The entire series is set in a snow globe on Sam Kirk’s mantle, in the home where he lives to be 147.

Camera spin continues to be a big part of the visual language.

I was genuinely surprised that Olatunde Osunsanmi didn’t direct.

Hegemony, Part II

I appreciated the continued exploration of the Gorn as a truly alien alien species. All the stuff with their different sensory modes, and solar-associated life cycles, is a lot of fun to me.

It also seems like they’ve written the Gorn off as a going concern, which I think is fine. This is a good place to leave it until “Arena” - they even added some dialogue about the various Gorn stories being somewhat vague, so there’s some wiggle room for them to seem a little different when they’re encountered again in the future.

They managed to film the AR wall in a way that didn’t just seem like a round room, which I appreciate.

Wedding Bell Blues

Give this show all the makeup and costuming awards immediately.

It was a fun romp, and I always like it when two opposing characters have to team up against the universe. I could have done with more dancing at the end - it seems like the actors put in a lot of work for a fairly brief scene.

I’ve never been a big fan of drawing a connection between Trelane and the Q, so I’m glad neither was mentioned by name (Edit: I think…?).

Please give me a Sam Kirk spinoff that runs for 50 years.

Very cool - I honestly had never considered the logistics of these sorts of operations, but seeing the host of these videos work out the fuel stops along the way just to make it out to the ships they’re evacuating people from has been incredible.

In at least one case, I pressed the create button, and it appeared to not work, so I pressed it again.

I have had this happen - I hope the Lemmy UI eventually gets a better “working” signal.

I’ve learned to eventually just trust that it’s working, and that the post will go through in a few agonizing seconds.

not short sighted fiscally

Talk about a big ask…

I don’t think there’s much to worry about - Goldsman may be open to the idea, but he’s also got another job lined up, so I think it will remain hypothetical.

“Unfortunately Discovery’s loss was our gain. So they basically said, ‘Look, we think we’re done after four seasons.’ And we said, ‘Hey, what about our whole ‘Let’s get the fans to the TOS era,’ because what happens to all these people, and how does this person will come up?’ And they were like, ‘No, that’s fair. That’s true.’ And they said, ‘What do you need to get there?’ And we said, ‘Six episodes’ and they said okay.”

“The good news was, when I say ‘they,’ really the folks who make this show wanted this to happen too, but there are fiscal constraints that are real. You know what’s going on with Paramount. So to move things forward in that environment was a challenge, but everybody—CBS, Paramount, Strange New Worlds, and [Alex Kurtzman’s production company] Secret Hideout were all pulling in the same direction. And that’s how we ended up getting six episodes. So it was a wasn’t really a negotiation, but it was a heavy lift for pretty much everybody, because everybody wanted not to have another Discovery circumstance where it felt abrogated in a way that wasn’t thorough.”

Surprisingly candid stuff. I’m glad that some of the CBS pencil-pushers are creative-minded enough to make this happen.

Direct YouTube link to this bit of silliness.

Yeah, I’m honestly thrilled with how it turned out.

Yeah I’m not super familiar with the podcasting world, but I think they have technology that stitches current ads into the back catalogue.

Yeah, he cobbled together a fake Gorn transponder, and built a trap out of force fields and fake biosigns.

But he probably gave accurate time estimates like a rank amateur.

Don’t they have a table or something this year?

I think it looks great!

I’m no longer available today, but I was working on replacing the light blue pixels with light grey - it just seems to look better.

If anyone is able to finish that, awesome. If not…still awesome!

Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and enourage everyone to get creative with the dish, and find what looks best. A blue/red combo that resembles the show should probably be possible.

I ran into an issue where once I was logged in, I had to close the tab and re-launch the template from the link in the post. Annoying, but it worked.

It’s fine for the Enterprise to have corporate sponsors…right?

Here’s what I’m going with for the colour replacement:

The darkest green in the template = “medium grey”

The lighter green = “light grey”

White = “light grey”

Light blue = “light grey”

People are already drawing “over” our template - this is absolutely fine, since they almost certainly can’t see it, or what we’re doing.

I think it will be cool if we can just go “around” their stuff, so it appears that the Enterprise is in the background of whatever they’re doing.

I don’t know about “quickly” - at the rate they’re going, the show won’t end until 2028…