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What is the best Star Trek series (2020 version of poll)?

Poll ended at Thu Jun 25, 2020 4:46 pm

The Original Series
1
7%
Next Generation
7
50%
Deep Space 9
3
21%
Voyager
2
14%
Enterprise
0
No votes
Discovery
1
7%
Picard
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 14
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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Cheeky Devlin » Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:59 pm

Memento Mori wrote:I never watched season 3 of Discovery. Did I miss anything?


In terms of the state of the Star Trek universe, yes.

In terms of good TV, not particularly.


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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by The Watching Artist » Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:57 am

Started watching Lower Decks last night. Quite fun.

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by Peter Crisp » Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:26 pm

gaminglegend wrote:With a movie slated for the next 2 years (and no seemingly production or cast agreed yet) I’m sort of very despondent about it.

The huge budget & return they need (in a recent interview with the head of Paramount he stated this was a real dilemma on the film series future) seems like an uphill battle.

I’ve always found Trek is best without lots of fights or action, but appreciate that wouldn’t tail over well on the big screen for a blockbuster.

But I don’t know if we really need a movie now or a continuation of Pine’s Kirk to be honest. With all the TV and steaming product on the go it seems enough


I've just had an amazing idea for the new film.
As we've already had a Trek series set in a single location with DS9 the film could be Star Trek: Luton.

Wow, that'd absolutely smash all box office records and can be the start of a new series of films all set in the gleaming metropolis.

Vermilion wrote:I'd rather live in Luton.
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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Imrahil » Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:51 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:Star Trek: Luton.

Kirk: What is... that?

Spock: It's life Jim but not as we know it.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Peter Crisp » Sat Nov 20, 2021 1:09 pm

Imrahil wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:Star Trek: Luton.

Kirk: What is... that?

Spock: It's life Jim but not as we know it.


We could finally showcase all the different UK accents in Trek and confuse the strawberry float out of everyone.
Also the random swearing and constantly saying "sorry" for pretty much everything would be great.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Cheeky Devlin » Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:10 pm

For those not following the Discovery thread...

https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-tre ... nationally

startrek.com wrote:To all of the International Star Trek: Discovery fans: we hear you. We love this series too. We love it for the incredible cast, the hardworking crew, the imaginative storytelling, the groundbreaking, diverse characters who bring the show to life and what it represents to so many people around the world. Star Trek has always put its fans first. We want to do the same.

Therefore, during this transition, we are doing everything we can to get the new season to you as soon as possible. Where Paramount+ is available in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay, and Venezuela, the first two episodes will be available Friday, November 26, with new episodes being released weekly. We are also offering Star Trek fans in these markets a new membership promotion on Paramount+ for 50% off for the first three months with code STARTREK.*

In Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service, will drop new episodes at 9pm local time on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a simulcast running on the Star Trek channel in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. This will begin with the first two episodes on Friday, November 26.

In the UK, Germany, France, Russia, South Korea and additional select countries, we are also making Season 4 available for purchase on participating digital platforms beginning Friday, November 26.

We too are super fans of Star Trek and incredibly proud of Discovery. We promise to give this franchise and its loyal fans all the global love and visibility it deserves in our expanding universe on Paramount+.


TLDR - Discover is going to be on free streaming platform Pluto in the UK from Friday.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Hexx » Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:13 pm

WTF is Pluto

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Cheeky Devlin » Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:15 pm

Hexx wrote:WTF is Pluto

Some random streaming service. I don't think I'd ever heard of it until recently.

www.pluto.tv

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Xeno » Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:19 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Hexx wrote:WTF is Pluto

Some random streaming service. I don't think I'd ever heard of it until recently.

http://www.pluto.tv


A quick look shows it was bought by ViacomCBS in 2019. They wont do it free on Paramount but will on one of its subsidiaries.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Qikz » Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:20 am

I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Cheeky Devlin » Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:24 am

Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

Why do people buy fresh food instead of ready meals?

