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I don't know about the rest of the world but if you're in Canada, Crave has it and CTV SciFi (formerly Space) also airs it when they are released.
I'm sure someone in the Mandalorian thread could help you
I understand why it'd probably seem boring and possibly just a retread of old Trek, and that Michelle Yeoh herself doesn't sound interested in that aspect of the character, but I still kind of wish we could just get a show with Yeoh being the captain of the Shenzhou again.
The worst thing about that Short Trek was that there wasn't more of it. It would be a waste if we never saw the new character again.
At this point I am fully convinced we are getting a Pike show and they are just burying the announcement until after the season finale of Picard.
I still believe and I think they themselves might believe the audience for a Pike show might be limited. Where as the show headed by Michelle Yeoh and not white male lead approach might be more attractive to an international market. Honestly I think they might be right as well. There is a lot of love for Pike and what Mount was able to bring the character but many times it feels like a very vocal minority.
Also a lot of the important aspects of PIke's life have been covered now between TOS and Discovery. You could go younger but that means not going with Mount. Having him in short burst with the Short Treks I feel works fine. Also what would be the goal with a Pike lead series that isn't just a repeat of TOS or maybe even TNG?
Exactly, a Pike show would be very similar to TOS, it wouldn't bring a lot of new things to the table. How many ship based heroic starfleet characters have adventures shows have we had? DSC is doing that right now.
A section 31 show featuring antiheroes sounds way more interesting and would very different from the other shows and that seems to be something CBS is going for, so far every announced project is distinct.
People also seem to underestimate Michelle Yeoh's pull especially internationally, if they can get her to commit to a series as the lead it would be madness not to use her. And Pike and the Enterprise could still feature in the section 31 show.
What might be a cool and fun twist would be using Pike and his crew in a section 31 show to flip the audience's perspective on an interloping trickster character.
Like a show about Q, from his view, and what it's like for him to frequently stop in and drive Picard crazy.
Like a show about Q, from his view, and what it's like for him to frequently stop in and drive Picard crazy.
I think they could either retool Section 31 to feature Pike and crew as recurring characters or just do a limited mini-series, maybe end it with Pike giving command of the Enterprise to Kirk.
At this point in time S31 wasn't that secret yet, more like the CIA or such. I imagine only after the events that happened with Control they go underground eventually.
Not true at all. Enterprise showed us they a secret organisation already. And DS9 showed they always were.
The STD version is just terribly implemented. But of course these are the writers who think "Never mention the Spore drive that thousands saw in action or that super famous mutineer Michael Burnham ever again" will keep them secret.
In Enterprise it wasn't Section 31 yet as Section 31 refers to the section of the Starfleet Charter that allows it to exist and Starfleet wasn't around yet.
Starfleet existed before the Federation and during STE.
Starfleet existed before the Federation. It was the Earth-based Space exploration which was incorporated into the Federation Starfleet.
See: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starfleet
Kurtzman and McNamara ( All Access Executive VP) touched on Section 31 in a recent interview. Show is still definitely in development.
Probably should have written a way to keep the non-hitler version of the character but here we are.
I do have to ask what do some people really want because I don't think they themselves really know. Do they want a Pike show ala TOS or what they actually want is just really more of Pike? The two are different things I feel. You can easily get the second in a Section 31 show as suggest earlier. Or Short Treks. I've even felt that myself. You can have Pike and the Enterprise getting in Section 31's way either on purpose or by accident. You can have them re-accruing and not being the focus or trying to copy TOS or doubling up on the same type of show when you have Discovery already. You get more Pike while still getting a show that is offering something new. The former is basically getting TOS or another Discovery but with just Pike in the chair. More of the same. I think people that wish for this might be under the mistaken idea that this is how they get their episodic Trek back. I remember how hard some people went for episode 2 of season 2 and how disappointed they were when the rest of the season wasn't structured like that. Even as we were getting toward the end of the season I remember seeing some people still desiring more episodes like that one.
I also feel that there is a section of people in the desire a Pike show group that simply want a show that doesn't star a woman and/or a person of color. Those people started to hyper focus on Pike the moment he showed up. Using him as their "positive" while they continued to bash the show the same way they did season 1. It's that reason I've been skeptical of a lot (not all) of the "We want a Pike show" calls. The way this section of the fandom have acted in recent years they've tainted a lot of things and caused me to look for the hidden motive. It sucks that there does happen to be one many of times.
I do get there is a strong desire for it or just more of Pike from some people. However I'm wary others have decided to co-opt that simply to try and push the idea that Discovery was a mistake and not what "fans" want.
I also feel that there is a section of people in the desire a Pike show group that simply want a show that doesn't star a woman and/or a person of color. Those people started to hyper focus on Pike the moment he showed up. Using him as their "positive" while they continued to bash the show the same way they did season 1. It's that reason I've been skeptical of a lot (not all) of the "We want a Pike show" calls. The way this section of the fandom have acted in recent years they've tainted a lot of things and caused me to look for the hidden motive. It sucks that there does happen to be one many of times.
I do get there is a strong desire for it or just more of Pike from some people. However I'm wary others have decided to co-opt that simply to try and push the idea that Discovery was a mistake and not what "fans" want.
I'm down for more Pike and crew in any shape they bring it, I think as part of Section 31 would probably be the best, having him interact with Yeoh would be amazing.
Uh why wouldn't she be?
For what it's worth, Mount has stated that he would like an episodic Trek. I just think it would be nice to have a show with a ship that sought out new life and new civilizations again. There should be a throughline of Pike's experience with the time crystal and Vina.
my first thought when they announced the whole thing with Yeoh.
Michelle Yeoh's character.
Edit: I read Michael as Michelle, whoops.
Based on that Kurtzmann quote saying the Section 31 show could be Georgiou's Unforgiven, I kind of wonder if maybe the show will be set some years away from the events of Discovery's second season. That said, I've never actually watched Unforgiven so there's probably some other nuance I'm missing.
Well Georgiou is still stuck in the future in Discovery so maybe she gets back to a different time than when she left.
Oh duh, I forgot about that bit. Okay, rephrase: set many years later from Georgiou's perspective, i.e. a decade later in her life or something.
Or maybe she starts Section 31 in the future....
Also my friend showed me this site...has some really crazy stuff lol
https://forgottentrek.com/
Also my friend showed me this site...has some really crazy stuff lol
https://forgottentrek.com/
Images from this week's Short Treks
Currently watching Project Daedalus on the season 2 blu ray. Such a great episode forever tainted by someone (probably in this thread) asking "why didn't they shoot the mines?"