“Paramount spent between 6-10 million an episode on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. They put the premier on YouTube for free and got 1300 live viewers.”
“Paramount spent between 6-10 million an episode on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. They put the premier on YouTube for free and got 1300 live viewers.”
Patrick Stewart (Jean Luc Picard) signed a 5yr contract , thinking it was just a pilot, maybe last a year. After the TV series he did 4 Star Trek movies. Good ol days.
It answered the unasked question
What would Star Trek look like if it was produced for the same audience that tunes into the Hallmark network?
That would be STOS, Star Trek the Original Series. Written to appeal to Americans in the 1960s. Shot with Hallmark production values.
A show made by emotional retards, for emotional retards.
You are too kind. It’s a show made by perverts, for imbeciles. Paid for by Communists.
“… like an origami chicken …”
Star Trek is now written by woke hipsters on their laptops at the Silver Lake coffee shop. Written as though inspired by the woke LA gourmet coffee cafe’ crowd.
I tried to play poker with an origami chicken, but it kept folding…
If Paramount wants to set a pile of money on fire, that’s their decision, I’m not an investor, so I don’t much care.
But, this is yet another reason why they don’t deserve to buy WB
But Netflix the pedo grooming network does deserve to buy WB?
I’m proud to say I’ve never been on Facebook … ever. And I have never had a Netflix account … ever. And my life has been fulfilling without them.
“I’m proud to say I’ve never been on Facebook … ever.”
Same here. I tried to create an account just to access Facebook Marketplace but they now demand a ‘video selfie’. Nope…not happening.
Ha! But my wife is on Facebook … and I’ve learned that the BEST … FASTEST place to sell things is Facebook marketplace. Craigslist is so 2002 … and skeevy. We’ve sold some surplus building materials and tools … and have more to go.
Check out the Drinker’s other Star Trek reviews, especially Into Darkness and Beyond Stupidity.
The plots are just illogical nonsense.
Into Darkenss and Beyond were flaming garbage but at least not woke or worse.
This latest iteration is the worst television I’ve watched and I turned it off after 15 minutes.
I’m a lifelong trek fan, and although it’s always leaned left, the virtue signalling nonsense in Discovery was out of control and it completely jumped the shark with Starfleet Academy.
Larry Ellison and co need to clean house
Hell, at this point Harlan Ellison wouldn’t be able to flush this unflushable turd.
IMHO they jumped the shark in the later seasons of DS9 and it’s all been downhill ever since. I stopped watching halfway through Enterprise, when the stupidity became all-encompassing. So sad. Another fun thing, ruined.
Probably not coincidentally, that was 10 years after the entire comic book industry went Woke and then went broke, ~1992.
I couldn’t stomach Discovery, but enjoyed Strange New Worlds. Better characters and much less of the woke BS that plagued the earlier stuff…
Why doesn’t the Drinker believe the futuristic Bridges would be lit in mid-century modern neon tubes? It was hip and contemporary in the 40’s and 50’s … so why not also in 2525 ? Yeah, the Hollywood set designers are all gay …
On the other hand you have another Paramount production – Landman which has received a bit of press lately for mocking the pronoun nonsense.
Maybe Paramount thinks they have something for everyone. But paying big bucks for a heavy hitter like Giamatti for embarrassing utterances like “…origami chicken”, the ledger is a tad askew.
Landman is good for one season, now that it has registered with the general population, it will go downhill fast.
It’s subplot of annoying big hair, blonde, bikini flaunting, vacuous, TX women is the most annoying cartoonish part of that otherwise truth-telling show.
“It’s subplot of annoying big hair, blonde, bikini flaunting, vacuous, TX women is the most annoying cartoonish part of that otherwise truth-telling show.”
The show runner knows what men like to look at, though…;)
Plus Billy Bob is great in everything he does…check out Goliath if you haven’t seen it.
I haven’t. Thanks for the tip. I am a massive Billy Bob fan … as an actor. He’s got … “it”
“annoying big hair, blonde, bikini flaunting, vacuous, TX women”
I saw a clip of it. The blondie is HAWT, by Jiminy Cricket. That young lady has got it goin’ on, as they say.
Her “confusion” over the pronoun thing was ludicrously contrived, I must say. Is there a single hot blondie in all of Texas who doesn’t know to sniff and toss her hair dismissively when pronouns are mentioned? Strongly doubt it.
But I don’t care, because blondie. Even though I am old, I am not dead. ~:D
OK OK … I admit … whenever she comes on screen in her bikini … “it moves”. Hahahaha ha ha.
