Star Trek: Discovery
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- necromation1
SHIT... i fucking love it any many of my mates! BEST Star Trek series ever... before it was the original show but this new one is that original show on steroid... Space will be fucking brutal and people are broken. It's brillant... All i need now is some unnessary sex and it will be perfect!
- Well, we did get gratuitous Klingon titties ...Continuity
- We've run the gamut of Klingon hotness from Worf's girlfriend to Lursa and Betor and now this mind fucking Discovery Klingon.CyBrainX
- CyBrainX-2
I was loving the season until this plot twist. I always hated the mirror universe. It's a dumb premise. Another universe, only everything is evil? Come on. Lost in Space had an episode like that and I think it came before the original Star Trek episode. They keep going back to it too. The Next Generation was the only series not to do it.
- If there are potentially infinite alternate universe's, how do they manage to always go to the same one?ETM
- Voyager steered clear of the Mirror Universe, too, thankfully.Continuity
- Always loved the mirror universe episodes - now we're getting a whole season of it!SlashPeckham
- You're right. Voyager didn't have one either. This wasn't the same thing but I loved this episode way more. https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX
- Voyager did do this in way. http://memory-alpha.…)tank02
- And TNG had the awesome episode with the Entreprise C.tank02
- I wouldn't call 'Living Witness' a MU episode, at all. Just a bit of funky time travelling. It's one of Voyager's best, though.Continuity
- detritus0
The back to front nature of Earth in the logo is pure comicbilge...
...Brilliant, my phone autocorrected that from 'comicbook'...
...but ST was always a wee bit more cerebral than pure comic. If the earth was back to front as per the logo, all history would be different.
- detritus0
One thing that's always bugged me about crew members dying onboard — surely one of the very first techs that would be installed on a fully computerised ship would be vital sign monitors for crew, so that the instant someone in board comes to harm, it's reported?
- Ha yes or just send fucking drones out to explore and make the tv show 100% terriblefadein11
- I know, I know, artistic license, but I find it weird to think it's never accounted for unless they're on an away mission. It's the future, for crisakesdetritus
- Just internal sensors would know this. Not even need anything biomedical on the physical person. We have some of the tech today, including thermal sensors etc.ETM
- Given we already have Alexa etc., I would think the starship computer would passively listen/monitor everything in an "always on" state.ETM
- sofakingback0
I also read that they might have Quentin Tarantino do the next Star Wars, R-Rated. And Patrick Stewart is down to come back as Jean-Luc
- Jean Luc Skywalker?dopepope
- lol sorry Star Treksofakingback
- these rumors are so strange it's hard to believe them.CyBrainX
- agreed, but it's fun to imagine what that movie would be like. :Dsofakingback
- tank020
Waiting for Riker's beard.
Riker's Beard
Euphemism for a moment in time (typically in pop culture) where something or someone that was lackluster and/or underachieving suddenly and surprisingly became much better and exciting. Taken from Star Trek - The Next Generation, which many fans considered wanting until Commander Riker grew a beard at the start of Season Two, after which the show was solid and well-received for the rest of its run.- Oh, I have to qualify this.
Yes, Riker's Beard made *Riker* and much of TNG better.
Sadly, the gain in awesome was off-set by ...
... Dr Pulaski. Bleurgh.Continuity - I liked Dr. Pulaski more than Beverley. That move was Gene Roddenberry's last with Star Trek for the most part. They shunned him after that.CyBrainX
- and then brought back Gates McFadden.CyBrainX
- Pulaski was the worst, could not wait for Beverly to come backsofakingback
- Oh, I have to qualify this.
- dopepope1
^ it feels like that one episode of Next Generation, when a long dead Tasha somehow appears back on the Enterprise, but it's now a war vessel and every room is dark, only lit with monitor screen light, and HUDs, and it's some wacky alternate timeline, and everything is just 'off' a bit. Great episode. But this is like an entire season of just that. I agree, it doesn't feel very Trek like, but I'm still watching to see where it goes.
- That was one of the best episodes of any star trek. A coworker was friends with the captain of the Enterprise C. I got to talk to her on the phone.CyBrainX
- She was very nice and had no idea how popular he episode was.CyBrainX
- Oh, and that wasn't Tasha. It was her daughter.CyBrainX
- It was Tasha in 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. Her daughter the half-Romulan came later, as a result of Tasha going back in time with Enterprise-C.Continuity
- Damn. I'm fake Trek. You're right.CyBrainX
- What are the chances we see Zachary Quinto as Spock at some point?CyBrainX
- I'd say close to nil, for the fact that the producers were adamant STD isn't nu-Trek. Quinto's Spock would be challenging this too much.Continuity
- Also, I wonder if there wouldn't be legal issues with it. Apparently, CBS doesn't have any rights to JJ-Trek at all, that's all with Paramount.Continuity
- Wolfboy0
The guy the Captain rescued is going to be a super-villain, mark my words...
