Paywalled for me in Canada.
I find that I am less and less willing to invest enthusiasm in American productions as they don’t get enough commitment from their streamers to make it worth it.
Apple seems to be make two season commitments for most shows, but generally they are following the self-destructive pattern of Syfy. There’s only so many times one can be burned.
As I said, the images were posted on Reddit by someone who loves both Cdramas and Star Trek.
I’ve checked privately with the creator and they asked to watermark the images. They shared the watermarked versions with me by private messaging and agreed to let me post here.
This person is a professional vfx specialist working in television who did this for their own amusement. They have asked me to avoid sharing more detail on who they are which I believe is fair.
If you aren’t aware that there is a certain amount of directed compositing in many CGI engines for vfx and game design, I don’t know what to say.
Using generated render to rough up an idea can be part of the process.
Pursuit of Jade reportedly cost the equivalent of $100 million for 40 episodes and certainly looks like it.
S-tier cdramas are quite well funded now. I just watched the current day 2025 science fiction thriller Mobius on Netflix. It was at the production level of any American or European show.
The creator is a professional vfx artist who was playing, and has included a watermark for that reason.
Yes, AI is part of their toolkit, but these were not just a case of asking a gen AI tool fabricate something.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/40147491
While kdramas having been established in global popularity, cdramas are having a bit of a moment with international audiences.
Pursuit of Jade was recently the first to crack mainland China production to crack the Netflix non-English language top ten, and stayed on it for several weeks.
Outside China, cdrama fans seem to intersect with Star Trek fans more than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the willingness to watch massive numbers of episodes to enjoy a series? cdramas typically come in with 40 episode series, and in earlier years some had 60 or 70 episodes.
So, it seems inevitable that Star Trek cdrama fans would want to fancast reboots of classic Star Trek legacy characters with top Chinese Idol drama actors.
u/universalaxototal created these and posted them on cdramafans subreddit today. Shared with permission.
More are in the works for some of the women characters.
From the original post:
• Tan Jianci righteously commanding as Xiang-Luc Picard mic drop 🎤
• Liu Yuning looking so natural in Starfleet uniform. He definitely plays the saxophone […and towers over everyone at 1.91 metres.]
• Hou Minghao as Captain Kirk, absolutely seducing an alien woman on a distant planet while the away team pretends not to notice
Deng Wei as Spock/Data 🖖
• Deng Wei also somehow managing the wearing of a hair accessory on his face (it is the future, luxury brands have collapsed, so the House of Chanel has had to pivot into quantum optics and interface technology)
While kdramas having been established in global popularity, cdramas are having a bit of a moment with international audiences.
Pursuit of Jade was recently the first to crack mainland China production to crack the Netflix non-English language top ten, and stayed on it for several weeks.
Outside China, cdrama fans seem to intersect with Star Trek fans more than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the willingness to watch massive numbers of episodes to enjoy a series? cdramas typically come in with 40 episode series, and in earlier years some had 60 or 70 episodes.
So, it seems inevitable that Star Trek cdrama fans would want to fancast reboots of classic Star Trek legacy characters with top Chinese Idol drama actors.
u/universalaxototal created these and posted them on cdramafans subreddit today. Shared with permission.
More are in the works for some of the women characters.
From the original post:
• Tan Jianci righteously commanding as Xiang-Luc Picard mic drop 🎤
• Liu Yuning looking so natural in Starfleet uniform. He definitely plays the saxophone […and towers over everyone at 1.91 metres.]
• Hou Minghao as Captain Kirk, absolutely seducing an alien woman on a distant planet while the away team pretends not to notice
Deng Wei as Spock/Data 🖖
• Deng Wei also somehow managing the wearing of a hair accessory on his face (it is the future, luxury brands have collapsed, so the House of Chanel has had to pivot into quantum optics and interface technology)
The creator https://mastodon.social/@jean_vincent_thelant is on Mastodon and has agreed that his pieces be shared here.
Got it.
I generally think of the vertical market niche as under 25, not a large slice of the fediverse.
I don’t see though how vertical pagination is much different than social media on phones, which we’re all fairly accustomed to.
I don’t think this is targeted to our age group at all.
The vertical format is grown in anime and Asian dramas as well.
China is starting to be competitive with vertical short dramas specifically produced for the US market.
This is interesting.
The vertical manga/manha/manhua format is where new GenZ audiences can be found.
I’m going to infer that Deadline made a typo, but I copied it verbatim from their listing.
As with other wild populations, the animals’ health, ecological sustainability and whether they are reservoirs of infectious disease would be the paramount concern.
Not sure that the current provincial government has the credibility in evidence-based decision making to be able to sustain any interventions.
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Fantastic to hear. Glad you can join in.
We’ll be watching S1 E3&4 this Saturday, June 20th between 3:00 and 5:00 pm EDT.