I feel like this has always been the MO of the MCU. For all the interconnectedness, the stories are self-contained to the point of stepping on each other’s toes fairly regularly (much like regular comics).

Paramount wouldn’t dare treat what it’s done for Patrick Stewart and Jean-Luc Picard as a tax break.

IMO casting this as Paramount taking a dump on Mulgrew is a bit of hyperbole.

there is no such thing as “basic personality traits” Each time a new writer touches them, they come whole new characters, new creations. All that came before is locked in their individual existence, and the new thing becomes a new existence.

Yeah, in this age of “prestige TV” I find myself genuinely missing filler episodes. They help us connect to the characters and world without having to bow to the necessities of The Plot.

One of my favorite episodes of Strange New Worlds was episode 5, where they were getting repairs at the starbase and the crew was off having fun little adventures. (Spock and his fiancee mind swap! Nurse Chapel goes on a date! La’an and Una do the Enterprise scavenger hunt to show how spontaneous and fun they are!) It…

It’s wild to go back and compare the DS9 Dominion War arc, lasting somewhere around 3 long seasons, with any arc from Discovery. Not every episode of DS9 in that time was actively about the war, but it was always there. Episodes like “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” could have been made seasons earlier, but placing them…

It’s interesting to compare modern “Prestige” Trek with the older stuff - while I understand the really shiny ~10 episode seasons, it’s hard not to look at the longer, lower-visual-quality 26 episode seasons that gave us things like Q’s Robin Hood and baseball on the holosuite. It’s a different show in a lot of ways.

I think part of the problem with restoring DS9 is the cost of having to redo all the space battle scenes from scratch because the original companies that did all those effects are no longer around. I don’t know if it’s a similar problem with Voyager.

The fact that Prodigy was yanked so quickly implies to me that a deal with another streamer is imminent, or at least very likely.

Oh no!  There might be - gasp - only one Star Trek show on at once!  Whatever will we do??

Strange New Worlds has a third season upcoming

Is it even B5 if you don’t have to make allowances for extremely limited budgets?

These versions of T’Pring and Chapel deserve better. I'm looking forward to more T'Pring and Sybok. An interesting combination one for logic and the other against.

There is also Blue Beetle in August, which was made under the old regime.

So are we all just pretending there was absolutely nothing going on in Snyder’s life that contributed heavily to him leaving Justice League now? It’s strange how his daughter’s death has just faded away, and now people only talk about WB getting cold feet.

And then there’s Aquaman 2. Which I don’t blame anyone for forgetting about.

“Everything I don’t like was made by mean old woman KK! Everything good I like was made by nice men Favreau and Filoni! I understand film business!”

Your daily reminder that Kathleen Kennedy has been in tjis business for decades and neither knows who you are nor care about your uninformed opinion.

You guys need major therapy for your KK Derangement Syndrome