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ValueSubtracted, to quarks in Composer Michael Giacchino to Release Lounge-Style Film Score Covers Album ‘Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen’
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StillPaisleyCat,

Ok. I’m interested in what he’s doing whether for Star Trek or whatever.

This is exactly the kind of Trek-adjacent stuff I love to see here at quarks.

And this is why I’m saddened to see quarks restricted to members of the instance.

I do also see the need for a place to discuss the instance itself among its members but a ‘bar’ exclusive to members of a club isn’t really a fit for me with the name Quark’s - that suggests an interesting place where all sorts of people from 3 quadrants might show up to join in a conversation with the regular.

ValueSubtracted,
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Quark’s has received a stay of execution until summer significant bugs with the private communities can be fixed in a future Lemmy update.

As much as I’d prefer to keep discussion of Quark’s going private restricted to the original thread, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that your concerns have been the most compelling ones expressed so far. I think we’re coming at the community from slightly different angles, but you have been heard!

StillPaisleyCat,

Appreciated!

StillPaisleyCat, to quarks in Skydance Media and National Amusements Inc. Reach New Merger Agreement for Paramount Global

The waiting period for a better offer seems like a deft way to fend off ‘if only’ lawsuits from nonvoting shareholders.

Interesting gamesmanship.

AndorianSoup, to quarks in ‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’
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StillPaisleyCat, to quarks in ‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’

This is great news for Frakes.

He was on the upswing as a director until the debacle of the Thunderbirds movie basically made him unemployable.

Star Trek has enabled him to get back into directing work, and even some acting.

He’s been picking up directing work beyond the franchise over the last few years, but an EP supervising director role for an entire limited series adaptation of a prestige author is definitely a step forward.

ValueSubtracted, to quarks in ‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’
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I’m not familiar with Venus Prime - it’s apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.

Corgana,
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Thank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.

StillPaisleyCat,

‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987.

As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7fd358b7-f45d-4f99-9a66-721ec6ef94cd.jpeg

ValueSubtracted,
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Brannon Braga, eat your heart out!

StillPaisleyCat,

Her hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL

I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status.

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/b6c5af68-74f3-4f1c-bc03-5e261d3f0581.jpeg

StillPaisleyCat, to quarks in Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global

Well, now I know who was the executive on the org chart responsible for all of Viacom and more recently Paramount Global’s stunningly awful corporate strategic communications.

There have been a lot of senior or management changes one tier down since the merger, but perhaps what was really needed was for Baklish and his top VPs to exit.

ValueSubtracted,
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Yeah, it’s hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.

I’ve never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn’t make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.

But as always, there are no true “good guys” at this level.

MajorHavoc, to quarks in Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global

All I can muster to care about is story is the thought that my personal data, collected via their mobile app, might be changing companies on a thumb drive, at the same time.

ValueSubtracted, to quarks in Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global
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At this point, I want whatever’s going to happen to happen already…

MisterD, to quarks in Apollo Global Offers $11 Billion to Buy Paramount Film and TV Studios

Meanwhile, no mention of paramount’s debt in the billions

Fuzzy_Dunlop,

Third paragraph

mPony, to news in The Writers Strike Is Over: WGA Votes to Lift Strike Order After 148 Days

reminder: SAG-AFTRA is still on strike

downpunxx, to news in California Senate Approves Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers
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This is how good government works well, for the people.

End0fLine,
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I’m half expecting some type of “except for these 90% of workers” exemption, but until we hear about something like that, this is great. It hopefully will give employers a second thought when trying the “starve them out” strategy.

downpunxx,
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exactly

Itty53,
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Check it out.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB799

This is a bill to amend the existing laws. The amendment is really just about removing hurdles, period. There really aren't added stipulations about who it applies to. They also took the opportunity to make the wording more inclusive of everyone, dropping him/her, etc.

Proud of my state today.

downpunxx,
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I'm proud of California, almost all the time, and far more than any other state

End0fLine,
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Thank you for this. That is nice to hear. I miss living in California so much. It was nice being in a state that at least pretends to care about its workers.

Aesthesiaphilia,

Filing this away for my next "Democrats are just as bad as Republicans" debate.

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