• Bill Mason 🖖 🎶 📖 🥅@mastodon.socialOP
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    4 months ago

    @ValueSubtracted I keep thinking about this and I’m not sure where I land. I feel like we’re near “progress for progress’ sake”.

    First we had movies that sequeled our TV shows. No one objected unless a given movie was bad.

    Then post-Berman pre-streaming we did movies because no one had appetite to make new TV Trek. Fine.

    Now in the streaming era of multiple series, what purpose do disconnected-from-TV cinematic movies serve? Do they need to exist besides 💰?

    I don’t know what the answer is.

    • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Oh make no mistake, I’m on record as not really caring whether we ever see another theatrical Star Trek film. In my opinion, it’s a TV franchise at its core, and it can stay there as far as I’m concerned.

      But I’m pretty sick of the tedius “will they/won’t they” shenanigans at Paramount.

      • Bill Mason 🖖 🎶 📖 🥅@mastodon.socialOP
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        4 months ago

        @ValueSubtracted I think my ramblings up there are my process of arriving where you already are.

        “Make Kelvin 4” is at least a plan, and there’s an audience that would like more. Would I watch it, sure. Would I care if it never gets made…not really.

        But when they start throwing these other movie ideas around, I don’t see a purpose. And people will say what they will about Kurtzman’s tenure as TV Trek overlord, but at least everything there had a purpose (whether one agrees with it or not).