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    Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon"

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  • This era of Star Trek has quite a few A-listers actually.

    Starfleet Academy is helmed by Oscar winner for best actress Holly Hunter (in The Piano), has two time nominee Paul Giamatti (one each nominations for best and best supporting actor) as well as Tig Notaro who is nominated this year for her documentary and has also been nominated twice for Emmys.

    Akiva Goldsman, co-showrunner of Strange New Worlds has an Oscar for best screenwriter for an adaptation from another medium (for A Beautiful Mind).

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  • We will never see 26 episode seasons again.

    It currently takes more than one week to shoot a 42 minute episode.

    Also, actors are not willing to lock into shows that leave them unavailable for movies or other television shows.

    Star Trek and other streaming series are able to cast A-listers not just because they are willing to pay high pay rates and list them as executive producers but also because the A-listers are able to lock in multi season contracts with Star Trek while still being available to do other things.

    But 10 episodes is not the maximum possible. Large ensembles like Starfleet Academy have enough main cast members that not everyone has to be on set every day.

    As well, it’s possible that 4 or 6 episode limited series might be the perfect vehicle to bring back a Legacy character or explore something like the Department of Temporal Investigations. Under the old management those weren’t negotiable.

    Why Paramount had such a bizarrely rigid policy after the ViacomCBS merger has never been adequately explained.

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  • Glad to hear you liked it.

    It’s so hard to keep track of shows when they’re only renewed after the season ends and the production timelines are so very long. That’s why it’s exciting to know that there’s a second show going into production and more in development.

    Please do join in our weekly discussion threads on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (aka M:LOM). Our community is just getting going and it’s grey to welcome other enthusiasts.

  • ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To “Classic” Star Trek

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  • Sound like a decision was made on high that the 60th anniversary would not take place without a Star Trek show under weekly release.

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  • Not sure what specific canceled show you might be thinking of…

    Monsterverse is specifically used for all the movies, comics, games, animated and live-action television made by Legendary (Pictures, Comics, Games, Television etc.) using licensed Toho Godzilla and other kaiju.

    The Monsterverse continuity began with Godzilla (2014), then Kong: Skull Island and continued with several more cinematic features. At this point, with 12 years of releases, it is the second longest running continuity in the 70+ years of the Godzilla franchise, with the Showa era remaining the longest.

    Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a partnership between Legendary Television and AppleTV, is viewed as a global success. Its second season is currently in weekly streaming release on AppleTV. It’s being very successful in attracting new fans and expanding the audience for Godzilla and other kaiju.

    A second spinoff Monsterverse series focusing on Lee Shaw in a 1980s Cold War context has been greenlit by AppleTV and is starting production in June.

    That said, while this community is featuring the Monsterverse continuity, we’re open to posts and discussions about all Toho, Toho licensed and related kaiju media.

    Please feel welcome to post and comment about other eras and continuities.

  • Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV

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  • I’m going to say that I saw some of the problems to come in BSG season three, but I still bought the physical media up to that point.

    I don’t think you can blame it all on the writers strike, any more than you can blame Picard season two or Discovery season four’s weaknesses on the pandemic.

    Other shows managed better. It’s the test of a good senior production executive to manage through those situations.

    I was deeply disappointed in where For All Mankind took its women characters. I was hoping that having Naren Shankar join after he finished with The Expanse would redeem it, but it just kept getting worse in its treatment of women.

    • !a driven engineer who becomes the head in Houston only to fall into a honey-trap and feed the Soviets information!<

    • !an astronaut who played up her physical beauty and whose top-gun husband became a despondent alcoholic when she leaves him responsible for the kids!<

    • !an astronaut who hides her sexual preference through a fake marriage!<

    • !the neglected wife of an astronaut who is stalked and manipulated into a one time sexual encounter with a young man she once looked after as a child, then carries the burden of responsibility for the impact of his obsession.!<

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    Paramount Buys Out Tyler Perry Stake in BET+, Will Fold Streamer into Paramount+

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  • We’re going to need to differ on Ronald D. Moore.

    I wish Trek fans would stop calling for him to helm the franchise when we have not seen adequate evidence that he can carry through to make the kind of Trek that represents IDIC for future.

    What I am seeing from him is a pattern of starting great new shows but not having as great ideas about following through long multi season arcs.

    The Battlestar Galactica reboot was riveting for the first two seasons and then spiralled to a disappointing conclusion.

    For All Mankind spun out in seasons two and three with an Oedipal storyline about a kid who becomes obsessed with his foster mother and wreaks havoc. Not to mention that all the heroic women characters in from season one had to be shown to deeply flawed by season three in a very male-perspective way.

    For All Mankind isn’t as bad in terms of having a cisgender-male viewpoint writing women leads as say the Sheridan show Lioness, but it’s not succeeding as a show women see themselves in.

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  • Thanks! I’ll add that to the original post.

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  • The key thing is that this is disciplinary and after the fact.

    Some municipalities in other provinces do have provisions for extras floors to be permitted beyond regular zoning in exchange for a number of lower cost dedicated accessible units throughout the building that have covenants restricting them to tenants or owners (in the case of condos) with disability certificates.

    This model has been successful in creating lower cost affordable and integrated housing for persons with disabilities.

    However, it’s intended to function as an incentive, with accessible units designed in on each floor in exchange for more floors. It’s not a remediation.

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    Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon"

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  • I’m not sure I can agree on the camera work. This show has come a long way from the JJ Abrams directorial tricks embraced by Discovery and other shows of this production era.

    I actually thought that Producing Director Osunsamni was restraining himself noticeably in his use of whipping cameras as compared to his directing style in previous shows.

