I suspect that Ford may already have the secret for uploading human consciousness to Hosts. Either he figured it out or stole it from Arnold, then killed Arnold and uploaded him to Bernard (alternately, Arnold made the discovery, uploaded himself (thus lending partial truth to the suicide story/cover), and Ford…

Look at it this way:

Moreover, it’s been established now that Ford REALLY doesn’t want his IP leaving the park. I’d be really surprised if the were *any* hosts outside the park, since there’s just way too much of a chance one would be uncovered by accident.

The creators basically backed this up. Apparently, some people were confused how Ford could possibly have been aware of that conversation, but the creators reminded everyone that there was a Host in the room, implying that Ford can witness everything they do.

I wouldn’t necessarily take the “obviousness” of Bernards reveal as a sign of bad writing. It would honestly have been worse if it hadn’t turned out to have been true, given the setup. Or, heaven forbid, they’d gone the route of BSG and just throw away the narrative and choose completely random people for no good…

Yeah, I’m definitely not trying to lay the blame on the fans. Sales of a Blu-Ray box set that cost nearly as much as reproducing the show all over again was a terrible way to measure interest, especially since the studio did little to convey the reasons for the cost. Most people probably assumed it was just a shallow…

The difference is that Disney and Lucasarts are 100% behind Star Wars and doing their best by it. Even if people may not universally adore the direction of the franchise, no one can question its place in the minds and hearts of its owners.

I have a suspicion in retrospect that the TNG remasters were more of a bellwether than we even thought at the time. Had the blue rays sold sufficiently, we likely would have gotten similar remasters of the rest of the series’ (oh, Deep Space Nine, Remastered, you are too good for this world. *sniff*), along with a…

Indeed, but it doesn’t look like Paramount has any intention of letting those hands anywhere near the franchise. They’d rather passively rake in the nostalgia dollars with as minimal effort as possible.

There we go! Came to find this.

I feel like this is a missed opportunity. They totally should have gone with Opti-Grab for the name.

I think Deep Space Nine toed as close to that line as one could get while still keeping to the principles that keep it Star Trek.

One can even keep the grittiness. I'd just like to keep it on the side of optimism rather than cynical pessimism.

While I'd like the science to be a little less fanciful, I would agree that I'd like a series that doesn't pivot on a war or political intrigue for a change.

I think that kind of direction could only work in an animated or CGI medium as they'd have to completely ditch the rubber forehead humanoid trope if they truly went extragalactic. Not that I'd have any problem with this. Hell, I'd even cheerlead it. But I suspect people wouldn't take it as seriously as a live action…

Plus, a plot like that just isn't Star Trek. You can literally go to any other franchise if you want to see corrupt governments, empires, and displays of human depravity. Star Trek at its best is supposed to be above that. Turn it into just another Game of Thrones and it's just another generic dystopia with nothing…

The EU has done some cool post Voyager stuff that (very surprisingly) built upon Voyager discoveries like the Mobile Emitter, Slipstream Drive, even the ‘Endgame’ future tech that, normally, would just have been retconned out of existence. Granted, while the stories have been mostly solid, I can’t see many of them…

I can understand the frustration there. I’d like to see a canon post voyager take on the Star Trek universe. I can also see how it might also be a creative dead end. Given how the Federation has advanced over the course of the 24th century, and the defeat of the Dominion and the decline of the Borg over time, it seems…

Given the talent in that room, I’m willing to give it a chance. Kirsten Beyer, after all, managed to singlehandedly rehabilitate Voyager in the Expanded Universe novels, which I thought was an impossible task. Meyer helmed the two best classic Trek films, and Fuller has a lot of good shows under his belt, as well as…

That, I think, is a crucial point. We hear that charge levied a lot against the lesser Trek films, that they’re just ‘big episodes’, which don’t justify the expense and potential of a movie budget and audience. And this is a valid critique if you’re making a film with a blockbuster budget and trying to compete in the…