47 min
Finales, Section 31, and Klingons Priority One: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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This week on Episode 510 of Priority One: Star Trek Voyager could have had a much different endgame; the Section 31 spinoff series is still in the works; and Evil Picard is gunna get you in IDW’s new Mirror Universe series. In Gaming, Star Trek Online wraps its year-long Klingon Civil War saga.
This week’s Community Question is:
CQ: If you could change one thing about the Voyager finale, what would it be?
Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website!
TREK IT OUT
Edited by Jake Morgan
Abandoned ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Finale Ideas Could Have Given the Sendoff It Deserved
By Rosco McQueen
It was a night when the question that had plagued fans over the course of seven years would be answered - will Voyager return home in the series finale?
The feature-length final episode “Endgame” aired 20 years ago on May 23, 2001, and this week the series milestone was celebrated, commemorated and dissected.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke with many of the cast and crew discussing the potential finale ideas that were left mostly in the writers room.
Suggestions included killing off Captain Janeway or Seven of Nine, reverse assimilation of the Borg, and the idea that Endgame could have been a mid-season episode to allow for the crew to explore returning home to the Alpha Quadrant.
Star Trek: Discovery's Shazad Latif talks Section 31 "rumblings"
By Roscoe McQueen
Everyone’s favorite Klingon-turned human-turned Section 31 agent, Ash Tyler, has been in the news this week discussing the Section 31 spinoff, and it turns out details are… few. To the point of… mysterious.
Speaking with Digital Spy this week, actor Shazad Latif talked about the spin-off series currently being up in the air due to actors’ schedules.
"It's just been slight yeses, slight questions, but I've no idea. I think it's down to people's schedules. I spoke to Ethan Peck briefly the other day. He's started the other one [Star Trek: Strange New Worlds], and that's about it."
The only other details we have come from Alex Kurtzman, who was more hype-man than detail guy. Kurtzman said the show is well on it’s way and the writers have put together a great script as well as a Section 31 writers room. All other details are shrouded in a veil of secrecy.
Star Trek: Mirror War Will See Evil Picard Finally Face Justice
By Rosco McQueen
It’s one aspect of the Star Trek franchise that was never delved into in the The Next Generation tv series. The Mirror Universe.
Thankfully the folks at IDW comics have taken the dagger and stabbed with it. Repeatedly. And explored the world in the 2018 series “Mirror Broken”. The series saw a frustrated and aggressive Captain Picard in command of the Stargazer. The crew, including Inquisitor Deanna Troi and a Borg-ified version of Data, worked towards destroying and salvaging Cardassian and Klingon ships for profit and maintaining the borders of the weakened Empire. Eventually Picard’s frustrations and ambitions led the Captain, complete with goatee, to steal command of the Empire’s newest Galaxy-class warship from Captain Jellicoe.
Now the repercussions of the not-so-good Captain’s actions will be explored in “Mirror War”.
In the nine-part series, evil Picard will face the wrath of the Emperor for his crimes. Why is the Emperor angry at Picard? We’ll have to wait and see. The Mirror War will also be complemented by four tie-in one-shots, each of which will follow an evil version of a prominent Next Generation character, beginning with Data.
Quick News Roundup
Now, here are a few headlines that we didn’t discuss but might interest you. Links, of course, will be in our show notes!
In a recent installment of Variety’s Streaming Room, Alex Kurtzman and Sonequa Martin-Green share their insights on Season 3 of Star Trek Disc
This week on Episode 510 of Priority One: Star Trek Voyager could have had a much different endgame; the Section 31 spinoff series is still in the works; and Evil Picard is gunna get you in IDW’s new Mirror Universe series. In Gaming, Star Trek Online wraps its year-long Klingon Civil War saga.
This week’s Community Question is:
CQ: If you could change one thing about the Voyager finale, what would it be?
Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website!
TREK IT OUT
Edited by Jake Morgan
Abandoned ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Finale Ideas Could Have Given the Sendoff It Deserved
By Rosco McQueen
It was a night when the question that had plagued fans over the course of seven years would be answered - will Voyager return home in the series finale?
The feature-length final episode “Endgame” aired 20 years ago on May 23, 2001, and this week the series milestone was celebrated, commemorated and dissected.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke with many of the cast and crew discussing the potential finale ideas that were left mostly in the writers room.
Suggestions included killing off Captain Janeway or Seven of Nine, reverse assimilation of the Borg, and the idea that Endgame could have been a mid-season episode to allow for the crew to explore returning home to the Alpha Quadrant.
Star Trek: Discovery's Shazad Latif talks Section 31 "rumblings"
By Roscoe McQueen
Everyone’s favorite Klingon-turned human-turned Section 31 agent, Ash Tyler, has been in the news this week discussing the Section 31 spinoff, and it turns out details are… few. To the point of… mysterious.
Speaking with Digital Spy this week, actor Shazad Latif talked about the spin-off series currently being up in the air due to actors’ schedules.
"It's just been slight yeses, slight questions, but I've no idea. I think it's down to people's schedules. I spoke to Ethan Peck briefly the other day. He's started the other one [Star Trek: Strange New Worlds], and that's about it."
The only other details we have come from Alex Kurtzman, who was more hype-man than detail guy. Kurtzman said the show is well on it’s way and the writers have put together a great script as well as a Section 31 writers room. All other details are shrouded in a veil of secrecy.
Star Trek: Mirror War Will See Evil Picard Finally Face Justice
By Rosco McQueen
It’s one aspect of the Star Trek franchise that was never delved into in the The Next Generation tv series. The Mirror Universe.
Thankfully the folks at IDW comics have taken the dagger and stabbed with it. Repeatedly. And explored the world in the 2018 series “Mirror Broken”. The series saw a frustrated and aggressive Captain Picard in command of the Stargazer. The crew, including Inquisitor Deanna Troi and a Borg-ified version of Data, worked towards destroying and salvaging Cardassian and Klingon ships for profit and maintaining the borders of the weakened Empire. Eventually Picard’s frustrations and ambitions led the Captain, complete with goatee, to steal command of the Empire’s newest Galaxy-class warship from Captain Jellicoe.
Now the repercussions of the not-so-good Captain’s actions will be explored in “Mirror War”.
In the nine-part series, evil Picard will face the wrath of the Emperor for his crimes. Why is the Emperor angry at Picard? We’ll have to wait and see. The Mirror War will also be complemented by four tie-in one-shots, each of which will follow an evil version of a prominent Next Generation character, beginning with Data.
Quick News Roundup
Now, here are a few headlines that we didn’t discuss but might interest you. Links, of course, will be in our show notes!
In a recent installment of Variety’s Streaming Room, Alex Kurtzman and Sonequa Martin-Green share their insights on Season 3 of Star Trek Disc
47 min