My guess is up the vacuum cleaner 🙂

I'm grateful it isn't going to be legacy characters. There has been a certain fetish for recasting the TOS crew as nauseam, and I'm optimistic that it won't be more of that.

Still, after the Section 31 ~~show~~ TV movie, I'm not too confident that it isn't going to be about a bunch of "lovable" space pirates doing un-Starfleet-like things because that seemed to work for Star Wars and the DCEU...

It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart's career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.

However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It's a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.

And Re-animator, and Castle freak. He has a very good track record in a certain subset of horror movies!

That whole tying up of loose threads sounds dreary. Enough with the Tennant/Piper nostalgia already. Morrison is quite right that all of that is best left for quick quippy commentary while the show just gets on with the next iteration.

I also agree with their point that a full reboot would be throwing 60 years of lore out with the bathwater. What makes Doctor Who special is exactly all that baggage, littered across the universe and in the quantum backrooms of the TARDIS.

I don't think the show needs another past-their-prime, self absorbed showrunner, though. People who recommend Grant Morrison for the position, or J Michael Straczynski for that matter, need to get their heads out of their noughties comic books.

"I said, 'Well, you can cut that in half with no problem at all.'"

Next meeting, the engineering team showed up with 200 half tampons.

Could well be Gooding, the lights in those helmets play tricks with my ability to identify the faces inside. I guess I'm just jonesing for some more Burnham. It would make sense to have a Michael cameo since she more or less told Spock to find someone like her, and here we see Spock reaching out to Kirk.

Also, in the trailer she's lifting up a drone-ish looking gadget with red lights in it. Thought it might be the last red signal from Disco s2.

Hang on, was that Sonequa Martin Green very briefly in a spacesuit there? Watched this on my phone so I'm not sure...

NGL, I preferred SFA s1 over Prodigy s2. Yes it was bumpy, but it was growing into its own (beard). You can't convince me the cancellation was anything but "we're not having a show teaching kids tolerance and that other DEI stuff".

I agree LDS was top notch, haven't watched Scouts so I'll reserve judgement 🙂

"Hey, now you have one more way to watch that show we nipped in the bud for political reasons! Aren't you excited for the next (also, last) season, coming on this platform next year?!"

Sorry, had to get that out.

This sent me down a rabbit hole, and I'll freely admit I only went as far down as I could still see the entrance behind me, because man, that is a rickety warren.

IRL there would be mind boggling complexities of calculating an objective system for marking time, when you have starships zipping about at faster than light speed. The subjective time of those crews would diverge from standard observed time, and between ships traveling in different directions, at different warp speeds, and for varying stretches of (subjective?) time.

The above is my dumbed-down understanding of time dilation. But the real real life explanation is that Gene Roddenberry and writer Samuel Peeples got tipsy and drew up their own galactic map with travel itineraries (presumably on napkins and backs of coasters 🙂):

"For the starship captain's log entry narrations, Roddenberry wanted to devise a futuristic measurement of time reference. He called (Sam) Peeples (whom Roddenberry had contacted early on for help in learning about science fiction, a subject he knew nothing about; it was Peeples who wrote "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the pilot that sold ST). The two men had a few drinks while brainstorming, and soon began chuckling over their imaginative 'stardate' computations. 'We tried to set up a system that would be unidentified unless you knew how we did it,' Peeples says."

"They marked off sections on a pictorial depiction of the known universe and extrapolated how much earth time would elapse when traveling between given points, taking into account that the Enterprise's warp engines would be violating Einstein's theory that nothing could exceed the speed of light. They concluded that the 'time continuum' would therefore vary from place to place, and that earth time may actually be lost in travel. 'So the stardate on Earth would be one thing, but the stardate on Alpha Centauri would be different,' Peeples says. 'We thought this was hilarious, because everyone would say, "How come this date is before that date when this show is after that show?" The answer was because you were in a different sector of the universe.'"

— Joel Engel, Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, cited in the Memory Alpha entry for "Stardate".

Yeah, the thing to watch now is the BBC opportunities page where their public tenders are announced. Until production of future Doctor Who seasons show up there, interested parties can't even pitch or submit a preliminary budget. And only then do we have a ballpark idea of the timeframe — assuming it goes like a recent tender for the hospital drama Casualty.

I believe it's a projection from the latter that has given the guesstimate that Who could be back on screen in 2028 at the earliest? I'm not sure that production will be quite as fast considering the amount of visual effects required for Doctor Who, but I'm optimistic 🙂