{"id":32079,"date":"2019-07-21T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32079"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:52:34","slug":"two-new-star-trek-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32079","title":{"rendered":"Two New Star Trek Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, two new <em>Star Trek<\/em> trailers debuted.  While I&#8217;ve worked in the comics industry for over twelve years, I&#8217;ve not had the pleasure &#8212; or misfortune &#8212; of attending San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up, the trailer for <em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em>, the CBS All Access series about Jean-Luc Picard, with Sir Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role, some set twenty years after the events of <em>Star Trek: Nemesis<\/em> (which, imho, is not as bad as its reputation) after Picard retires from Starfleet to the family vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sir Patrick Stewart Returns In Star Trek: Picard | SDCC Trailer| Paramount+\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbXy0f0aCN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have been happy with a series about Picard the vintner, running the vineyard, hosting wine tastings and weddings, entering Chateau Picard into competitions, getting into a rivalry with another nearby vintner played by Sir Ian McKellen, dealing with a vindictive critic, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, that&#8217;s not what <em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em> is about.  There&#8217;s a mystery.  There&#8217;s lots of people with pointed ears (Vulcan and\/or Romulan).  There&#8217;s a shattered Borg cube.  And there&#8217;s Seven of Nine and Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, who is the enigmatic woman seeking out Picard, who feels that she can trust him implicitly?  I&#8217;m entertaining two possibilities, one ridonculous, one slightly more plausible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plausible one &#8212; she&#8217;s the daughter of Picard&#8217;s clone Shinzon from <em>Star Trek: Nemesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ridonculous one &#8212; she&#8217;s the genetic daughter of Picard and the Borg Queen, created for reasons unknown after Picard was assimilated into the Borg Collective as Locutus.  I always liked the idea from Activision&#8217;s <em>Star Trek: Armada<\/em> computer games that the Borg cloned Picard and force-aged the clone and gave him Picard&#8217;s memories to create a second Locutus.  Giving Picard a cloned daughter is along those lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second trailer is for six more episodes of <em>Star Trek: Short Trips<\/em>, little one-off shorts set at various times and places in the <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Trek: Short Treks | Comic Con Trailer (SDCC 2019)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7J0XR8Xbl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anson Mount and Ethan Peck were guests at Shore Leave last weekend, following their turn in the second season of <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> as Christopher Pike and Spock, respectively.  It struck me as interesting that Mount still had a Pike-styled haircut, seven months after the second season of <em>Discovery<\/em> wrapped filming, and I mentioned this to several friends.  As we can see from the trailer, Mount had the Pike style because he&#8217;s reprised the role, at least in some capacity, for the new season of <em>Short Trips<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if David Gerrold had any involvement in the tribbles episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These look exciting.  Sadly, while I&#8217;m interested in these, as of right now I won&#8217;t be watching them, for the simple reason that I can&#8217;t afford to do so.  It&#8217;s not the cost of CBS All Access membership. it&#8217;s that high-speed internet is outside of my budget.  Perhaps if there are pay raises at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamondcomics.com\/\">work<\/a> this year, which I am not expecting, I might be able to afford the ability to stream <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironic, isn&#8217;t it?  I write about pop culture every day for work and can&#8217;t afford to experience any of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, well.  One can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, two new Star Trek trailers debuted. While I&#8217;ve worked in the comics industry for over twelve years, I&#8217;ve not had the pleasure &#8212; or misfortune &#8212; of attending San Diego. First up, the trailer for Star Trek: Picard, the CBS All Access series about Jean-Luc Picard, with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32079\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Two New Star Trek Trailers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4800,4801,4691,4089,4802,4799],"class_list":["post-32079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-anson-mount","tag-ethan-peck","tag-patrick-stewart","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-nemesis","tag-star-trek-short-trips","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}