Star Trek News and Rumour's

[MadKoifish]

Star Trek: Geezer & Generation Millennial.

US has no real sci-fi channel anymore on cable. Just slop-fy with crappy fantasy shows. Though they have The Expanse atm but heh.

[scifieric]

Interesting developments!

[scifidude79]

Yeah, once they started spelling it wrong, Syfy went to crap. Also, Amazon Prime has The Expanse.

Star Trek: Picard. Yep, brilliant. Though, at least the abbreviation this time will be STP instead of STD.

[Freak]

Star Trek: Picard. Yep, brilliant. Though, at least the abbreviation this time will be STP instead of STD.

I have been told that JJ Abrams is like a snake skin salesman, Kurtzman is an oil treatment salesman.

[scifieric]

LOL!  You guys crack me up!

[Freak]

You know I had nearly had 24 hours to think about it.
From the information we have the title does work.

Following my thinking below on past show titles.

The Next Generation: This show is a contortion of Star Trek of a mixed crew on another ship named Enterprise set years after TOS and films that had come out at the time. So the name works.

Deep space Nine: A show set on the Space Station Deep Space Nine. A simple title but you know what the show is about, the station and the people living on it.

Voyager: the title came with the same reason as DS9, they could not exactly call it Star Trek: Lost in Space.

Enterprise: again this is a show about ship named Enterprise. You also have to remember that for the first two season it did not have Star Trek at the front of the name and calling it The Early Year or Birth of The Federation would not work. (I hoping that foundation of the United Federation of Planets was the endgame for the show if it had run a full seven seasons.)

And finally Discovery: again a show about the Starship Discovery, however after watching two season the title should really been, Star Trek: Michael Burnham.

So with this latest show the information that we know about it being primary about Picard, the title works.
However until we actually see the show we won't know if that is the right name or not.

[Freak]

Found a leaked picture from the shoot of the Star Trek: Picard. It also gives us a look at what the Uniforms of this timeframe will look like.




The Uniform looks just like the early DS9 Jumpsuit with some very minor changes made to it. (A larger collar)
There dose not appear to much other details with the uniform though looking at the Vulcan? in the blue uniform, the ranking pips are now above the com badge.


Some have pointed out that it not the DS9 uniform but the one that was seen in Alex Kurztman Countdown Comic that tired into JJ 09 film.




Personal, I don't see it as has been taken to far away to see the uniform properly.

[scifidude79]

Just from that photo it looks like a cross between the TNG and DS9 uniforms.

[scifieric]

Just from that photo it looks like a cross between the TNG and DS9 uniforms.

That's exactly how I thought of it!

[Freak]

They must have bought back some of the old uniforms and made small changes, as they don't have the budget to make new ones.
Rumour has it that since only Amazon Prime has signed on for the show. The Budget has been cut from $400 Million to less that $200 Million and most of that is going on Sir Patrick Stewarts wages.

[scifidude79]

most of that is going on Sir Patrick Stewarts wages.

It's good to the King.

[scifidude79]

They must have bought back some of the old uniforms and made small changes, as they don't have the budget to make new ones.

I was just thinking about that, and I thought most of that stuff got sold years ago. Remember the "It's a Wrap!" auction? Plus, there have been others.

[scifieric]

That's hysterical!

[MadKoifish]

Looking at how badly fitted they are they likely used a existing pattern from a fabric store and ran off generic sizes. I do not think cbs has any assets left from trek. All the people maintaining the asset history there have all be let go as well as at paramount. Most of the studios now do not retain assets anymore but bin everything. Cheaper to write it off and make the state and gov pay for it.

also 200m is a more realistic price for a show. the earlier quotes were far beyond the most expensive tv shows in history. 40m per ep.

[scifidude79]

It's a Wrap sold most of the existing costumes, models and props. This all happened after the split of CBS and Paramount, which caused more issues than it was worth.

They could very well be fabric store patterns. As for the fit, extras usually get whatever is closest to their size. No doubt, the camera is focusing on Picard and everyone else about is just scenery.