And perhaps the hawtest scene was when the Stripper stripped off into her skivvies and held an aged (like me) Sam Elliot in the pool. I could use some of THAT brand of physical therapy for my newly replaced hip. Hahahahahaha ha what can I say? I’m a MAN. Still all man …
https://youtu.be/okzMScvoYE0?si=DWTJZ5cUadaekQHM
Please don’t miss the Critical Drinker clip at the end of the piece!
Star Trek has always been Liberals In Space, and it has always been stupid.
Who else flies a super-luminal spacecraft powered by anti-matter and armed to the teeth into a random star system, takes up orbit over an inhabited planet, and then blithely informs the locals that they are “peaceful explorers” and they’re just coming for a visit, and could they please matter-transmit their armed advance party down to your halls of government? Friggin’ Gene Roddenberry.
But it used to be -fun- stupidity. I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve seen them all, up to DS9 and most of Voyager. (Who doesn’t want to see Jerry Ryan in that outfit?) And all the movies.
The Critical Drinker is not wrong in his assessment. The current crop of Star Trek is Woke crap. Unwatchable. From the character designs to the story line and dialogue, I’d go so far as to include the photography, it’s crap.
This is not a new thing. Around about 2010, 2011, Science Fiction and Fantasy -books- all went this way. The number of authors who refused to churn out Woke crap I can literally count on my fingers. Most of them wrote for Baen, but even that publisher knuckled under about 2021.
The only respite from the tide of Wokeness is Amazon e-books. There, people are writing what they want instead of what they’re told. They write to their audience, not to the editorial office of their publisher.
Shameless plug, I myself have written three novels that are up on Amazon. Giant tanks, robot girlfriends, dangerous aliens, and stuff blowing up. the first is Unfair Advantage by Edward Thomas. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0848PX3TC
After that come Angels Incorporated, and Secret Empire. Number 4 is The Demon slayers, coming out soon-ish, that one has giant tanks and a werewolf.
So … Star Trek is the vision of a perfect UBI future? Nobody uses money for anything. There are no needs or wants that are not instantaneously materialized. Everything just materializes as though thoughts become reality – as instantaneously as a food replicator. No one “labors” … but are all Doctors and Engineers. We all live in racial harmony. But curiously … Roddenberry never portrayed the LGBTQueers-mutant Trans insanity. Captain Kirk never went brokeback Spock.
Every little bit of Star Trek pretends that actual human characteristics … all our foibles … just get washed away. That our DNA took a GIANT leap forward … mutating us all into perfect people.
Interestingly enough … God … of the Bible, was never so optimistic.
“Captain Kirk never went brokeback Spock.”
Please do not give them any ideas… the horror…
Leonard Nimoy is safely resting in peace, I wouldn’t want him rolling over in his grave.
“Rectal insertion, Captain? Interesting.”
Apart from watching the series in my yoot with Shatner and Nimoy…I haven’t watched any of the Star Trek movie productions. Judging from the comments I haven’t missed much.
at this point all my old critcisms of basically EVERY S T iteration kick in,
why do almost all the aliens
-look humanoid,
-talk english,
-why is there gravity everywhere in space, and
-why does it take 5 minutes to assume orbit of planet whatever?
speaking of gravity, l truly enjoyed ‘Gravity’ with Sandra Bullock and gave it the requisite poetic license.
(thankfully they got rid of Cloolessny early on)
Why do they always call the locals “aliens”?
First Look At Lara Croft For Woke Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider Leaves Fans Worried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4I7GkuFNwU
She’s an anti-tittyite
Must fight the male gaze and toxic masculinity and all. She’ll probably have a half naked Chris Hemsworth in there being girlbossed by boobless coat rack.
“Must fight the male gaze and toxic masculinity and all. She’ll probably have a half naked Chris Hemsworth in there being girlbossed by boobless coat rack.”
And yet they still wonder why everything they make now is losing money.
The wokeness and DEI stuff is beginning to fade away, finally…but not fast enough.
It’ll be fun to see Asmongold roast the Tomb Raider thing. ~:D
Nerdrotic did a live stream during the Trek premiere. It was of a Spock figurine sitting motionless on a chair with nothing happening. He got bigger numbers in 3 minutes than the Youtube premiere of Trek. Nuf said.
I also notice they still issue the U.S. Army birth control glasses in the year 3900. Goes well with the Wine Aunt hairdo. I guess they film the show in a Vegas strip joint to save money? All that neon.
It looks exactly like a strip joint.
In my opinion.
Star Trek Wrath of Khan and Star Trek 2009 were the best.
Critical Drinker is the best and always spot on IMO
If I was the person financing Hollywood I would have redirected my investments long ago.
I used to like Star Trek and its spin offs, it was comfort food of television. Since NuTrek I hate it.