I’m the first aboard the “Star Trek contains multitudes” train, for sure.

Discovery never had a connection to Abrams/Bad Robot, unless you were to count Alex Kurtzman, but he’s been involved with every series of the new era, so…you kind of can’t?

In any case, I agree - the D&D movie was a lot of fun, and while I wouldn’t want a ST movie to strike that tone, I’m interested to see what they cook up.

After breathing new life into high-profile IP like the Spider-Man franchise and Dungeons & Dragons, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are looking to boldly go where no directors have gone before with a very popular franchise. Sources tell Deadline, the duo are coming on to write, produce and are attached to direct a new original Star Trek film for Paramount. They will produce under their GoldDay banner.

Based on this, it seems like they’ve completely broken from JJ Abrams/Bad Robot - they were seemingly always connected to previous projects.

That’s been a pretty common commentary, and I get it, but I think there’s room for just about all genres - they’ve done their fair share of horror-tinged episodes over the years.

Strictly speaking, there’s no formal rule - you won’t find a CBS/Paramount definition of “canon” anywhere that I’m aware of.

In practice, they stick with the tv shows and films.

But they’ve also worked very hard over the last few years to keep the tie-in novels and things like that “canon-ish,” in that they flesh out backstories from the shows, and the shows mostly don’t step on their efforts.

It sounds like the podcast is getting that treatment - as far as they’re concerned, this is what happened, and they have no plans to contradict it (and, considering the nature of the story, it’s not likely to come up one way or another).

Honestly, I’d take this with a small grain of salt.

I don’t doubt Variety’s reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while I’m sure they’ve “moved on” from whatever they had cooking, I think it’s also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.

We’ll see what happens - it’s been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

I don’t think it’s that straightforward. They just gave the South Park guys half a billion dollars, and re-upped Jon Stewart for another year.

The CBS News division is a tire fire right now, but I don’t think there have been signs of creative interference in the studios.

You know, yet.

I wonder is Lear ever tried to meet up with her Noonien Singh relatives?

With Tuvok’s comment about using his position to advocate for augments, I wonder if they’re considering a Tim Russ/Christina Chong spinoff.

I think I agree with your overall sentiment - not the greatest thing I’ve ever heard, but I’m glad they made it.

The highlights for me were the semi-rehabilitation of McGivers, and the fleshing out of Khan’s cult followers. And I’m glad they didn’t go down the “Khan wasn’t so bad” road, instead going with, “Khan was a pretty bad guy who maybe could have turned it around under different circumstances,” which…is a pretty Star Trek message, even if it’s not one I was very interested in exploring.

Noted?

Rosalind Lear appears to be hiding some kind of alternative motivation for investigating into Khan and Ceti Alpha

I didn’t find this surprising in the sense that she’s seemed…biased, to say the least. But the scene with Tuvok was nice, even though in the moment I was wondering if it was Lear or Delmonda that was meant to be the liar. Context suggests it’s her, though.

The song the young augments were listening to was Your Touch released in 2021.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s a favourite of Kirsten Beyer or something - I’m a little surprised that they went to the effort of clearing a pop song of any kind.

Khan’s odd mercy towards him

I see it as a means to an end - looking like he’s living up to his end of the bargain with Delmonda. A dangerous game to be playing, though.

the inevitable loss of McGiven’s to the Ceti Eel.

I know this is consistent with the film, but part of me wishes she had met her demise more directly as a result of some choice that Khan made, if only to reinforce just how foolish she had been to join his little cult in the first place.

The Lego thing was officially announced a while back.

I think Star Trek merchandise is decent…when it comes to the high-end, ridiculously-priced market.

When it comes to affordable stuff…less so.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like the decision to add these aliens to the story was a good one. It gives Khan someone to be tyrannical toward, since his cultist followers don’t really give him a reason to do monstrous things.

That’s a pain. I guess a delete and repost might do it, or on desktop you might be able to set a different thumbnail URL.

Wrong link?

Okay yes that would be rad.

The San Francisco campus - or at least a large portion of it - is actually the USS Athena, a fully-functional starship that can land on Earth, but also go on mission when needed to provide some hands-on training (and, I assume, help a Starfleet that’s still spread fairly thin). They talked a little bit more about it here.

As far as I’m aware, Federation HQ remains a giant ship/space station.

I finally set aside time to actually watch this thing.

It’s important not to read too much into these things, but this really made me feel like they’re building toward Una’s departure.

I doubt they’re “done” with any particular demo, but they’ve been pretty up-front about being concerned about an aging/dying fanbase, and wanting to make some stuff for younger people.

But I do think that they’ve been pretty good at giving each series its own time and vibe, so hopefully something down the road will appeal to you if this doesn’t.