- The rumour mills is grinding on this Ash guy being Voq the Whingey Klingon, sent to spy on the Federation after spending his time with the Klingon nuns.Continuity
- The again, the Movie Pilot website also has an article on this Voq fella eventually turning out to be The Albino on DS9, so, yeah. There you go.Continuity
- It's very possible he's Voq and it's likely (and predictable) in showing us Lorca has a Tribble, that it will be the mechanism for his identity being revealed.ETM
- If Lorca finds a Klingon because of a tribble reaction then it shouldn't be a surprise when Kirk's crew discovers tribbles hate Klingons.CyBrainX
- CyBrainX2
I don't have a problem if the show doesn't resemble other star trek but I don't even think that's true. It's sci fi. There are familiar races even a few familiar characters. It's in the original timeline. There's the theme of seeking out new life. There are ethical decisions about how to interact with the new life. There are detached views of humanity from other points of view and you can tell there will be more. It feels a lot more like Star Trek to me than Deep Space 9 ever did.
- detritus1
^
Swearing.No. No, Star Trek, No.
- hotroddy0
the most likable character is Harry Mudd... and it's amazing how they've slowly emasculated Star Trek over the years.
The ORVILLE is way better. They know their target demo.
- Trek was never overtly 'masculine'. The womanizing Kirk is a meme based on like two episodes.i_monk
- i disagree. The original was super chauvenistic.. but I guess it's a reflection of the times more than a reflection of the series..hotroddy
- even in TNG, William Riker took the role of womanizer... they didn't want Piccard to be that guy.hotroddy
- I'm the target demographic if there ever was one and I don't like Seth McFarlane. I don't get my jollies on geek references.CyBrainX
- i_monk1
So a mushroom warp engine? This is what we're watching?
- Project Porcini™Continuity
- I thought it was going to be testing a cloaking device to match the Klingons.ETM
- PonyBoy0
- I think it was their goal all along. As prosthetic art evolves, klingon's will look more alien. Who wants an alien race to look like we do?hotroddy
- There was an Enterprise episode that explained how a virus altered Klngons genetically after Kirk's era.CyBrainX
- The Discovery writers said there will be an explanation for their version too.CyBrainX
- Wasn't the genetic virus caused by Tribbles?Akagiyama
- It was caused by Data's creator, Noonian Soong. His genetic alterations to humans created a virus that spread to Klingons.CyBrainX
- http://memory-alpha.…CyBrainX
- ^^the makeup seen in the films and the later series would have been too expensive during the 1960shotroddy
- Continuity0
I'm still waiting for the 'Star Trek' part of this show to kick in.
As it currently stands, I might even prefer 'Enterprise'.
- Yeah, I felt Trek a _little_ in episode 1 and 2, but this latest felt like something else entirely.ETM
- Felt like a combination of the BSG reboot (with its ambiguous morality) and the first Alien.Continuity
- Sigh. Never mind that the Klingons didn't get cloaking devices until STIII.Continuity
- ^ Oops. This belongs to i_monk's comment.Continuity
- I'm still not ruling out that this is in the Kelvin timeline. (JJ's universe).CyBrainX
- They said officially it's the prime timeline.ETM
- scarabin0
c'mon, honestly. there hasn't been a star trek series that looked this cool, like, ever.
the klingon redesign looks great. they look more brutal now and frankly the glue-some-shit-to-their-forehead... approach that has gone on for so long in the franchise got really bland.
only thing that bothered me about the trailer above was the music. really worried they're gonna pull an enterprise on us. i'm sure when creating this show they took inventory of all past mistakes though.
excited to see the mudd character again!
- Continuity-1
New trailer just dropped. Looks ... shit.
- I just re-watched it. This looks just fucking awful. And I HATE what they've done with the Kilngons.Continuity
- *KlingonsContinuity
- ugh - 6min and I'm fucking bored.Julesvm
- Not available :(Akagiyama
- money would have been better spent clearing plastic from earth's oceansGardener
- CyBrainX0
I think this series has huge potential. Well, they all do, People will always love Star Trek if it's done well. It's like Star Wars or Bond.
- Akagiyama0
Cronenberg was back in last week's episode:
- So that comment about the Romulan mining ship refers to the Star Trek 2009 movie when Nero went back in time at the beginning of the movie.CyBrainX
- That created the mirror universe. Is that young Enterprise's crew the same characters in this episode?
https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX - Huh, I didn't think of that!Akagiyama
- thumb_screws0
So is section 31 a rip of special circumstances from Ian m banks culture novels. Which came first?
- Nairn1
So .. no mention of the new series yet?
I was a bit taken aback when I heard someone who sounded very much like Tig Notaro pop up.. and then it's fucking her.
The chummy millennial inclusivity is grating a little bit. Plain Jane Ginger girl was only beat by some guy in a wheelchair sweeping through shot on the Discovery at some point.
Still, it's daft slightly camp fun - just like the original series.
- No mention cos it still sucks.
No sense repeating it.Continuity
- No mention cos it still sucks.