418 – We’ve Got A Cat | Priority One: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
This week, we’re Trekking Out Alex Kurtzman’s future plans for Star Trek, including Discovery, Picard, and animation. Then we’re off to Los Angeles for awards, Mars for stamps, and the […]
Tyler Maxwell on 2019-07-02
If you could Reboot Star Trek: TNG, who would you cast?
Um, can I say “no one”? Honestly, as much love as I have for TNG, I think looking back that it’s quite obviously a product of its time, and I don’t believe that it would work nearly as well today as it did back then. Partly because TNG already existed, so folks are already acclimated (maybe immune?) to that sort of moral drama TV show format, some because the landscape of television has changed so much (more TV channels, streaming platforms, etc.) to allow people to only watch the exact kind of content they like all the time, but also because reboots rarely do at least as well as the originals, so the best a TNG reboot could probably be is ‘almost’ as good. It’s the same thing with the ‘Pike on the Enterprise‘ show idea; it’s just the same TOS show stories as before, but with sorta lookalike actors and lens flare effects, up until the point where Pike gets put into a blinky chair. Exactly what is exciting about that again?
What are you most looking forward to getting during the 2019 Risian Lohlunat Festival?
Nothing really jumps out at me as ‘must haves’, though I guess actually being able to throw a baseball back and forth between folks sounds kinda fun. Huh? Why is this baseball cooing? AND eating my lunch? O_o
seannewboy on 2019-07-01
The new site is very different, takes some getting used to.
wonderful show everyone.
i need to get the new tribble and the ship. Also some other alts will raise pets if Discovery marks are available, if not some other alt will do it for tier 6 reputation marks.
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