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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago

They want to keep the cast and crew of SNW, they just don't want to pay them all more as contractually obligated to do so after 5 seasons

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

They’re running into the same Star Wars trap. You have this amazing base lore and established universe and instead you focus on the same group of people over and over.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ugh can we do new content please, why not the post-tng era timeframe? I wanna see new stories, faces, content.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just that either. In a prequel, certain things have to happen, and certain things can't happen. The Enterprise is never in danger of being destroyed, and the TOS crew can't die or otherwise leave.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is so easily handled in a Sci Fi show. Particularly Star Trek, which has a long history of alternate timelines.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not really a prequel then though, they're just using existing characters for their own story. At that point, write new characters too.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I completely agree they should do new characters.

As this is a green field of the unknown events of Kirk’s early career who is to say an alternate timeline that gets confidently wrapped up by dropping the crew back into the currently time is not what happened.

All it takes is come creative writings to wrap all that up.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

It could be good, and if it's anything like Strange New Worlds it will be, but dropping them back to the main timeline still means that the bridge crew can't die. There was an episode early on in Strange New Worlds where I think it was Spock, Uhura, and another crew member were in danger. We immediately knew that Spock and Uhura couldn't die or be seriously injured, and it took a lot of the tension out of the episode, for me at least.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

a million fucking times yes. and discovery doesn’t count.

[–] nightwatch_admin 6 points 1 day ago

Gross. People shoehorning in more TOS without loving TOS at all. Please stop and ho make your dead content elsewhere.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Stahp. Get help.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Give us an anthology series. Then everybody wins.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh look, it’s “fake Kirk” again. Let’s build a show around my least favorite SNW character and see how that goes.