MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:25 pm
....Welp, we get this in January:
At the end of
Picard S3 - which had its faults, many and manifold, but still pulled it out in the end - we were teased with Captain Seven, Jack Crusher, and Raffi taking 1701-G out to Boldly Go. The fan community was utterly ecstatic, the performers were all willing to do it, and it looked for a while like we might get it.
Trouble is, that Paramount has wanted to do
Starfleet 90210 for literal
decades, and somebody decided that by God and the Great Bird Of The Galaxy they were going to do it this time, whether we wanted it or not.
I was dubious about
Disco, but I stayed with it. It could have been much better, and that three-millenium hiccup was a textbook example of lazy writing - but it could have been much worse and was able to end pretty coherently. But this....no. Just no.
Gentlemen, we're going to have to do something about this.....(Pulls out TLS).
Mike
PS - Had I been writing Disco, the last ep would have gotten them put on trial by Q for something, and then the crew deciding that Disco and all aboard would have to be sacrificed for the greater good. Q is impressed, and he sends them home....to just
AFTER the end of Picard S3.
DISCO jumping off to the distant future may have been the best thing for it, because the writers don’t seem to have been very comfortable working with fifty years of universe fleshed out across five TV series, ten movies, hundreds of novels and all kinds of source material. The only bit of IP they got right was Anson Mount’s Pike and Ethan Peck’s Spock. Everything else was a hindrance.
Which is strange, because the SNW team are REALLY good with Pike, Uhura, Spock and Kirk. Chapel is the only off note, and only because Majel Barrett’s Chapel was so limited a role. Even when it’s bad, it’s bad in the Star Trek tradition. Same with Lower Decks, which is an irreverent paeon of love for both the franchise and many of the California cities that are commemorated by the California-class ships.
Picard S3 had continuity issues, but it delivered some absolute tops for the franchise. I very much would have enjoyed Star Trek: Legacy, and perhaps the most glorious aspect was the last few moments of S3: where Jack Crusher Picard meets Q. For all his phenomenal capacity for mischief, it’s clear that Q is both fond of humanity in general and Jean-Luc Picard in specific, and in his own inimitable way puts his hands on the scale for us.
As I said when Picard Season 1 came out, 2399-2401 are years where Starfleet is experiencing dark days, but is an organization where I want to put the uniform on, charge my phaser and be about redemption.
I want Star Trek Academy to succeed. It’s got top notch talent: Holly Hunter, Paul Giammati and Gina Yashere are phenomenal. I also love some of the stills that came out, even if I am insanely jealous of colleagues who ended up in Star Fleet when I didn’t, except in the Mikeyverse.
But I fear it’s going to be exactly as you say. At least, if it bombs, they can pull a page from Midsomer Murders and write it off as The Doctor writing a holonovel under a pseudonym.
We also know that bringing George and Gracie into the 23rd Century was successful in the long term. In the words of Scotty, “there be whales, Admiral!”