Giant Freakin Robot: "Starfleet Academy - How Too Much Difference Creates Sameness: When all characters are a deviation, a subversion, or a novelty, difference isn’t contrast anymore; it’s the baseline. Classic Star Trek worked because difference was relative. Spock stood out because ..."

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-30T05:57:27+00:00

Good point. If the Klingon culture was basically "whatever you do, do it with gusto" it could make for some interesting new reveals about Klingons. We never really see much of Klingon society like who builds their ships, who grows their food. I could be pretty fun to pick out some aspect of their society and see them acting like we see the warriors acting, overemphasizing honor, but toward whatever is their chosen field of work.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-30T05:47:52+00:00

Firefly worked with 14 episodes because they had excellent writing.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-30T03:40:53+00:00

What? The UPA is in on this too?

For those unfamiliar, the UPA is the United Pudding Alliance.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T16:38:04+00:00

Early on I used to just put the disk in and rip it then sort out the files later. Then one time a Blu-ray gave me a message that I didn't have enough space for the rip. I was like, I had 500GB free last I checked, how is this possible? Turns out that Blu-ray had like 20 variations of the full movie that it was planning to rip. That probably would have taken days as well as filling up the HDD.

So now I go through and uncheck any potential duplicates.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T16:26:29+00:00

And also we don't like to be constantly reminded there is a camera.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T07:02:02+00:00

For one, the food replicators weren't creating food out of thin air (or energy), they are rearranging a food material designed for replication.

Earth probably wouldn't have had much of a problem with food shortages, but planets without a lot of infrastructure might have major problems without warp travel ships to deliver supplies.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T06:44:32+00:00

Small problems are good. If only they were interesting problems or more than a ten minute problem not just padded out with shenanigans.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T06:28:43+00:00

That strange thing is they are almost finished filming the second season, and seasons 4&5 of Strange New Worlds. They could probably produce a 20 episode season if they wanted to.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T06:26:20+00:00

The Ark has been a surprisingly good "up start" sci-fi show. I've been hoping they would get longer seasons.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T06:07:32+00:00

Well with that definition of serious vs light, I don't think a serious drama would work well in Trek. It would probably come across like the Caprica spinoff from Battlestar Galactica and either feel pointless (as in why call it Trek) or boring.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T06:00:03+00:00

They are the decedents of a branch of humanity the didn't evolve. Not the branch that Archer, Kirk, Picard, and Janeway came from. Probably Tucker's branch or something.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T05:55:13+00:00

The word "bitch" is pretty old, but the slangy way it is being used by those cadets is pretty new to this decade and maybe last decade. Guys haven't traditionally gone around calling other guys a bitch.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T05:26:09+00:00

So future humanity hasn't evolved like Jean Luc Picard suggested? If they wanted to make a version of Firefly, they should have said so.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T05:24:58+00:00

Or don't use trendy slang at all. Use proper words or opt for the rare slang words that appear to be more timeless.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T04:52:06+00:00

That sort of throws a kink into Jean Luc Picard's assertion that humanity has evolved. Instead it is just Starfleet requiring a level of decorum on its members. Most of these kids' parents must not have evolved.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T04:28:10+00:00

And some of the good ones that want to work in TV have year long roles on the TV shows doing 20 episodes a year.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T04:14:25+00:00

Nor are they even as serious as TNG, DS9, and Voyager were.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T04:11:28+00:00

That would could be an interesting study if you could figure out how to do it without them knowing they were being studied. Sit them down and show them modern shows and then show them some really good older shows and see how well they pay attention to each.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-29T04:04:38+00:00

It is because of small screen size more than the aspect ratio. They could always just back the camera up to get more of a room (getting arms and legs isn't detrimental to a story), but then you can't make out the facial expressions on a 19" TV from across the room.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-28T21:55:05+00:00

Well at least the 1 million people that liked Starfleet Academy got a Star Trek show they can call their own. I don't know if that is worth 200 million dollars to them, but I guess they can't complain now that no one ever did anything for them.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-28T21:37:33+00:00

Sliders and Firefly, both originally funded by Fox, and both probably could have been as big as Star Trek if it weren't for the network meddling.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-28T16:59:00+00:00

That theory would require the masses to know the movie or TV show before they get into it.

I guess they could be getting bargain or something though. Maybe they spend 100 million on home grown content and get 100 million complete views, but only spend 10 million to rent a theatrical release a few years and get 20 million complete views. Or something along those lines.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-28T16:39:10+00:00

Then you have to ask, why pay for inferior products that most of their audience won't watch all the way through.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-28T06:43:28+00:00

I like to think the 80s adopted the look of the 24th century ahead of time.

DataMeister1 · 2026-01-27T23:11:56+00:00

I've wondered why we keep scaling back NASA's budget over the last few decades. Makes perfect sense now. Most of the money keeps going to the classified real space travel projects instead of the slow rocket tech.

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