·9 days agoTrekMovie playing the clickbait game with the best of 'em.
No legacy characters, nobody that you’ve met before. A different time, not a different timeline per se, but it’s a little further in the future.
I don’t actually think this is very ambiguous?
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•It's a weird request but if Paramount decides to not greenlight Paul Wesley's Kirk and Crew, I hope IDW does a Year One comic.English
3·11 days agoI think the odds of a tv series are less than zero at this point, but comics would be a great fit.









Larry Nemecek has a bit more info on his own website.