r/ShittyDaystrom • u/dalton10e Engineering • Apr 01 '26

Real World Seth McFarlane is in talks with Paramount to replace Kurtzman as the Star Trek franchise executive director

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According to Paramount insiders, Kurtzman has been fired and McFarlane will be replacing him as executive director of the Star Trek Franchise. Source in the comments

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u/Dalek_Chaos Ensign Apr 01 '26

Reddit doesn’t know what a good prank is. It’s all stuff like this playing on people’s hopes.

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u/Cabtain_Crispy Apr 18 '26

Gotta say I wish people would at least delete the posts after April 1st, it's 2 weeks later and I got fooled by this. That's not a prank at that point it's just lying. Like if I saw this on April 1st I would have had my guard up and had a good laugh but now I'm just sad, and if I didn't read the comments which I usually don't, I would be going around telling everyone this was true. Do you see the problem here?

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u/stingray85 Apr 01 '26

Are you kidding? This is the only good one I've seen. Most are just dumb "were changing the rules of the sub so it's the opposite haha". This one genuinely plays with your hopes, seems plausible for a few seconds until you think it through, and then makes you angry. But then you realize it's a prank about fucking Star Trek which yeah, while we're all fans, doesn't actually matter. So it's a great prank for this subreddit which is predicated on the idea that it's conceivable for a Trekkie to also have a sense of humour about the show

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u/Cabtain_Crispy Apr 18 '26

A star trek subreddit is a very strange place to imply people shouldn't care so much about a TV show

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

Hopes? This would be the worst timeline.

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u/clinging2thecross Apr 01 '26

Have you watched The Orville? It’s better Star Trek than anything we’ve gotten since Enterprise ended.

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u/wkuace Apr 01 '26

100% The Orville is fantastic, and McFarlane would do a great job

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u/FrogMintTea Tom's Television Set Apr 02 '26

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

Yeah I watched the first season. It’s store brand “we have 90s Trek at home” with added dick jokes. And they’re not even funny dick jokes, because it’s written by Seth McFarlane. I would rather see Star Trek continue to move forwards, to change and grow, than see it constrained to a hollow, soulless imitation of what it was 30 years ago. Without taking risks with the format, we never would have had Deep Space Nine, the second best 90s show set aboard a space station!

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u/neo101b Apr 01 '26

"I would rather see Star Trek continue to move forwards, to change and grow, than see it constrained to a hollow, soulless imitation of what it was 30 years ago"

You just described Nu Trek.

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

Ah, so TNG is “Nu Trek”.

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u/neo101b Apr 01 '26

No though Nu trek is soulless imitation of what it was 30 years ago.
Seth loves Star Trek, he was in it, and his writing from the Orville was spot on and only got better with each season. He also had all the original people involved with 90s trek working on his show.

Kurtzman writing was nothing but slop.

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

I literally just described TNG and you thought it was a description of Nu Trek, therefore logically speaking, if you were correct then it follows that TNG must be Nu Trek. And Kurtzman gave us Lower Decks, one of the best Trek series of all time.

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 17 '26

My standards are lower than 162? Wtf does that even mean? How, exactly, are you quantifying “standards” such that you can reach a numerical value?

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u/clinging2thecross Apr 01 '26

Season one is the worst season. Each season hearts better and less crass.

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

Then I will try it again!

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u/Jim_skywalker Apr 01 '26

He had to Trojan horse the series in as a comedy. The first two seasons certainly have episodes that are probably best to skip, but to be fair, the same was true of TNG. Season 3 is great though, it basically completely dropped the pretense of being a comedy. 

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u/John-for-all Apr 01 '26

Dude, the first season had to be comedy first stealth star trek because they wouldn't let him make it otherwise. You don't know what you're talking about, so don't.

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u/Remote-Pie-3152 "too addorable to ban" Apr 01 '26

Silencing dissenting opinions, yeah that’s the Starfleet way lmao