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  • I actually enjoyed S31 for what it is and am about to rewatch it today with my partner.

    It’s campy, and full of action sequences and fights, but that was to be expected with MU Georgiou.

    It’s relatively rich in plot and characterization when I compare it to the run of current action movies like ‘The Grey Man’ on Netflix.

    And it’s soooo much better than Star Trek V ‘The Final Frontier’.

    How anyone can talk about the movies failing now clearly had rose coloured glasses on while watching:

    • Kirk’s death in ‘Generations’

    • the completely boring, Patrick Stewart indulgent dune buggy sequence in ‘Nemesis’ followed by the offensive rape content with stoic and sarcastic Troi turned into a tearful, dependant mess

    • ‘Into Darkness’

    • the destruction of the Enterprise, ridiculous motorcycle stored on bridge and motorcycle action sequence in ‘Beyond’


  • Not sure ‘cutting them’ is totally accurate.

    The writing team and original creator/showrunner EPs Kim & Lippoldt were joined by a guy who had some showrunner experience. At the time, it sounded more like the Paramount suits weighed in on that as the show stayed in development hell even after an original greenlight.

    But the fact is that when S31 got put on the back burner during the pandemic lockdown, Kim & Lippoldt took an offer from Netflix to take over as showrunners of ‘Sweet Tooth’.

    They have been very successful with that. Paramount would be very fortunate to get them back to run anything.