A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

© 2019 Paramount Home Media Distribution and CBS Studios On Tuesday, November 12, Paramount Home Media Distribution and CBS Studios released Star Trek: Discovery - Season Two on Blu-ray and DVD almost seven months after Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman's series completed its second season on CBS All-Access, CBS Television's streaming service. Set approximately 10 years before the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), Star Trek: Discovery chronicles the voyages of the USS Discovery, a Crossfield- class starship equipped with an experimental propulsion system that's faster than standard warp drives, during the last Klingon-Federation War and its immediate aftermath. Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Michelle Yeoh, Shazad Latif, Wilson Cruz, and Emily Coutts, Star Trek: Discovery expands the lore of Star Trek while paying homage to the existing canon. Although its high-tech 21st Century production design and its sh...

Hello and welcome once again to another installment of Bloggin' On, the "blog within a blog" in which I step out of my usual roles of the online reviewer and political commentator. I'm sorry that I have not been writing as often as I was before late October, but with the 400-posts-for-the-year mark rapidly approaching, I figure that I can slow down a bit now that I've achieved the goal of writing 365 posts in a single calendar year...and exceded it. It's Sunday, November 17 (Already? Wow!) and it's morning here in my corner of Florida. Right now the temperature is 51℉ (10℃) under mostly cloudy skies, and the forecast high will be approximately 65℉ (18℃), and even though no rain is in the forecast, the rest of the day will be mostly cloudy. A cold front (the first strong one of the season) has passed through, and the rest of the week will be cool and definitely fall-like. As for what you can expect to see on A Certain Point of View shortly... Well, ...

On Quora, someone who watches too many YouTube videos by "social media influencers" asks: How do you feel knowing that the Star Trek prime timeline is not canon? This includes Discovery and Kelvin. I feel that individuals who get their knowledge about canonicity in  any  franchise, be it  Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter,  the MCU, the DCEU, or James Bond, from an  opinionated  YouTube video creator need to stop depending on YouTube as a reliable source. The  Star Trek  Prime timeline - a construct made necessary when Paramount Pictures greenlit  Star Trek (2009)  a decade ago - was never de-canonized.  Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Enterprise,  and  Star Trek: Discovery  comprise the Prime  Star Trek  universe as far as CBS, the current owners of the TV franchise, are concerned. I...

©2018 Eaglemoss Ltd. Star Trek marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc.  On September 25, 2018, nearly 50 years after the start of  Star Trek: The Original Series ' third and final season on the NBC television network, Hero Collector published Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293, the first book of a multi-volume encyclopedia dedicated to the various Federation, Klingon, Romulan, and other starships featured in the ever-expanding Star Trek television and movie franchise. Edited by Ben Robinson and written by Robinson, Marcus Reily, and Matt McAllister,  Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293 is a lavishly illustrated 192-page hardcover dedicated to the various Starfleet vessels that have been seen in the various television series and feature films from The Original Series all the way to CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery.  Written as an in-universe reference work,  Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293 i...

(C) 2018 CBS Studios/Paramount Home Media Distribution On November 13, Paramount Home Media Distribution released Star Trek: Discovery - Season One, a four-disc Blu-ray set of the newest television series in the Star Trek franchise. Created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access, Star Trek: Discovery is the seventh television series set in the universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s and the first new show to premiere since the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005. Although it was co-created by Kurtzman, one of the writers of 2009's Star Trek feature film, Star Trek: Discovery is not set in the Kelvin timeline in which the current feature films are set. Rather, the new show's setting is the Prime timeline seen in all the other television series. Like Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery is a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, but its tale takes place a decade before the five-year mission of Capt. James T. Kirk...