StillPaisleyCat

One our kids is currently putting together a ‘Jaxi’ music box with a Christmas tree on it. Turns out to be a BlueBrixx product.

It’s fine, and encouraging us to get more from them.

Some engineer friends think it’s failure by design to avoid greater risks - much like a fuse burning out.

But why not do it more safely?

In the 32nd century, ‘rocks’ would just be the result of programmable matter ‘bricking’.

Earlier though…

Animated television writers are in another guild, one that signed a new contract over a year ago. Neither the WGA or SAG-ACTRA strikes have impacted them.

I was really impressed by that. Really felt it belonged on a cinematic feature.

We don’t know what be developed or not for the 25th century, but getting a new show developed and greenlit by Paramount is a long haul, and if they don’t like the initial draft pilots, they’ll keep at it.

Starfleet Academy has been in development as a show since at least 2018, with several changes of leadership in the team of creators. The original idea goes back decades to Harve Bennett. It’s finally got through the maze, let’s cheer that.

So, even if the senior executives are open and enthusiastic about an Enterprise G show:

• don’t expect a formal greenlight announcement in less than a year after Picard S3’s finale (which is how long it took for SNW) and then another year to 18 months for production and post;

• don’t assume that there won’t be major reworkings and/or changes in prospective showrunners from initial indications (as there was with Michelle Yeoh’s S31 which also changed showrunners),

Here’s some positive points towards Starfleet Academy

• most fans were super sceptical about both Lower Decks & Prodigy but they are both well loved across generations;

• “reopening the Academy after a hundred years” strongly implies this is in the 32nd century, post Burn, with a cast of largely new characters. Yes, we may see Tilly, some of the Discovery officers or (hopefully) David Cronenberg back as the mysterious Kovich, but that won’t be the principal cast of cadets;

• the EP and coshowrunner Noga Landau was a senior writer with Henry Alfonso Myers on The Magicians. Yes, she took over running Nancy Drew for CBS Studios for the CW, but that was better rated when she did, and better than the usual CW teen targeted shows.

• the other creator, and writer of the greenlit pilot was the head writer of the thriller Absentia (which has good ratings)

• Tawny Newsome is a writer in the writers room.

So new time period, new characters, new team that has done good work for the target demographic. I’m hopeful.

Space-themed media saturation? It’s an entire genre.

It’s not going to be a 24th or 25th century show… but as others have said, perhaps Boothby was a near immortal like Pelia or Guinan.

Both are established and solid Treklit authors.

I find it interesting that Simon & Schuster is back to contracting new tie-in novels within the existing timeline of classic Trek shows.

Answering myself - as I ordered this and now have my own copy.

Titanbooks is being as non-transparent as possible.

— the copy on the back cover says “Includes original fiction by …”

— the publication details on the back of the title page do not mention any of the stories having been previously published in the magazine.

However, the typesetting and layout is exactly that as in the magazine.

One would have to know a particular story from a particular magazine issue to confirm whether it was previously published.

IDIC … there are many of us who are keen to see where she went after she walked back through the Guardian of Forever’s time portal in Discovery S3.

Secret information is shared on a need to to basis, not as background on a visiting officer.

She may absolutely know this.