GRIM RUMOURS ABOUT NEW STAR TREK:DISCOVERY SERIES

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Voyager and DS9 are all now on the Horror Channel. That says something to me. I'm hoping Discovery will have a happier ending than that!

[The Legendary Shark]

It was the Cardies when they attacked human colonies inside their treaty borders.

800 YEARS!

Could have been Edith Keeler - if she hadn't foolishly got herself killed it would all have been different...

[Dreddzilla]

 

http://screenrant.com/star-trek-discovery-god/?utm_source=SR-FB-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=SR-FB-P&view=list

[Professor Bear]

Well that anecdote sounds completely true and not made up in any way to me, as it in no way directly contradicts everything else we're hearing about the show.

[TordelBack]

http://screenrant.com/star-trek-discovery-god/?utm_source=SR-FB-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=SR-FB-P&view=list

As Bones might say (repeatedly)"My god, man!"

(Example: "My god, man! Drilling holes in his head is not the answer!")

If true, they really get the spirit of Trek, don't they.

[Dreddzilla]

All the rumors were true.  http://trekcore.com/blog/2017/07/new-ew-issue-details-bryan-fullers-discovery-departure/

[Professor Bear]

I recently decided to bid a farewell to Hawaii Five-0 after CBS' racist salary policies came to light.  Even with shows that are going great, the company finds a way to fuck them up - though I gather fans of Shark, NCIS Los Angeles and NCIS New Orleans could have told me this some time ago.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Midnights Edge most recent spiel on STD. Not great news folks as the powers that be have pretty much written off the series already.

https://youtu.be/tQcLLfzzKWA

[Professor Bear]

Not really a surprise - the show's been paid for up front by sponsors who didn't get the product they wanted, they're hardly going to pay for more of it.

Still, blowing 150 million dollars of someone's money and they don't have you killed for it is kind of an impressive feat in itself.

[Steve Green]

Alec Peters * 100

[Dreddzilla]

Unconfirmed, but several sources are saying STD is done and further episodes won't be filmed. The CBS execs are said to be having an emergency meeting on Monday.
Word is Moonves will be asked to step down.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Just to add some perhaps happier news could this be happening?

http://www.geekexchange.com/news/breaking-nicholas-meyer-working-on-khan-limited-series/

[Dreddzilla]

Is anyone really demanding a KHAN series?

[Professor Bear]

Cheap to make, and any problems with fans and/or audiences not being interested - or outright hostile - can be blamed on their hostility at a show having an Arabic main character.  Virtually all of the rebuttals of criticism of Discovery have centered on cherry-picking comments from arseholes upset at diversity and then dismissing all other criticism as being of the same stripe.  Likewise, there's a lot of suspiciously gushing articles appearing that seem a mix of uninformed and tone-deaf "It's great Trek finally has an Asian character" is probably my favorite hot take, alongside "finally a woman captain" and "finally a captain who isn't American."
I mean, yes, not everyone is a Trek fan, but come on now.

[Mardroid]

I think Kahn Noonien Singh is supposed to be Indian (although the actors who played him were Mexican and English... but anyway.) Although being genetically engineered, I guess he could be a bit of everything, and he was give (or took) a Sikh surname.

But yeah, I your point stands.

I don't see much point of a Kahn story in that time period. One that deals with the eugenics wars however, could be interesting. I do remember a novel series (or was it just two?) that dealt with that, but I've only read the first.