I am guessing these are the character decisions Mark did not agree with director Rain on. He prob didn’t like the idea of bright and optimistic Luke being tarnished by disappointment, resentment, and pain.

Sigh. Second verse, same as the first. I was fairly disappointed in TFA for its far-too-many similarities to the OT. This seems to staying that course.

An old Jedi with a beard training a young Force user—who didn’t know they had the Force—from a desert planet who is a skilled mechanic and pilot?

Luke was not the Chosen One.

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TOS had a decent amount of religion in it, they just didn’t bash anyone over the head with it, and tried to present a universe were different points of view could co-exist, not that all those points of view had to be erased.

True, except that the “All-Access” deployment means that they’re gunning for the non-casual viewer (intentionally or not), which for the most part is exactly who the Abrams movies were NOT for.

They do subtly acknowledge it. In “Future’s End” (that Star Trek: Voyager two-parter where they go to 1996 Earth), there’s a model of a DY-100 class ship (the same class as the Botany Bay, Khan’s sleeper ship) on a windowsill, and a photo of one being launched taped to a cabinet.

Basically, Star Trek Enterprise’s pattern, especially when Manny Coto took over, was “everything any other crew accomplished, discovered or invented, Archer’s crew did it first”.

Tribbles are beloved because because original appearance—and the first time the Federation encountered them

The more I read about this show, the more I want a follow up to Deep Space Nine.

Frickin’ laser beams on their heads.

Meh, you know what. If Kurtzman is willing to release this information, it’s pretty much free game.

I enjoyed Enterprise by and large, but stuff like this tended to be more annoying than not. Like, the one tribble wasn’t a big deal on its own, but the Ferengi episode, for instance, avoiding that their first contact with the Federation was in TNG by no one saying their name, was too far. And the Borg episode (even…

Did you forget the tribbles in an animated Star Trek?

Agreed in full. It’s telling that whenever the suits are concerned about the state of the franchise, they always have exactly one move: go back to Wrath of Khan. Because you know that the fans absolutely love Wrath of Khan.

Off your point (which I agree with—I’d rather see more new, future-pushing stories than rehashes and prequels), but I dunno if I’d call VOY a retread of TNG. I’d say VOY’s concept of small ship lost and alone is a more like Lost in Space, and kind of goofy in the same way sometimes.

I grew up on 90s Trek (TNG, DS9, and Voyager). It got me through the tough, awkward years of childhood shyness and anxiety and is very close to my heart. I’m excited to see The Orville to get a taste of that back, and I would love an actual Trek show that’s a genuine successor to those series in form and design.

The song is not only inspired by it but also written by Richard Sherman, one of the brothers who wrote many of the iconic Disney songs in the 1960s.