That episode is pure gold.
Well, as long as it’s nothing like that episode, it should be fine.
I remember an episode of CSI years ago where they were investigating the murder of someone who was rebooting a very Star Trek show into something super dark and gritty, with none of the hope and positivity the original show had. That seems to be the trend of a lot of Star Trek properties the last few years, and it makes me think the writer of that episode was quite prescient.
Oh good, another prequel.
What do they even want to prequel? Isn’t SNW already doing that?
it sounds like they want to cover the birth of the Federation, so maybe it’s a bit of an Enterprise follow-up?
This wasn’t told on ENT?
unfortunately it’s kelvin timeline so … ugh
The timeline didn’t split until the Narada showed up. So, if it’s before that moment, it is still the original timeline.
my expectation is that since they described it as being linked to kelvin it’s going to have jj abrams kelvin vibes instead of new trek vibes
I find “USS Callister” especially funny because early on in Disco’s run, people would point to it as what new Trek should be, but the episode is all about how someone obsessed with an old sci-fi television show is a loser and a creep, and then it ends with the protagonists getting a Kelvin universe-esque upgrade, lens flares and all.
Media literacy!
They should make that black mirror episode into a series as a contrast to The Orville.
Also good is John Scalzi’s Red Shirts or Steven Erickson’s Willful Child
I like John Scalzi and I love Star Trek, but I couldn’t get into Redshirts. It just felt like “We have Star Trek at home…”
That’s why Willful Child is probably the better Star Trek fanfic, where it’s like “what if we really emphasized how much of a misogynistic asshole Kirk could have been?” Or “what if we merged Kirk with Zapp Brannigan?”
