Fourth is Suicide? Squad!

If people think Picard is dark they haven’t watched Deep Space Nine. Furthermore, from a timeline perspective it makes perfect sense the events of the Dominion Wars and then the destruction of Romulus would have profoundly life altering ramifications. The ending of Voyager also presents all sorts of interesting…

What’s really mystifying is that they seemed to think they had to rush this to “keep up” with Marvel. It’s not a race to see who can culminate their shared universe first. Marvel was 4 or 5 movies in (depending on whether or not you feel the Ed Norton Hulk “counts”) before they had any hints of crossover other than a…

4) If you’re trying to blatantly copy the success of MCU without understanding fully why it works, you’re in trouble.

Gene’s involvement in TNG was...not significant. He was mostly gone by season 3, where the show rapidly evolved away from his ego and stagnant ideas. In fact, season 1 is widely regarded as awful, which is where his involvement was at its highest. So TNG is not a good judge Gene’s creative vision. TOS and some of the…

Rodenberry himself was capable of enormous heroic action while at the same time being an adulterous dick capable of screwing over other creatives and sacrificing his ideals for money. Star Trek reflected him perfectly.

Roddenberry’s dedication to focusing on the best of humanity had to do I feel with his acknowledgement of his own failings. Here was a man who, while making Star Trek, was not only cheating on his wife, but with two members of the cast as well as using his vision of humanity’s success as a shill for cheap…

That’s the same wishful thinking, completely out of touch with the reality of our world, as Gene’s — just more immediate in terms of time. We are still brutal, petty, cruel and spiteful. We still build vast monuments to excess and violence. We are still the barbaric creatures we were when we built the Great Pyramids,…

Allen, you should read Enlightenment Now from Steven Pinker, The Beginning of Infinity from David Deutsch and Sapiens from Yuval Noah Harari. Since the Enlightenment we became a completely different species, and Roddenberry was just extrapolating Enlightenment to a scenario of post-scarcity.

Absolutely. But he wouldn’t like where Star Trek has gone since his passing for exactly the same reasons — it’s not the same unrealistic optimism he envisioned.

Science Fiction is already setting aside nearly all pretense of realism. Why must the only one they maintain be the “People are dicks” aspect? The answer is simple: Lazy-ass writing. I think Gene’s vision was aspirational, and whether it’s realistic or not is completely irrelevant.

Gene wanted to believe in the best of humanity, that we could come together and set aside all our insipid depravities and idiosyncrasies. He was...unrealistically optimistic.

The scene in question and probably the best scene of the entire show (Romulan murder mom and dad exempted):

Must admit, I didn’t even know it was gone. In my next life I’m going to invent an app that burns white hot for two months, makes me a boatload of money and then spectacularly implodes.

I wonder if the send-off episode was seen by a potential investor who’d never seen a previous episode and said to themself: “Hey, this seems like a hilarious trivia game! Why is it ending?  Ah, hell no, this is just too good!” and then decided to fund it...

I heard a theory that the writers left it open-ended where it could have been Brenner or Hopper. They were waiting to see Harbour’s level of commitment after his turn in Hellboy. Obviously, that movie wasn’t the hit Harbour had hoped so it opened up his schedule to return to Stranger Things. Just a theory, I heard...I…

Remember when Superman DEFINITELY wasn’t in Justice League?

Season two had four episodes, seasons three and four had six episodes each.

There are a few of them who survive, eking out a meager existence making reality television shows for the E! Network.

It was also a comedy and that scene was played for laughs. I see it more as a 23rd Century person not knowing how to swear in the 20th Century, sort of if you went back to the 17th Century you wouldn’t know how to swear or insult someone in that time period’s vernacular, thou mutton-scented tallow keech.