Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

1:15:52

WHOA.  THIS development came on abruptly - so much so, I was looking for it to be a dream or hoax.  ;disappointed;

[Valka]

I never saw the last season of Enterprise, so it's "meh" for me.

[Buster's Uncle]

You missed the only good -albeit deeply flawed- season, then.  No kiddin'.

1:31:24

A)  The ship's pecking order is clearly Captain, science officer/first mate, chief engineer/Second mate.  ZERO thought went into that.

B)  Where'd this rift getting them home come from?

C)  Please, sweet Lord, may I never hear the made-up technobabble, lame, non-word 'gravimetric' ever again? Se-lah Amen.


Almost done...

[Buster's Uncle]

Roll credits

I don't take back any of my nitpicks, but note that I'm an inveterate nitpicker - this really could have benefitted from being cut down in length by about a quarter -a second or two here and there- to tighten up the pacing and draggy flat performances.

That said, I'm both impossible to please and ruined it for myself not watching all the way through at one sitting.  It's quite good, meets at least mediocre professional standards -unprecedented for an ST fanfilm- and solider than the first three entire seasons of Enterprise, if sorely missing the charisma of a Scott Bakula.

I certainly hope the future holds more from creator Tommy Kraft.

Check it out.

[Buster's Uncle]

Star Trek - Horizon: Full Film

Probably safe to assume that I'll be live-reviewing this when I get caught up later today to watching...

I DO hope others will take a look and post some reaction/opinions - to what-all I posted as I watched, too.

It nailed the sets and costumes, the story was serviceable for all the complaints I made, the the sound and effects and shipporn were pro-quality --- as was everything about the impressive finesse of the post-production, which went almost all the way to making the so-so acting work.

Quality.  Period.

[Buster's Uncle]

Apropos of nothing but an errant thought I had yesterday, God Bless Dorothy Fontana - she was One Of Us, an actual fan- but it's a good thing, ultimately, that she didn't have her say all the time.  All those Spock quasi-romance episodes?  Always lame, and she seemed to want to do that -and/or give Spock another superpower- every week.

The show was stronger for a strong, developed Spock fighting against it being just the Kirk Show, but would have been weaker had it turned into merely the Spock Show instead.  -Fontana and Nimoy certainly tried.-  We may not have gotten the best possible balance of that, but Star Trek was better for the dynamic tension between the creative focal pulls.

[Buster's Uncle]

Star Trek - Horizon: Full Film

Probably safe to assume that I'll be live-reviewing this when I get caught up later today to watching...

I DO hope others will take a look and post some reaction/opinions - to what-all I posted as I watched, too.

It nailed the sets and costumes, the story was serviceable for all the complaints I made, the sound and effects and shipporn were pro-quality --- as was everything about the impressive finesse of the post-production, which went almost all the way to making the so-so acting work.

Quality.  Period.

ANYONE?  It's been five days, and the only chance I've had to discuss this was a longish paragraph on Facebook (liked it a lot) from someone with whom I'm not currently speaking...

[Valka]

Sorry, I've had RL stuff going on and not much sleep this past week. I'm just now getting caught up with what I've missed.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've noticed that you've been quiet this week.  Catch up when you can, no problem.

I note that I haven't seen anyone say Horizon sucked -the acclaim is pretty universal- and in fact my own grousing about Romulan continuity and find the acting a tad flat is the harshest reaction I'm aware of.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's something John Byrne -if you're not into comics at all, he's the one doing the ST original story 'photonovel' comics I sometimes post covers from- said he was just messing around doing:



-However, the comics themselves began as messing around in Photoshop before they turned into a real thing...

[Buster's Uncle]

Rod Roddenberry Joins New Star Trek Series As Executive Producer
Bleeding Cool
Posted March 3, 2016 by Erik Amaya



 


enterpriseVariety reports that Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, has joined the staff of CBS’s new untitled Star Trek series as an executive producer along with Trevor Roth.

They join the previously announced executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin and showrunner Bryan Fuller in shaping the latest version of the generations-spanning franchise. It is currently unclear when the series will be set relative to the rebooted film series, but the program itself is intended to stream on CBS’s All Access service following a premiere on its on-air network.

Roddenberry is not the only Star Trek name to join the series in recent days. Late last week, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country director (and co-writer of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) Nicholas Meyer signed on as a consulting producer and as a member of the writing staff.

The new Star Trek series is expected to debut in January of 2017.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/03/03/rod-roddenberry-joins-new-star-trek-series-as-executive-producer/


Smells like stunt-casting for producers...

[Buster's Uncle]

I find the Anaxar thread at TrekBBS maddening.  It's about two months beyond the moderators doing their jobs.  It's OT, it's hateful - and they were talking, just yesterday after a few pages of OT about TWOK/STID, about complaints that it was hateful and not getting it.  What it is not, is a useful source of information about the lawsuit which is the only reason I look in once a week and read a day's worth at the end.

I happen to think the general drift of the hating is correct - Anaxar/Peters took a LOT of money from a LOT of people, financial irregularities are what they are, and there was a (good, especially if you like war stories and shipporn posing as Star Trek; it WAS about building new warships from one end to the other) mockumentary and three whole minutes of footage shot otherwise -nothing else after so long- when somebody at Paramount got fed up and sent in the lawyers.  It's all apparently true, including the endless talk about what a jerk Alex Peters has been online - and incredibly boring to read 14 pages a day about from people -few of whom seem to have donated- who seem to take it all personally.  The mods ought to forbid the eternal harsh flaming of a banned member who isn't allowed to defend himself, and enforce some topic discipline - or close the darn thing.  I just want developments in the lawsuit and whether they're dumb enough to do any shooting towards actually making the movie.

It's not internet nerdz at their worst -which is on YouTube- and at least most of it's spelled right, but aspies don't know when to quit, and it needs to be stepped on in January.  Gets right up my nose, it does.

(I'm working up to talking about Anaxar -the project and the lawsuit and the issue involved, not the stupid thread- but I've got a lot of wading to do in that stupid thread first.)

[Valka]

Rod Roddenberry Joins New Star Trek Series As Executive Producer
Smells like stunt-casting for producers...

It is. From everything I know about the guy, he genuinely had no interest in Star Trek for many years. Then after Majel Barrett's death, he suddenly started popping up everywhere, declaring how wonderful Star Trek is, how "excited" he is about his father's legacy, and so much more unbelievable drivel.

[Buster's Uncle]

I never heard of him three years ago, roughly, he's such a fan.  Point taken.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm browsing the other threads in the Fan Productions sub right now, but I wanted to add two things to my criticism of TBBS management and thread contributors:  A) I've always been frustrated that they wouldn't allow discussion of juicy details of fan film drama, so X10 to my irritation on the open season on hating Peters and company now, and B) that dork Professor Zoom was talking [poop]about real ST today, and in a thread where feebs have frequently gone OT to defend the abominations at length, nobody's called him on it.