TrailerWatch: Picard ~ Season 2 Trailer
The trailer for Picard season two dropped last week. Sigh. It features the typical Alex Kurtzman narrative device: mess up what we know on the grandest scale possible because of [REASONS], and deal with the repercussions. Here’s an overview of Kurtzman’s destructive tango through the Star Trek franchise … Star Trek (2009) The Romulan sun spontaneously blows up. Because suns do that, you know? They don’t take millions of years to go. It happens instantaneously. A Romulan ship goes back in time and messes up the timeline. Rather than try save Romulus or convince anybody that the Romulans will need help in about 25 – 30 years, the crew…
A Look Back: Star Trek V – The Final Frontier
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) is widely considered the worst of the six The Original Series (1966 – 1969) movies. A Vulcan visionary, Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), engineers a hostage situation on the planet of galactic peace, Nimbus III – a planet that hosts ambassadors from the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Empire. The Enterprise 1701-A, under the command of James T. Kirk (William Shatner), is sent to neutralise the situation and rescue the hostages. While Kirk’s mission initially seems successful, the hostages turn on Kirk and his crew. They have become fanatical supporters of Sybok, who has the power to explore a person’s pain, and free…