This doesn’t surprise me a ton. As someone who makes a portion of my living from composing music (much of it for handbell choirs, as my username suggests), I rarely go back and listen to something I’ve written once it’s been completed/published/recorded. In my case, it’s partly because I keep thinking of things I wish…

Yeah, I think the author is misusing the word “orchestration”—I don’t know for certain, but I’d guess Williams (like most film composers) doesn’t do most of his own orchestrations.

Great excuse to post this (even though the song’s not from Mary Poppins):

Me too. I remember hearing that that was done intentionally with TNG (and maybe other series as well)—they intentionally cast actors who were a bit less well-known (at the time) so that they would be identified predominantly as their Star Trek character.

It will be interesting to see how they handle having the second-in-command as the “lead” character. All Star Treks up to this point have really been handled as an ensemble cast; for example, there were lots of TNG episodes where Picard made little more than a cameo appearance and the story focused on Riker or Dr.…

More to the point, “Bad protagonists suck.” There are lots of examples out there of great ones too.

My wife loves old movies, and we were just discussing the other day how many otherwise great older movies have terrible protagonists—people you really have no reason to root for. The Graduate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and American Graffiti were three that we thought of specifically. But I agree with you that people…

Since that’s close to the time frame the new show is set in, I’m kind of hoping that’s the uniform we’ll see. Plus, it conveniently allows them to avoid the whole miniskirt issue.

Agreed—Voyager gets a bad rap. At its best, it was absolutely as good as any other Trek show. It just wasn’t at its best nearly as often as TNG or DS9.

This is another example of why I’m dissapointed we’re not getting a show set in the post-DS9 timeline. Ezri Dax did a great job in that one episode of pointing out how corrupt the Klingon empire was, in spite of all their proclamations of honor and integrity, and so Worf and Martok took the first steps toward some…

That was my first question too. We already have a canon explanation for the two different appearances of Klingons, so I really hope they don’t just ignore that (or go the reboot movies’ approach and just come up with a whole new look altogether).

I heard a great analysis of the original and prequel trilogies which pointed out how often both the Sith and Jedi make absolute AND non-absolute statements. Basically, Anakin is being asked to choose between two completely non-consistent, self-contradictory worldviews, and it’s no wonder he went a little crazy in the…

Godspeed, John Glenn.

It may sound like a strange choice, but I have to mention the animated Disney TV show “Miles from Tomorrowland.”

The Federation is huge by the TNG era, but I always got the implication that in the TOS era the Federation was just a handful of worlds. There were always tons of different aliens out there, but most hadn’t yet joined the club.

I respect your choice, but I think the Galaxy Class looks too top-heavy. I’m assuming the idea was that, by then, warp technology had progressed to the point where the nacelles could be significantly smaller than the saucer, but it makes the proportions seem out of balance somehow. (And the foreshortened saucer…

Agreed—I guess it all depends on context and on how the new species is presented. If it comes across as “These aliens have been Federation members from the very beginning, we’ve just conveniently forgotten to mention them before,” it will seem a little cheap.

I haven’t heard—do we know yet what the sets and costumes are going to look like? Maybe they’ll wear uniforms resembling the ones from “The Cage” or “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” (The female officers in those even wore slacks, which allows them to avoid the whole miniskirt issue.)

“...alien species new to the franchise”

I don’t remember... did the animated 2008 Clone Wars movie have an opening crawl? And wouldn’t that set the precedent for how to handle Rogue One?