Good summary of my expectations, but let’s give it a fair chance first.
Even if it’s the best Trek ever made, the reaction to the poster will stand.
Is this just 90210 in space?
There’s a significant lack of excitement for “90210 in space” in this thread, so I’m gonna try to defend the idea.
It sounds kind of fun, to me. I liked NuTrek, though. The part of NuTrek I disliked was it’s snap back to status-quo before the end of the first film.
Seeing inexperienced cadets do cool space stuff, I’m down for.
My biggest concern is with the new ownership. The lack of any announced queer rep, SNW’s tepid third season, and even the pointed heteronormative attire in this poster all seem in line with a Trek that’s not going to push for anything progressive.
I agree with you that a Star Trek teen drama has potential though. Star Trek was built to encompass a variety of genres. Most around here seem to have appreciated the Star Trek animated comedy, and I don’t hear much denigrating of Bakula’s West Wing in space proposal, so I don’t see why 90210 in space should be such a punchline.
To be fair, it wouldn’t be the first time a Trek premiere’s promotional image looked like a poorly-done bag of ass evoking the general garbage stylings of the era.
I can’t help but still feel excited for this premier, from this ad. Maybe they knew it didn’t matter how they presented it, haha.
Also, they really underestimated Marina Sirtis’ impact on the series, based on her placement here.
They also overestimated Wesley’s crew commission. By rights he should be wearing one of his hideous Season 1 sweaters.
Please don’t make it a generic US high school drama. There’s already enough US-defaultism in Star Trek.
Also, the image is glossy, it feels like AI generated
I thought it was an AI head swap too…
Are we sure it’s not an AI head swap? It does feel off.
Edit: At best, it feels like they took an AI pass to correct some lighting or something.
There’s no way those actors posed for that image at the same time.
They are real glowy but the Klingon has a near mirror sheen going.
Hopefully more of a community colleges vibe
Hmmm. A recurring cameo role for Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from Community) would buy a great deal of goodwill, from me.
So shiny that it’s uncanny
Yo Wonderbread, how’s that translation coming?
I’m pregnant.
I’m shocked it’s taken this long for someone to post that piece of comedy gold.
Smiling Klingons? He looks like he doesn’t even care about honor!
and a science cadet at that.
Maybe we will finally see some of the supposed non-warrior Kjngons
like Alexander?
That’s Alexander in the promo image!
He doesn’t, he works for Paramount.
As long as the Ellison’s control Star Trek it will never have a return to form. So this will be as bland as SNW S3 was when Fascism is taking hold all over the world. I feel classic Trek would have something to say about that.
I debated coming in here and saying I wasn’t going to watch this due to Paramount and Ellison, but I decided I wouldn’t. But now here I am, saying it.
Make Captain Pike kiss a trans woman damnit. Make a fucken statement! It matters that our media does this.
Paramount: We need to ensure this new show attracts as many people as possible while maintaining a strong identity of Star Trek. How can we hit those points with the Ad campaign?
Marketing: Well our focus groups are saying that a lot of Star Trek fans are still yearning for something closer to the aesthetic of 1990’s Star Trek
Paramount: I zoned out there for a bit but I did hear aesthetic of 1990’s. Make that the core of advertising!
It’s not even the aesthetic we want; it’s the writing style.
It’s not even that, it’s the feeling we had when it was the 90s/00s and the good Star Treks were new…ish
It’s not even that, it’s Avery Brooke’s powerful voice and Patrick Stewart’s piercing eyes as they confront one another for the first time, the briefing room filling with tension as Sisko’s barely contained rage breaks against Picard’s steely reserve, knowing both are just surface defences covering the hidden hurt they reach feel, both victims of the same implacable foe, both denying themselves the comfort of…
We’re all nostalgic for the same things here, right? Yes? No?
It’s really hard to beat Picard. He’s already seen everything
Not sure if this is real or just a piss-take.
Reminds me of this old meme:
I’m really starting to believe.
Shiny happy people holding hands
I’m as fatigued with bad Star Trek as I am with bad Star Wars now.
I’m honestly not excited to hear of any new Star Trek until they have a major change to show runners, or enough people who enjoy classic and 90s Trek come out and say, “oh wait this new one is great”.
It’s not for us anymore, friend. They’ll milk the franchises we love until they’re just a husk, then dump it. Some upstart may revive it, but then it just gets put back into the cycle.
Welcome to pure greed capitalism; fuck you, pay me. Tomorrow is the next asshole’s problem.
Star Trek: High School Polycule…? Is that where we’re going?
I’m so confused
“High school polycule” would mean a never ending source of drama
I mean… that is a frontier where no Trek has gone before!
Unless you count fanfic.
I had a teacher once who had made a kind of guide/map of the Trek slash/fic community, at the time.
It was fascinating and delightful.
Obvious Kirk/Spock is the classic, but apparently the kinky side end of the Trek community is strong, passionate and creative.
wtf did they use AI to generate this poster?
Or it is really bad photo editing/manipulation. That poster looks really bad.
Yeah probably, none of them have extra fingers. But wow did someone screw the targ with this poster.
Given the time period it was made (ie, now) it’s entirely possible there was some artist who was ordered by a manager to use more AI in their work and was forced to edit the output to try to make it look less like shit.
It’s just a lot of HDR processing. You get this when you extend curves to maximize range and then crank the vibrancy and definition sliders to the top.
it looks like AI because the older Stable Diffusion models had flaws that caused them to prioritize vibrancy instead of realism.
You could be right, this does look a lot like the fake HDR pictures that were common in the 2000s
Yeah, and the AI generator was set to '90s
What the fuck am I seeing?
My boy! Look at what they’ve done to you!
