I don’t how you can get any vibes out of this interview. I’m getting “they’re happy to be working, but Canada is cold.”

I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.

But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.

The humour in The Orville was shockingly weak, but that doesn’t speak to sci-fi in general. Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Galaxy Quest, Spaceballs, and Futurama are all great space based comedies.

nuTrek has been pretty great for me, overall. Prodigy never managed to win me over, though. I’m well out of its target audience, so that’s no surprise.

I think your comment could reasonably apply to early Discovery and Picard, but not so much to the rest of nuTrek. It could equally apply to DS9 and Enterprise - but not so much to the rest oldTrek (Voyager might straddle the line).

I think it’s most accurate to say that Star Trek as a whole has generally shown alternating waves of reifying and challenging the utopian future concept. Overall that gives a message that a better society can be achieved, but the work of living up to that vision can never end. It works for me.

“And now the continuation” brings a real mix of feelings.

You seem to be underestimating my age.

Anyway, Spock/McCoy makes no sense to me. It’s Kirk/Spock that’s canon.

Ah, but TOS did it first.

Clearly, Disco Klingons were a racist caricature of the good people of Remulak. Unforgivable, really.

That totally tracks. Berman was misogynistic for sure, but between them Gene was the real horndog.

Took me a moment, then I laughed out loud.

Definite big lipped alligator moment. But I dug it. If you can’t make your show good, at least make it weird. At least it wasn’t another pointless action scene.

Looked it up - 1995. I’d have been all of eleven at the time.

Apart from the scale, I remember it as being pretty screen accurate. I think the first Starship Exeter fan film used these, with a little modification.

My parents bought this for me when it was new, as well as the phaser and communicator! The strap was the perfect length for me at that age…

I loved the little blueprint sheet that came with them.

You say “dilute,” I say “diversify”. Star Trek has always had a place for comedy. That doesn’t mean anything goes, and I get being trepidatious after the trash fire that was S31, but I think there’s good reason for optimism in this case. If Lower Decks and interviews like this are anything to go by, it looks like Newsome knows that any comedy needs to jibe with the overall Trek ethos.

Certainly the most X-Treme.

Anyway I’m sorry that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?

Your thoughts more or less match my own. Some really good concepts and actors were mostly wasted on lacklustre execution. As a Trekkie, I’m especially disappointed that Jeri Ryan was so underutilized. She could have killed as a vampire if she were given a little more to do.

I did catch the first sequel, and appreciated its use of some of the less celebrated lore like

though how that’s supposed to tie into the

backstory I really don’t know.

Also a final opportunity to emphasize anything that went well in the interview, or downplay/explain anything that didn’t.

Anyone who’s judgementally dismissing applicants for not sending a thank you is an asshole, but this does not change the fact that sending a thank you is a good idea if you actually want to get the job.

I think it’s great fun to try and puzzle these things out, as a fan. I also think it’s mind numbingly tedious to sit through an entire professionally produced episode designed to do it for us. Trials and Tribble-ations handled the matter perfectly.