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    Interesting that the Klingon cadet is in blue. There are ways that political tension around cloaking technology could play into his stories.

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    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.

    1966 TV Guide ad for the original "Star Trek" premiere. Lumpy-faced illustrations of Kirk and Spock flank a drawing of the Enterprise zooming past on a flaming rocket fire trail. The ad contains the text "Welcome aboard the United Space Ship Enterprise. Where it goes, no program has gone before... starring William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk (Earthman). Co-starring Leonard Nimoy as Science Officer Spock (from the planet Vulcan)"

    1987 TV Guide ad for the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Really sloppy airbrushed wet-looking illustrations of the TNG crew with expressions ranging from blank to befuddled are lined up across the page while the Enterprise D zooms past leaving another weird streaming contrail behind it. The text reads, "Tonight, the 24th Century begins with a spectacular two-hour movie."

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      1987 TV Guide ad for the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Really sloppy airbrushed wet-looking illustrations of the TNG crew with expressions ranging from blank to befuddled are lined up across the page while the Enterprise D zooms past leaving another weird streaming contrail behind it. The text reads, "Tonight, the 24th Century begins with a spectacular two-hour movie."

      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.

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    Can’t see the Klingon’s arms, but does Starfleet Academy have an admission requirement that one be improbably swole?

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      For the men? Yes. Women must be slender with nice legs.

      Wait, what if this is an in-universe recruitment ad?

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    I’m hoping it’s a joke.

    Maybe someone said “make a stupid generic teen drama poster and watch people lose their shit.”

    I like all Trek. (To preempt any whatabout responses, here) I consistently downvote and dismiss all “NuTrek” whiners. I don’t even like the term. And don’t even get me started on the “The Orville is the only good/real Trek in the last blah blah blah” MFers. But this has me a little worried. Is Tilly going to be the least annoying part of the show?

    Please be a joke.

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      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.

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    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”.

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      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.

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    All the other parts aside, how on earth did they make this look so shitty? The quality is awful, colors are too saturated, the lighting is clearly fake, and everyone’s skin looks like they slathered Vaseline on themselves.

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    It’s astounding to me that the recipe for a good Star Trek show is just right there for the taking and we continue to get just shit like this.

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      I think it is great when we look at atypical stories within the worlds they build. Not saying this is going to be good - just that the same stories in the same environment over and over does get old.