Plus people like restaurants.

Voyager had to ration the replicators so "real" food helped take the burden off them at least early on. Seemed to stop being an issue after a while though.

EDIT: Some restaurants would still replicate the food though. Quark used replicators to serve his customers.

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by SEP » Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:29 am

Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?


Because fresh food is tastier and often healthier than replicated. And Klingon Chef deserved more screentime, dammit!

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by site23 » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:00 am

Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

It's not kept terribly consistent over the shows, so it's a bit confusing. It's implied a few times that replicator food can be quite bland unless you take the time to especially program it. The system is set up to produce healthy, safe food with an "acceptable" taste. Picard constantly has to override the defaults just to get hot tea, and in one TNG episode it asks Deanna Troi for an override code to make a "real" chocolate sundae rather than a healthy imitation one, and an episode of Lower Decks references this and explicitly says that junior staff don't typically have the access codes to program recipes into the replicators. (That's just off the top of my head!)

There is a big social element to eating in a cantine (as discussed), but I would infer that the food at e.g. Quark's was just better, because he was actually trying to make things taste as nice as possible - both by having a wider range of recipes on the replicator and by importing fresh ingredients to cook for real.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Jenuall » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:04 am

"Fresh ingredients? Yeah, great idea Rom - do you have any idea how much latinum I would be losing to make fresh food like that?!"

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by site23 » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:11 am

Does he say that? :lol: I can't remember, but that's a funny line. He definitely did import "real" ingredients as well as using the replicators though, it's referenced a lot. (Potentially it's all frozen and not "fresh" though I admit - poor choice of words, sorry!)

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by Jenuall » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:16 am

No, it's not a quote - just me making something up!

But I can imagine whatever Quark did it would have been to give an impression of luxury whilst costing him very little! :lol:

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by Lagamorph » Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:30 pm

Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

In Voyager it's at least sensible. Replicators take a lot of energy and Voyager doesn't necessarily have guaranteed access to refuel whenever it needs to, so replicator use is rationed among the crew and their primary source of food is stuff that they trade for or grow themselves, or is replicated in a significantly larger amount since replicating one giant joint of meat is going to be much more energy efficient than everyone individually replicating just a few slices.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by SEP » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:10 am

Jenuall wrote:No, it's not a quote - just me making something up!

But I can imagine whatever Quark did it would have been to give an impression of luxury whilst costing him very little! :lol:


He certainly had a lot of Yamok sauce left over though.

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by Trelliz » Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:07 am

Lagamorph wrote:
Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

In Voyager it's at least sensible. Replicators take a lot of energy and Voyager doesn't necessarily have guaranteed access to refuel whenever it needs to, so replicator use is rationed among the crew and their primary source of food is stuff that they trade for or grow themselves, or is replicated in a significantly larger amount since replicating one giant joint of meat is going to be much more energy efficient than everyone individually replicating just a few slices.


I think it's mentioned a few times how replicated stuff doesn't taste quite like the real thing, and I imagine Klingons find the idea of eating something that didn't die quite dishonourable.

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PostRe: The Star Trek Thread
by Lagamorph » Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:33 am

Trelliz wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:
Qikz wrote:I just suddenly thought this after reading one of SEP's tweets, but why the hell do they have a ship chef like Neelix or the Klingon in DS9 when they have replicators that make everything for them?

In Voyager it's at least sensible. Replicators take a lot of energy and Voyager doesn't necessarily have guaranteed access to refuel whenever it needs to, so replicator use is rationed among the crew and their primary source of food is stuff that they trade for or grow themselves, or is replicated in a significantly larger amount since replicating one giant joint of meat is going to be much more energy efficient than everyone individually replicating just a few slices.


I think it's mentioned a few times how replicated stuff doesn't taste quite like the real thing, and I imagine Klingons find the idea of eating something that didn't die quite dishonourable.

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