The secret is no one really cares about that either. Most of it has been voice actors voluntarily stepping down.

I dont think just about any regular person cares.

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Wow that’s a pretty talented/funny lineup behind the voices

Sounds like an interesting concept. I'll check it out. I hope the art style is similar to the original style and not some unique off putting hybrid.

>Joe Lo Truglio as Barney

I'm sold.

I really hope there is some Boyle Boys' love between Fred and Barney.

Now I've got that Ram Jam song in my head.

I think waiting until the season ends and seeing how people thought about the whole season before subscribing, then paying exactly one month for Paramount+ to watch it is perfectly reasonable.

Discovery and Pickard are original (sophomoric, and pretentious) stories trying to wear a Star Trek skin.

Even more unfortunately, since we know audiences still prize the Star Trek sci-fi motif by looking no further than The Orville. I absolutely detest 99.999% of Seth MacFarlane's humor and The Orville hits far more than enough of the sci-fi / Star Trek notes for me to look past it to love (and strongly recommend) the show.

There are a lot of shows you can justifiably ask, "Why?" This is not one of them.

I hope they take inspiration from the recent Flintstones Comics, which really delved into modern issues as reflected in the weird Paleolithic pastiche of The Flintstones universe. Like Fred's pals Adam and Steve.

Or this infamous panel.

It's a fantastic satire.

I think they’ll change Betty and Bam Bam’s skin tones and it makes sense because I think Bam Bam was adopted in the original canon.

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"BORTLES-BORTLES!"

No. The idea of Star Trek is that humans and society in the 23rd century are a bit more “evolved” than present day. TNG was really big on this. So was Voyager and Enterprise. I loved DS9 for the conflict, but that conflict was always smart and the shipmates (and even adversaries) respected each other. Sisko yelling was just more excellently written dialogue served up at higher intensity!

Star Trek Picard has precious little of that. The way the officers behave and speak in nuTrek could be pulled straight from 2023’s Twitter or TikTok feed. A changeling “pot” weed joke? Shaw’s behavior in the holodeck towards Picard, not fresh after losing Jennifer Sisko and Wolf 359 mind you, but 30 years later and after Picard has shown he wasn’t in control when violated by the borg and saved the Federation multiple times over. And now the founders (changlings) smoke cigarettes and behave oddly as well.

They had Jean Luc himself drop the f-bomb, so eager were they to finally do that. And “remove yourself from the bridge. You just killed us all.” Riker is lucky Picard didn’t shoot him thinking he was a changeling, so cringeworthy and out of character that dialogue was.

Yesterday’s Trek writers had far more talent.

Oh dear heavens it's Jason.

Or they will change Betty and Bam bam

You know I'm kind of interested in the premise. A technological shift from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age? I dunno that sounds like an interesting jump start.

They were 0 years apart.

But the Bronze Age was not 20 years away from the dinosaurs.

That was my first thought too. Like isn’t this supposed to be racist now?

Apparently part of the reason it didn’t pan out was because he couldn’t figure out how to distinguish Fred from Peter Griffin. Not that he wanted them to be similar, he genuinely didn’t seem to know Fred acts nothing like Peter to begin with. That should tell you everything.

Bedrock, more like Bi-Rock.

I have nothing against it personally, but why is it okay for other races to be cast for a white role (disclaimer: I’m not white), but when a white person plays a non-white role (like the Simpsons cast, for example) people are “offended”?

Yes, well I meant rebooting a franchise. I think it’s cool to try a “sequel” and see older versions of these characters.

I’m honestly surprised how long it’s taken for a true to form reboot. This premise looks interesting, but just making a modern take on the original feels like a nobrainer. It’s not like sitcoms ever went out of style.

Were the bronze and stone ages only 20 years apart? 😜