Not having a new plot development right up until that final episode which suddenly wraps everything up would probably help. Nearly every marvel series Disney out is guilty of this.
Love to see success stories like this, hopefully this’ll kick things into motion for SAG-AFTRA’s success
One thing I noticed is no one from Paramount was mentioned to be at the negotiations starting on the 20th even though they’re in AMPTP, wonder why (then again a lot of other people in AMPTP wern’t there but they’re still pretty big so idk)
Starting on September 20, after a studio fumbled restart in August, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger finally sat down directly with WGA chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman, as well as former guild presidents David Goodman and Chris Keyser and other members of the WGA Negotiating Committee in hopes of a breakthrough.
Yeah, Paramount’s CEO, Bob Bakish, seems to have largely sat the strikes out, only popping up in the news once or twice to say he wanted to see them resolved. It’s interesting.
Just before Picard had its run, Alex Kurtzman was talking up the idea of having one-shots, movies and limited series focused around established (legacy) characters. He argued that the franchise has matured to the point where this was now possible for the next phase.
The Georgiou S31 movie was supposed to be a show, but with Yeoh’s star power, it seems impossible to schedule. So, it’s become the rest case. I hope it’s successful and smooths the way for more.
With Paramount retrenching and Matalas pushing his own Titanprise nepotistic nostalgia tour for an early 25th century show, the window for this seems to have past. Not to mention Paramount’s overall turning away from CBS’ focus on diverse representation.
I think of the originally proposed Section 31 series is a classic case of you snooze, you lose. Too much time was spent hemming and hawing about the series, rather than getting to making it. Resulting in Michelle Yeoh’s well earned popularity, and as an effect, lack of availability. I agree that the success of that movie will affect the immediate future of more Star Trek, made for streaming, movies.
Paramount’s treatment of Star Trek is so many mixed messages. One moment it seems to get just how popular Star Trek is and the potential for new stories and characters . Then, it seems timid, re-casting long time characters rather than bringing new faces to the table. Then, it seems surprised by Star Trek’s popularity, that there are still a lot of Star Trek fans. That’s just my impressions.
" … Matalas pushing his own Titanprise nepotistic nostalgia tour for an early 25th century show," is such a concise and accurate statement, all I can do is agree with it.
I find myself getting frustrated with Paramount+. Paramount has the money losing Paramount+ and the profitable (although not enough to fully offset Paramount+'s losses) Pluto TV. Yet, they seem to see no way to be profitable with streaming. I’m also getting frustrated with Pluto TV. With each change (update?) to Pluto TV, the platform is becoming more problematic to use. Freezing, dropping out of an episode or film in the middle of it, and constantly resizing the screen down from full screen. I’m also not impressed with the recent “sub to Paramount+ and stream Star Trek or else we’ll cancel (whichever show)” messaging. I get that doing this is important. I find the wording to be brutish. If my $6 or $12 a month can make or break Star Trek shows, I think the problem is on the corporate side, not with consumers shouldering responsibility.
The Star Trek franchise’s history has left fans wondering what, if anything, is next before. I’m going with who knows? out of hope, not expectation. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Thanks for posting this. I’m glad that the powers that be continue to use Mr. Horak’s talents in Star Trek. I would like to see a stand-alone Hemmer film, detailing his life before Starfleet, and how he came to join the organization. Is that likely? Who knows. Doesn’t stop me from wishing for it.
I don’t see a reason why any self-respecting editor of an extensive wiki would like to stay on Fandom. It provides no benefits, and they have regularly sabotaged wiki projects.
I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.
Jesus Christ. Okay. Leave some talent for the rest of us, goddamn. It just sounded so identical to Weird Al that I didn’t even consider that it would be Bruce himself. That’s phenomenal.
Also posted 15 years ago and 334 views. I’m slightly annoyed because that was great.
I knew about the singing from the reviews of the Goblin MacBeth, because there’s musical improvisations in that live theatre piece.
Bruce Horak’s family seems to all be creatives.
I recall an interview from 2022 where he talked about being the youngest of 4 very competitive boys, with older brothers who are musicians. I believe his dad was a high school drama teacher(?), and an amateur cartoonist. Mum also in a creative field.
The painting / visual arts career is what caught me off guard actually. Horak said his dad encouraged him to make his own comics as a child to write stories. Here’s a piece on his one man show ‘Assassinating Thompson’
This was why I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo as my go-to search engine a few years ago. My searches tend to be for falling down Internet rabbit holes in search of information on something of interest, not shopping. With Google, it had gotten to the point where searches gave me nothing but web site after web site with the same text copy/pasted, and a lot of Pintrest links. DuckDuckGo gives me a wider variety of web sites when I do a search, without needing to go through hundreds of links to the same text copy/pasted as the result.
To summarize, when you search “sneakers” on Google they sneakily replace your search term with Nike. They get paid by Nike by getting a cut of the ad revenue and then can also sell more product increasing their cut.
This hurts everyone except Google. Advertisers pay more for the click, consumers pay more, Google wins
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