All Things Star Trek — Page 184

Tobar said:

DominicCobb said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jay said:

SilverWook said:

I imagine there would be a physical media release eventually?

I reserve physical media purchases for things I’ve already seen and know I like, or perhaps something I feel I’m extremely likely to enjoy. I don’t have enough faith in any franchise beginning with “Star” at this point to blind-buy media.

Once it’s on physical media I can get it from Netflix. Although I never do that with TV shows, I reserve that one-disc-at-a-time for movies I want to see that aren’t available to stream on Netflix or Amazon (which is most movies these days, unfortunately).

Streaming has incredibly limited options, especially for older films and brand new releases.

I dunno, I can find pretty much anything I’m looking for on Vudu to rent.

Well, streaming via renting is a different matter than what I was speaking to (although even then they still miss a few).

Handman said:

Yeah, pretty much. We already got four lackluster films. But I’m cautiously optimistic, since Stewart seemed a little wary to return. So I’m hoping that whatever they pitched him, was a good enough idea that will show in the finished production.

A large sack of cash is what they pitched him.

They got Hall H for Discovery at Comic Con, even though (reportedly) they weren’t able to fill it. CBS is in a spending mood.

A large sack of cash is what they pitched him.

Yeah, was afraid of that. But in the Trek spirit, I tried to be optimistic.

I’m sure it was more than that. Does Patrick Stewart really need money?

^That too. The fact that it seems to be focusing on Picard entirely, not an ensemble, and he’s not a captain must have held appeal.

That would be incredibly boring. I said it before, but I want to see Picard as an ambassador, doing the kinds of things Spock did during TNG.

Me too! Every scenario that showed a future Picard showed a bearded Picard.

Hopefully the rumours about the Picard series are 100% wrong, because if they will do it, Star Trek is finally dead. And it looks like the 2 Chrises (Pine and Hemsworth) are OUT of the Kelvin timeline movies? I didn’t expect that tbh.

Possessed said:

(Although they should have warned him sooner)

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for you to get irritated about that incident, it’s just the the level to which you let it bother is Absolutely hilarious.

Anyway, the Picard as an ambassador idea is a good one. As long as they actually make it New and interesting. But they’ll probably just rehash everything.

I don’t know if I want Q back. His story ended perfectly with the series finale. And look what happened when he showed up in Voyager.

Crap, you’re right. I even uploaded that part to YouTube a few years ago. But I just don’t think anything they could come up with would do justice to the character.

SilverWook said:

They can safely ignore Voyager. And Q flat out told Picard in the finale that the trial never ends.

There is one other problem with bringing Q back. John de Lancie has aged much since his last appearance in Voyager(did he make one in Enterprise). I will be obvious that he is much older. Qs are supposed to be omnipotent. I find it hard to believe they age.

I have to say I have a bad feeling about bringing back Picard.

I have a bad feeling about Star Trek in general anymore. Once they started with the Kelvin timeline, they never should have returned to the original. The whole point of creating the Kelvin timeline was to start over and to leave the original universe to rest in peace. But now they have gone back to it. It is bound to confuse fans just getting into Trek. I think the continuity is so messed up and confused, I don’t think it can be fixed. I think I am done with it. Sorry.

SilverWook said:

As Picard had a love for archeology, I like the Indiana Jones comparison.

Can you really see Picard running around punching nazis and looking for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant, using a whip to climb things and swing from one thing to another and as a weapon, all while wearing a brown leather jacket and fedora?