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Yes, 'Officer Redshirt' was a rather unlucky chap.
IIRC coming a close second was any character that was a female in a blue shirt that was introduced right near the start of an episode as something like 'our new geology specialist'....they usually met with some kind of unhappy ending too.
Or anyone Kirk fell in love with.
 
Paramount+ has just become a free add-on to Sky Movies, so I will be able to catch up on Strange New Worlds now.
 
Do you register via MySky or via Apps?

I navigated to the Paramount+ app via Sky on my TV and scanned the QR code displayed using my smartphone. This loaded a page where I could enter an email address and password to complete registration.
Watched the first two episodes of Strange New Worlds tonight and enjoyed them immensely!
 
I navigated to the Paramount+ app via Sky on my TV and scanned the QR code displayed using my smartphone. This loaded a page where I could enter an email address and password to complete registration.
Nice that they keep it simple then.
 
I was going to sign up to the free trial of Paramount Plus in the UK but changed my mind. Why? Because apparently the newly remastered Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is unavailable on the UK service.

This makes no sense whatsoever to me. I've no idea what P+ are playing at.

Ah well, their loss. I'll buy the 4K or Blu-ray version when released on disc in September.
 
I navigated to the Paramount+ app via Sky on my TV and scanned the QR code displayed using my smartphone. This loaded a page where I could enter an email address and password to complete registration.
Watched the first two episodes of Strange New Worlds tonight and enjoyed them immensely!

Nice third episode of STSNW - Ghosts of Illyria with, as the name suggests, quite a spooky vibe. It also had the gloriously retro plot device beloved of TOS in which Spock and the Captain are stranded on a planet, while the Enterprise faces an existential threat. Nice revelation at the end too - which is sure to come back and bite in later episodes.
Only two more days to wait for episode 4!
 
Really enjoying STSNW on P+ though trying not to think too much where it's supposed to fit in with other parts of the ST universe (Halo's not bad either).
 
Really enjoying STSNW on P+ though trying not to think too much where it's supposed to fit in with other parts of the ST universe (Halo's not bad either).

Wonder if they're working their way towards incorporating the plots from TOS episodes The Cage and The Menagerie, as the handover between Pike and Kirk?
Pike has already "seen" his own demise, so we kinda know what's going to happen. Unless of course the writers intend to break the ST canon entirely by rewriting the denouement.
On the whole, I found the characterisation in SNW pretty good so far - this version of Uhura seems more credible than the one in the reboot movies and the young Christine Chapel is excellent (if physically perhaps a tad too reminiscent of Debbie Harry).

Yesterday's episode of SNW - Memento Mori was classic old-school Star Trek.
The Enterprise crew faces an existential threat from a mysterious and belligerent enemy and has no way of fighting back - until they do.
 
Just signed up to Paramount+ so will be doing some catch up in the next few days.
 
For those watching Paramount Plus in the UK, has the newly remastered Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition been uploaded yet, or do they still only have the theatrical version?
 
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition
Have they excised any very slow, long, drawn out sequences, involving characters staring out the windows at space dock / nebulous gas clouds / the stored things within the 'VEGA' area, and any bits of dialogue that go nowhere and serve no purpose with no exposition of any sort??
If so, the whole film would have been condensed down into about 20 minutes of actual story.
 
The pacing has been improved, yes. It's worth pointing out that the original theatrical cut was severely rushed, I've read that edits to the film were still taking place perhaps even the day before it arrived in cinemas. The director Robert Wise was begging Paramount for more time but they thought it would make them look bad (or some nonsense like that) so they refused. Not only was the pacing 'off' but some special f/x weren't completed.

FYI, the director's edition was originally created in 2001 with Robert Wise overseeing it. However, that was only done in standard definition, while this new remaster is in 4K. So not only does it have the correct pacing but the special f/x shots are complete and generally it apparently looks and sounds excellent. I've not seen the new remaster yet, only some clips, but would love to see it on P+ prior to buying it on Blu-ray or 4K in September.

I have though seen the director's edition in standard def and even though it's still a 'slow' film (not a bad thing in this case as far as I'm concerned) it's not as sluggish and uneven as the original theatrical cut.
 
