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Don't forget that Discovery premiers Sunday night. I'll watch the pilot to see what I think, but I'm going to hold off until the season is over and watch it all at once then, partially to save money.
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From back in June, but it looks like it's going to be Monday for you. It's probably synced with us and you're just way ahead of everyone, time zone wise.Im not sure Aus Netflex is getting it at the same time as CBS. At least they haven't advertised it on Netflex AU yet with is unusual.
It's based on rejected TMP or Phase II concept art. That can work out (just look at how well Star Wars has been using rejected designs lately), but in this case I feel like it was rejected for good reason.Always loved the ill fated Valkyrie. I personally don't care for the new Discovery though. To me it doesn't feel original. Looks like a Galor from bow and stern.
Well I'm not impressed Discovery it on the same page as STO in my book a complete waste and dose not deserve the name Star trek .
ep 3"About a Girl"
Bortus and Klyden intend to have their child surgically "corrected" to be male, which is standard practice for Moclans when a female is born. Claire and Ed object to performing a sex change on a healthy infant, so Bortus and Klyden plan to have the procedure performed on a Moclan vessel. Gordon and John change Bortus's mind by showing him Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but Klyden still wants to proceed, revealing that he was born female. The case is arbitrated on the Moclan planet, Moclus, where Kelly represents Bortus; she casts doubt on the idea of male superiority by demonstrating that Alara is physically strong and Gordon is stupid. Ed locates a female Moclan of advanced years, Heveena, who testifies that she lived a happy and fulfilling life in seclusion, and reveals that under the pseudonym "Gondus Elden" she has become the Moclans' most respected writer. But Klyden and the tribunal are unconvinced, and the baby undergoes the surgery. Despite their disagreement, Bortus and Klyden are committed to each other and to giving their son, Topa, a good life
Or in a lighter shade of paint. Seriously, everything is just so dark that it's ridiculous.The Federation ships would've been really great with TOS/ENT type nacelles and or bussard collectors.
The school scene implied that her colony was wiped out by Klingons when she was a kid, so she probably has some trauma there. Being raised by Vulcans probably didn't help her to work through her emotions, either.The protagonist was too erratic, switching from by the book to curious to erratic and mutinous all in an extremely short time period. She went from being someone that seemed loyal and duty bound to someone that is willing to usurp her comrades because she thinks she is right period. That bravado might work for Kirk as Captain, and even then I don't recall him doing that kind of backstabbing, but as a subordinate she came off as untrustworthy.
I have to agree. It reeks of bad fan fiction and Mary Sues. They tried to use The Final Frontier as justification for Spock never mentioning her, since he never mentioned his brother, but that's probably the last movie they should be looking to for inspiration.And her being the ward of Sarek was completely unnecessary. I don't mind her being the ward of a Vulcan but it does not fit that she is somehow Spock's long lost never seen or heard of older stepsister.
Well, ENT had most ships look like they belonged in a post-Nemesis timeframe, so... At least they're portraying the ENT style as older and the TOS style as newer. Maybe Starfleet engineers entered a retro-aesthetic phase some time during late TNG/early DS9? Maybe if you go far enough into the future the simple shapes of TOS come back into style.The Shenzhou still looks more advanced that it should be. When I first saw it it felt very post Nemesis in exterior design.
I just have to put it down to the producers not having a firm grasp on Trek and it's design lineage.
Apparently the Shenzhou is an older ship of the Walker class, complete with the photonic cannons from ENT. Presumably its age is why it looks the way it does, sort of fitting into the ENT style, somewhat anachronistic as ENT's style is. The Discovery has more of a TOS style, so presumably it's a newer ship.
According to this article, the Discovery is supposed to be newer. Apparently, Georgiou also explicitly calls the Shenzhou old with outdated tech in the second episode. I'm guessing the Discovery's registry in the teaser was a placeholder. If someone can spot it in the intro, though, that would be great.Isn't the Discovery older than the Shenzhou? The Discovery is NCC-1031 and the Shenzhou is NCC-1226, doesn't that mean that the Shenzhou was built after the Discovery? Or did they change the Discovery's registry number to something higher?
I see everything post-Voyager as its own parallel universe, a lot of what was shown on Enterprise conflicts with what was mentioned of Earth history in TOS anyway. So for me, the universes are:
Prime: TOS, TMP, TNG, DS9, VOY
AR: ENT, DISC, KEL
Misc: Mirror, Borg conquered everything, etc.
According to this article, the Discovery is supposed to be newer. Apparently, Georgiou also explicitly calls the Shenzhou old with outdated tech in the second episode. I'm guessing the Discovery's registry in the teaser was a placeholder. If someone can spot it in the intro, though, that would be great.
Edit: Saw an interesting proposal for why DSC Klingons are bald. They're trying to retcon them to have always been bald, of course, but there's a strong backlash there, so I'm thinking they may try to backpedal there while making season 2. They already seem to be using Fuller as a scapegoat for the design change. Anyway, the proposal I saw is that they're shaving their heads to show off the ridges so they are easily distinguishable from the augment virus infected Klingons. Basically showing off their ridges as a status symbol. If they go with that, they could easily backpedal on their retcon when they do season 2, or potentially later in season 1 depending on how far along they are, and put hair back on some of them.
Not as much as it sounds. It's just that they've made some acknowledgement of fan discontentment and have quickly pinned the blame for everything unpopular on Fuller. Since Fuller isn't involved anymore (and he left early enough that his influence should be minimal anyway) then they either need to own up to it when they do season 2 or fix it. I'm banking on them fixing at least some of it, mostly the Klingon aesthetic since that's where the biggest backlash is.Your optimistic about a season 2
The ship design is a pretty serious problem. They should be using D7s and such, but we haven't seen a single one. There hasn't even been an ENT ship, like the D5. And none of the ships look anything like what we've seen before.To me them being bald isn't an issue it's their ship designs, early cloaks, collecting their dead (after the soul go to Sto'vo'kor their just empty shells) and basically putting them in a sarcophagus on their hull. Plus the make up, why change them, since TMP they have basically remained unchanged in appearance. Why mess with cannon? If they had kept them and their ships being Klingon I could put the sarcophagus junk down to the Klingons we see in the first episodes as a religious sect that are different to the rest of the Empire. But the make up and the whole fleet designs don't feel Klingon to me but an entirely different race. They would've been awesome as a new race of aliens.
I know I am sounding overly negative here and not open minded but tbh they just messed with too much of one of my favourite species in Trek. Ignored and disrespected canon that has been going for over 50 years. Ever since the 70's the Klingons have remained mostly unchanged. It just annoyed me.
If I wasn't getting the series for free on Netflix I wouldn't be watching it.
Sorry about the rant.
I see everything post-Voyager as its own parallel universe, a lot of what was shown on Enterprise conflicts with what was mentioned of Earth history in TOS anyway. So for me, the universes are:
Prime: TOS, TMP, TNG, DS9, VOY
AR: ENT, DISC, KEL
Misc: Mirror, Borg conquered everything, etc.