Oh man, was there a four month gap between the christmas special and this? And people moan about "Space babies" being a poor season opener...
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Looking forward to it. The Chinese scifi I've watched hasn't been great, but I'm hoping this will serve as the gateway I need to start the original language Three body problem series... No pressure!
The script where Alexander interns behind the counter for a week just writes itself.
WORF: [exasperated sigh]
If a bit squirmy.
Hm, interesting. I'm a bit wary of science fiction's ability to grapple with "AI" while techbros crowbar their glorified Tamagotchi into anything with a chipset — promoting the products with allusions to scifi that the eager marketers clearly haven't understood.
But I'll give this a watch on your suggestion that it has Star Trek elements, or vibes 🙂 As long as it isn't "The measure of a man" with Grok in the defendant's seat...
Testing... Testing...
Whew, it wasn't my time to be hit with the ban hammer! 🥳
Call me an epicurean, but
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Well, only if you have occasion to send it somewhere exciting. Like an intercontinental package, a mesaage in a bottle or something.
Oh, I really enjoyed Llewellyn, too! I think it's sometimes overlooked that these early revival seasons had excellent casting for minor roles as well. This actor just sells his excited, flustered engineer immediately, you are genuinely happy for him and his Mars probe making it (and then clearly not making it after all) 😄
Where did he get the blood? Probably from a colleague, maybe even Sally. Scientists aren't too bothered about proper procedures sometimes. Carl Sagan's wife did most of the artwork for the Pioneer plaques, just some convenient nepotism to get it done on time.
Edited to add:
Harriet Jones, prime minister
Yes, we know who she is.
Somehow, the news that Looney Labs are reprinting Star Trek Fluxx made me unreasonably happy. And honestly, Lower decks is a perfect fit for the game.
They probably could, technically speaking. The "audio clip show" episode they did on Prodigy felt a little graverobber-y, though. I loved seeing Spock and Odo again, even in animated form, but I thought the archival restrictions on the dialogue emphasised that.
On the other hand, I would spit bile at any attempt to "reanimate" (ie, deepfake) late actors on the show. It was creepy when Star wars did it with Peter Cushing, and it's the same now, with "genAI".
One exception IMO might be Majel Barrett. As I understand it, she consented before her passing to having her voice and speech patterns digitised for such a purpose. Somehow, it would be fitting for her to always be the voice of Trek computers ❤️
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it's ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston's season to our current mess. I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
To summarise, the last couple of seasons had a convoluted arc concerning a companion's parent issues. She was saved as a baby through time travel intervention, but not without a lot of temporal disturbance in the process. In fact, babies have been a throughline in both Ncuti Gatwa's seasons, a pattern that culminates in the Doctor rupturing the Time Vortex in order to save one child's existence. For just a probable moment there, that child is his own. Succeeding in his mission, the Doctor is then replaced by somebody looking suspiciously like Rose Tyler.
- Church.
- Baby.
- Rose.
- Temporal paradox.
- On what could be considered the Doctor's Father's Day.
Bring on the Time Reapers to sterilise the wound in time! That's why the Doctor regenerated into this face, à la 12 looking like Caecilius from "The fires of Pompeii". She needs to channel Rose as a catalyst to heal the reset 15 did to save Poppy. Besides, where Pete sacrificed himself to sort the timestream out, this time around the Reapers are attacking the Doctor and their police box. And the Doctor's current face has a very special relation to the TARDIS' living heart.
To be fair, the rest of the story doesn't really matter, this is only meant to resolve the Billie Piper twist of "The reality war". It doesn't fix fan quibbles over the Timeless Child or the Doctor being half human on their mother's side for a hot minute in 1996. Pretty much everything other than that latest regeneration cliffhanger can be ignored or picked up upon by future writers. So end this minisode on a regeneration without showing what happens next, or just leave it open ended.
Now, would I love for Susan to pop up for no other reason than to ease her "grandfather" into the credits crawl, and a future season where neither actress are seen again? Maybe an exchange to echo the Seventh's exit monologue to Ace at the end of "Survival"? Absolutely, but this could well be a one hander between Piper, some 2005 archive footage, and the janky old low-poly CGI monsters from back then.
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I dunno, it's almost too neat and tasteful, isn't it? I checked out Matt Ferguson's other anniversary posters, and they have a lot more going on visually.
Sure, this movie's tone is very different, but still.