Really it could be condensed down to just these scenes.
Initial shots of VEGA advancing through space destroying stuff.
Enterprise travelling to intercept.
Enterprise engaging with VEGA.
Spock launching himself to 'recon' within the VEGA area.
Enterprise moving further towards the centre to meet with VEGA as 'the creator'.
The denouement in which VEGA is revealed to be 'Voyager' after having encountered a distant alien species.
Some flashing lights and SFX.
Kirk and McCoy laughing while Spock looks puzzled.
The end.

*** Sorry - of course I mean "V'ger" not VEGA. Ignore me being obviously incorrect like an idiot.
 
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Well it would be if I had anything to do with it!
C'mon, pass me the scissors and the original footage.

SFX <sounds of sawing, hammering, some power tools, and more sawing, interspersed with various 'thuds' of large heavy wooden items falling to the floor>

There you are - 17 and a half minutes of decent film left.

Right, what's next?
Pass me that copy of '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
 
I'm no advocate of drugs but I was young when 2001 came out and what might be boring bits aren't if you are in a suitable - um - mental state.

I'm rewatching TOS on Horror. Still think it was yonks ahead of its time. Some of the issues raised are still relevant today.
 
Really it could be condensed down to just these scenes.
Initial shots of VEGA advancing through space destroying stuff.
Enterprise travelling to intercept.
Enterprise engaging with VEGA.
Spock launching himself to 'recon' within the VEGA area.
Enterprise moving further towards the centre to meet with VEGA as 'the creator'.
The denouement in which VEGA is revealed to be 'Voyager' after having encountered a distant alien species.
Some flashing lights and SFX.
Kirk and McCoy laughing while Spock looks puzzled.
The end.
VEGA? Wasn't it called 'V'ger' in TOS?
 
OMG! Strange New Worlds episode 9. A pitch-perfect homage to Alien/Aliens and Predator. Genuinely tense even though many of the cast are protected by canon armour. Red Shirts, horror, emotion, it has it all. Stellar cast just made it a joy to watch.

A fantastic development of the Gorn, fleshing them out and explaining why they are so feared


Last episode of the season next week. 10 episodes of this show just isn‘t enough. Finally the Trek we have been asking for.
 
I really want to see ST:SNW.
Hopefully it'll appear on one of the many channels I already pay out for on separate various subscriptions, at some point.
 
I really want to see ST:SNW.
Hopefully it'll appear on one of the many channels I already pay out for on separate various subscriptions, at some point.

I wouldn't hold your breath. I'd be prepared to head to the high seas. Yaaarrr!
 
The lost episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. which never aired in 1967.
When film for 'Patterns of Force' was thought to be lost in a fire, producers had to hastily film a replacement - this is it.
Now being shown for the first time to coincide with the new series, "Strange New Worlds".
 
I am watching SNW based entirely on the recommendation of those who have posted here. Definitely better than the two recent attempts - at least we're back to an episodic story that is centered on being in Starfleet. Unfortunate lack of standout acting, Pike is a little over the top; the inevitable character who has been grossly changed from the original to hit some sort of 21st century interests in Nurse Chapel, not that she was that great a character in the original. Still too much interest in the crew's two-dimensional emotional issues. Anyone behaving on the job like anyone in Discovery would never make it past the pysch evaluation to join Starfleet. SNW has toned that down a good deal. It's a pity about the gorns, they were one of my favorite aliens. I'm confused about the Chief Engineer. He looks Andorian, but I think they say he's something else? Oh and the opening sequence is just terrible. Looks like an animated cartoon (well I guess it is one, really) and the score is a total muddy mash.
Looking forward with caution to season 2 and hoping that the producers maintain their self-control. Speaking of which, is this the program about which someone remarked that there are an infinite number of producers. What in the name of pete are all those people doing?
 
The Chief Engineer is Anear. They appeared in Enterprise. They are from Andoria but even the Andorians didn't think they existed (a bit like finding Bigfoot now I suppose). The y first appeared in a 3 episode arc (In Series 4) starting with 'Babel' if you want to look them up. I enjoyed the last series of Enterprise though I may be in the minority there.
 
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