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Yeah the merchandising for stuff like this is always odd. They want to drum up sales for it, yet I have rarely seen anything Star Trek related in stores aside from maybe calendars. I've always found it odd when studios whine about merchandise sales when they failed to even get the products into stores in the first place.
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From what I've heard Paramount isn't doing so hot financially, and can't really afford to keep making high budget movies right now. Which means if they want to crank out a new Trek movie they are going to have to make cuts somewhere in the budget. Payroll for casting is one of those high dollar items that can really bog…
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I think the problem is that with Star Trek 2009 they made way more money than any of the previous films. Beyond slipped down to what the older films generally made, but because of the higher cost of making the movie they weren't really able to profit from it. That is why they are trying to cut back on the costs of the…
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One could argue that isolationism would be the next logical interpretation of the Prime Directive. If you don't want to interfere or become involved in the affairs of other cultures you have to stop seeking them out. In the 23rd century the Prime Directive was just a set of guidelines that were ultimately up to the…
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I wonder if they will eventually dust off that idea they had for a "Final Frontier" animated series. Set in an era when the Federation has abandoned exploration, a single Starfleet ship is sent out for the first time in over a century to boldly go where no one has gone before. The concept art I've seen and the synopsis…
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Considering how reliant America is on satellite communications and services it makes sense to want to defend those assets. China has demonstrated its ability to destroy satellites, so it isn't some far flung idea that American satellites would be targeted in the future. If a war broke out between the USA and any modernized…
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The Scimitar's stats make sense if you assume it was optimized to perform stealth alpha strikes. To slip behind enemy lines, find isolated high value targets and obliterate them in a single salvo without ever decloaking. The enemy would never have time to raise shields, get off a distress call, or launch escape pods. ----…
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I think the big concern with the whole multiverse continuity angle is that every production team is going to want their own custom tailored incarnation of the brand. That this will cause the overall continuity to become completely meaningless as you could skip entire shows and not miss anything of significance to the…
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I think the novels say those bombers were off on some relief mission or something, and had only just returned in time for The Last Jedi's evacuation.
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Of course the real drama starts any time somebody tries to do a ST/SW crossover mod. It is amazing how quickly tempers flare when anyone tries to imply that a Star Trek ship might actually be able to outfight a Star Wars ship. As for the fighter craft discussion, they really don't mesh well in the Star Trek universe. The…
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You know, the Tholians really never get taken seriously enough in canon despite being an empire that indulges in inter-dimensional time travel. By all rights the Tholians should be one of the toughest civilizations around, being able to pillage ideas and tech from the future of other parallel realities should give them a…
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Well they do have a comic book going, so that isn't totally accurate. I think we need to make a distinction between Robotech and its Japanese source materials. There is no Japanese Robotech franchise, it is a distinct amalgamated product created by Harmony Gold from three separate shows. Even if the licensing rights to…
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To be fair Harmony Gold did try to create an original second series for Robotech back in the day, but it flopped hard and failed to get a full seasons run like they had hoped. After that the franchise totally stagnated though... Whereas Macross has done pretty well with numerous sequels and spinoffs, which have been…
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Actually BattleTech's game developers wound up settling with Harmony Gold in that recent lawsuit. The previous dismissal was the result of Harmony not having its paperwork in order when it submitted the lawsuit. HG was trying to challenge that ruling, asking the courts to supena the japanese studios for their copies of the…
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@patrickngo is definitely right about studios being incredibly petty towards their staff. Just look at the case of Andrew Garfield who was fired from the Spider-Man films due to skipping a party and the head honcho at Sony taking it as a personal insult. Looking at the entertainment industry in general there definitely…
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Eh, BattleTech got in trouble because they were using the actual designs from Robotech's Japanese source material due to misunderstandings between multiple companies over how exclusive the licensing was. I think I heard that Harmony Gold's rights to the japanese shows that make up Robotech are going to be expiring around…
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@starswordc, sounds like the standard urban versus rural culture divide that permeates our real culture. I really wish that Star Trek would have taken the time to come up with some terminology to describe the home world and colony dynamics. "Core Worlds" is more of a Star Wars concept and it really doesn't fit with the…
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Sisko went on a rant about just this subject to Kira in one of the maquis episodes. If pessimistic dystopian fiction wasn't such a fad right now, it would actually be pretty interesting to deconstruct how something like the Federation would actually function if properly fleshed out.
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Kind of makes a statement about the entertainment industry in general. It seems in recent years that entertainers have gotten pretty self-indulgent and have forgotten the virtues of discretion and restraint. Its always been the irony of Star Trek that some of the most fondly remembered works, the ones that have stood the…
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Starfleets status as a military organization fluctuates depending on whom you ask. Kirk was quite open that he was a soldier and made no excuses or apologies about it. Picard on the other hand was a bit of a propagandist and recited the Federations official line with utter conviction. Sisko clearly viewed himself as a…
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Even David Marcus was concerned about what Starfleet would do with the genesis device once it was finished. It was part of why they were so strict on the test conditions, they didn't trust Starfleet not to make some grand spectacle of its destructive potential. It kind of makes you wonder what his long term game plan was…
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Most Trek civilizations, even the aggressive ones, have little stomach for glassing entire planets. A planet reduced to molten slag isn't particularly useful to anyone. Despite this it has been stated or demonstrated on multiple occasions that most starships can handle the task if needed. The problem is that most writers…
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Well to be fair, the lack of ground vehicles can simply be chalked up to the Federation never needing them until the Dominion War. If you look at Trek history most of their conflicts were all in space with limited marine landing parties. The Dominion changed that dynamic with its massive cloned armies. Once the war was…
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The IMF is a pretty good analog to S31. IMF's whole modus operandi is that if the mission goes wrong or you get caught then the government will deny any knowledge or responsibility. Despite clashing with Star Trek's usual idealism, Section 31 is to useful a plot device to simply throw away. They can be utilized to clean up…
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I've always been bothered by how small the Federations colonies generally are, and how little attention the central government seems to pay to their establishment. I realize that Trek is working on budget, but a planetary colony should honestly be bigger than a single small town. A lot of the other sci-fi I've viewed tends…
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The XCV-330 is based on old original concept art for TOS, and made a small appearance as art on a wall of ships named Enterprise back in The Motion Picture. It has also appeared as a desktop model in ST: Into Darkness. However ever since First Contact it doesn't really fit with the design lineage of Earth ships at all,…
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The Vulcans can be just as imperious and intolerant as the Romulans at times. Enterprise pretty much portrayed the early interactions between Earth and Vulcan as being like how Europeans viewed Native Americans. The enlightened and cultured Vulcans arrived on Earth to find backward savages and took it upon themselves to…
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Yeah it really doesn't make a lick of sense that the ships of the Terran Empire are the same as the Federation. Historical and philosophical differences would have a strong influence on the design of equipment. For example in TNG the production team made a concerted effort to make the ships and props look less threatening…
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That Adeptus Soritas is adorable. ---- Sadly I don't think a Viacom merger is going to fix the internal communication problems between the studios. Those communication problems are why TNG was set in the 24th century instead of the 23rd. They simply didn't trust each other enough to do the movies and a new show set during…
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Eh, Nero and Hobus were just plot devices. If it hadn't been them it would have been some other random contrivance. There is even an argument to be made that all the time travel incidents resulted in the timeline diverging prior to Enterprise (assuming you toss out its final episode). Honestly a fluid shifting timeline…