Well, mission accomplished because it was the least "Star Trek" Star Trek ever filmed. I'm sad I'll never get another episodic, slice-of-life, workplace drama with competent professionals doing their jobs again. Everything has to be prestige TV now.
Watching the most recent RedLetterMedia video highlighting all the stage setup mistakes/jerry-rigged solutions in TNG made me appreciate that show even more.
I am biased, I have no sympathy for anyone on nuTrek production and Terry Matalas may have all the reputation of being a good "fan", unfortunately it means nothing when you work with and behave exactly like the hacks before you.
In his Master Replicas Collectors Club Zoom chat in February, Terry Matalas said the show was immediately under pressure to bring costs down after an expensive first season. Matalas suggested they could take a page out of Star Trek IV and incorporate time travel to bring the characters to modern day, which would save a lot of money for the production.
The time travel was your idea to save money? Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? Your first suggestion should have been to send Patrick Stewart to a nursing home and only call him back for one episode a season.
“There were Romulans—there was a whole thing. The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening. So you had a lot more Star Trek happening in the backdrop of it. Ultimately, the powers that be at that time were like, ‘This is too much.’ But there were some really good ideas there that were pretty cool.”
This is gibberish though wtf sounds terrible and given their track record the idea that they would have handled the concept undercover/background alieven observation without making some stupid commentary on 9/11 or worse still how when "big powerful poeople" secretly watch over you is good actualy.
I see them even making it some weird xenophobic anti-Chinese/Russian shit too since 2016/MAGA/Brexit was half the motivation for Patrick stewart to come back at all.
This sounds extremely cheap and I'm actualy glad it was turned down. Not that it made the show better lol I wish, but I see no reason to give these hacks the benefit of doubt. It would just be a different if not even bigger disaster.
Even though they say there may have been an issue with First contact canon, which is true, you could just say "ackshualy there was this one TOS episode in 1930s..." But why? Why should I believe these hacks would have done anything resembling Trek's Men in black competently? They have a proven track record of garbage. We know Goldsman is clueless and so were all the STD writers/producers.
Also "there were some really good ideas in there" is definitely one of the sentences of all time coming from anyone associated with nuTrek lol.
More than a lot of other franchises, Star Trek always manages to succeed despite executives never truly understanding what it is. I think maybe the only time executive meddling wasn't an issue was when it was originally at Desilu Studios.
