Star Trek's legacy expands...

At this point I've begun to see the current era of the franchise as something I'm very likely just going to catch up with later, the way I piled through all the episodes and movies previously.  It just began to seem, everyone currently interested in all this new material is already watching it and having their thoughts, and obviously that was never really this blog, which functions as an archive, reference material, very often with thoughts that are very unique to it, and so for any number of reasons it just makes sense to sit back, as I have been, comment in the moment when it seems really necessary (such as Strange New Worlds' magnificent "Tomorrow and Tomorrow ands Tomorrow," which demanded immediate recognition as what I think is an indisputable all-time mark, and maybe help others to see it that way, too).  The other part is that I wrote up the bulk of this when I was heavily blogging across over a whole series of blogs, and so working here was part of keeping all those balls juggling in the air, and I slowed down considerably in recent years, and keeping up with new Star Trek fell into that, too.

But I've been watching!

This era of streaming Trek has been a lot of hitting notes fans thought were missing from previous eras.  Discovery, when it leaped into the far future, still made time for this by fleshing out the Breen, at very long last.  Strange New Worlds is doing what no other Trek has really been allowed to do, which is to revisit the original series, at a slant, even bringing back the big names beyond Spock.  Picard was a direct continuation of Next Generation, as well as featuring Voyager's Seven.  Lower Decks often functioned as an old folks home, too, bringing back odd bits of continuity, fleshing out dangling elements like the Orions, even the Pakleds...Like Lower Decks, which tended to linger on Voyager characters about as much as Next Generation, Prodigy was half the Voyager version of Picard, although arguably hit its highest nostalgic mark in its second season by revisiting Wesley Crusher and finally, finally giving fans a glimpse of his adventures as a Traveler.

This is to say, eventually all of that will be reflected here.  All the episodes will be here.  I don't know how long the streaming years will last.  We still have Strange New Worlds, we're very shortly going to have the Section 31 film, Starfleet Academy.  Who knows what else.  It'll be here.  I still love Star Trek, rest assured.  I know how internet fandom of any stripe can randomly just break off.  I still have fantasies of expanding to include The Orville, even Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, which vanished from the internet long before the show even finished, although I remain as big a fan of it as I ever was.  

One year away from sixty years, folks.  Well, maybe by then I'll have either made significant progress toward once again having a truly comprehensive look at all of it, or have made good headway.

Steady as she goes...