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nYc born - 25+ yr in Entertainment Biz - Proud parent to LD kids - Loves classic Star Trek & TNG- not the dumbed-down stuff made today - to the Left! 🖖🏻☕️🎧🍷
Oct 16, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
An observation:
NuTrek fans follow certain talking points when they cannot defend why they like nuTrek... They will parrot terms like 'Diversity' & 'Inclusion' while ignoring how limited the audience for these shows actually are.
They claim that all us older fans want is to 'rehash the old' and to bring back legacy characters and stories...
This of course is bullshit.
When Discovery was announced, I couldn't wait for the new characters and switch in POV (making the main character be someone NOT in Command.)
Just thinking about that concept now
Sep 5, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Paramount+'s strategy for NuTrek is spelled out by a placed "news piece" published by dozens of outlets... This is the power of the corporations...
Look at this google search: shorturl.at/fkw18
I just read this "news story" and noted what the assistant director of a con just said... Leo Visentin claimed that what he wants are, “new fans,” “I want the franchise to grow and continue and be inspiring to people, because it is important, and the things that it talks about are social commentaries and are important..."
Sep 4, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
So Amazon shuttered the comments for #ROP ?
Is anyone else seeing this as anything but a PR stunt?
After the 3 day lock-out, The comment section will reopen and those who have predisposed opinions about it will write what they will.
This applies to pro vs con equally. It’s tiring that some will defend ROP on the merits of it having a diverse cast & little else and others will hate it for the same reason… but a greater majority will criticize it for story issues or the acting or direction or other liberties taken w the source material and
Jul 8, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Saw the finale for SNW and it was rather uninspired and treated Kirk's character as the meme all nu-trekkers falsely claim his character is.
If only fools like @AkivaGoldsman actually paid attention to TOS they would know their narrative abt Kirk being hot-headed was completely false but they DON'T do this bc they like folks conflating the character Kirk w the man, Shatner... Go watch an episode of TOS right now... Go on, actually watch it from start to finish and tell me where Kirk is impulsive or "hot-headed..."
Seriously, I'll wait while you list all
Jun 15, 2022 16 tweets 4 min read
So... some Twitter observations by me on NuTrek these days...
It's always interesting when detractors & those critical to NuTrek report specific examples of how unpopular NuTrek actually is in the real world and how most of the fandom has given up on the current offerings... Who can forget when the first few episodes of STD aired, the backlash mounted saying how bad the writing was, how under-developed the characters were, how unlike it was to ANY Star Trek at the time...
CBS' response was of course that we were all 'ists' & 'phobes.' #propaganda