Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation

Mactan

it's so close. but we know at the heart of it it's the "wtf happened to pike?" show

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Bring back LDs damnit

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Don’t a ton of the episodes deal with life outside the federation, boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before and all that? Hell, DS9 took place on a space station outside the federation…

I think it's a stretch to say that they do. The primary characters are nearly always Starfleet/Federation characters, and the events of the episodes are generally seen through their eyes, even if they are technically outside the Federation. The main exception would be the DS9 Ferengi episodes, but there's really only a handful of those.

Risa was part of the Federation. Unless that was retconned with nu-trek or something…

The only reason Risa came up in the article is because the pitch of the new show is that it's set on a resort planet, and people unfortunately lack imagination and assumed that meant Risa, even though the pitch also said it was set outside the Federation.

This interview confirms that the setting is not, and has never been, Risa.

We'll see how it all pans out. I feel somehow skeptical that the Federation perspective won't worm its way in there somewhere.

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I have to admit I had very low hopes for Lower Decks after that first teaser featuring a drunk Mariner being reckless with a bat'leth. It looked like it was going to be just another "adult cartoon" cash-in like the dozens on Netflix. Very happy that my initial impression was totally wrong.

Lower Decks was an effective Star Trek show as well as an effective comedy. While I also wouldn't trust this idea with just anyone, as long as there are people working on it who understand why Star Trek is important and how the themes are more important than being dismissive, I welcome another comfy optimistic comedy about a better world.

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You mean like SNW which is peppered with regular jokes about the captain's appearance, especially hair? Especially the musical episode where the Klingons aggressively sing and dance "why you only call me / when you got your problems". Took that one pretty far.

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Totally agree.

I'll watch whatever Tawny Newsome does next. Lower Decks earned a ton of goodwill. It was a breath of fresh air.

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Didn't The Orville already cover this anyway? Without screwing with an existing franchise for jokes.

KNova

Love this. I don’t agree with the sentiment that Trek is being overdone - I’d rather have a slate of options and sit through the “bad” than have to wait years to get anything close to good.

Like, I enjoyed parts of Picard, but on the whole, it didn’t work out (maybe given the serial nature of each season, or cramming pretty ambitious ideas into 10 episodes each season). But I’ll take that any day over having to wait a week at a time for a “filler” episode.

Still hoping for a Klingon focused show… would love anything where a federation vessel isn’t the primary setting!

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The Orville was never funny, and it got much better when it stopped trying to be. Star Trek has a pretty good track record with humour. Especially where Newsome is concerned.

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I noped out of that show after the episode where the entire engineering crew spends an hour trying to access the ancient secret data vault that is…some girls iPhone. Trek definitely has better humor as well as poignant and serious topics.

Captain Aggravated

We don’t need a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, thriller, sitcom, etc. spin-off of Star Trek.

Am I remembering this correctly or is this from the Mandela universe I'm originally from...after the reboot of Battlestar Galactica finished, they made a prequel to it which was a soap opera/personal drama set on Capricus or whatever the planet was called? For some reason?

Why am I also reminded of the Geico cave man commercials that some idiot also made a TV show about?

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I think The Orville improves over time - I initially hated both Isaac and Gordon, but they do good things with them later.

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As it’s Tawny Newsome, I’m giving it a chance.

My dream trek show, though, would be a semi-anthology that explores different crews, sort of like if LD:”Wej Duj” was a series. Each crew would have a self-contained 50 minute plot, and then you would have them meet up for a finale (hopefully in two parts) with a meetup of each crew.

The one episode idea I have would be called something like “Cetacean Ops”, featuring a Starfleet vessel commanded and mostly staffed by aquatic (and some amphibious) life forms, except for main engineering. In addition to exploring what the heck whales do in the Federation, we could explore the dynamics of how non-aquatic and aquatic crew interact and try to prevent loneliness.

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I totally agree that I love the variety of options! But I would totally be okay with dealing with filler episodes for a few weeks per season if it meant that a season was 26 episodes long. Just spread the budget for 10 episodes across all 26, and make the VFX less... shiny.

(Of course, I don't actually want actors to be worked to the bone like they were in the 90s...)