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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The GornEnglish61·3 days agoI prefer the goofy-badass-Gorn over the scary-quick-incubatin’-Gorn.
They’re iconic for a reason.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The GornEnglish111·3 days agoThe recon is to the timeline and initial encounter with the species
Fair enough - I’ll backtrack slightly and say that if there’s a retcon, that’s where it is, rather than in the Gorn’s behaviour.
But there is a bit of wiggle room in “Arena”, I think. Kirk certainly seems unfamiliar with the Gorn, but they never really say it’s the first contact, and Spock doesn’t really say anything one way or the other (a very Spock-like thing to do in any situation).
They definitely have massaged that canon, but I don’t think they’ve really contradicted it.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The GornEnglish101·3 days agoIt’s really none of our business…but are they?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The GornEnglish271·3 days ago“What I loved about the Gorn was it was an opportunity to retcon something into a real monster. What we do in Star Trek—and you’ll see we’ll even do it with the Gorn—is we start by seeing the other and often we end by engaging our empathy and understanding common ground. And that’s great, and it doesn’t mean that there isn’t real evil in the world. And so what we wanted to do with the Gorn was to give you a monster, and a monster that at least at first, seemed irredeemable.”
I find this statement a little aggravating, because in my opinion they really haven’t retconned the Gorn. In “Arena”, they slaughtered the entire Cestus colony, and the Gorn captain is utterly merciless.
“Arena” is about mercy, but the Gorn didn’t really earn it in the episode, which was really kind of the point.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)English10·7 days agoJump 900 years into the past and do a period costume drama.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)English6·7 days agoI always figured TAS was the final two years of the five-year mission…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)English12·7 days agoI think Goldsman’s actual statement is pretty vague - he could easily mean a spinoff with the non-TOS cast. Just redress the sets and you’re off to the races.
He could also mean a movie, or…some third thing.
And in any case, he’s moving on with his career.
It’s cool that they’re excited about possibilities, but I remain very skeptical that there’s any actual traction there.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-UpEnglish5·8 days agoHeck, it was pretty much Goldsman’s pitch:
In the first pitch document that we sent to the network… we opened with a question asking, “What if we just did Star Trek?” And they said, “Okay.” Every day in the writers’ room, we try to imagine how would Gene Roddenberry and his team make The Original Series if they were doing it today?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Daystrom Institute@startrek.website•s3e1 DS9, The Jem'Hadar. Why in the name of Christ on cracker do Jake and Nog disable autopilot in order to fly a Runabout they dont know how to pilot?English9·9 days agoFor those following along, it’s the season two finale, not the season three premiere.
JAKE: Maybe we’d better go back to the station for help.
NOG: Good idea. Computer, fly us back to the station.
COMPUTER: Please restate command.
JAKE: Computer, disengage autopilot and lay in a course back to the wormhole.
COMPUTER: Enter authorisation code.
It’s clunky, but it sounds like the “autopilot” is what’s keeping them locked in orbit of the planet, and they’re trying to break out of that pattern.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest PerformancesEnglish6·10 days agoI just clued in that you’re visiting from a Mastodon server. In that case, it’s unfortunately two clicks - first the startrek.website link, then the Gizmodo link that goes to the actual article.
Federation is an imperfect beast sometimes.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest PerformancesEnglish9·10 days agoIf you’re interested in the article, you could try, y’know, reading it.Edit: I was being a bit of a dumb-dumb.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest PerformancesEnglish10·10 days agoLike the article says, the early seasons are often given short shrift due to what comes later, but there’s some great stuff in there.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New WorldsEnglish5·11 days agoOh, absolutely.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New WorldsEnglish9·11 days agoI mean, I think the Kurtzman era has been quite successful, but he’s had the job for quite a while now. It’s possible he’ll choose to move on once his contract is up.
But yeah, with Paramount in such a state of upheaval…nothing surprises me any more.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New WorldsEnglish181·11 days agoParamount+ today announced that the fan-favorite original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fifth and final six-episode season ahead of the third season premiere this summer.
Huh…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page On “Unsustainable” Original Saru On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And Inspiring Future GenerationsEnglish9·12 days agoBut just imagine the “Doug Jones walks into things” gag reel…
The SNW Gorn literally pulled the classic sitcom “stay on your side of the line” routine - basically the same motivation as “Arena”.