Of course older women won’t be subjected to this. They won’t be hired at all.

Wait, whoa, hold on. Finn and...Rose? As in, like...a second major female character in an ensemble action-adventure movie? One who’s distinct and separate and a different person and not just “The Girl”?

“It’s like poetry. Sort of... it rhymes. Every stanza... you know... kinda rhymes with the last.... hopefully it’ll work....”

Ok, so now the official line went from “No, of course it won’t be a remake! And The Force Awakens wasn’t one either!” to “Well, okay, was and will be, but they are remaking the best Star Wars film of all! What are you complaining about?!”, right?

Point of order, Luke knew Ben for more than a few days. He knew “old Ben” and wondered if he may be related to this Obi-wan the hologram referred to. Ben was a fixture, just the crazy grumpy old man fixture who wants nothing to do with the neighbours while he stares out his windows from behind his blinds kind of…

hasn’t been a ratings smash for Showtime. But it’s created a huge uptick in subscriptions

DS9 was a relatively “serialized” show compared to other TV Trek shows — though I’d say it was more an episodic show with more continuing storylines and character arcs —, but it was less heavily and self-consciously so than Babylon 5.

Oh yeah. Have you heard Ron Moore’s podcast commentary on Black Market? It’s brutal, but he’s also really clear that none of it was on the actors or the director. They can only do the best they can with the material they’ve got, and RDM made the salient point that every show is a relentless meat-grinder and sometimes…

“So part of the way to sell the network on what we were doing was, ‘Don’t worry, there will be all of these individual stories. This week we’ll go to the school ship, then we’ll have a murder mystery over there.’” 

I really appreciate the insights these guys are offering here, but this description only brings one…

Episodic shows only really make sense if you’re dealing with a standard network model — 22-26 episodes per season, aired weekly over a period of 6-9 months. Serialized shows are designed to cut down on the fat, so there’s no real need for bottle episodes unless the showrunners want to do them.

He’d already be adult Spock by then. It’s only set, what, ten years before TOS, when Spock was a Commander.

Considering the producers include a number of Trek vets, I think they at least have some idea what they’re doing.

Leonard Nimoy: Melllvar, you have to respect your actors. When I directed Star Trek IV, I got an amazing performance out of Bill because I respected him.