(UPDATED with CBS All Access statement) Star Trek The Comic-Con @ Home panel went digitally to where no one waited for a while today in the virtual confab.
About 15 minutes after the ever-expanding Trekverse’s extensive offering, it all seemed to close on Comic-Con’s YouTube site. Like Sonequa Martin-Green and others from the cast of Star Trek: Discovery they were delivering a reading chart from their season 2 finale ‘Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2’, the prerecorded broadcast suddenly said “video not available.”
The power outage lasted approximately 20 minutes before the dramatic panel and augmented video increased again at 10:35 PM PST. It’s worth noting that the panel doesn’t seem to have such an interruption in playback now online, as you can see from the full panel below:
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“There was an issue with our content protection that unfortunately briefly blocked the video for users who entered the feed after the panel had started,” a CBS All Access spokesperson said Thursday, clarifying the matter. “It was a problem in a matter of minutes and was quickly resolved.”
The issue of copyright was the only obstacle to the successful first big panel of this year’s very different Comic-Con. In addition to providing an overview of the EP Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin and a look back on the most recent season of Discovery and the one directed by Patrick Stewart Star Trek: Picard, the Trekverse virtual meeting also revealed the official title of the next Star Trek: Prodigy Nickelodeon series and a look at the animated animation from August 6 Star Trek: lower decks from CBS All Access.
Leaning on the strong to the established Emigrate Principles of acceptance and inclusion, today’s panel also resumed the multi-year partnership announced between CBS and NAACP on July 15 with thanks and donations to the Civil Rights Organization’s Educational and Legal Defense Fund.
As the United States analyzes its own history and racism in today’s society, the Star Trek the panel addressed issues head-on as well.
“Understanding how valuable life is” PicardMichelle Hurd said on the broadcast in response to a question from a fan who asked what he wished could be taken out of the Star Trek world and in the real?
“Can we all take care of our brothers and sisters?” Hurd added as Stewart and other cast members nodded. “Can we all take the moment to understand that our difference is actually our strengths? It is what makes us a strong species that we have all these different thoughts, these different looks, these different opinions, these different ways of handling ourselves in the world and walking on the street. ”
“I am so grateful to be part of an organization that succeeds: we always talk about Star Trek holding a mirror before society, maybe society needs to look at us and start replicating what we are doing, because we ‘are trying to tell the stories to heal “, the Blind point the alum actor stated.
Said Next Generation alum and Picard Director Jonathan Frakes: “Gene Roddenberry said that in the 23rd century there will be no sexism, no racism, no hunger or greed.”
“Let’s make it happen,” Herd concluded.
“A story like this, which can give us an example of what that future could be like, I hope that it really makes us responsible … and that the work is not finished,” he said. DiscoveryMartin-Green earlier in the mega panel.
“It’s about confronting us, confronting ourselves and really confronting ourselves” Living Dead alum added eloquently. “And we see that in this story within the legacy of this franchise. So that is what will really drive us to face is to face ourselves honestly and face each other and expose ourselves in a way that we have not done before. ”
Star Trek: Discovery Returns later this year and Comic-Con @ Home continues through July 26.
