“Kids These Days”

Written by: Gaia Violo

Directed by: Alex Kurtzman

“Beta Test”

Written by: Noga Landau & Jane Maggs

Directed by: Alex Kurtzman

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    There was many a memberberry.

    At one point I thought that it didn’t look very Trek-y, somehow. Which can be explained of course by the fact that an entire millennium of progress has happened. It should be more surprising that anything does still look familiar. The thing is though that I watch Star Trek for the Trek-iness. The visual familiarity is part of it. I don’t know yet.

    Let’s hope episode 3 starts being about more than Caleb’s mum. And science.

    At least there was some diplomacy. Although it was weird that they’d negotiate while standing at lecterns surrounded by hundreds of people. Sit down, have a cuppa together, have a conversation, not a debate.

    Also, I’m supposed to ship Caleb and his roommate whose name I have forgotten, yes? The way they interact is textbook shipping material. Not to mention They Are Roommates.

        • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          As an animated Trek fan, that definitely irks, especially as it’s an animated sequence.

          I have a suspicion that there’s something about animated design IP rights behind the decision though.

          The old owners had decided to jettison animated Star Trek, and some other Paramount+ animated content to make the streamer mainly live action focused. Which, at the time this was announced, seemed very odd because Paramount’s owners were trying to sell the firm to Skydance, which is a major producer of high end animation for streamers.

          So, my thought is that Skydance wants its own animation studio to be doing any future animated content for Paramount. There will be exceptions for long running Nickelodeon animation such as SpongeBob, Beavis and Butthead or Dora the Explorer, but relatively recent creations will get short shrift.