Star Trek Beyond reprieve - where no fan has gone before

[@TerraExcessum]

Every time Rob answers "Yes" to that final question, i get a little tear in my eye.

[@marsoelflaco5722]

J. J. Abrams, hack extraordinaire.

[@quarksbar3265]

We enjoy what you're doing and would like you to continue

[@Jillbles]

This has been so much fun to experience. Thanks for these!

[@Extinguisher10]

Star Trek hasn't broadcast on the big 3 in the US since The Original Series

[@jaycondron1063]

Thanks for doing these guys. Not listened to ep 6 yet yet as going to rewatch it myself first. But have thoroughly enjoyed the shows. Even better that you're continuing them after the movies. May the podcast live long and prosper

[@cryofuse]

Great podcast - very entertaining. I hope you do continue, I guess with the Star Trek series from the original through to Strange New Worlds. I'm sure that will keep you busy for a while. 🖖

[@ZiggyMarlon-gf6qv]

Never wear a red shirt and you'll be fine, Rob. Welcome aboard.

[@sarahroberson4358]

Long time viewer of playstation access here. Love the podcast guys. So nice to hear you being more open and honest about things on here because of yall representing playstation on the other channel and I completely understand why. I just wanted to make a suggestion for a series of watching through the lord of the rings movies with rosie as a guest because the fact that she hasnt seen those, coming from someone who watches them around christmas every year, is just criminal lol. Love you guys. Thank you for all the laughs.

[@Extinguisher10]

Lol!!! Metal music?? Has Rob ever heard music before?!?

[@Extinguisher10]

This is my favorite of the generic action movies wearing a Star Trek skin

[@Bnio]

A touching moment with the two Spocks (which is purely in my head) is that old Spock is a connection for Kelvin Spock to a world in which Vulcan survives. Anyway, I still like the movie. Yorktown, though ridiculous with all the skyscrapers, is a great gee-whiz sci-fi idea. But, now that I think about it, I don't find myself revisiting this movie as much as I thought I would, because it all comes down to one more fist fight against a baddie seeking revenge.

[@lloroshastar6347]

"People need to stop listening to audiences" - I agree, to an extent. I think what we need is a return to creativity and ingenuity, we've really overdone the nostalgia, we've overdone the remakes, we've overdone sequels, we as a society are crying out for innovation, Capitalism in its current virtually totally unregulated form is making our culture stale. They say they 'give us what we want', but they don't, what they give us is slops. What they give us is what is calculably going to con enough people to purchase something with as high of a profit margin as is possible. We're basically living in Cyberpunk 2077, that game/universe isn't the future, it's now, as is all good dystopian sci-fi, it's always a commentary on how dreadful life is in the present. So when they say 'we'll give audiences what they want', what they really mean is 'we'll sell you something bland and lifeless'. Something that has the most soul as a piece of art is never manufactured to the specifications that give people 'what they want', what people want is McDonald's, it's Mrs Browns Boys, it's a bunch of celebrities arguing on an island. It's vacuous and empty, I definitely don't want what people want, I want what I don't know I want.

[@Bastion90]

It won't be long until you can no longer call 'Beyond' the last Star Trek movie. In 2025 a Star Trek: Section 31 will be releasing as a direct to streaming movie. Will you guys be watching it?

[@M-E_123]

When summing up the current state of Star Trek on TV you didn't mention the Star Trek Academy series that is carrying over some of the cast from Discovery (Discovery did a weird thing where it started as being set between Enterprise & the Original Series - with Strange New Worlds spinning off from it to fill that gap up to the start of the Original Series - but around Season 4, I think, the ship gets shot into the future, something like 100 years after Picard, and Star Trek Academy picks up in that timeline after the Discovery is decommissioned in it's last Season). There is also a Section 31 film (well, I think it's now a TV film coming to Paramount Plus, think it might be this year?) - I think it's another thing set in the Discovery / Strange New Worlds / Original Series era, with characters again crossing over. Also, worth pointing out that only the Abrams films use the Kelvin Timeline - everything else is set during the original continuity. I'm not 100% sure when the 2 animated shows are set - I think Lower Decks features Admiral Janeway, so that means somewhere between the end of Voyager (and the Next Generation films, because Admiral Janeway is in Nemesis) and whenever Picard is set. But I genuinely have no idea about the other one.

[@Bnio]

Discovery jumps 800 years ahead in Season 3, to the 3100s. So basically nothing that we know and love from the 23rd and 24th century Star Trek is around anymore. Blank slate and yet they somehow managed to haul all the baggage along.

[@scottfw1193]

Why not watch the series? 😄

[@limberlad]

Are any of you actual Trek fans? Lower Decks was a TNG episode and had nothing to do with Janeway haha Also, I think Star Trek is in the best spot it's been since the 90s. Strange New Worlds is incredible, by far the best Trek thing to come out since DS9. Regardless of the time period or the crew it follows, as long as the writing is solid and with strong character arcs, a good Star Trek show could involve any crew at any point in history. Prodigy is even really good in its own right. I don't expect a bunch of early to mid age fellas to check it out, but it's been extremely well received critically and has its own small but dedicated fanbase. A couple years ago there was 5 Star Trek shows running simultaneously, spaced out so there was a new episode of Star Trek every week of the year with a variety of different shows to appeal to different audiences. Love the cast guy. Great banter from a genuine dynamic.. Hope you do more Star Trek dives

[@ZiggyMarlon-gf6qv]

ST: Discovery and Paramount scared everybody away with politics. Doctor Who is doing the same thing. People just want cool space stuff, not an hour lecture on the current political hot potato.

[@Bnio]

Hello, middle aged dude here. Prodigy starts out as a pretty typical CG animation kids show; very Star Wars-ish. But, by golly, Season One ends on the most pure-strain Star Trek vibe in a generation. It's really good. So is Strange New Worlds.

[@Extinguisher10]

​@@ZiggyMarlon-gf6qvThis is true

[@Cossieuk]

There is a similar type episode to Lower Decks on Voyager called Good Shepherd