Wasn't there an actual DS9 episode where Quark attempts to sell a holosuite program of Kira as a hooker?
That whole movie was pornography for artists. As soon as I finished watching it I was scrambling around trying to find the art book. I fucking LOVE how they did all those sequences, who cares if they took up 3/4 of the movie's running time!
I believe that was the first appearance of Jeffrey Combs. He also auditioned for Riker but didn't get it.
Guest-starring Patricia Tallman in a rare speaking role, the other being a Romulan in "Timescape."
That was also Tuvok, on another deep cover mission for Janeway.
I'm still trying to imagine that casting.
More like this is how Tuvok got permanent indentured servitude to Janeway.
That Guinan mashup looks like Richard D. James.
Kurtzman's stuff has its fans, but they're pretty quiet when there's no new episodes to discuss. If you want to rattle their cage, go to TrekBBS or r/startrek and remind them Picard is dead and a robot impersonator is running around pretending to be him. They hate that. (And it's true. The Schizoid Man, Life Support, and probably other episodes established you can't dump a humanoid's brain into a positronic net and pretend they're the same person.)
NOT renewing his contract would mean that Discovery and Picard were failures. Since network execs (really, anyone anywhere in senior management) can never admit failure, they’re going to double down on it. Same as Kathleen Kennedy.
Guy gives them what they want, which like most streaming services is quantity over quality. Dude has plenty of (shitty) ideas for Star Trek shows and will get them made so that Paramount+ or whatever it's called can have lots of things to watch. It would be a problem if audiences refused to watch because they're bad shows, but most people want to just have something on and don't really care about quality or are diehard consoomers who only care about Brand Recognition. It would also be a problem if critics poorly reviewed them, but reputable critics don't care because direct-to-streaming is largely analogous to direct-to-video back in the day (unless it's something like Scorsese and The Irishman) leaving just nerd sites that are going to squeal about how much they love anything with a "nerd" brand on it (i.e. Star Trek, Star Wars, comics/comic movies, established video game brands, etc.)
He does what he's told. And Paramount wants to compete with Disney+. They need an EU, regardless of quality.
Any criticism of Nu Trek warrants a ban. It's there in the sidebar. They actually have the balls the say "What Would Picard Do", as if Captain Picard would watch this tripe.
Thanks for the Star_Trek recommendation, I'm looking at it now. I don't know if I'll join, but it's interesting to see some new discussions. I haven't been active on a Trek forum in years, but I've been a member of TrekBBS since time immemorial, and was on a few r.a.s.* groups before that. If any youngins are curious about the level of Star Trek discourse back in Usenet days, a few of the regular reviewers have archives:
There are a lot of people who "like" this new ST shows, but not in the way we normal people like something: SJWs have a very distinctive way of liking things that are bad: they are like the borg, to use an analogy in context, in the sense that they find new media that panders to them and assimilate it into their personality. Then, despite they were never fans, now they become fans and "experts" on the subject, even more, they claim, than people who've been fans for decades and has been involved in the fandom since before they were born. Do they like the new product? Not really, but they are now emotionally attacked to it, so they have the mission to protect it because, as it's part of them now, they are also protecting themselves and defending the things they believe.
