Star Trek series coming in 2017

[JasonPratt]

I'm trying to imagine any point to that, and failing.

(...I mean any point aside from a desperate cash grab.)

Meanwhile, hey, what about that new Season 2 trailer which looks like Star Trek (tm) is now trying to be more like the Orville, a fun affectionate parody of Star Trek which, being affectionate, ended up being a lot more like Star Trek than the current official Star Trek?

Insert the 'inception' bwahm here...

[bbmike]

Star Trek, still dead since June 2, 1999.

[Staggerwing]

I've heard that the Picard series will not be Starfleet-centric.

[JasonPratt]

I've heard that the Picard series will not be Starfleet-centric.

...I understand what those words mean separately, but when they're put together like that I can't make sense of them. So it's Picard in retirement on the grape farm, and then he gets into adventures solving mysteries and family problems?

[mirth]

I've heard that the Picard series will not be Starfleet-centric.

...I understand what those words mean separately, but when they're put together like that I can't make sense of them. So it's Picard in retirement on the grape farm, and then he gets into adventures solving mysteries and family problems?

I heard he's going to be living in a Fla retirement community with four women.

[Sir Slash]

"Make it So Number One"!

[OJsDad]

I've heard that the Picard series will not be Starfleet-centric.

...I understand what those words mean separately, but when they're put together like that I can't make sense of them. So it's Picard in retirement on the grape farm, and then he gets into adventures solving mysteries and family problems?

I heard he's going to be living in a Fla retirement community with four women.

Is one Betty White.

[mirth]

I've heard that the Picard series will not be Starfleet-centric.

...I understand what those words mean separately, but when they're put together like that I can't make sense of them. So it's Picard in retirement on the grape farm, and then he gets into adventures solving mysteries and family problems?

I heard he's going to be living in a Fla retirement community with four women.

Is one Betty White.

yes

[bbmike]

And is the landlord a Horta named Mr. Roper?

[mirth]

Don't cross the streams

[Sir Slash]

Photon Shuffleboard?

[JasonPratt]

...oh. It's apparently going to be much worse than I (couldn't have) imagined.

Insider gossip the past couple of days suggests that STD will flip over decisively to the Kelvin timeline (i.e. the reboot movies, now also known as the Bad Robot Trekverse), and that the Picard series will be set there, too. Presumably this is meant to solve continuity difficulties by playing in a milieu with some fan appeal already but which has much more flexibility about what can happen. So in Picard's new series, Vulcan and Romulus have both been destroyed, for example.

[mirth]

The Kelvin timeline has fan appeal?

[mirth]

It's hard to decide which franchise is the bigger trainwreck at this point - Star Trek or Star Wars?

[JasonPratt]

The Kelvin timeline has fan appeal?

lol'd!

Well, y'know, relatively. The films make money.