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Captain Tuvok

In the third season of Star Trek Picard, we see Tuvok is now holding the rank of captain and wearing a red uniform. However, holding that rank and wearing the red uniform does not necessarily mean that he is the commanding officer of a ship or a starbase. So my question is, what position do you think that he held at that time in Starfleet?

u/NoBrain6114 — 3 hours ago
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[Interview] How Kirsten Beyer was hired as a writer for Discovery season 1: "I think a lot of it, honestly, has to do with the fact that I'm a woman. Who knows Star Trek inside and out. Gretchen Berg was the only other woman in the room. And she knew nothing about ST. Only N.Meyer & Joe Menosky did"

KIRSTEN BEYER:

"And Joe [Menosky] was a trip. I love that man so much. And his episodes have always been among my most favorite of all Star Trek episodes. And we would be sitting there and talking about an idea or whatever and he'd be like, "Hey, you know what could happen?" and he'd throw it out there and I'd be like, "Yeah, you did that in season 4, episode whatever of The Next Generation." He's like, "I did?" I'm like, "Do you ever watch your own shows?" - "What are you f'n talking about?" - "Yes, you did."

So, here's what I realized very very quickly. I knew everything there's to know about Star Trek. And if I didn't know it, I knew where to go find it very, very quickly. Like, by that I mean, I had written a million plus words of Star Trek at that point. Like I know what color the phasers are, like you know just ... this is all just living rent free in my head.

Very few, very few of the people in that room, nobody in that room, I don't think even Brian [Fuller] - although Brian was probably the closest - knew Star Trek the way I knew it. But the thing is I also know something else about Star Trek that is very difficult to quantify which is the:

"how do you make an idea a Star Trek story, what is the Star Trek version of that thing."

What is the feeling that this is supposed to evoke in the person who's experiencing the story and it is a very specific Star Trek thing and I know it. It's like pornography. I know it when I see it, right?

But I also was very clear that I didn't know jack sh*t about how television was made. [...] And my feeling was, well, I could be upset about this and I could be frustrated about this and I could like force myself to be like - or I could close my mouth and open my ears and f'n learn. And that's what I did. [...]

10 years later, I'm the only person who was there at the beginning that's still here. So, you know, I'm doing something right."

Source:

SyFy Sistas Inc. on YouTube

Soul of the Story S3 Ep.1 | Inside the Creative World of Kirsten Beyer

Host: Derek Tyler Attico

Link:

https://youtu.be/HnDFMfCZ9xE?si=NLTujwBcaYbq_neg

Time-stamp:

37:30 min

u/mcm8279 — 23 hours ago
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GFR: "The Man Who Saved Star Trek Hated The Episode That Got Him Hired: Michael Piller might not have been the biggest fan of “Evolution,” but this opinion was not shared by TNG producer Rick Berman. Piller’s script (complete with a baseball speech that impressed Berman) helped him land the job"

Giant Freakin Robot:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/star-trek-writer-hated-episode.html

By Chris Snellgrove

>"His primary concern (one shared by Michael Wagner, who helped develop the overall story) was that “I didn’t have an ending for it.” While there were “some character scenes” he was “very proud of,” he ultimately worried that the episode “didn’t quite come off.”

>Interestingly, episode director Winrich Kolbe shared some of Piller’s concerns with “Evolution.” The director enjoyed the plot about a scientist “who tried to push an issue and then suddenly found out there were ramifications he hadn’t thought of, which is the lack of control of the nanites.” He felt that this was “a very serious issue” that “wasn’t dealt with properly” because it was a Wesley-centric episode and “everyone considered it a child’s show, even the writers.”

>That last bit was directed at Piller, who primarily saw the episode as a chance to (ahem) evolve Wesley Crusher’s character. He intended cranky visiting scientist Paul Stubbs to be a cautionary vision of what Wesley could grow up to be if he continued to focus only on his studies. “Evolution” is very successful in that regard, and it’s the perfect episode to show friends who hate Star Trek’s resident teen genius. But Kolbe felt the episode spent too much time on Wesley and not enough on the nanites, who were at the heart of the episode’s moral dilemma: namely, whether to put them down as dangerous pests or acknowledge them as a new (albeit unconventional) form of life. ..."

Link:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/star-trek-writer-hated-episode.html

u/TheSonOfMogh81 — 11 hours ago
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[TNG 3x1 Reviews] AV Club: "In order for an upbeat ending to work, there needs to be more of a sense that it won't work, and that never really happens here. It's never embarrassing, though, and there are enough good ideas thrown out that it's never boring, even if it fails to hit the high notes."

AV CLUB:

"There's conflict in the episode, and some minor suspense about whether or not the main problem will be resolved in time for Stubbs to complete his work, and yet… Well, it's very pleasant. [...] As for Wesley, I like the idea of what they're doing here—I can't imagine him ever getting the full Quiz Kid Donnie Smith treatment, but I appreciate the awareness that being the smartest guy in the room has its downside. Yet, again, there's no follow-through.

[...]

"Evolution" is very passable. It isn't great. While none of its plots are terrible (only the Beverly story comes close, as her conversation with the captain is kind of ridiculous), there's no risk. The characters are all where they need to be, my favorite doctor is back, and the show feels like it's ready to take that next step. It knows the way. It just needs a little push."

Grade: B

Zack Handlen (AV Club)

Full review:

https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-evolution-the-ensign-1798165573

u/mcm8279 — 11 hours ago
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