Star Trek: Discovery
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- scarabin2
half of star trek is cringe-worthy stuff. we love it because it's kitsch and we grew up on it. this show comes out and each episode looks like a full-on movie in terms of production value, the stories are solid, the characters and races build on previous incarnations and it's still a good time. no idea what you guys are complaining about, exactly
you want what.... more corniness?
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and the same people loved Force Awakens pmslfadein11 - < and Thank you right back.CyBrainX
- trueCalderone2000
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- 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.
- ETM0
Well the audience seems pretty divided. Multiply by having to pay in the US for a subscription. Will their strategy of alienating a lot of the core fanbase work? Time will tell, I guess.
- The cynics seem to forget or are unaware of many things from the past that set precedent for what's happening now.CyBrainX
- 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
- Gnash2
Humans are just starting to understand this nearly invincible creature — and it's fascinating
- How did Discovery get to the nebula to save Sarek without the Tartigrade? Or did they use regular warp?Akagiyama
- They use their engineer's body now.ETM
- How did I miss that? I thought he almost died when he did it.Akagiyama
- I could be wrong, but I am sure it was referenced in a throwaway line. It wasn't shown.ETM
- Huh! Thanks for the heads up, will pay more attention lol.Akagiyama
- < Kanye?CyBrainX
- i_monk1
It still doesn't feel like Trek.
- I still don't see it. Aside from new uniforms and ships, this has all the classic themes and even some of the same characters.CyBrainX
- The actress they chose to play Sarek's wife seemed to be a cross between the actress from the original series and Wynona Ryder.CyBrainX
- It’s Lydia from Breaking Bad.dopepope
- War isn't a defining Trek theme, and characters (officers) being assholes to each other isn't something we've ever seen in the main cast.i_monk
- Voyager's Equinox episode also told us using aliens as disposable equipment is un-Starfleet.i_monk
- But Seru was the only one who was in favor of that and he regretted it later.CyBrainX
- I did not recognize Lydia. Good catch.CyBrainX
- it's just bad tv. admit it.inteliboy
- 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
- CyBrainX0
So, the ship's engineer was sexually harassed when he was 14 by Kevin Spacey.
Even our TV presidents are rapey.
- Art imitating life, and all of that.Continuity
- and the engineer character is gay.CyBrainX
- Continuity0
This is interesting. This is now the second time I'm seeing speculation in the media that Voq "I Wish I Was a Real Klingon" the Klingon eventually becomes The Albino, as seen on DS9:
- He would, of course, have to discover how to grow hair first, and then grow a pair of balls.Continuity
- i_monk0
So, did they jump to
a) a parallel universe
b) the future
c) the Mirror Universe specifically?
- Mirror Universe.
Jonathan Frakes spilled that they're going to the MU this season, and he directed the next episode.Continuity - Well, that's my very educated guess, anyway. The problem is I really don't know if I care where they went, actually.Continuity
- And if I'm right, and they spend the rest of the season there, they'll be re-hashing/ripping off Voyager. Again.Continuity
- I think they're ripping off Mirror Mirror if anything. They even showed Sarek with a Spock goatee in coming attractions.CyBrainX
- Mirror Universe.
- detritus1
I think I've gone off this show.
- because of the klingonporn? :Dsted
- I think it's the identikit minority viewer checklisting. Perhaps the non-episodic nature. Perhaps the ludicrosity. Dunno. Perhaps I'm having a shit week.detritus
- All I know is that I excitedly came back from holiday to two episodes, and it then took me over a week to watch both, and I can't really remember much from themdetritus
- 'Orrible show, isn't it?Continuity
- :)sted
- Continuity0
Yeah, so the next Star Trek film will be directed by Tarantino, and will be R-rated:
http://www.independent.co.uk/art…
... and Patrick Stewart says he might want in on the action:
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movi…
Seriously fuck this Trek shit, now.
- that's not star trek... that's bullshit on film. Hollywood... you don't need to get edgy / gory-glam to sell trek... stop fucking w/my childhood alreadyPonyBoy
- (and my parent's youth for that matter... my dad's annoyed to hell w/the new show)PonyBoy
- If Paramount _really_ wanted to do right by Trek fans, they'd go back to the prime timeline, stop making fucking prequels,Continuity
- ...and give the franchise to Christopher Nolan.Continuity
- CyBrainX0
So many Trekkies would love to have Fatass Shatner in girdles stinking up the screen again. So much of the fan base is old people waving their canes at anything different from half a century ago.
- sofakingback0
I've been watching every episode of Star Trek from the original series to all the movies. Right now I'm rewatching Next Generation.
Pure awesomeness.
Curious about discovery, where does it rank for those that have watch all the series?
- Still early to tell, but for me, near the bottom, so far. But the show has been very polarizing.ETM
- I'm not at all a fan of Discovery. I hate it.Continuity
- ah damn, I was hoping for something good.sofakingback
- Let me put it to you this way: I'd rather watch 'Enterprise'.Continuity
- My order:
Next Generation, original, Discovery, Enterprise, Voyager, DS9CyBrainX - ^ That is a unique order.ETM
- For me it's TNG, TOS, VOY, DS9, ENT, DISContinuity
- 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
- i_monk0
Damn, those Mirror verse uniforms are nice.
- 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
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
- 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.
- detritus2
Oh c'mon, they don't even have CCTV to investigate murders on board starships?
- Lazy writing. Like, why would you need monitoring devices in a sickbay, right? What, in case you needed to remotely monitor patients, or something logical?ETM
- I know, it's stupid — it's ST, they can just make up bullshit to cover over a sudden lack of video coverage. 'Spore Emanation Flux' or some shitdetritus
- no surveillance on that deck.sted