    Kurtzman set a directorial mandate for the show in the opening episodes with longer pans and more close ups on the characters. He even commissioned special amorphic lenses that enable close ups within the large sets. Jonathan Frakes mentioned that the directional norms for SFA are quite different and that he enjoyed the opportunity on his episode to rely more on shots where he closed in on the characters.

    For this episode, the choice of using a shifting drone view for a remote news audience made sense in the context of an otherwise static scene of Nus’ theatrical show trial.

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  • I always thought that the insistence on every Paramount+ show having 10 episode seasons — which was mandated by the executives in charge of streaming when the ViacomCBS merger happened — was weird.

    Other streamers are not that rigid and vary season structures depending on what the show is. While 12 episode seasons are rare, I can’t see the streamer that merges HBO Max and Paramount+ being quite so rigid.

    The newly merged conglomerate has a myriad of practical decisions to make in merging Paramount and WBDiscovery. It will take time for all of the parameters of their streaming model to be fully established and implemented but we can expect some significant rethinking.

  • Interview: ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showrunners Talk Season Finale Messages; Tease Season 2 Villain

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  • One of the things that stands out - pun intended - about Starfleet Academy, is that the directors and production crew aren’t trying to hide the differences in height.

    Holly Hunter isn’t afraid to let it be seen that she doesn’t even come up to Sandro’s shoulder.

    Unlike Patrick Stewart who seemed to want more orange boxes deployed to minimize his height difference in Picard than has even been necessary in the constraints of old standard definition in TNG, the actors are comfortable being different in height and the directing style is working with it.

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  • I’m hoping we’ll get more later.

    The Imzadi bond between Tarima and Caleb is an order of magnitude stronger than Troi and Riker’s. Likely more.

    I’m willing to go with a head cannon for now that Caleb has to have some native psychic abilities, if latent, that sparked the attraction and connection even with Tarima’s inhibitor in place.

  • 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Bosses Explain Finale Ending & Share Season 2 Details

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  • “Lanthanites are a fun ride” says co-showrunner Noga Landau.

    Of course, Nahla Ake has extended family even if she told Nus that she didn’t know her Lanthanite father well.

    Will we see Pelia? Other Lanthanites?

    Do we have a Lwaxana Troi type character incoming in season two?

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  • I’m feeling the same way.

    This is the most coherently plotted live action Trek of the current era. The showrunners and writers room knew what they wanted and laid down all the pieces to get there.

    I’m going to say that while Anisha’s punch of Brakka’s (as they say in comics) most punchable face seemed logical and a necessary catharsis, I don’t like that Ake stooped to that herself, however understandable the motivation.

    I still feel, based on how much difference an extra two episodes per season makes to a low budget show like The Ark, that SFA would be stronger and better able to serve its large cast with 12 episode seasons.

    I hope we get more on SAM’s development and integration of her two memories in season two.

    Likewise, there definitely feels that there’s unfinished business between Anisha and Ake. I am going with Anisha being resigned to accept who her son has become but unsure of her own future.

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  • Time passed. It wasn’t instant.

    I assumed that the Starfleet ships were prepositioned near the barrier/wall ready to cross. We were shown in the previous episode that there were old remnants of Borg Transwarp conduits in the region.

    Reno could have messaged Vance even if full holographic communications weren’t available.

    The episode makes clear that hours had passed while the Reno and the cadets on Athena were repairing the ship and working out the solution, then another 30 minutes to get to the star system at a limping warp speed and more to find Brakka.

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  • I’m trying to find a way to reconcile some of Rod Roddenberry’s recent social media statements with the positives in interviews with from Kurtzman and Osunsamni.

    Rod Roddenberry has not critiqued Secret Hideout but has talked about how there is potential for more positive Star Trek that fulfills his father’s concept of modeling a utopian society.

    So, clearly Roddenberry Entertainment is pressing for some strategic influence in future shows.

    That said, it makes one wonder how much strategic direction for darker peak television may have come from the highest levels at CBS and Paramount…

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  • SFA definitely bobs up in rank on Thursday/Friday/Saturday and falls off the rest of the week, but the interest shown on Amazon Channels is consistent across many countries, and not just in the United States.

    Paramount will have the hard and detailed viewership data to make decisions — not just US-based brigading on social media aggregators.

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  • Even many of the perpetual doomsayers on other platforms are bending to acknowledge that SFA is tenaciously sticking at a rank of #1 or 2 on Amazon Channels.

    It’s sinking in that SFA is pulling viewers but not Paramount+’s existing demographic — which means that it’s achieving what it was designed to do.

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    Exclusive Update On The ‘Star Trek: Year One’ Series Pitch And Status Of The ‘Strange New Worlds’ Sets

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    It Is No Easy Task to Combine Paramount+ and HBO Max

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    Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

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    Who would win? : Moopsy vs Scarab an inter franchise absurdity

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    Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Bros. Deal Backed by Arab Sovereign Funds Raises Soft Power Concerns

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    Paul Wesley Boards Apple TV’s ‘The Buccaneers’ Season 3

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    Godzilla roars in IDW Games' Godzilla The Roleplaying Game, crowdfunding now - Graphic Policy - Star Trek Website

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    What Audiences Loved in 2025: How Audience Demand Became the Industry’s Most Reliable Signal

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    Paramount’s new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion | CNN Business

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    Paramount Brass Talk Film Studio’s ‘Rebuild Phase’ and Potential for New NFL Rights Deal

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    Whistleblower Claims Paramount President Jeff Shell Leaked Details of $7.7 Billion UFC Deal

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