• brem@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    If we’re pitching Trek, can I request something that is still hopeful without being an Earth based branch of the Federation of Planets?

    I’ve had enough Starfeet. You see what I did there. No more Trek for the sake of “the brand”. Let’s see episodic adventures featuring practical effects set on alien planets with situations none of us can relate to.

    If you wanna shake things up, do it right.

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    1 day ago

    Nah, it’s all about prequels nowadays.

    Stargate: SG-0

    Star Trek: Lowest Decks

    Babylon 4

    Star Trek: Deep Space 8

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      I loved the story line about the previous stations in Babylon 5. So interesting like yeah we have this awesome place, but it didn’t just happen to spring into existence. It wasn’t formed naturally or given by some advanced aliens. We built it ourselves after having a real shit time previously. But we stuck with it and here it is, flaws and all.

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        I am going to be so honest, there is no way I think Babylon 5 could be remade or added to. It had some bumps in production, but the actors were irreplaceable. I cannot imagine anyone other than Andreas Katsulas as G’kar. There can be no other Ambassador DeLenn except Mira Furlan.

        It’s one of those cases where even the flaws it had were so perfect and so human that altering it would nearly be sacrilege. I hope to any gods that still give a fuck that the corporations forget B5 ever happened so it can rest in peace. Because you know that if they try to do any corporate necromancy on it, it’ll be a shambling horror that’s nothing like the original.

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    23 hours ago

    Deep Space Tokyo Drift
    2 Deep 2 Space
    Deep Space presents: The starlog of love
    Deep Space Antimatter Boogaloo

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    Unironically, I think Star Trek: Away would be a fun Lower Decksian concept that covers an away team, but only while they are on mission.

    The episode starts once they have left the ship (whether by transporter, shuttle or otherwise), no context, and the show builds the premise of the mission over the course of the episode. We never actually get a good view of the inside of the ship and all the nonsense that goes on there (mission related or not) has to be relayed through coms, dialogue, or the away team’s outside perspective.

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        It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.


        Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.

        Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?

        Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.

        Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!

        Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them as tiny fingers.

        Away 1: Or octopus suckers.

        Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?

        Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…

        Away 4: Uh huh.

        Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…

        Away 3: dis-groused?

        Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!

        Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?

        Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.

        Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…

        Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues